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The lodge doctor in blue scrubs at a small white table with a laptop, smiling at a guest seen from behind, with plants and a brick wall behind her

Isabel Azorey

A woman in a white lace dress kneeling on a terrace above the valley, sounding a brass singing bowl over a guest lying on woven rugs

Isabel Castro

Healing runs in the family.

Vibra is run by Isabel Cristina Azorey and her daughter, Isabel Castro. One Isabel works with the body. The other works with the breath. Most days, they work in the same room.

Her mother

Thirty years in medicine, and everything after it.

The lodge doctor seated barefoot in a woven chair on a wooden terrace, in a cream shirt and skirt, dense green leaves behind her

Isabel Azorey

Functional medicine doctor, anaesthesiologist, mother.

What she does

  • A long conversation about how you sleep, how you eat and what brought you
  • Hands-on work, explained before it starts
  • Thirty years of deciding what is worth doing and what is not
“I loved seeing people happy… more than seeing people worried about going into surgery.” Translated from Spanish.

What stayed with her was the waiting room.

Most of those thirty years were as an anaesthesiologist. She was good at it. What stayed with her was the waiting room, full of people afraid of what came next.

So she trained again, this time in holistic medicine, and opened a house in the forest where people arrive tired instead of afraid. She does not speak English. She does not need to. Her daughter is always beside her.

Isabel

She took the other half.

A woman in a white lace dress kneeling on a terrace above the valley, sounding a brass singing bowl over a guest lying on woven rugs

Isabel Castro

Health coach, breathwork instructor, daughter.

What she does

  • Health coaching
  • Yoga
  • Breathwork
  • Gong sound baths
  • Temazcal

Where she trained

Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach
Functional Medicine Coaching Academy
Yoga teacher, 500-hour training
The Yoga Institute, Mumbai
Breathwork facilitator
Alchemy of Breath, Toscana
Advanced training in sound therapy and gong
Vikram Pal, Instituto Internacional de Terapia de Sonido
She leads the morning yoga and breathwork, plays the evening sound sessions, and she is the one who answers when you write. If you book a call, it is with her.

Together

How they work together.

On your second morning you sit with both of them for about an hour and a half. Her mother works. Isabel translates and takes notes.

What they learn there shapes the rest of your week: which sessions make sense for you, how long, when to leave you alone.

See the retreat
A guest in a robe and the lodge doctor at a wooden table, her readings open between them, the cloud forest in the window behind

House rules

Every family has them. These are Vibra’s.

Four lines, and the house actually runs on them.

  1. 01Inside these doors, everything's fine.

    Whatever you arrived with can wait outside. Nobody here needs anything from you.

    The lodge reception at dusk: three woven pendant lamps over a concrete counter carrying the Vibra sprout mark, a doorway to the garden beyond
  2. 02The table is part of it.

    Three meals a day, and both Isabels eat with you. Most people come to the table, some do not. Both are fine.

    The lodge dining room, tables set beside open windows onto the valley
  3. 03The forest decides.

    Some days it rains at exactly the wrong moment. The day moves around it.

    A man standing waist-deep in a forest pool with his arms open under a waterfall, framed by ferns
  4. 04You leave with something in your hands.

    A written note from your last conversation, and a call thirty days later to see what held.

    A guest lying inside a cedar herbal steam cabinet at the lodge spa
The spa, Dr. Isabel’s treatments, the yoga and the sound bath were genuinely incredible experiences, deeply restorative, and deeply professional.

Diana Rojas

Google

Translated from Spanish.

The table

Three meals a day, cooked at the house.

Both of them eat with you. It is the one part of the day everybody is in the same room for, and nobody has to be.

  • Breakfast, lunch and dinner, every day you are here.
  • Cooked in the house kitchen, not brought in.
  • Tell Isabel before you come what you do not eat.
  • A plated dish with edible flowers on a dark table beside a window onto the garden
  • Breakfast of beetroot roses, egg and avocado on toasted bread
  • A plated dessert with a caramel line across the plate
  • The lodge dining room, tables set beside open windows onto the valley

Fifteen years

More than fifteen years of receiving people.

Long enough to know that most people arrive more tired than they think, that the first night is always the hardest to sleep, and that the rain always comes when you have just hung the laundry.

A woman in a long cream dress at a terrace rail, face lifted, with green ridges and blue mountains behind her
A jungle dome with an arched glass front under a wooden pergola, two chairs on its deck and a hillside of plants around it

Getting here

Vía Puyo a Tena, km 343.40 minutes from Puyo.

Coming from Quito? Getting here

Book 15 minutes with Isabel