A retreat we hosted

Bufo Practitioner Training Program

Are you looking to find your purpose as a person in service? Feel the call to work with plant medicine? Step into your power with the sacred medicine of Bufo Alvarius.

At a glance

Apr 14-25, 2026
arrive 2:00 p.m. · depart 11:00 a.m.
Nights
11
Group size
up to 20 (venue capacity)
Language
English
Price
via the retreat leader
Lunita Jungle Retreat Center · Ruta de los Cenotes Km 17, Puerto Morelos · 40 min from Cancun airport
Last updated August 2026

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Bufo Practitioner Training Program, Lunita Jungle Retreat, Riviera Maya, Mexico

This retreat has concluded. It is kept here as part of the story of what the jungle has held. For what is coming up, see the retreat calendar, or design your own personal retreat.

About this retreat

Hosted by Tiger Soul Retreats

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Tiger Soul is honored to host another Bufo Facilitator Training Program — a sacred initiation into the art of holding space for profound transformation. This 11-day immersive training is designed not only to teach technical facilitation skills but to guide each trainee through a journey of deep healing, spiritual expansion, and mastery.

The program begins with an online training portion that introduces the Tiger Soul framework, teaching philosophy, and expectations for trainees. During the in-person immersion, every participant receives individualized guidance and mentorship, ensuring a grounded understanding of the medicine, ceremony, and ethical facilitation.

Held at the beloved Lunita Jungle Retreat, participants are supported by the sacred lands, the jungle’s silence, and the presence of ancestral energies that amplify this transformational work.

  • 🌿 Your Training Journey Includes

✧ Mayan Blessing Welcoming Ceremony

Receive an authentic blessing from traditional Mayan elders to open your portal of study and connect with the ancient wisdom of the land.

✧ Pachamama Tree Planting Ceremony

Plant a living offering to Mother Earth as you begin your path of service.

✧ Private Cenote Day

Immerse yourself in crystalline waters for purification and renewal.

Transportation included — entrance fee not included.

✧ Professional Jungle Photoshoot

Each trainee receives a personalized photoshoot, with images capturing facilitation practice, portraits, and moments of authentic presence in the jungle.

Perfect for elevating your professional offerings and sharing your medicine path.

  • 🌟 Why This Training Is Unique

This is more than a certification — it is a sacred initiation into the Bufo lineage.

You will learn safe, ethical, and heart-centered facilitation rooted in both ancestral tradition and modern integration principles.

Every aspect of this training is designed to help you enter the path of service with:

  • – Integrity
  • – Confidence
  • – Grounded presence
  • – Clear energetic hygiene
  • – Deep reverence for the medicine
  • 📜 Program Overview

The 11-day training is divided into two foundational phases:

  • ✨ First 5 Days – Personal Healing & Clearing

A deep purification process that prepares you to hold space for others.

You will explore:

  • • Somatic and energetic clearing
  • • Connecting to the spirit of Bufo
  • • Spiritual hygiene & energetic protection
  • • How to anchor a safe ceremonial container
  • • Intention setting & prayer as energetic technology
  • ✨ Next 6 Days – Facilitation Training & Mastery

Hands-on facilitator training including:

  • • Safe client intake & trauma-informed communication
  • • Ceremony observation & supervised facilitation
  • • Administering Bufo with skill and energetic integrity
  • • Ceremonial space preparation & maintenance
  • • Guiding clients through integration
  • 🌍 Sacred Connection With the Land

Held in the powerful Mayan jungle, this retreat teaches you how to work with the land rather than on it.

You will learn:

  • • Connecting with spirits of earth, water, jungle, and cenotes
  • • Working with native plants and traditional practices
  • • Permission rituals with ancestral energies
  • 💛 Holistic Support for Mind, Body & Spirit

To support your transformation, your retreat includes:

  • • Sound healing
  • • Yoga & movement
  • • Massage
  • • Breathwork & meditation
  • • Nourishing meals and fresh juices
  • 🕊 Integration & Reflection

Integration is essential for embodying your medicine path.

