How it works
Most guests arrive three to six weeks after their first message. Here is every step in between, who you talk to, and what we ask of you.
A glimpse of your journey
From the first conversation to the care that continues at home, discover the places, moments and people along the way.
Before you travel01 / Prepare
A conversation, your questions, and time to prepare. The team gets to know you, the physician reviews your screening, and together you establish whether this retreat is right for you.
A personal conversation · Medical screening
Meet your team
Welcome to the Mayan Riviera02 / Arrive
We meet you at Cancún airport and welcome you to the center. Settle into your room, meet the physician and the people who will accompany you, and leave space for your first evening together.
Airport pickup · Time to settle in
Explore the center
The ceremony nights03 / Experience
Fire talks, Bwiti music and practitioner guidance give the ceremony its traditional setting. The medical team supervises your care while Missoko Bwiti practitioners accompany the inward experience.
Missoko Bwiti tradition · Medical supervision
Discover the ceremony
Between ceremonies04 / Rest
Rest in the garden, write, reflect and spend time by the cenote as your recovery allows. The schedule makes room for processing and integration, with the team nearby when you need them.
Processing days · Space for reflection
See the setting
Three months of continuing care05 / Reconnect
Bring your questions and reflections into the life you return to. Integration calls and follow-up with the team help you work with the experience, long after your bags are unpacked.
Integration calls · Continuing care
Explore continuing careYour first step is a conversation
Tell us what brings you here. We will talk through your questions and the screening process together.
Step by step
The application form: the program and date you have in mind, who you are, and your story. Nothing medical yet. You get a confirmation and the calendar for your call.
By phone or WhatsApp with Lisa, our onboarding lead, or a practitioner. Your intention, your questions, our honest first read on whether the program fits. No pressure, no sales script.
A detailed questionnaire, then an ECG and a blood panel done with your doctor or a lab near you. Dr Villarreal reviews everything and calls you. Tania, our psychologist, joins when the history asks for it. One to three weeks.
If the physician clears you, you receive a written confirmation with your dates, your room and the payment instructions. Full payment confirms the place. Eight per retreat, first confirmed, first served.
The preparation guidelines: diet, alcohol, medications and their tapers, what to bring, how to write your questions for the medicine. One preparation call with the team. Lisa stays reachable.
We pick you up at the airport, twenty minutes to the center. Intake with the physician, vitals, your room, the first fire talk in the evening. Nothing is given on day one.
Ceremony nights with the medical team in the palapa, processing days, integration days at the cenote. Seven, ten or fourteen days depending on your program. Read the ceremony for the detail.
We drive you back to the airport, and the care continues: four integration calls, the medical team and the psychologist reachable, your data reviewed against baseline. Then, if you want it, alumni calls at $100 an hour.
Who you talk to
What we ask of you
Everything you take, everything you have been through, everything you use. The protocol only protects you if it knows you. Withholding information is the one thing that gets a guest sent home.
The guidelines exist for your safety and for the depth of the experience. Diet, alcohol, medications, sleep. We check, and we notice.
Show up to the integration calls. The retreat opens a window; the calls are how it stays open.
Questions about the process
Three weeks is the practical minimum: the ECG and bloodwork take time to schedule and review, and some medications need a taper. If a date is close and you are cleared, Lisa will tell you if a place is open.
Citizens of the United States, Canada, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia and many other countries do not need a visa for a stay under 180 days; you fill in the entry form on arrival. Check your own nationality; Lisa can help.
The physician explains why, in writing if you want. Sometimes it is a no for now: a taper to complete, a test to redo, a condition to stabilize. We keep your file and tell you when it can be revisited.
Yes. Book a discovery call after sending the application; the form takes five minutes and lets us prepare the call. Or write to info@bwitilife.com.
Light clothes, a sweater for ceremony nights, sandals, your medications in their original boxes, your lab results and ECG, a notebook. The preparation guidelines have the full list. Leave the alcohol and the expectations at home.
You've carried this long enough. Start with a conversation with our medical team.
