Private Journey
Bridging clinical and nature-based modalities in a safe and supportive setting
Our Process
Whether you’re new to psychedelics or a seasoned traveler, our private journey offerings are personalized experiences that meet you exactly where you are. We offer individual and small group sessions, crafted to align with your deepest intentions and highest good.
Your journey can unfold in the comfort of your own home or in one of our private retreat locations in Whistler or Victoria, each chosen for their natural beauty and tranquility. From the precise dosing of your chosen medicine to curated music and atmosphere, every detail is intentionally and carefully shaped to support your unfolding.
You’ll receive over a month of personalized guidance from our experienced team—through preparation, the journey itself, and integration. Plus, you’ll recieve lifetime access to Psygaia’s Circle, our nonprofit psychedelic support and integration community.
Our process allows deep connection and trust to develop, leading to a strong, supportive, and sacred alliance. Our friendly and unwavering care and attention will ensure you feel comfortable, safe, and supported throughout your entire journey. In this space, you’re invited to deepen your relationship with yourself, with the Earth, and with the timeless wisdom that lives within you.
Preparation
Our process begins with a warm and thorough intake, allowing us to understand your background, intentions, and needs. This phase is about building trust, establishing safety, and clarifying the inner themes you’re ready to explore. We’ll co-create the shape of your journey together, introducing supportive practices like breathwork, mindfulness, and somatic awareness to help your nervous system open gently toward the experience ahead.
Journey
The day of your journey is held as sacred—an unhurried container for deep inner work. Sessions typically last between 6–8 hours, depending on the medicine and your unique unfolding. You’ll be safely guided in a blend of inward-focused exploration and optional nature-based rituals, allowing space for mystery, insight, and healing to emerge. We hold the entire day for you, ensuring everything that arises is welcomed with care and gentleness.
Integration
True transformation happens through integration—the slow weaving of your journey’s gifts into daily life. In this phase, we help you ground insights, process emotions, and explore how your experience wants to live through you. Through gentle dialogue, embodied practices, and continued support, we create space for your journey to keep unfolding long after the medicine has worn off. Integration is where change happens.
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.
Working with us, you receive lifelong access to the Psygaia’s Circle—a digital community, education and support platform which offers access to professional guidance, peer support, an evolving library of resources, and access to various events.
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 mission.
Sliding scale prices:
$2,400
$2,800
$3,200
Each private journey includes:
1 × 30-minute Discovery Call
2 × 60-minute Preparation Sessions
A fully guided, personalized psychedelic journey
2 × 60-minute Integration Sessions
1 × 30-minute Integration Follow-Up
Lifetime access to Psygaia’s Circle
This is more than a session—it’s a relationship rooted in trust, presence, and transformation.
If cost is a barrier for you to access this experience, please contact us for options.
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
FAQ
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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.
— Nāgārjuna, “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.