Breath & Vine of the Soul

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Breath & Vine of the Soul

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A 12-day ceremonial immersion combining the sacred wisdom of the Ayahuasca vine with transformational breathwork.

Held in the peaceful coastal jungle of Ecuador at Finca Cree Ser in Olón, this retreat offers a rare opportunity to step away from everyday life and enter a deeply supported space of healing, insight and spiritual awakening through personal growth in harmony with nature.

Hi, I'm Neelam Taylor,

Through my experiences in the jungles of Peru and Ecuador, on my own personal healing journey, I have experienced so much. From amazing traditional ceremonies with the Shipibo Maestros, to places that were held with distortions that left me with depleted energies that did not belong to me. Through both the positive and negative experiences, I realised how important it is to choose the right environment, healers and facilitators. As an experienced and professionally qualified facilitator myself, I knew what was a safe place for healing and what can cause harm.


With this deep calling, it is now such an honour to bring to you the second BREATH & VINE OF THE SOUL AYAHUASCA RETREAT. 


Being able to eliminate the negative experiences I had to go through and also incorporate the qualities of safety and wellbeing of what this experience should be during a 5 month container and which is held with the highest integrity. 


Together with Adam Combridge who has been working very deeply and closely on his own personal healing with plant medicine for several years, whilst being taught and guided by Shipibo & Maestros we have collectively created this retreat.


Guided by experienced Facilitators and Integration Coaches, Neelam Taylor and Adam Combridge, with ceremonial medicine served by Maestro Colas Gatsby, this journey is designed for those who feel a genuine calling to work with plant medicine in a safe, intentional and integrative environment.





Through the breath we open. Through the vine we remember. Through the soul we awaken.


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A Sacred Journey of Breath and the Vine

For generations, the Ayahuasca vine has been revered by Amazonian traditions as a powerful teacher that reveals truth, clears emotional burdens and reconnects individuals with the deeper intelligence of life.


Breathwork is one of the most natural pathways to expanded awareness and emotional release.


When these two sacred practices are brought together, they create a powerful container for transformation.

This retreat is designed to support:


• emotional healing

• spiritual awakening

• trauma release

• nervous system regulation

• deep personal insight

• reconnection with purpose and soul


This is not simply a retreat.

It is an initiation into deeper self-awareness and personal truth.

The Retreat Experience

Over twelve days, participants are guided through a carefully structured journey that balances powerful ceremonial experiences with integration and grounding practices.

The Retreat Includes:

  • 5 Traditional Ayahuasca ceremonies
  • Temazcal Ceremony
  • Breathwork Journeys
  • Group & Individual Integration and sharing circles
  • Somatic grounding practices
  • Meditation, yoga & consciousness work
  • Beautiful accomodation & organic farm to table meals.

Every element of the retreat is designed to allow participants to move safely through deep experiences while receiving the support needed for meaningful integration.

Breath & Vine of the Soul - A sacred journey of breath, medicine, and soul awakening

What is Ayahuasca

Ayahuasca is a sacred plant medicine used for centuries by Indigenous tribes of the Amazon for healing, insight, and spiritual connection.


The brew is traditionally made from the Banisteriopsis caapi vine combined with companion plants such as Chacruna (Psychotria viridis). 


Together, they create a powerful medicine that works on the body, mind and consciousness.


Often bringing forward deep emotional release, clarity and expanded awareness.


This is not a recreational experience.

It is a ceremonial journey(s) into yourself.



The Structure of the 12 Days



This retreat is designed to support the full journey—not just the ceremonies themselves.


You will be guided through:


  • Preparation — intention setting, grounding and nervous system support
  • Ceremonies — held in a safe, respectful and intentional space
  • Integration — time, guidance and practices to embody what arises
  • Supportive modalities — including breathwork, stillness, movement and connection with nature


This creates a rhythm of opening, processing and integrating—allowing real and lasting change to occur.

What to Expect

Over 12 days, you are guided through a carefully held process that includes five Ayahuasca ceremonies, along with preparation, integration and supportive practices in between.


This extended container allows the work to unfold gradually, safely and with depth rather than rushing the process.


