This week promises to be a unique tranformative experience for men and women who are ready to do the inner work. Combining Indigenous Plant Medicine Ceremonies with men´s and women´s integration éxercises will undoubtedly lead to deep personal understanding and new perceptions of the world we live in.
Maru Huni Kuin, Mara Mirand and Rick Broniec will lead special group experiences which will assist in the integration of your ceremonial insights.
What’s Included:
Daily men´s workshops with Rick.
Daily exercises for women with Mara.
Group yoga, meditation and other classes.
Before and After Ceremony Integration.
Two Ayahuasca Ceremonies led by Maru from the Huni Kuin tribe in Acre Brazil, a respected curandeiro (Shaman) with decades of experience creating sacred, safe, and transformative spaces.
Daily Guidance & Support from Mara Miranda and our other facilitators — certified yoga teachers, Reiki masters, sound bowl healers, and holistic menu to prepare for ceremony.
Holistic Practices: Yoga on the deck, sound-bowl healing, cacao ceremonies, breathwork, sweat lodge ceremonies Wim Hof-syle cold immersion and breathwork.
Cultural Immersion: Brazillian inspired delicious meals with our personal chef Alessandra and guided nature hikes to explore Búzios’ beaches, forest trails, and vibrant local life.
Room with one queen or two twin beds. All rooms have free Wifi, air-conditioning, mini-fridge, Tv’s and all have a private deck with full or partial ocean views.
Use of sauna, pool, mountain bikes and snorkel gear.
Your Home for the Week — Maravilha Retreat
Perched above the Atlantic Ocean, our retreat center is just a 10-minute walk from three stunning beaches where you can snorkel with turtles or surf the sand break of Geribá. The surrounding nature trails are home to capybaras, marmoset monkeys, and exotic birds.
Accommodation: Seven deluxe rooms (queen or twin beds), private decks, air conditioning, and ocean views.
Cuisine: Authentic Brazilian meals prepared by our chef Patricia, using fresh local ingredients.
Beyond Ceremony — What You’ll Experience
Wellness, Nature & Adventure: Ocean swims, hiking, boat trips, and surf lessons available, healthy meals, personal health consultaion with Mara.
Cultural Exploration: Stroll the famous Rua das Pedras for world-class shopping and dining (with a favorable currency exchange!).
Movement & Fitness: Optional workouts with Mara, a three-time IFBB champion, to keep your body as strong as your spirit. Yoga, Meditation, Sound Bowl Healing, Cacao Ceremony, Wm Hoff style cold bath, Indigenous flower bath, Temescal sweat lodge cermonies, and breath work
Who This Retreat is For
This retreat is designed for you if you are ready to go deep — to face your inner shadows, release what no longer serves you, and invite transformation.
This retreat is for you if:
You feel called to do challenging personal work .
You are ready to surrender to the process and explore your truth.
You are open to both challenge and joy.
This retreat is not for you if:
You are highly resistant to inner work
You are unwilling to face uncomfortable truths
You have health contraindications that might interfere with Ayahuasca
Weekly Schedule
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Check-in after 1PM, guided nature hike and swim and introduction. Healthy dinner followed by guided meditation
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Morning sound bowl healing and meditation, healthy breakfast, personalconsultation/evaluation with Maru and Mara, light lunch, cold immersion and temescal (sweat lodge) and Ceremony
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Morning Yoga, healthy buffet breakfast, free day to explore Buzios, healthy brazillian-inspired delicious dinner
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Full buffet breakfast, group discussion and integration, cacao ceremony on the deck, tour of Ruas das Pedras (Rock Street) for beach, shopping and restaurants and dinner (not included).
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Light healthy buffet breakfast, light lunch, cold bath immersion followed by temescal (sweat lodge) ceremony. Ayahuasca ceremony.
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healthy full buffet breakfast, group discussion and integration, free day to enjoy the beaches and nature, full exquisite dinner
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Buffet Breakfast, final group discussion and integration, light lunch, checkout Noon.
Rex
“If you are looking for a place set in paradise to discover what Mother Ayahuasca has for you,
then look no further than Maravilha Retreat, the Sacred Men's Week and Chris & Mara, our hosts who took good care of our bodies and hearts. This is their Mission and it shows!" Rex Downing, San Diego, CA.
Robyn
“2023 proved to be a very challenging year for me with a lot of heartbreak. I had been dealing with a hard break-up, getting run over by an SUV and my brother passing. I had heard of Plant Medicine but never had the opportunity to explore it from a trusted source. Toward the end of the year (2023), I was introduced to Mara and Chris through a friend of a friend. They were super responsive. I primarily communicated with Mara and immediately felt comfortable sharing my situation.”
I can not say enough about Mara, Chris, Henrique, Guora, Mother Aya and so many others that contributed to an amazing experience. Mara is soft, kind and giving. From the beginning, I felt like she truly understood a lot of the pain I was going through. She created a healing experience like nothing I have ever experienced. Our Shaman, Henrique Damodara, had an incredible peace about him. It was a small group of five people with three ceremonies. Each ceremony had a different focus with a unique offering of healing. The music was so calming and made me feel safe.
The last ceremony was about forgiveness, something that will remain with me forever. The experience was pretty indescribable but I can tell you it was better than any therapy EVER. I now understand the medicine of Mother Aya. I went there feeling I needed healing from one thing. Mother Aya knew I needed healing from something that stemmed further back in my history. When she took it in her hands it felt like she was taking the trauma from the roots. She took it from the roots and emptied it from my body. I never felt so much relief. I felt like I was able to let go of something that was making such an impact on my life and I was not even aware of it. I felt so much lighter. I was/am able to think clearer. “