Join us for a weekend of celebration and ceremony with heroic doses of amanita tea, smoking amanita, drumming, dancing and one-on-one shamanic healing.
Amanita is unique among the entheogens you may have experienced. Rather than the feeling of expanding and dissolving into the divine that you may enjoy with other medicines, amanita is, instead, a personal connection with the healing compassion of the universe meeting you where you are.
Participants in ceremony can expect to experience hypnotic trance, dream-like understanding, a radical sense of being at home in your own skin, improved boundaries, and relief from pain and anxiety. Emotional scars may heal, allowing long-inaccessible personal growth to occur. There is often dancing, stretching, shaking or rolling around, and this is not always a calm experience. Deep in the night, many participants experience dream walking, time loops and regressions. Many times, people remember their work in the morning the way you might remember a dream.
Our weekend begins on Friday with an amanita tea social, amanita blend smoking, and story-questions.
Saturday, after breakfast, we begin with Yoga or Chi Gong. After lunch, we gather for a gestalt circle, blending forms of somatic therapy, partner and group practices, and states of awareness. The amanita tea will be noticeable and facilitate our capacity to witness our own shadows. We also explore boundary work and the signal value of emotions. This work prepares us for ceremony by opening up the feeling and thinking layers of our subtle bodies before working in the spiritual realms.
In the evening we begin our heroic dose ceremony which flows through the night.
Sunday morning, after breakfast and sound healing, we explore creative arts integration through movement, drawing and writing and sharing with reflection. People often feel deeply seen. We close the weekend with a gratitude circle, naming the gifts of Amanita that we can bring back to our communities.
Amanita does not affect the serotonin receptors. Amanita is a combination of a glutamate agonist (awakening and sharpening attention) and a gaba agonist (analgesic, hypnotic, dissociative). The primary compounds free us from chronic nerve pain (sometimes permanently) and reverse the effects of stress in the nervous system, radically de-triggering us. The most common hallucination is to feel “fine“ or “normal“ even when this is not generally how we are experiencing life.
It is not safe to drive under the influence so please come prepared to stay the night.
Plant based meals (and late night snacks) will be provided.
If you are currently taking benzodiazepine for anxiety or sleep or antipsychotics, please contact us for further information before purchasing tickets.
About Ceremony
What to Bring and What to Expect
Agreements and Waiver
Gestalt Circle
Creative Arts Integration
Amanita Integration