Each ceremony builds upon the last.

You may experience:


  • Emotional release and clearing of stored trauma
  • Insights into patterns, relationships and life direction
  • Deep connection to your body, breath and inner guidance
  • Visions, memories or expanded states of awareness
  • A sense of reset- physically, mentally and spiritually

Some journeys can feel light, expansive and heart-opening.


Others may be more challenging—bringing up what has been suppressed or avoided.


Both are part of the healing.

Breathwork & Plant Medicine

Plant medicine ceremonies can open powerful emotional and spiritual landscapes.


Breathwork supports the body and nervous system in processing and integrating these experiences.


By combining these two modalities, throughout the retreat, participants often experience:


• deeper emotional release

• greater clarity and insight

• stronger integration of ceremony experiences

• improved nervous system regulation

• a deeper connection to intuition and inner guidance


This integration of breathwork and plant medicine creates a balanced and grounded pathway into transformational healing.

Temazcal Ceremony – A Return to the Womb of the Earth

Step into the sacred heat of the Temazcal, a space where the body softens, the mind quiets and the soul remembers.


The Temazcal is an ancient Mesoamerican sweat lodge ceremony. A ritual of purification, release and rebirth, honoured for generations by Indigenous wisdom keepers.


Held within a dome-shaped structure symbolising the womb of Mother Earth, you are invited inward away from distraction and into deep connection. At the heart of the lodge, heated volcanic stones glow as water infused with sacred herbs is poured over them, creating waves of steam that awaken the breath and open the body.


This is where the journey begins.


The ceremony unfolds through four powerful rounds, each representing one of the elements :- Earth, Water, Fire and Air.


With each round, you are guided deeper, shedding layers, releasing weight and reconnecting with the essence of who you are.


  • Earth grounds you — returning you to your body and stability
  • Water cleanses — inviting emotional release and flow
  • Fire transforms — burning through limitation and stagnation
  • Air expands — opening breath, clarity, and new perspective


As the heat builds, so does your awareness.

What arises is not forced, only revealed.

The breath becomes your anchor.

The body becomes your teacher.

This is more than a physical detox.


It is a full-spectrum reset, physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.


Through intention, sound and guided presence, the Temazcal supports:


• Deep release of stored tension and emotional weight

• Nervous system regulation and grounding

• Reconnection to nature and the intelligence of the elements

• Clarity, insight, and inner alignment


Each round becomes a threshold, an opportunity to let go of what you’ve been carrying and step into something lighter, clearer and more true.


And when you emerge sweat-drenched, heart open, breath alive, it often feels like being born again.


A return to self.

A return to truth.

A return to life.


This ceremony is held with deep respect for its cultural origins and offered in a safe, trauma-aware and intentional space.

Retreat Location

Finca Cree Ser – Olón, Ecuador

Nestled in the peaceful coastal hills of Olón, Finca Cree Ser provides a tranquil natural environment ideal for deep inner work.


Surrounded by tropical nature and ocean air, the retreat space supports rest, reflection, and connection with the rhythms of the natural world.


The quiet beauty of this location allows participants to fully step away from daily distractions and immerse themselves in the journey.

Journey Through Our Gallery

Breath & Vine of the Soul - Facilitators

Adam Combridge

Adam Combridge

Adam Combridge

Adam Combridge is a Certified facilitator, trainer and space holder devoted to supporting deep personal healing and transformation.


Adams path into this work was not born from theory or study alone but through lived experience. 


Like many who feel called to hold space for others, Adam first walked through his own journey of challenge, healing and self-discovery. 


Through that process he developed a deep respect for the intelligence of the body, the breath and the profound ways human beings can transform when given the right environment to do so.


This path eventually led him to South America, where he spent three years living between Peru and Ecuador, immersing himself in communities and retreat environments working with sacred plant medicines.


During this time Adam both received and supported many Ayahuasca ceremonies, witnessing first-hand the depth of healing, insight and transformation that can unfold when these traditions are approached with humility, respect and care. 


These years shaped not only his understanding of ceremony but also the responsibility that comes with holding space for people during such powerful inner journeys.


