BUFO ALVARIUS – Personal Ceremony

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MXWR+QHR, Calca 08120, Peru
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Up to 5 in group
Date
Open Dates

Retreat Highlights

  • 1 Meditation
  • 1 Bufo Ceremony
  • Integration

About this Retreat

Your Guides

Details of this retreat

CONTACT & HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE
Before booking your ceremony, it is essential to complete our Health & Safety Questionnaire and have a brief personal interview.
This step ensures that the medicine is safe for you and that we can offer the most appropriate guidance for your process.
To begin the process, please contact us at:
📩 info@pranafoundation.org
Once we receive your message, we will send you the questionnaire and the available dates.

-About Prana Foundation
Prana Foundation is a collective dedicated to preserving, honoring, and sharing ancestral Earth medicines with integrity, safety, and deep respect.
For the past six years, we have been creating safe, sacred, and professionally guided spaces for healing ceremonies across Europe, always in collaboration with experienced guardians, traditional lineages, and ethical practitioners.
Our mission is to offer a bridge between ancient wisdom and modern seekers, supporting each person in their journey of healing, clarity, and reconnection with nature.


-About the Medicine
Bufo Alvarius medicine comes from the natural secretion of the Sonoran Desert toad. Once dried and vaporized, it becomes a white smoke that transforms into 5-MeO-DMT, a molecule naturally produced by the human body at birth and at death.
This medicine is profound, delicate, and highly transformative, working mainly through the nervous system and the crown chakra, opening access to expanded states of consciousness and inner dimensions.
The active experience lasts 15–20 minutes, but the full ceremony takes 2–3 hours, depending on the person.

Today, Bufo Alvarius is approached as a contemporary sacred practice rooted in respect, reciprocity, and care for the land. The medicine used in these ceremonies is harvested ethically and by hand, always without harming the toads, honoring the spirit of the desert and the living beings that inhabit it.
In ceremony, Bufo is received as a teacher—a bridge between worlds that invites humility, surrender, and a return to one’s inner truth.

-About the Guide
Kunti (Tezca Citlalnihuatl) has been in service to the Bufo Alvarius medicine since 2013. Her path began in the Sonoran Desert, where she lived for months in the natural habitat of the toad, learned to harvest the medicine with respect, and received teachings from several maestros in Mexico.
Over the years, she has dedicated herself to holding this medicine with clarity, integrity, and deep reverence, guiding individuals through profound processes of transformation and expanded consciousness.

-Ceremony Structure
The Bufo Alvarius process is held individually, in a private and safe ceremonial setting.
Each session includes two stages:
- Microdose – to prepare the system and open the energetic field
- Macrodose – the full experience with the medicine
Ceremonies take place in the afternoon, around 4:00 PM, and last between 2 and 5 hours.
Two people may attend on the same day, but ceremonies are held one at a time.

-Kambó Before Bufo (Highly Recommended)
For the best approach to the medicine, participants are asked to receive a Kambó cleansing ceremony before Bufo.
Kambó helps clear physical and energetic blockages, allowing the Bufo medicine to flow more freely and safely.
Kambó can be done:
- The day before, or
- The same morning before the Bufo ceremony
If the Kambó ceremony is facilitated by Kunti, at her ceremonial space in Arin, the cost is 80 USD (regular price: 350 soles).

Location Options & Costs
Bufo Ceremony Fee
250 USD per person

-Space Options
Option 1 – Arin Maloca
- 150 USD (ceremony space)
- Accommodation available upon request

Option 2 – The Source Center
- 200 USD per person
- Includes 1 night accommodation + 2 meals
- Full access to the center’s facilities
- Kambó and Bufo can both be held here
- One of the top retreat centers in the area

Booking & Payment
To reserve your ceremony date, a 50% non‑refundable deposit is required.
Payments via PayPal or Wise include an additional 10% fee.

