
Mushroom Summer
An intimate three-month group container exploring psilocybin mushrooms and breathwork, designed to maximize personal healing and transformation.
Summer 2025
Vancouver, British Columbia
You’ve experienced the magic of mushrooms. Now you’re feeling called to go much deeper. Join us for…
A unique three-month medicine “retreat” without leaving the city
Three psilocybin mushroom journeys (including one set in nature)
Integration and breathwork sessions interspersed between journeys
An intimate group container for ongoing connection and support
Microdosing throughout to heal and integrate within the subtle realms
One-on-one sessions for initial preparation and final integration
Transform your everyday into sacred ground through an innovative urban "retreat" that integrates powerful inner work with your daily life.

Journey back home
Feel powerfully connected to the sacred dimensions of your soul
Uncover hidden shadows and integrate them to become more whole
Enter the world of ceremony, prayer, spirit, and sacred reciprocity
Harmonize into oneness with nature and each other
Mushroom Summer-ized
A three month “retreat” where your life is the ceremony.
Retreats usually entail leaving behind your home and daily triggers, often returned to with a slight shock to the nervous system. In addition to the convenience and accessibility of a stay-at-home retreat, Mushroom Summer invites our everyday lives to become the ongoing fodder of our self-exploration, not only on journey days but during all the days in between. This will be greatly amplified by participating in the additional layer of a microdose program with support from facilitators and your cohort, where every day is an opportunity for ceremony.
Conscious Connected Breathwork
Interspersing the mushroom journey sessions we will host breathwork sessions geared towards integration and inner exploration, preparing you mentally and physically for your next mushroom journey while helping you integrate insights from your last.
Sacred Mushrooms
Bring your mind home to your body with daily meditation, breathwork, yoga, and outdoor exercise. Tune into your body and connect to nature.

WHAT IS POSSIBLE IN ONLY 3 MONTHS?
It’s up to you.
The stage is set for healing, growth and transformation.
We can’t promise you anything more than that.
Your innate healer is in this very moment telling you if this is right for you. Can you listen? Can you trust your knowing? This gentle prerequisite is the first step.
Mushroom Summer may be beginning for you now.
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Our first journey together will be a medium to macro dose as we test the waters with the medicine as a group. Set in the beautiful Peace & Love in Kitsilano, we will immerse in shamanic music and close with live sound healing.
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Our second journey is meant to be the strongest dose of the three, with optional Syrian Rue (an MAOI to amplify the effects of psilocybin). We will return to Peace & Love in Kits, replicating the format with immersive sound track and a sound bath to close.
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Our final journey will be a lower dose set in stunning Jericho Park in a private amphitheatre of trees and sky. Journeyers can find their own quiet space to connect with themselves, the medicine, and the earth. We will close with a beach picnic and dip!
Who this is for
You’ve already explored psychedelics and want to go deeper
You’re committed to spiritual discovery and personal transformation
You’re ready to heal parts of yourself that are wounded or hurting
You are open to befriending fear as a guide to your highest growth
You have the capacity to offer and receive support
What you’ll gain
Deep connection to your authentic self, others, and nature
Deeper insight in who you are, your relationships and others
Enhanced spiritual awareness and somatic mindfulness
Practical tools for ongoing personal healing and growth
Lifelong bonds with like-minded seekers

Feel the transformative power of nature.
During the retreat, we will be engaging with psilocybin mushrooms, an intelligent organism that helps us deepen our connection to soul, each other, and nature, offering transformative spiritual, philosophical and creative insight.
You will have the liberty to choose your dose while we will provide all the information, guidance and support you may need to have a transformative and enlightening experience.

Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed.
— Terence McKenna
Meet Your Facilitators
Carly O’Rourke
Psychedelic Facilitator
Underground Therapist
Carly’s devotion to God/Creator, service to humanity and Gaia, and dedication to her own inner work are the pillars upon which her psychedelic practice is built. She has deeply cultivated sacred relationships with the medicines she serves, energizing trust in their healing capacity to invite others into full surrender. Due to extensive self exploration, she comfortably welcomes all light and darkness to centre stage with loving acceptance. Her preparation and integration sessions utilize a smooth interplay of Internal Family Systems parts work, Somatic Therapy, and Compassionate Inquiry to open the gates for a profound journey and bring its wisdom into long-term transformation. She gently directs conversation towards what is most meaningful to each person, and her peaceful, non-judgmental attitude, kind and brimming heart generate a powerful sense of safety in her presence.
Louis Belleau
Meditation & Breathwork Teacher
Psychedelic Researcher & Guide
Louis discovered the transformative potential of psychedelics at 17, which led him to study Zen Buddhism, yogic philosophy, and indigenous traditions, and graduate from McGill University with majors in Psychology, Philosophy, and Religion. Believing that psychedelic experience is a basic human right with important biological functions, Louis seeks to democratize informed access to psychedelics through research, education and community support services. Founder of Psygaia and early contributor to Nectara’s integration program, Louis is currently working on his Psygaia hypothesis while completing his MA in Psychedelics & Consciousness Studies at the University of Ottawa. As a certified yoga and breathwork teacher, he teaches at various centers in BC. In his free time, Louis enjoys backcountry skiing, trail running, writing, gardening, teaching, and designing.

We often forget that we are nature. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.
— Andy Goldsworthy
Locations
Love & Peace
A cozy sanctuary designed for inner work, energetic healing and spiritual arts, located in the serene neighbourhood of Kitsilano, Vancouver.
Jericho Park
Rolling acres of meadows, forest, lagoon, and beach, this gorgeous park is spacious enough to seclude our group in privacy and then welcomes us to the sand and sea for a final picnic and swim.

There is a wealth of information built into us, tucked away in the genetic material in every one of our cells. Without some means of access, there is no way even to begin to guess at the extent and quality of what is there. The psychedelics allow exploration of this interior world and insights into its nature.
— Sasha Shulgin
Frequently Asked Questions
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3 Mushroom Journeys
4 Breathwork Journeys
3 Preparation Sessions
4 Integration Calls
Lifetime Access to Psygaia’s Circle
Lifetime Access to Psygaia’s Microdosing Course
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This experience is limited to 6 spots in order to keep the container tight and create strong bonds.
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Yes, this is for men, women and everyone else.
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Yes. You are in charge. While your facilitators will recommend a dosage window for your personal circumstances, you are free to take as little as you want.
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Cancel before June 10th and receive a full refund, minus a $500 booking fee.
Cancellations after June 10th will incur a 50% late cancellation fee.
Cancellations after July 15th will incur a 100% cancellation fee (no refund).
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