The Power of Group Energy – consider an Entheogen Retreat Program experience

Your spiritual journey can be profoundly accelerated by a group dynamic.  People’s self-discovery can be closely linked to the amplified value of combined energies brought forth from communal experiences.  Some benefits reported by group participants include the:

• Opportunity to find your community (“your people”)
• Development of deep and intimate bonds
• Immediate support during the ceremony event
• Ongoing connection and integration support
• Assurances that you are “not alone”
• Synchronistic gatherings of like-souls whose collective energies combine for your spiritual connection
• Opening up to vulnerability and releasing of social anxiety
• Increased accountability, self-trust and confidence

How is the Entheogen Retreat Program Structured?

The 5-week Preparation Phase 

Your transformational journey starts well before taking the sacred sacrament.  The entheogen does not show us anything that is not already within us.  If you don’t know how to “sit” with yourself, such as observe, feel, or experience those things within you that may be challenging to face or accept, your entheogen journey could be a difficult one.  We’ve learned from years of experience and working with hundreds of people, the better you prepare for your plant medicine journey, the safer and more profound your experience will be.

Under our professional coaching guidance, we help you:

• Understand obstacles or impediments to achieving your goals
• Begin to break down these barriers and reshape disempowering thinking
• Connect with your true nature using Daily Practice preparatory pdfs using the breath and body work
• Identify your unique way of processing and handling life’s challenges
• Learn to process your life in a way that is aligned with entheogen use, by balancing mind, body, mental, spiritual centers
• Prepare you for the journey, so you know:
  • how to handle potentially uncomfortable experiences
  • how to work with the sacrament for profound results
  • what to potentially expect during the ceremony
  • how we can assist during your experience
  • 4 virtual group sessions
    • Online videos
    • Pdf exercises & daily practices
    • One-on-one support
    • Participant-participant & participant-facilitator relationship building

The 3-Day Entheogen Retreat

Our 3-Day Retreat is held in a safe private space, either indoors or outdoors and includes:

• Sacred space on 65 beautiful, secluded acres 20 minutes SW of Oklahoma City
• 1 breathwork ceremony
• 1 entheogen ceremony
• Other ceremonies include sweat lodge, meditation, smoke bath, flower bath, and integration
• Drinking of ceremonial-grade Cacao for heart opening
• Small group, maximum 12 participants
• Indoor communal sleeping accommodations (we sleep where we hold ceremony)
• Most meals (we ask you to bring 1 communal meal for Friday night)
• Guidelines for ceremony preparation, including dietary suggestions and worksheets for helping you craft effective intentions
• Energy clearing
• Personalized reassurance, assistance, and immediate integrative support

The 4-week Integration Phase 

Despite the limited scope of what many videos, documentaries, books or testimonials suggest, rarely do we witness participants having sustained, life-changing results just from the ceremony itself.  It can happen.  It is rare.  More likely, an integration phase is required, where you take what you learned, experienced, felt, released, etc. in ceremony and you integrate the “changed” you back into your day-to-day life.  People can have difficulty understanding their experience, processing emotions, unhealthy behaviors could increase rather than decrease, knowing how to make changes in their life, etc.  This is a process that takes time, patience, and support to work through.

Through our integration follow-up sessions and professional coaching, we help you to navigate and ease your changes and shifts into your existing environment, community, family, relationships, and work.   The integration phase includes:

• 4 virtual group integration sessions
• 1 private, one-on-one session
• Integration framework and tips provided to make your retreat experience profound and lasting
• Videos and pdf exercises to continue aligning with your authentic self
• Ongoing connection with participants and facilitators

Our Role as Facilitators and Coaches

During the coaching preparation and integration phases, we work together closely, 1:1, week to week to offer guidance, reassurance, effective planning, tools, etc. to empower you on your path.

During the ceremony experience itself, we believe strongly that your preparation, the entheogen, and integration efforts bring through the energies that do the work.  When you embark on a journey using entheogens, simply put, the plant medicine wants to develop a relationship with you.  Our experienced, ordained facilitators and coaches are simply there to provide you with reassurance and assistance, as needed.  During ceremony, we do not interfere in your process, but rather encourage participants to relax, lie down, surrender to the process, and allow the experience to unfold introspectively.  We encourage releasing and expressing that can aid in your transformational journey, while we ensure you and the ceremony space are kept safe.  As facilitators, we could assist by playing music, using light language, and using sound healing instruments (crystal bowls, drumming, rattling, etc.).  The conversations and dialogue with us after ceremony play a significant role in the integration process, during the ceremony event and ongoing.