The Evolution of Novo Passo
From Novo Tempo to Novo Passo
Since 2013, Joelma Mapuani and Yube Jeff have been facilitating retreats dedicated to healing, self-discovery, prayer, and expanded states of consciousness.
Over the years, our understanding of this work has matured. What began as Novo Tempo gradually evolved into Novo Passo — "The New Step."
This evolution reflects a deeper commitment to preparation, safety, integration, embodiment, and personal responsibility.
While the medicines remain at the center of the experience, we have come to understand that true transformation is not found in extraordinary experiences alone, but in our ability to integrate insights into daily life, relationships, service, and community.
Novo Passo is therefore not simply a ceremony. It is a path of learning and transformation supported by ritual, nature, prayer, music, community, and integration.
The roots of this work remain deeply connected to the teachings we have received from Indigenous communities, spiritual traditions, and many years of personal practice. What has changed is the way we hold and structure the experience, allowing participants to journey more deeply while feeling supported before, during, and after the ceremonies.
The Novo Passo Experience
Why Two Ceremonies and One Integration Day?
Drawing upon more than fifteen years of experience working with entheogens, we continuously refine our retreat format.
Profound experiences deserve time, space, and proper integration.
Novo Passo is therefore designed as a four-day retreat that includes preparation, healing, teachings, expanded states of consciousness, and integration.
The two ceremonies allow participants to move gradually into deeper layers of experience while maintaining a safe and grounded container.
Friday Ceremony
The first ceremony begins on Friday evening and serves as an opening and harmonization space.
Joelma Mapuani and her husband, Yube Jeff, guide the ceremony, opening the space with Huni Kuin prayers sung a cappella. We are often honored to welcome a guest facilitator, musician, or spiritual guide who shares songs, prayers, and teachings from their own lineage.
The rapé offering concludes this first meditative phase and opens the way for Indigenous prayers accompanied by musical instruments.
The path then expands through medicine songs from different traditions, including Indigenous lineages, Santo Daime, and the traditions of the Orixás.
This first night is intentionally shorter and gentler. Its purpose is to support healing, help participants release accumulated burdens, and create harmony within the group.
Saturday Ceremony
The second ceremony begins on Saturday evening and invites participants into a deeper journey.
Movement and embodiment become central elements of the experience.
The work may include the Jiboia (Boa) dance, collective movement practices, percussion, and invocations connected to the Orixás traditions.
The ceremony concludes with an immersive sound meditation using a professional sound system and a carefully curated live mix of prayers, medicine songs, world music, and spiritual compositions.
Participants are invited to relax the body, open perception, and allow the experience to unfold through movement, presence, and dance.
Sunday is dedicated to integration.
We create spaces for sharing, listening, creativity, silence, and walks in nature.
We believe that integration is not a final step but an essential part of the process itself.
Participants often leave on Monday feeling renewed, clear-minded, emotionally lighter, and better aligned with their intentions and life direction.
Integration Day
Nature, Food and Community
All Novo Passo retreats take place in beautiful natural environments.
We offer a nourishing dietary cuisine that respects the ceremonial process while remaining delicious and abundant.
Nature, community, prayer, music, and simplicity form the foundation of the retreat experience.
Safety, Training and Integration
Transformation requires responsibility.
Over the years, we have increasingly focused on creating safer and more supportive spaces for participants.
We have completed professional training programs in ceremony safety, risk reduction, and integration practices.
These trainings have strengthened our understanding of preparation, screening, support, and post-retreat integration.
We also collaborate with therapists trained in Internal Family Systems (IFS), a powerful therapeutic model that helps individuals understand and heal the different parts of themselves.
Our intention is not only to facilitate profound experiences but also to support meaningful and lasting integration.
We remain committed to learning, improving, and adopting best practices as this field continues to evolve.
Building Bridges
Federation, Self-Regulation and International Dialogue
We believe that the future of sacred medicines depends on responsibility, dialogue, and ethical practice.
Our association, Time is Art, is a member of the Red Micelio Federation in Spain.
Through this network, we contribute to the ongoing self-regulation of entheogenic practices and support the development of ethical standards, safety protocols, and good practices.