Preparation Guidelines
- Drink plenty of water during the day
- Eat light, healthy food or only breakfast
- Fasting is also possible if it feels right
- The lighter the body, the smoother the experience
- Follow a light diet before and after the ceremony


With Gratitude
Thank you for your trust in this sacred process.

Schedule

Day 1
Welcome Talk
Breathwork
Bufo Ceremony
integration session

Stay in the Venue optional and paid apart
Time is done under the needs of our participants
Note: Schedule is approximate and may change

Getting Here

Location icon Prana Verein, MXWR+QHR, Calca 08120, Peru

Directions

» IMPORTANT « Before booking, please write an email to check if the desired dates are available at info@pranafoundation.org
Arrive in Lisbon at least one night before the retreat starts. We have a van available for an additional cost of about € 20,- for you to get to the retreat venue.

Accommodation

We offer shared rooms in Portuguese Retreat Venues or Villas.

Accommodation
Ceremony, meditation and integration
Accommodation
one night at Venue

Venue & Amenities

Venue & Amenities
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Free Wifi icon Free Wifi
Spa icon Spa
Sauna icon Sauna
Pool icon Pool
Towels icon Towels
Free Parking icon Free Parking
Kitchen icon Kitchen
Tour Assistance icon Tour Assistance
Hot Tub icon Hot Tub
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Cafe icon Cafe
Restaurant icon Restaurant
Fitness Center icon Fitness Center
Yoga Studio icon Yoga Studio
Housekeeping icon Housekeeping
Bicycles For Rent icon Bicycles For Rent
We hold our retreats in a few different venues depending on the group size. The venues have all the facilities one would expect in a modern vacation house.

Meals

Menu
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Menu Types

The diet, which accompanies any ayahuasca journey is a strict one, yet the retreat's chef manages to create a creative masterpiece with every meal!

What's Included

  • Intention preparation talk with Devi Chandra Ma
  • 1 Mediation guided by Kunti
  • 1 Deep healing Ceremony with Kunti
  • 1 integration session insight
  • 1 integration session online

What's Not Included

  • Airplane tickets,
  • Transportation,
  • Extra therapies

Customer Reviews

4.75 out of 5.0 average rating

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Will return next year
Very warm, friendly and professional people, as well as my fellow guests at the event. As a newcomer to the psychedelic ceremonies, I don't think I could've found a better group for my first experience, especially for the price

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Fantastic experience
Very professional staff, beautiful singing and wise guidance from Shandra and Sonia. Profound experience overall. To anyone interested in experimenting with consciousness and opening the door to higher insight and healing, I can voucher for Prana Verein.

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An amazing and transformative experience.
A huge thank you to the whole team for making this retreat a wonderful experience. The guidance and support I received before, throughout and after the retreat, as well as during the ceremonies themselves, has really helped me to integrate the experience and is already creating a positive shift in my life. Not to mention, the food was delicious and the venue was beautiful!! I would highly recommend Devi Chandra Ma and her team to anyone drawn to the plant medicine path.

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Amazing family and healing
It was my first healing retreat and I could have not chosen a better group of caring and expert individuals.
During the entire experience I have felt well-informed and taken care of, from testing the ground by asking all sorts of questions and booking the retreat with Alise, to join Chandra, Sonia and all the other facilitators in a wonderful location in Portugal where they made sure I had everything I needed.
Although I cannot put in words how awakening and impactful on my life this experience has been, I can only stress out how I completely trusted Chandra and Sonia from the very beginning, their aura exudes kindness and compassion.
I would choose nobody else than them to embark in such a transformative journey.
I am beyond grateful they have entered my life.
Can't wait to meet them all again very soon!

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Finally I’m Awakened
It’s reductive trying to explain my experience through a written review, it’s been the best week of my whole life so far, now I’m awakened and I cannot wait to live my life with my new “self”. Thank to Chandra, Sonia, Alise and Roy.
My life is gonna be different, thanks for the turning point opportunity you gave me. I ll never forget you

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