Your training will include:

  • • Working with Mambe to open voice & truth
  • • Journaling & reflection tools
  • • Child self-love workshop for pattern release
  • • Sacred fire ceremony for closing cycles
  • 🔥 Temazcal Ceremony

Experience a traditional Mayan temescal — a purification and rebirth ritual held in the womb of the earth, guided by heat, steam, and ancestral prayers.

  • 🌱 Exclusive & Intimate Training

This training is not for beginners.

Participants must have prior experience with plant or psychedelic medicine and complete a screening process to ensure readiness.

  • ✔ Training Includes
  • • 3 Kambo ceremonies
  • • 10 Bufo ceremonies
  • • Rapeh ceremonies
  • • 2 Mushroom ceremonies
  • • 2 Yoga sessions
  • • Sound healing session
  • • Private cenote day
  • • Ocean day
  • • Temescal ceremony
  • • Medicine supply
  • • Ongoing support & integration
  • • Accommodation & meals
  • • Airport transportation (round-trip)
  • • Certificate of completion

💰 Investment

Shared Accommodations: $4,750 USD

Private Accommodations: $6,000 USD

Includes airport transport and private cenote day (entry fee not included).

This is a sacred initiation into a path of service, healing, and mastery.

If you feel called, we encourage you to reach out.

  • 📞 Ready to Apply?

Before enrolling, all participants must complete a Health Screening Form

After submitting the form, you may contact the team to schedule your screening call:

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Questions

What was the Bufo Practitioner Training Program?
The Bufo Practitioner Training Program was an 11-day immersive training hosted by Tiger Soul Retreats at Lunita Jungle Retreat Center: a sacred initiation into the art of holding space for profound transformation with the sacred medicine of Bufo Alvarius. It was designed not only to teach technical facilitation skills but to guide each trainee through a journey of deep healing, spiritual expansion, and mastery. It spoke to people looking to find their purpose in service and feeling the call to work with plant medicine, and every participant received individualized guidance and mentorship toward a grounded understanding of the medicine, ceremony, and ethical facilitation.
When did the training take place and how was it structured?
The in-person immersion ran from April 14 to April 25, 2026 at Lunita Jungle Retreat Center near Puerto Morelos, Mexico: eleven days, beginning at 2:00 p.m. on arrival and closing at 11:00 a.m. The program began before the jungle, with an online training portion introducing the Tiger Soul framework, teaching philosophy, and expectations for trainees, so the in-person days could go straight into depth. The training has concluded, and its page remains as part of the story of what the jungle has held at Lunita Jungle Retreat Center.
What did the training journey include?
The journey opened with a Mayan Blessing Welcoming Ceremony, an authentic blessing from traditional Mayan elders to open the portal of study and connect with the ancient wisdom of the land, and a Pachamama Tree Planting Ceremony, a living offering to Mother Earth at the start of the path of service. Through the immersion, trainees received individualized guidance and mentorship covering the medicine, ceremony structure, and ethical facilitation, supported, in the program's words, by the sacred lands, the jungle's silence, and the presence of ancestral energies. The container at Lunita Jungle Retreat Center held both the training work and the personal journey it asked of each trainee.
Where was the training held?
The training was held at Lunita Jungle Retreat Center, Ruta de los Cenotes Km 17, Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, Mexico, about 40 minutes by road from Cancún International Airport. The center is an intimate, fully solar-powered venue for twenty guests inside 80,000 square metres of preserved jungle. Bufo ceremonies at Lunita are held at the Grandfather Tree or in the Crystal Shala, the octagonal glass yoga shala, and the land's quiet is part of why practitioner trainings choose it: eleven days of ceremony, mentorship, and integration need silence around them, and the jungle provides it.
Will the Bufo training return, and what can I do now?
This edition has concluded. Tiger Soul Retreats has hosted the program at Lunita Jungle Retreat Center before, so the retreat calendar is where a future edition would appear with its dates. If the path of practitioner work calls you, a free call with the Lunita team is a good first step: it covers upcoming trainings and ceremony retreats, how the honest-intake screening for sacred medicine work is handled, and whether a training, a group retreat, or a personal retreat fits where you are. The newsletter, Letters from the jungle, carries announcements when new trainings open for registration.

The jungle is still holding retreats.

This one has passed, but others are forming. Join an upcoming retreat, host your own, or come on a personal retreat shaped around you.