We follow a code of ethics designed to promote responsibility, transparency, participant safety, and respect for traditional knowledge.
World Ayahuasca Forum
We are also honored to participate in the World Ayahuasca Forum.
The Forum responds to the urgent call of Indigenous Spiritual Leaders for a meaningful dialogue between ancestral knowledge systems and contemporary Western societies.
At a time when humanity faces unprecedented ecological, social, and spiritual challenges, protecting ancestral knowledge means protecting cultures, peoples, forests, and territories.
We will participate in the World Ayahuasca Forum in Girona, Spain, representing the FERM Federation and contributing to these important conversations.
Our Roots in Brazil
Relationships and Affiliations
For many years, Brazil has been a central source of learning, friendship, and spiritual inspiration in our lives.
We are deeply grateful for the relationships we have built with Indigenous leaders, spiritual communities, and ceremonial traditions.
Our work is guided by respect, reciprocity, and long-term commitment.
We collaborate with:
Huni Kuin Village of Igarapé do Caucho
Through the leadership of Chief Ninawa Nasso and Pajé Paenewa.
Huni Kuin Village Novo Futuro
Through spiritual leader Ninawa Pai da Mata and the community of Humaitá.
Casa da Paz
A Santo Daime church in Southern Bahia represented by Madrinha Nadir and Commander Rodrigo.
Roça de Ogum
An Umbandaime terreiro in São Paulo represented by Mãe de Santo Sonia Costa.
Rosa do Infinito
A spiritual collective composed of eight facilitators dedicated to prayer, healing, and community service.
These relationships continue to inspire and enrich the evolution of Novo Passo.
Mana Inani
Planting the Medicines
We believe it is our responsibility not only to receive medicines from the forest but also to help preserve and cultivate them.
In 2023, we became guardians of 32 hectares of land in Southern Bahia, Brazil.
Mana Inani is a beautiful valley located near the Conduru State Park, one of the most important protected areas of the Atlantic Forest.
The land is crossed by a river fed by five natural springs and surrounded by preserved rainforest.
It is a rare ecosystem where cacao, açaí, jagube, and chacrona thrive beneath the forest canopy.
Two years ago, we planted 1,000 chacrona plants and 1,000 jagube vines, beginning our long-term commitment to cultivating the sacred plants used in the preparation of ayahuasca.
The land already produces native cacao across eight hectares and açaí berries across six hectares.
In March 2026, we inaugurated our first communal house, the Jungle Loft, along with a ceremonial space located in the heart of the forest.
The Jungle Loft serves as a gathering place where participants can share meals, rest in hammocks, and enjoy views of the river and surrounding forest.
At the center of the land stands our 16-meter-diameter maloca, a space dedicated to prayer, celebration, ceremony, and community gatherings.
Tempo é Arte
Culture and Agriculture for Future Generations
Tempo é Arte is the non-profit organization at the heart of Mana Inani.
Its mission is to bring hope to future generations through the preservation of culture, the regeneration of land, and the transmission of traditional knowledge.
We believe that the earth nourishes us not only through food and medicine but also through beauty, creativity, and connection.
Singing, dancing, storytelling, prayer, and artistic creation are essential pathways for human flourishing.
Mana Inani is therefore being developed as a living center where Indigenous communities, artists, healers, farmers, and seekers can meet, exchange knowledge, and create together.
Through artistic residencies, cultural gatherings, educational programs, ceremonies, and ecological projects, we hope to contribute to a more balanced and regenerative future.
What's Next?
Mana Inani is only beginning.
There is still much to build and cultivate.
Over the coming years we will continue developing simple eco-lodges, expanding food production, planting more medicinal and native species, and strengthening the infrastructure needed to welcome visitors in a sustainable way.
Beginning in 2027, we plan to host bioconstruction workshops, permaculture trainings, artistic residencies, and community gatherings alongside Novo Passo retreats.
Every step is guided by a simple intention:
To create a place where spirituality, ecology, culture, and community can grow together.
We warmly welcome you to visit Mana Inani and walk this path with us.
