Noya Rao Hawaii Retreat

Step into a luminous plant dieta and ayahuasca retreat on Hawaii’s Hamakua Coast. Designed for healers and seekers alike, this advanced dieta experience invites you to explore the profound cosmic wisdom offered by Noyarao, the Tree of Light, on land imbued with high vibrational energy and timeless connection to the cosmos.

With gratitude and reverence, we invite you to connect with Noya Rao through the sacred practice of plant dieta—a profound shamanic practice offering transformative healing and awakening.

Rooted in a long lineage of devotion, Noya Rao is a bioluminescent tree revered for opening celestial portals and aligning us with higher-dimensional teachings.

This dieta will be held on a special volcanic island, thought by local healers and residents to be the remnants of ancient Lemuria. It is truly the heart chakra of the world – a place of pilgrimage and attunement to unconditional love, natural beauty, and connection with the divine.

There’s no better place to connect with this galactic teacher than Hawaii, where the stars have peak visibility, and the land's high vibrational resonance aligns and amplifies our spiritual work.

Noyarao, known as "The Tree of Light", or "The Flying Tree" is revered for its otherworldly qualities, including its bioluminescent glow and its mysterious appearances and disappearances in the Amazon jungle. There are currently only 5 known Noyarao trees on earth, located in the Amazon basin. Accessibility to this mythical tree is rare.

This celestial plant teacher is known to open star portals and impart higher-dimensional wisdom when closely worked with. Historically, it has inspired complete devotion in Amazonian communities, continuing to be a focus of modern retreats dedicated solely to its teachings.

8 nights, 9 days at a peaceful 26-acre jungle retreat property

4 nights of transformative Ayahuasca ceremonies

8-day sacred Noya Rao dieta + medicine

26-acre ocean-facing property with running trails

A private waterfall + swimming hole

Hydrotherapy amenities: sauna, hot tub, and ice bath

Healthy, organic meals lovingly prepared to nourish your integration

Daily sharing and integration circles to deepen your journey

Personal integration support and sharing circles

Shamanic wisdom teachings and practices

Plant attunement and herbal medicine teachings

Repatterning and integration meditations to support ongoing healing

We will gather at a stunning 26-acre ocean-facing retreat house on Hawaii's Hamakua Coast, surrounded by lush rainforest, cascading waterfalls, and panoramic views of Mauna Kea and the ocean. This sacred land, which even grows ayahuasca on-site, offers a deeply aligned environment for the plant work we do—a rare opportunity to connect with the growing vine itself.

This property is blessed with its own private cascading waterfall and swimming lagoon. We will enjoy stunning sunrises and moonrises over the ocean, beautiful running and hiking trails, and plenty of space in nature to integrate our deep work.

Athena, born in Greece and enriched by her diverse heritage as a South African-Venezuelan, is a profoundly skilled and authentic teacher of plant medicine. With over 18 years of experience in indigenous ceremonial practices from both North and South America, her formal apprenticeship was with the Shipibo Mahua lineage in the Peruvian Amazon.

Known to her students as a renegade lightworker, Athena channels a cosmic grandmother energy in her ceremonies, offering an incredibly potent yet gentle transmission of the plant spirits. Her ceremonies are uniquely safe, authentic, and infused with eternal love—an experience that remains rare in the realm of ayahuasca work.

Jason, an energy healer and shamanic herbalist, embodies the spirit of plants with his rooted and lifelong connection to the plant world. Since 2010, he's worked extensively with ayahuasca, cultivating and preparing it in Hawaii on his family’s property.

Specializing in tailor-made shamanic medicines, he addresses emotional, physical, and spiritual needs, aiming to deepen individuals' connection to the Earth. Known for his incredible humor and nurturing presence in ceremony, Jason strengthens the container by holding the masculine while allowing the feminine to lead.

How do I get to the location?
Fly into Kona International Airport (KOA) and plan for a scenic 1.5-hour drive north to the Hamakua Coast. You can rent a car or coordinate carpooling with other participants. The retreat property offers plenty of parking.
How do I prepare?
Preparing for ayahuasca entails approximately 2 weeks of monastic-style spiritual, psychological, and physical preparation. This includes a particular list of foods to eliminate from your diet, as well as certain consumptive patterns and exposures to avoid such as alcohol, drugs, porn, coffee, sugars, etc. Upon registering, you will receive a detailed guideline for your Ayahuasca preparation protocol. You can always reach out to Athena directly for more clarification around this. You will receive a dieta document before you arrive, so you can understand what to expect in your Noya Rao experience.
What is the practitioner to participant ratio?
Our retreat ensures personalized support with a ratio of two ceremony facilitators and two dedicated apprentices for a small group of participants. Accommodations include private rooms for 6–8 guests and camping options for seven additional participants, allowing everyone to feel held within the container, and offer accessible pricing options.
What is your refund policy?
Due to high costs of facilitating retreats, we cannot not offer refunds. In the event where you can no longer come, we will place your funds toward future retreats or online offerings by Athena, of which there are many.
If I'm camping, do I have to bring my own tent?
Yes, if you are selecting the camping option, you will have to bring your own tent. You will share a couple of bathrooms inside the retreat house with the other campers.