Iboga Retreat + Bufo - Portugal

Name: Iboga Retreat + Bufo - Portugal, Sept 14-17, 2026
Start: 2026-09-14
End: 2026-09-17
Location: Medicine Spirit
Rating: 5

5.003 reviews

Várzea da Ovelha e Aliviada, Portugal

Up to 10 in group

Sep 14 - 17, 2026

A preparation course valued at $109 is included with the retreat at no extra cost

Retreat Highlights

Our retreats provide a gentle container for profound transformation, combining Iboga with complementary practices in a thoughtfully structured schedule.
We balance ancient wisdom with modern needs, creating an experience that is both sacred and accessible.
Maximum 10 participants ensures personalized attention and a close-knit community experience.
Sacred practices including pipe ceremony, water blessings, spiritual cleansing, and temazcal (sweat lodge) to create a comprehensive healing container.
Our ceremonies honour both receptive, nurturing energies and clear, focused intention-setting.
Our diverse team brings decades of combined experience with plant medicines and healing traditions.
Our commitment to your transformation extends beyond the retreat itself.

About this Retreat

Your Guides

Jay

Pujita

Anaïs

Medicine

Jay - Medicine Spirit Facilitator & Ceremonial Guide

Jay is one of our primary Medicine Spirit guides. He offers a grounded presence and skilled facilitation shaped by a rich blend of Western, Eastern, and Indigenous wisdom traditions. With decades of experience in sacred plant medicines, the Red Road Ways, yogic practices, permaculture, and community building, Jay brings deep knowledge along with heartfelt dedication to Iboga ceremonies. For over 25 years, Jay has organized and facilitated transformational retreats, educational programs, and larger community gatherings in the United States and abroad. And Jay is passionate about renewing Rites of Passage programs such as vision quests, fire walks, medicine journeys, and deep nature connection immersions. These experiences have become a central part of his work in guiding others toward growth and healing. Jay’s own path was forever changed by a life-changing journey with Iboga. This experience deepened his connection to the Medicine and its profound healing potential. Over time, he participated in many ceremonies, served as an assistant, and eventually became a guide. In 2024, he traveled to Gabon, West Africa—the ancestral home of Iboga—and was initiated into the Missoko Bwiti Tradition. Furthermore, Jay returned in 2025 for additional initiations and Rites of Passage within the tradition. As a catalyst for transformational change, Jay is committed to fostering both personal and community healing. His goal is to help create thriving and sustainable human settlements that live in harmony with Nature. Jay also stewards a small farm and micro-community, where he is building a hub for regenerative agriculture, community connection, and green business — one that is thriving, ecologically regenerative, and socially responsible.

Pujita - Medicine Spirit Facilitator & Ceremonial Guide, Licensed Psychotherapist (LMFT), Psychedelic Integration Coach

Pujita is a primary Medicine Spirit Facilitator & Ceremonial Guide, a licensed psychotherapist (LMFT), and Psychedelic Integration Coach. She has over a decade of experience helping individuals heal from trauma, to align more deeply with their true selves. Since 2013, Pujita has personally worked with sacred plant medicine, a journey that has been central to her growth as a healer. Pujita's therapeutic approach is rooted in trauma-informed, somatic, and mindful practices. She integrates modalities such as EMDR, Brainspotting, and Hakomi, along with her expertise in psychedelic integration. Pujita specializes in supporting clients who face developmental trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Through her work, she guides people toward emotional healing and greater self-awareness with empowerment. In addition to her clinical practice, Pujita is dedicated to helping individuals prepare for and integrate psychedelic experiences. She blends her therapeutic skills with extensive knowledge of sacred plant medicine, offering a holistic approach to healing. As a first-generation American with Middle Eastern, Indian, and European heritage, Pujita brings a deep sense of cultural humility to her work. Influenced by her background, Pujita creates a safe and inclusive space for clients from all walks of life. She works with marginalized communities as well as those navigating complex emotional challenges. Imparting compassion and care, she helps clients rediscover their inner resilience and move toward lasting transformation.

Anaïs - Ceremonial Guide, Bufo Provider, Sound & Energy Healer

Anaïs is a sound and energy healer devoted to service through deep listening, surrender, and connection to Divine source. Her work is grounded in 25 years of personal practice, including yoga, extended silent meditation retreats, and breathwork. With the introduction of plant medicine in 2014, Anaïs’ path expanded to service and healing work. She has had the honor to serve as a guardian in plant medicine ceremonies; this work deepened her commitment to safety, reverence, and integration in altered states of consciousness. Since 2023, Anaïs has been facilitating Bufo ceremonies, informed by extensive training and observation with seasoned teachers. Each session is supported by sound and energy healing, deep breathing and meditation, creating a steady and intentional container for expanded awareness, clarity, and integration. Anaïs holds space with humility, intuition, and devotion, inviting participants to go inward and meet themselves beyond the mind.

Medicine Spirit Team

We have a team of facilitators with decades of combined experience working with this Medicine. Most of our retreats have between 4-6+ facilitators guiding and supporting the experience. For privacy reasons, many of our facilitators do not wish to publicly display their names, bios and photos. Our retreats usually have about a 1 to 2 ratio of participants to facilitators, as in a retreat with 10 participants usually have 5 supporting facilitators. Some more information on some of our guides can be fond at: https://www.medicinespirit.org/medicine-spirit-guides/

Details of this retreat

Join us for 4 days of transformation in the stunning natural beauty of this retreat centre outside Porto! Experience the profound healing potential of Iboga in a supportive community setting. This retreat also includes additional sacred practices and integration activities including pipe ceremony, temazcal (sweat lodge), natural spring soak, deep nature connection, and other group activities. This retreat also includes an optional Bufo Ceremony will be offered on September 17.

