Retreat Info
About the Retreat:SOUL MEDICINE
Become who you are
Our ceremonial psilocybin retreats are designed as a transformational journey to remove layers of conditioning, self-doubt and mistrust into the guidance of life and bring you back into deep connection with yourself.
SOUL MEDICINE will bring you into a deep connection with ancient wisdom traditions of the earth, providing a safe container for you to heal, explore, and become curious about life again.
It will take you on a journey of deep surrendering into the mystery of creation, remembering your humanness and feeling seen and held by a truly supportive community.
Welcome to an equal circle of humans who are ready to step outside their comfort zone and express themselves wild and free.
If you feel called to be 100% authentically you and embody your true nature SOUL MEDICINE is the right place for you.
“My week at Soul Medicine was one of the most transformational times of my life. I feel lighter, more expressive, and more receptive to love.”
— Jeff Pratt
"This retreat is a unique and playful container for growing, healing and true nourishment!"
— Maggie McKay
"I felt fully allowed to be me, was able to reconnect with myself and experienced true connection with others .... To me it has been the most powerful shortcut to healing so far!"
— Christiane Zu Salm
“This soul medicine retreat was definitely a powerful and transformative journey that took me to an unknown shoreside of my inner self. It felt like embodying a new flesh, taming new sensations, embracing new forms on a constant discovery or rediscovery of scents, visions as if the world was unveiling itself for the first time before my eyes. It felt like the inner child dialogue was finally possible to establish and enabled to reconnect with the most anchored sensations within deep layers and tissues."
— Elisa Henny
Learn more at ourfutureisancient.com/soulmedicine
Upcoming Dates
10th - 17th December 2023
2nd - 10th February 2024
2nd - 9th March 2024
30th March - 6th April 2024
Description of Services:OUR APPROACH
Our retreats are based on ceremony, earth-based wisdom traditions and connection to nature. It is an intimate, wild and magical space, tugged away in the lush coastal jungle of Nayarit, Mexico only a walk away from semi-secluded beaches.
Anchored in ceremony, we move through a deeply transformative program guided by the natural elements & sacredness of life itself. Our program interweaves elements of traditional ceremony, somatic & transpersonal psychology, sound healing, breathwork, movement and meditation to create a truly nourishing space and tools for all of our communities to take home with them after the retreat.
We acknowledge that long-lasting healing is an ongoing journey and can only happen with the right tools and continuous integration, beyond the container of this retreat. Therefore we offer two integration calls that are included in the price of the retreat and our experienced facilitators are available for further 1 on 1 work if desired by our guests.
Our nutrition team will provide a nutrient-dense, creative and delicious menu of plant-based food that was explicitly developed to work best in accordance with the medicines we offer.
THE TEAM
We are a team a multidisciplinary team of highly trained medicine keepers and healing arts professionals and an incredible plant-based holistic nutrition team to make this a truly immersive, cleansing, supportive, and integrative experience.
Our team understands the path of working with psychedelic medicine as a life-long path of apprenticeship and learning and is regularly returning to their teachers for continuous self-work and growth. We believe in the importance of combining ancient wisdom and modern Western psychology and have trained professionals in the team to ensure ongoing support.
The power of healing soundscapes is an integral part of the ceremonial work we offer. All of our ceremonies will be guided through sound healing and traditional medicine music around a sacred fire that plays an essential part in the space that we hold at SOUL MEDICINE.
Psychological/ Medical Support:
We have an experienced psychiatrist working with us on the team, who is consulting us and doing our check-in calls, especially with those guests inquiring to participate who are currently in medical treatment. The safety of our guests is our utmost priority.
All team members have undertaken training in first aid and we are well prepared for safety procedures with access to the medical support in the neighboring town of San Pancho.
THE PROCESS
We know that embarking on a deep healing journey like this can feel overwhelming and scary at first. Taking a leap of faith and jumping into the unknown with a group of strangers in the jungle can feel like a lot. We are here to support your decision-making process as best as we can. You can book a free discovery call through our website ourfutureisancient.com and speak to one of our facilitators.
After securing your spot and making your initial deposit payment we will have a personal call with each participant and see if the retreat is the right fit for you on your journey. After a thorough check of your suitability, we will provide you with preparation material to prepare for your stay.
What is included?
2 Psilocybin Mushroom Ceremonies
1 Psilocybin Sacred Beach Ceremony
2 Temazcal Ceremonies
1 Kambo Ceremony
PSYCHEDELIC BREATH®️
Vibrational Healing with Sound
Jungle Ecstatic Dance
Cacao Ceremony
Preparation Package
Integration Workshop
Somatic Movement & Meditation
All Herbs + Medicines
Like-minded Community
Preparation & Integration program
Vegan/Vegetarian Soul Food
Optional Extras
1 on 1 Healing Treatments
Taxi rides if you cannot make the shuttle times
Practitioners:Pia Sewelies
Founder & Lead FacilitatorIs a facilitator for ceremonial & embodied awakening experiences. She is a yoga & somatic movement teacher and a student of non-dual philosophy and ancient shamanic healing rituals. Recently she has finished her apprenticeship with Dr. Gabor Maté in Compassionate Inquiry a somatic psychotherapy approach to complement her holistic approach of transmuting ancient practices and traditions into a modern-day language, bridging the gap for deeply transformative and nurturing transcultural experiences.
