Sometimes meaningful inner work needs more space than we can find in everyday life.
While the word retreat has come to describe everything from yoga weekends to psychedelic experiences, its original meaning was quite literally to withdraw. What we offer is a little different. The intention isn’t to retreat from your life, but to create enough distance from its usual demands and distractions that you can turn toward what is asking for your attention.
Our Personalized Healing Immersions are private, one-on-one experiences created entirely around you, combining extensive preparation and integration, psychedelic journey work, time in nature, rest, reflection, and access to an incredible local community of healers and practitioners.
There is no fixed retreat schedule, no group moving through the same program, and no expectation that your experience should look like anyone else’s.
An Experience Built Around You
Before anything is planned, we spend time getting to know you.
What is bringing you here? What has been happening in your life? What are you hoping to understand, change, release, reconnect with, or simply explore?
From there, we build an immersion around you.
This is a private, one-on-one experience. There is no group to keep up with and no predetermined schedule. From the moment I personally pick you up at the airport until I take you back for your flight home, the experience is shaped around you and what unfolds during our time together.
Every Immersion Includes
- One-on-one preparation before you arrive
- Personal airport pickup and drop-off
- Private accommodation
- All meals during your stay
- Carefully supported psychedelic journey work
- One-on-one support throughout your immersion
- Ongoing integration throughout your stay
- Integration support after you return home
- Plenty of time and space to rest, reflect and simply be
Shaped Around You
Every immersion also draws from the experiences below. How much emphasis we place on each will depend entirely on your needs, interests and preferences, as well as what unfolds during your time here.
- Individual treatments with selected local healers and practitioners
- Massage, bodywork or other wellness treatments
- Meditation, breathwork or embodiment practices
- Movement, yoga or other physical practices
- Music or creative exploration
- Time in nature and quiet reflection
- Visits or experiences within the surrounding community
- Additional therapeutic or healing modalities
- Meaningful conversation and facilitated exploration when useful
Most experiences and treatments are included in your immersion. In the rare case that something carries an additional cost, we’ll discuss it with you beforehand.
Some days may have structure. Others may change completely depending on what has emerged and what you need.
Not every immersion includes all of these things. That’s the point.
There is no package you’re being fitted into. We create the experience around you.
Why an Immersion?
A psychedelic journey may last several hours, but the experience surrounding it matters.
Leaving your normal environment can create a natural interruption in familiar routines, responsibilities and patterns. Instead of having a profound experience one day and returning immediately to emails, errands, work and family obligations the next, an immersion gives you some room around it.
Time to arrive.
Time to prepare.
Time for the experience itself.
And perhaps most importantly, time afterward to let things settle before stepping back into ordinary life.
Costa Rica
Our Costa Rica immersions take place in a beautiful natural environment where slowing down tends to happen fairly naturally.
Rather than arriving at a retreat centre with a predetermined agenda, we create the experience around what will best support you.
Your days may include conversation and intentional practices, but they may also include walking, swimming, resting, watching the mountains, eating good food, listening to music or doing absolutely nothing for a while.
The goal isn’t to fill every hour.
It’s to create the conditions for something meaningful to unfold.
Beyond Costa Rica
We can also create personalized immersions in select locations in North America.
Because laws surrounding psychedelic substances vary considerably by location, what we are able to offer depends on where the immersion takes place. If you have a particular location in mind, please reach out and we can explore what may be possible.
Your Immersion
There isn’t a standard itinerary because there isn’t a standard person.
Some people come with something very specific they want to work through. Others arrive at a transition point in their lives. Some are carrying grief, old patterns or difficult experiences. Others simply feel that something needs to change, even if they can’t quite name what that is yet.
We begin there.
Together, we create the time, space and support for you to explore whatever comes next.
Investment
Personalized Healing Immersions range from $5,500 USD for a one-week immersion to $14,000+ USD for a four-week deep immersion.
Your immersion includes private accommodation, all meals, personal airport pickup and drop-off, extensive preparation and integration, one-on-one support throughout your stay, and a personalized selection of treatments and experiences.
Every immersion is created around you, so the final investment will depend on the length of your stay, accommodation, level of support, and the experiences we choose to include.
Current Availability
Personalized Healing Immersions are currently offered primarily through referrals from psychologists and other trusted professionals. I’m beginning to open a limited number of spaces to people who find me directly as well.
Immersions are currently booking approximately three months in advance, so I encourage you to begin the conversation early if you have a particular timeframe in mind.
If you’re interested, you’re welcome to begin the process. Completing the screening form doesn’t commit you to anything. It simply gives me an opportunity to learn a little about you and determine whether an immersion might be a good fit.
Your Journey Begins Here
If a Personalized Healing Immersion feels like something you’d like to explore, the first step is simply telling me a little about yourself.
Complete the confidential screening form below. I’ll personally review it, and from there we can talk about what you’re looking for and whether an immersion feels like the right fit.
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