Private Journeys
Integrating clinical and nature-based modalities in a safe and supportive setting
THE PROCESS
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Preparation
Preparation begins with a thoughtful intake to understand your history, intentions, and readiness. Together, we clarify what you’re seeking and shape the journey with care. Through supportive practices such as breathwork, mindfulness, and nervous-system regulation, we cultivate safety, trust, and openness—laying a grounded foundation for the experience ahead.
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Journey
Your journey day is held as a sacred, unhurried container. We set aside the entire day to support a process that typically unfolds over several hours, guided with care and presence. Through a balance of inward-focused exploration and optional nature-based practices, space is created for insight, healing, and meaning to emerge. Always, whatever arises is met with gentleness and respect.
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Integration
Integration is where your experience becomes lived change. Here, we take time to ground insights, process what emerged, and explore how your journey wants to move into and through your daily life. Through thoughtful dialogue and embodied practices, the work continues beyond the journey, allowing meaning and transformation to unfold over time.
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Community
Lasting integration is supported by community. Through Psygaia, our nonprofit arm, you are invited into a living network of people committed to conscious exploration, integration, and care for self and Earth. Clients receive access to ongoing support, educational resources, and online and in-person spaces for connection—so your journey is not carried alone, but held within a wider relational field.
HOW IT WORKS
Our approach is flexible and customizable to your needs and goals. If you would like to shorten or lengthen the process, we are open to making changes—as long as these changes will not jeopardize your safety and wellbeing. Moreover, working with us you receive lifelong access to the Psygaia’s Circle—a support, integration and education community which offers access to professional guidance, peer support, an evolving library of resources, and access to various events. As always, if you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
PRICING
We offer a sliding scale for private journeys to honor the diversity of life circumstances, while maintaining the integrity and depth of our work. No matter where you enter on the scale, you’ll receive the same level of presence, care, and support. This model helps us serve a wider range of people while sustaining our service.
Sliding scale prices:
$1,750 — Reduced
$2,150 — Standard
$2,750 — Supporter
$3,150 — Pay It Forward
Each private journey includes:
Preparation
1 × 30-minute discovery call
2 × 60-minute preparation sessions
Personalized 1-2 page preparation doc
Journey
A fully guided 6 - 10 hour journey session
Integration
2 × 60-minute integration sessions
1 × 30-minute integration follow-up
Personalized 1-2 page integration doc
Community
Lifetime Access to Psygaia’s Circle
To ensure the highest standard of care, each private journey involves approximately 15 hours of direct, one-on-one engagement. This includes 5 hours of preparation and integration work, plus a 6 to 10+ hour journey session or container. Please keep in mind, this is more than a session—it is a relationship rooted in trust, presence, accountability and transformation. While the structure above outlines our standard offering, deeper and ongoing work is available. If you’re called to a more extended process with us, we’re happy to discuss custom arrangements at a corresponding hourly rate. If cost is a barrier for you to access this experience, contact us.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
— Lao Tzu
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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A psychedelic experience involves altered states of consciousness induced by substances like psilocybin, LSD, or ayahuasca. These experiences can lead to profound shifts in perception, cognition, and emotion, allowing individuals to access deeper layers of consciousness and gain insights into the nature of reality, the self, and existence. From a holistic perspective, psychedelics are seen as tools that facilitate connection with the innate intelligence of the mind and the interconnected web of existence.
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While psychedelics can induce powerful experiences, safety depends on various factors, including set (mindset), setting (physical, social, cultural, political environment), substance purity, and dosage. Research suggests that when used in a supportive and controlled setting, psychedelics can be safe for most individuals. However, it's essential to approach them with caution, respect, and reverence, following best practices to minimize potential risks.
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A bad trip can occur when challenging emotions, memories, or experiences arise during a psychedelic journey. From a holistic perspective, a bad trip may be seen as an opportunity for deep healing and transformation. Experienced guides can provide support and guidance to navigate difficult moments, helping individuals integrate challenging experiences and find meaning and insight in them.