Pia is devoted to a life-long path of learning and healing, that began with her personal healing journey a decade ago embarking into the Amazon jungle of Peru where she spent extensive time learning from, and working directly with different curanderos. Pia is a vision quester and devoted to the traditions of The Fuego Sagrado De Itzachilatlan and has fully committed her life to a path of service. She keeps returning to study and sit in ceremonies with her teachers across the Americas.
Founder & Director of Our Future Is Ancient - an organization that is weaving a cross-cultural network, preserving ancient wisdom, to fuel individual & collective awakening through transformational experiences & ceremonial gatherings. She hosts the accompanying podcast Ancient Futures to create a missing bridge between forgotten practices of the earth and modern-day living with the intention to open our consciousness to a more interconnected way of being.
Alberto Herrera
Lead Facilitator & Certified IAKP Kambo PractionerAlberto set off on a journey to the Andean mountains of South America in search of healing for himself, and the ancestral suffering that had followed his family legacy for generations. It was there that he was first exposed to the world of plant medicine, ritual and ceremonial healing. So deeply moved and inspired by the healing and insights he had received he embarked on a journey of deep exploration into the world of ritual healing and Shamanism. With many trips to the Amazon Jungle and Andean Mountains of Ecuador, Peru he immersed himself into the local culture aligning with many indigenous teachers and mentors.
Alberto is a carrier of the sacred Chanupa, vision quester and fire keeper for The Fuego Sagrado De Itzachilatlan and has fully committed his life to a path of service.
A transformational life coach, Kambo Practitioner with the I.A.K.P, Usui Ryoho Reiki Master and a certified Tantra Yoga instructor.
Through a harmonious fusion of ritual, song and prayer, Alberto creates a transformative vessel for those seeking healing and inner truth.
Maria Leotta
Lead Facilitator & HypnotherapistMaria is a dynamic wellness practitioner with a varied background in various avenues of well-being. With an undergraduate degree in psychology, her focus has been on holistic methods of healing which led her to become certified as a Master Nutrition Therapist, Hypnotherapist, and Master Reiki Practitioner in addition to her many years working as a facilitator of plant medicine ceremonies.
Currently working on her certification as a sex, love, and relationship coach Maria continues to be driven to help her clients integrate and embody wellness from the spiritual and ethereal levels through to physiological health by combining all areas of her extensive education in healing mind, body, and spirit.
Marciano
TemazcaleroMarciano learned about the temazcal ceremony more than 20 years ago and later started working with fire for 15 years. He has been the custodian of the center of practical studies for a culture of peace (ZUBUYA Nayarit), plastic artist, bio-constructor, musician, teacher and member of the council of the sacred fire itzachilatlan wirikuta. He started leading temazcal ceremonies ten years ago in different centers, hotels and yoga retreats, and every Saturday he runs home ceremonies for the family and community of San Pancho and its surroundings, sharing the medicine of Rapé and chanting. Marciano will be leading our opening and closing Temazcal Ceremonies.
Alejandro Abregu
Head of NutritionAlejandro attentive learner of life, apprentice of American ancestral traditions, consultant in holistic nutrition, Vision Quester of the Red Path. He is a plant-based chef who started his journey learning food preparation in his family with indigenous roots in Paraguay. Later on he trained in various restaurants, realizing that the food was overcharged with stress, tension, and hurry. What was missing in the process of food creation, was intention, attention, and care to provide people with high vibrational food.
Ale has been trained as an expert in Hygienist Nutrition after attending and learning in Espacio Depurativo in Argentina and the Holistic Institute in Spain. He has been facilitating healing retreats focused on the preparation of food and workshops about conscious cooking, gut health, and various therapies that support the healing journey including Reiki, Pranic Healing, Massage and Aromatherapy.
As an expert in nutrition Ale’s mission is to support individuals and families with the aim to deconstruct the false beliefs around food and health, in order to reorganize their connection towards the nourishment of food.
Team/Medical Staff:Psychological/ Medical Support:
We have an experienced psychiatrist working with us on the team, who is consulting us and doing our check-in calls, especially with those guests inquiring to participate who are currently in medical treatment. The safety of our guests is our utmost priority.
All team members have undertaken training in first aid and we are well prepared for safety procedures with access to the medical support in the neighboring town of San Pancho.
Details
Founder(s) / CEO: Pia SeweliesGroup Size: 10 - 13Price Range: $2,800 - $3,500Specializing In: Anxiety, Breathwork, Ceremony, Depression, Integration, Life Elevation, Purpose, Ritual, Temazcal, and YogaOur Process
Overview of Experience:Please visit our website: https://www.ourfutureisancient.com/soulmedicine for more detailed information on our retreat
Our Intention
SOUL MEDICINE is a ceremonial psilocybin retreat for deep healing and connection to oneself. During our week together we will take you on a multidimensional journey to heal, remember, explore, and grow into your most authentic self.