Adam approaches this work with deep reverence for the traditions that carry the medicine and a strong commitment to the safety and wellbeing of those who come to sit in ceremony. 


Adam is trained and qualified in psychedelic integration coaching, supporting participants in understanding and integrating the insights that can arise through these experiences. For Adam, the ceremony itself is only part of the journey. The real transformation happens in how those insights are brought back into everyday life.


Those who work with Adam all speak about the calm, grounded presence he brings to the space. His intention is not to direct or control a person’s experience but to create an environment where people feel safe enough to surrender to their own process and reconnect with the deeper wisdom that already exists within them. For Adam, this work is ultimately about remembrance. Remembering who we are beneath the conditioning, the pain and the stories we have carried.


“Many people arrive at this path because something inside them is asking for change, healing or deeper understanding. Ceremony is not about escaping life. It is about meeting it with greater honesty and awareness.


My intention is simply to hold a space where you feel safe, respected and supported as you explore your own inner world. If you feel genuinely called to step into this journey, you are welcome here”.

Neelam Taylor

Adam Combridge

Adam Combridge

Neelam Taylor is a devoted guide for soul healing and transformation. With over 27 years of experience in the healing arts, she is an International Breathwork Practitioner, Yoga Teacher, Holistic Psychotherapist, Energy Medicine Woman and Mentor. She is the founder of Awakening Breathwork Academy, where she trains internationally certified trauma-informed Breathwork Facilitators, weaving ancient wisdom with embodied somatic therapies. 


Her passion lies in guiding others through deep spiritual awakening and the healing of generational and collective trauma. Her own healing began through overcoming domestic violence in early childhood and this path of pain to purpose became the foundation for her life’s work.


In 2023, Neelam answered a powerful calling to sit with the sacred medicine of Ayahuasca, initiated through her daughters spontaneous healing with psychedelic medicine. Traveling solo, she began her initiation in the jungle of Mexico, where she experienced her first profound encounters with the spirit of the vine. This journey then led her to Peru, where she continued her path of remembrance, sitting in sacred ceremonies in the mystical Sacred Valley and deep in the heart of the Amazon jungle with authentic Shipibo maestros and their communities.


Over six months, she surrendered to the teachings of the plants and walked the path of deep inner revelation. It was in the jungle that Grandmother Ayahuasca gave her a vision, to guide others into this work through safe, authentic and integrative experiences. She saw clearly that many seekers were entering this realm without the protection or guidance needed to truly receive the healing. 


Experiencing first hand some of the difficulties western travellers can face navigating the traditional tribes of South America. From this vision, Breath & Vine of the Soul was born.


In 2025, Neelam facilitated her first Breath & Vine of Soul Retreat in Peru co-facilitated with Adam Cambridge.


This retreat is not simply a ceremony, it is a sacred initiation. Rooted in trauma-informed preparation and holistic integration, Breath & Vine of the Soul blends plant medicine with Breathwork and Holistic Psychotherapy, creating a container for deep and lasting transformation.


Neelam now walks beside those called to the medicine, holding a grounded, heart-led path into the unknown. With fierce integrity and spiritual devotion, she bridges the worlds, offering a safe passage into the jungle and a return home to the soul.

Colas Gatsby

Adam Combridge

Colas Gatsby

Maestro Colas is a therapist/healer specializing in Amazonian medicinal plants. He studied with the Shipibo master Pascual Mahua for 10 years in the Ucayali River area of the Peruvian Amazon.  


Born in 1983, Colas carries the lineage of the new generation of healers with roots in Shipibo-Conibo medicine.


Colas is a committed facilitator on the long path of Diets with Medicinal Plants and personal transformation of a Medicine Man. 


He was born in France and has been an explorer of different cultures since the age of 14.


During his ceremonies, all darkness and shadow are illuminated by the Icaros, the plants that accompany his work, and the Sacred company of Tobacco. 


Through his work with Ayahuasca, energy portals open up that give us the ability to see and feel at a level beyond our limited rational mind. It allows us to enter the energetic world where all living beings are interconnected.


Colas guides, provides tools, and protects the space for each participant in their own exploration and healing. 


