Ayahuasca Retreat Brazil
Vila de Abrantes, Camacari, Bahia, Brazil (near Salvador)
Ayahuasca retreats near Salvador da Bahia with English-speaking guardians, operated by a tourism services company.
Details from the centre's own website, read 28 Sep 2026. No independent source was found.
Worth knowing
- The operating company named on the site is a tourism services company, MM Brasil Servicos de Turismo ME. Brazil permits ayahuasca for religious ritual under CONAD Resolution No. 1/2010, which bars its sale, asks entities to avoid tourist packages, and does not recognise therapeutic use outside a religious context. A paid retreat for visitors sits in a legal grey area under it. (Ayahuasca Retreat Brazil blog post; CONAD Resolution No. 1 of 25 January 2010 (Diario Oficial da Uniao))
The legal position in Brazil
Brazil suspended its ban on ayahuasca in 1986 and made the exclusion of its plants definitive in 1987. CONAD Resolution No. 1 of 2010 restricts use to religious ritual, bans sale, asks religious entities to avoid tourist packages, and does not recognise therapeutic use outside a religious context. Because the tea itself cannot be sold, centres that receive visitors generally charge for lodging and other services or ask for donations. We have not assessed whether any listed centre complies with the resolution.
The sources for this
- CONFEN Resolution No. 06 of 4 February 1986 provisionally suspended the ban on ayahuasca. In September 1987 CONFEN approved a working-group report recommending that the plants used to make the brew be excluded from the DIMED prohibited lists, which made the exclusion definitive. (Ministerio da Justica e Seguranca Publica / Diario Oficial da Uniao, 25 Jan 2010)
- CONAD Resolution No. 1/2010 adopts deontological principles: the tea (a decoction of Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis) is restricted to religious rituals in places authorised by the user entities' leadership. Sale and any payment for production or consumption are prohibited, except contributions to maintain the entity. Entities should avoid tourist packages tied to advertising the brew's effects. (Ministerio da Justica e Seguranca Publica / Diario Oficial da Uniao, 25 Jan 2010)
- The same resolution states that use of the brew outside a religious context is not recognised as legitimate by CONAD, which authorised only ritual religious use. It adds that practices using ayahuasca for strictly therapeutic ends should be barred until scientific research proves their efficacy. (Ministerio da Justica e Seguranca Publica / Diario Oficial da Uniao, 25 Jan 2010)
The law and every listed centre in Brazil
Screening, as the centre describes it
Not stated on the pages we read.
The cited ayahuasca safety facts to check it against
What a ayahuasca retreat involves
The typical shape of this kind of programme. Use it as a checklist to ask against, not as this centre's timetable.
- Before arrivalMedical and psychiatric screening, and a dieta, commonly restricting alcohol, recreational drugs, pork, fermented foods, salt and sugar, and sexual activity. SSRIs and MAOIs must be resolved with a clinician well in advance.
- Day 1Arrival, orientation, one-to-one consultation with the healers, intention setting. No ceremony.
- Ceremony daysLight plant-based breakfast, integration workshop mid-morning, light lunch, rest and fasting through the afternoon, pre-ceremony yoga around 6:30pm, ceremony from roughly 7:30pm running several hours.
- Rest daysCeremonies alternate with rest days: group sharing circles, flower baths, healer consults, bodywork, and time to do nothing.
- Final dayClosing circle and integration planning. Most centres advise against flying the same day.
- AfterIntegration support varies enormously, from a single follow-up call to a year of community access. This is the single biggest quality differentiator and the least advertised.
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Ayahuasca Retreat Brazil: questions and answers
- Where is Ayahuasca Retreat Brazil?
- Ayahuasca Retreat Brazil is in Vila de Abrantes, Camacari, Bahia, Brazil (near Salvador), as the centre describes its location.Source: Ayahuasca Retreat Brazil blog post, 28 Sep 2026
- Does Ayahuasca Retreat Brazil screen guests before a retreat?
- Ayahuasca Retreat Brazil does not describe a full medical screening, but its website says this about medication. In its own words: Not stated on the pages we read.Source: Ayahuasca Retreat Brazil website, 28 Sep 2026
- Is ayahuasca legal in Brazil?
- Ayahuasca is permitted for religious use only under CONAD Resolution 1/2010, which bans its sale; retreats for visitors have to operate within that framework.Source: Ministerio da Justica e Seguranca Publica / Diario Oficial da Uniao, 25 Jan 2010The law in every place we cover
Sources for this profile
- Ayahuasca Retreat Brazil blog post · Centre's own site, read 28 Sep 2026
- CONAD Resolucao n 1, de 25 de janeiro de 2010 (Diario Oficial da Uniao, 26 Jan 2010) · Government, read 28 Sep 2026
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