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Dosage is determined based on various factors, including the individual's weight, metabolism, past experiences with psychedelics, and the specific substance being used. Dosage is approached with respect for the substance's potency and the individual's sensitivity, aiming to create a balance between therapeutic effects and safety.
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We use the term "journey" to emphasize the transformative nature of the psychedelic experience. A journey implies embarking on an inner exploration of the self and the cosmos, guided by the wisdom of ancient traditions, modern science, and the intelligence of nature.
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Guides provide essential support and guidance throughout the psychedelic journey, helping individuals navigate the depths of consciousness and integrate insights into their daily lives. Guides serve as facilitators of healing, drawing upon neuroscience, transpersonal psychology, indigenous wisdom, and nature-based spirituality to create a safe and supportive container for exploration and growth. Unlike therapists, guides are not limited by the lens of the Western psychotherapeutic framework and can offer more personalized support which traditional therapists may not be willing or able to provie by virtue of their accredation by a surveying national association with specific rules and regulations that do not consider psychedelics.
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Psychedelic experiences are not a guaranteed cure, but they can be powerful catalysts for healing and transformation. Healing is seen as a multifaceted and lifelong journey that involves addressing physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of wellbeing. Psychedelics can provide profound insights and experiences that support healing on all levels, but ongoing integration and personal work are essential for sustained transformation.
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The frequency of psychedelic experiences varies for each individual and depends on factors such as personal goals, readiness, and responsiveness to the experiences. From a holistic standpoint, the number of journeys needed is guided by the individual's unique healing journey and their ongoing integration process. It's essential to approach psychedelics with intention, respect, and mindfulness, allowing the experiences to unfold in their own time and rhythm.
All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.
— Nagarjuna, “The Second Buddha”
RESEARCH
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The Psygaia Hypothesis explores the symbiotic relationship between humans and psychedelic-producing organisms, suggesting that these ancient allies affect human cognition and behaviour in ways that align with the planetary system, fostering planetary health through interspecies communication. By re-engaging with these evolutionary partners, humanity has the opportunity to reconnect with ecological consciousness and rediscover a harmonious relationship with the Earth and its living systems.
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Psychedelic Harm Reduction and Integration (PHRI) is a transtheoretical and transdiagnostic clinical approach to working with patients who are using or considering using psychedelics in any context. The ongoing discussion of psychedelics in academic research and mainstream media, coupled with recent law enforcement deprioritization of psychedelics and compassionate use approvals for psychedelic-assisted therapy, make this model exceedingly timely. Given the prevalence of psychedelic use, the therapeutic potential of psychedelics, and the unique cultural and historical context in which psychedelics are placed, it is important that mental health providers have an understanding of the unique motivations, experiences, and needs of people who use them. PHRI incorporates elements of harm reduction psychotherapy and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, and can be applied in both brief and ongoing psychotherapy interactions. PHRI represents a shift away from assessment limited to untoward outcomes of psychedelic use and abstinence-based addiction treatment paradigms and toward a stance of compassionate, destigmatizing acceptance of patients' choices. Considerations for assessment, preparation, and working with difficult experiences are presented.
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How some Buddhist teachers are not only turning toward psychedelics in their practice but also making it a part of their teaching.
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The concept of integration has garnered increased attention in the past few years, despite a long history of only brief mention. Integration services are offered by therapists, coaches, and other practitioners, or may be self-guided. There are many definitions of psychedelic integration, and the term encompasses a range of practices and techniques. This seems to have led to confusion about what integration is and how it is best practiced. The primary focus of this manuscript is the presentation of the first extensive review and concept analysis of definitions, practices, and models of psychedelic integration. We provide a synthesized definition of integration, synthesized model of integration, and comprehensive summary of integration practices to bring clarity to the subject.
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Integration is about returning towards a state of balance, harmony, wholeness or health. It is a process of transforming insights into traits.