His medicine has the property of finding in our bodies where energies, memories, and patterns are stored that we need to free ourselves from. Once they are shown to us, channels of understanding, compassion, and acceptance open up that will allow us to take away sacred learning. And in this way, with self-responsibility, transform our reality in this life, also transforming what surrounds us.


Colas empowers each participant to transform their life to be happy and responsible on each one's path.

Who this Retreat is for

This retreat is suited for individuals who:


• Feel genuinely called to work with Ayahuasca in a respectful ceremonial setting


• Are seeking deep emotional healing and personal insight


• Are interested in combining plant medicine with breathwork practices


• Value safe facilitation and integration support


• Are ready to explore deeper layers of consciousness

Why people feel called to this work

Most people do not arrive at this kind of retreat casually.

There is often a moment when something deeper begins to stir. A sense that something within is ready to shift.


People come to this work seeking:


• healing from long-held emotional patterns
• clarity and direction in life
• deeper connection to self
• release from past experiences
• spiritual insight and awakening


Ayahuasca has long been regarded as a teacher that reveals what the mind alone cannot access.


For many, this journey becomes a turning point.

What participants often experience

Every experience is unique. However, many participants report:


• emotional release and clarity
• deeper self-understanding
• insights into relationships and life direction
• greater compassion toward themselves
• a sense of peace and presence
• reconnection with purpose


Some experiences are intense and emotional.
Others are quiet and deeply reflective.


What matters most is the support and integration that follows.

Is this retreat calling you?

There are moments in life where something deeper begins to stir.


Not loudly.
Not urgently.
But quietly.


A sense that something is ready to change. You may not fully understand it, but you can feel it. A pull toward something more honest.


More aligned.
More true.


This retreat is not for everyone. It is for those who feel ready to meet themselves more deeply. To step beyond familiar patterns. To listen to what is already moving within them. You do not need to have everything figured out. Only a willingness to begin. If something in you resonates as you read this, this may be the beginning of that call.

Retreat Details

Breath & Vine of the Soul Ayahuasca Retreat – Ecuador

Location: Finca Cree Ser, Olón Ecuador

Dates: August 7 – 18, 2026 

Includes:

  • 5 Ayahuasca ceremonies
  • Traditional Temazcal Ceremony
  • Breathwork journeys
  • Integration circles
  • Accommodation
  • Nourishing meals
  • Transfers from airport to retreat centre and return to airport
  • One month preparation support
  • Three month integration program with six breathwork journeys & Mentoring

Not Includes:

  • Airfaires to Ecuador 

Investment:

$5700 USD

Payment Plan is available if needed

Integration Support - A Key Part of This Retreat

True transformation happens not only during ceremony but also through integration.

This retreat includes extensive preparation and post-retreat support.

Before the Retreat

Participants will receive:

• One month of mentoring support

• A guided breathwork preparation journey

• Education to prepare body, mind and nervous system for the medicine work

After the Retreat

Participants will receive a 3-month integration program including:

• Six guided breathwork journeys

• Integration support to process ceremony experiences

• Continued connection with the retreat group

This extended support ensures the insights and healing from the retreat can be fully embodied and integrated into everyday life.

Frequently Asked Questions

Please reach us at info@blissfrequency.com.au if you cannot find an answer to your question.

When held in a proper ceremonial setting with experienced facilitators and screening, it can be a powerful and safe healing modality.


No. Many participants are new to plant medicine, healing and a spiritual path.


Preparation supports your body and nervous system to enter the experience safely and openly.


Integration support ensures your experience is grounded and embodied in daily life.


As spaces are limited, all bookings are final and refunds are not available for change of mind or personal circumstances.


In the unlikely event of government-imposed travel restrictions or circumstances beyond your control that prevent travel to Ecuador, a full refund will be provided.


We are committed to ensuring a smooth and supported experience for all participants.


Application Process

Due to the depth of this work, all participants are required to complete an application process before being accepted into the retreat.

This helps ensure that the retreat environment remains safe, supportive and aligned for everyone involved.

If you feel a genuine resonance with this work, you are invited to apply.


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