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Ikara Retreat Center is based in Portalón, Puntarenas, Costa Rica. Alongside retreats at its Costa Rican center, Ikara helps arrange traditional iboga programs in Mboka A Ndzambe, Gabon, led by local Bwete practitioners.
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What Reviewers Say About Ikara Retreat Center
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✓Benefits of Ikara Retreat Center
- •Hosts Kuma and Manga provide genuine care, love, and unwavering support throughout
- •Traditional Bwete practice with direct connection to Gabonese village and King Adumangana
- •Beautiful, peaceful jungle setting with organic food and clean accommodations
- •Effective for trauma, PTSD, depression, addiction, and chronic illness healing
- •Safe, nurturing environment with attentive presence during challenging ceremonies
- •Continued availability for guidance and support after returning home
- •Delicious organic vegetarian cuisine, much of it grown on-site
!Drawbacks of Ikara Retreat Center
- •Experience described as deeply challenging and intense, requiring readiness and commitment
Ikara Retreat Center Reviews
Kuma and Manga have changed my life forever. If you're dealing with any kind of trauma, depression, PTSD, or even a chronic illness, I'd highly recommend reaching out to Ikara to discuss and see if Iboga is the right fit. The only way I can explain the experience is that the medicine enters your body and scrubs clean all of your trauma and PTSD. My brain and nervous system feel as though they were reset to the way…
This was such and eye opening and beautiful experience. The accommodations were stellar and beyond expectation. I highly recommend.
“Lifechanging” barely grazes accurately describing our time at Ikara Retreat Centre. The digs were nestled in the palm of Costa Rican jungle cozily, yet the treatment is where the real healing flourished. Beyond Kuma & Manga’s endless love through guidance, listening, patience, protection, & world class organic vegetarian cuisine, mostly from the land itself which includes an immaculate (pictured) chemical-free salt…
My husband and I have been coming to Ikara for over two years now and there is nowhere else we would go for our continued spiritual evolution and holistic health work. When I first arrived at Ikara I suffered from a variety of debilitating mental and physical health issues due to a long history of trauma. I had tried so many different therapies and medicinal modalities, but nothing really moved the needle. The great…
Incredible and life-changing experience all around. Manga and Kuma are the real deal. The medicine is the most powerful and transformative medicine I've ever sat with. My wife and I will be returning and probably making this an annual pilgrimage. Highly recommend. Feb 2025 Update: It's been over 2 years since my wife and I first went for treatment at Ikara. We've done 10 retreats since, including going to Gabon to a…
Kuma & Manga are amazing, what they are doing for humanity is truly priceless. I’m endlessly grateful for the impact Ikara retreat had and still having in my life. I am looking forward to going back and strongly recommend Ikara retreat over any other option out there. Blessings!
A truly wonderful and life changing experience. Kuma and Manga made me feel so safe and comfortable and were there to talk to me anytime I needed, while also giving each guest the space and time needed to heal and reflect. It was a wonderful balance of trust and comfort. You can truly feel and see that Kuma and Manga truly care and have dedicates their lives to the traditions and people of Bwete/Bwiti tribes and cult…
Kuma and Manga runs this place truly from the heart. With integrity, genuine care and respect and authenticity. I've tried different providers and this is the only place I've found truly preserves the culture of the medicine and considers ethics. Its not just a business for them, its their whole life. Such a beautiful location too. Warmly recommend.