This Iboga retreat is hosted at a beautiful, rural retreat centre in the middle of lush forest and open fields located about an hour drive from Porto International Airport. Go swimming in a natural spring-fed pool, walk down forest paths to a small waterfall, and enjoy ancient stone buildings. This space is ideal for ceremony, healing, and deep nature connection.

The site has s beautiful facilities including various indoor and outdoor community gathering spaces, dining areas, bathing facilities, and single or shared accommodations.

The retreat is guided by a team of facilitators with decades of combined experience. Most facilitators bios are not included here.

Schedule

Day 1: Arrival & Ceremony
Welcome to your Medicine Spirit journey. People will arrive in the afternoon between 3-5pm, get settled in. After mindful preparation, we enter ceremony together that. evening, where experienced facilitators guide you through your Iboga journey with attentiveness and care. Our approach honors the medicine's wisdom while ensuring you feel supported at every step.

Day 2: Recovery & Integration
Perhaps the most important day of your journey. Many people are still in the Medicine throughout the day. This day includes personal reflection time, 1-on-1 or group support, resting and recovering, and optional excursions to local waterfalls, swim holes, or other beautiful locations in Nature. We help you process, understand, and integrate your experience.

Day 3: Embodiment & Community
We start the day with a morning temascal / sweat lodge ceremony to wash away the residue and step fresh into your new life. The afternoon consists of a special group sharing circle allowing insights to settle and take root. In the evening, we gather for a sacred pipe ceremony to honor your journey and set intentions for moving forward into our lives. You'll leave with specific tools and practices to continue your healing process.

Day 4: Bufo Ceremony, Closing & Departure
The retreat will conclude with an optional Bufo Ceremony - the sacred Toad Medicine. Though not necessary or appropriate for all, Bufo directly after Iboga is a beneficial way to conclude and reconnect to the pure consciousness, cosmic joy and divinity within that Bufo often provides a gateway to and is amplified after Iboga, while not interfering with the longer term work iboga will continue to do.

The Rest of Your Life!
The Medicines, and experiences, of this retreat will leave you truly transformed and empowered. Taking the new you back into your life is where the real work begins. We are available to continue to support your journey of embodying your transformation along your path forward.

Note: Schedule is approximate and may change

Getting Here

Medicine Spirit, Várzea da Ovelha e Aliviada, Portugal

Directions

We will retrieve you on arrival day at the Porto airport, or give you specific instructions if driving yourself.

Accommodation

The site has wonderful facilities including main gathering spaces, gardens, and cottages with private rooms, shared rooms, or camping options. Shared rooms are with 1-3 others of the same gender, or with chosen friends if coming as a. group, and have their own bathroom. Shared rooms for $1750 / €1500, Private rooms for $2500 / €2125. Camping is available for $1550 / €1325

Shared Room

Private Room

Camping

Venue & Amenities

A/C in Rooms

Free Wifi

Spa

Sauna

Pool

Towels

Free Parking

Kitchen

Tour Assistance

Hot Tub

Coffee/Tea

Cafe

Restaurant

Fitness Center

Yoga Studio

Housekeeping

Bicycles For Rent

This Iboga Retreat Portugal 2026 is hosted at a beautiful village-style location on 30 hectares of partially forested land, an hour drive from Porto International Airport (from where we'll retrieve and return you). The retreat centre features both open and forested areas, beautiful gardens, a natural swimming pool (no chlorine), and a creek running through it. Enjoy waterfalls, excellent swimming holes, gathering spaces, gardens, and trails.

Meals

Menu Types

Vegan

Vegetarian

Pescetarian

Ayurvedic

Includes Meat

Organic

Gluten Free

Dairy Free

Nut Free

This retreat centre views cooking as art and food as medicine. The kitchen takes great pride and pleasure in nourishing, healthy meals, snacks, desserts, and beverages.

What's Included

3 nights / 4 days accommodation
3 meals per day (organic, locally-sourced)
1 boga Ceremony
1 Bufo ceremony (optional addition)
1 Sacred Pipe Ceremony
1 Temazcal / Sweat Lodge Ceremony
Airport transfers (to and from Porto)
Incredibly peaceful and beautiful environment
Natural swimming pool, waterfall, swimming hoes, deep nature connection
1-on-1 Counseling Support
6 Months of Post Retreat Group Integration Calls (1 per month)

What's Not Included

Airfare

Customer Reviews

5.00 out of 5.0 average rating

Markerle • Apr 20, 2026

5.0

Verified

Well organised and caring team

The whole experience could not have been better. The team were well organised, caring and supportive the whole time. The food was great and they could not do enough for you. The venue was excellent and a perfect healing environment.

Markerle • Apr 20, 2026

5.0

Verified

Gifted and Dedicated Healer

Jay has vast experience of ancient healing cultures and big heart. He is truly dedicated to helping people and has done intense work to initiate himself at the origin of the medicine he works with. He’s a compassionate and genuinely lovely human and has helped me enormously.

Markerle • Apr 20, 2026

5.0

Verified

Transformative, life changing experience

I came to this retreat in a bad place with myself and my life. My intention was to overcome my addiction to alcohol and heal from past trauma which was holding me back and making me miserable. The retreat was extremely well organised with additional healing activities and integration / group support. The facilitators held the space beautifully and showed deep compassion towards all participants. Going on this retreat has healed me at the deepest level and given me my life back. I am so grateful to Jay and his team for doing something truly special to help people and making the world a better place. I wish them all the success they deserve for the future.

Iboga Retreat + Bufo - Portugal

Retreat Highlights