We are entering into a week-long ceremony that is held in deep reverence to ancestral traditions of the earth. Our safely held container offers a space for our guests to journey into the depths of our inner landscapes, to release any past traumas, pains, and blockages holding us back from living life fully.
Together we co-create a space to weave our souls with somatic movement, meditation, sound, and ritual for personal exploration and expansion. Holding and nourishing each other in a community of like-minded humans.
Our work brings together the worlds of shamanic ritualist work and modern somatic psychology and transpersonal philosophy to offer the most comprehensive tools for long-lasting change and healing.
We are a multidisciplinary team of highly trained medicine keepers, holistic well-being professionals and an incredible plant-based holistic nutrition team to make this a truly immersive, cleansing, supportive, and integrative experience.
We offer a comprehensive post-retreat integration program with skilled experts to guarantee ongoing support of our growing global community.
“Believe me from the depths of my heart, put this one on your top list - it is my best investment ever. This Soul Medicine retreat is the highest one on earth. I have done many, many spiritual classes, yoga practices and meditations, and here I have lived the most powerful experience of my entire life. I have connected with my soul essence, my color, my perfume, with the energies of creation and the power of love in every cell of my body. Every activity was perfect and very well managed - The place, the food, and the team are awesome. It is very safe. I have so much gratitude for all the support and love that I received. All my Gratitude to Pia, Veronica, Mar, Alberto, Shane, Marciano and Aura. A'ho.”
- Sylvain Payette
Intake Process:DISCOVER & CONNECT
Please book a free-of-charge discovery call with one of our experienced facilitators through our website: www.ourfutureisancient.com/soulmedicine and click the book discovery call bottom.
This way we can get to know each other and make sure that SOUL MEDICINE is the right fit for you on your personal healing journey.
Submit your information (via rootedhealing.org/apply - please ensure you are familiar with all of the details including costs before applying) to help us advise on whether Psychedelics are the right option for you in this moment.
BOOKING
Secure your place for this transformational & intimate journey via our booking platform: https://tri.ps/8e3hF
You will be ask to pay a 600$ deposit upfront to secure your spot, the rest is due before the retreat or can be paid in installments.PREPARE
Our preparatory program consists of a personalized 5 workshop series for you to take at home in your own time before attending the retreat and is hosted by our team members. You will get a private access to the material.
IMMERSION
Come and meet us in the jungle for a magical 8 day journey and experience the power of this healing container in person.
ImmerseINTEGRATION
We provide 2 follow-up integration group calls after the retreat, free resources, and community support. There is a possibility for more personalized 1 on 1 coaching with one of our team members upon request.
Supplemental Modalities: Somatic Movement (yoga, dance, yin yoga, myofacial release), Breathwork, Meditation, Integration workshops, Sharing circles, Nature immersioncPsychedelic Substances Offered: Psilocybe CubensisHow does this Center source medicine?:The team of SOUL MEDICINE is connected to local medicine carriers that source the medicine through foraging and through indigenous groups who safeguard the practice of sourcing their sacred medicines. We also source medicine from a local ceremonial medicine keeper and grower.
Practice reciprocity with local communities?: YesPhotos
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Forever grateful for the deep magic and medicine this team brings into their work. These experiences are works of art, carefully and lovingly tended. Highly recommend.
This experience changed my life. And I am so thankful for the creators & teachers. My intention was to transform, get out of the dark place where I was before, this place of disconnection, disconnected from emotions, the world and myself. what I experienced on this retreat was more than that, it was a rebirth.
Thanks to the plants, above all the other participants on this journey and the team I could reconnect with the world again, I could express emotions that where trapped for a long time and I found my voice that speaks truly from the heart.
The team of “ourfutureisancient” created a safe space where I could remember and feel who we are in our pure essence: Brothers and Sisters, living and enjoying the unconditional love and presents of mother earth, always connected and always wearing this light of love within us in our hearts.
I can only recommend this retreat to all those who want to start feeling again, want to remember, feel joy, but also want to give sadness, pain and suffering their space in a safe place, and in the end want to feel this loving connection to other people, to the plants, nature and to themselves again.
Before I would never have shown myself and opened up like I do now. Now I would love to be a model of transformation, sharing my experiences, strength and hope others discover their best selves too. This Retreat was a perfect start for me on my spiritual path. And the best: I found a new family. thank you from my heart.
A very transformative experience, hard but in all aspect perfectly planned.
I feel cared for and I felt a lot of space is held for my by others and this main thing was the most healing for me. you get your heart open and you add in new neuro paths to ur old habits.
the connection that was built between the ppl was simply unique through the medicine and we sort of extended it even after weeks the retreat ended, we made a family through this retreat. bringing a diverse group of ppl with very different experiences and maing us all one.
the location and the beach day are basically magical, I felt PURE BLISS AND JOY on this day. I will not spoil with details. The organizers are very soft beautiful ppl that guided this transformation.
very much gratitude towards them.
I still hear them singing in my ear and I recommend yo to put your fears aside and go for this.
remember all those fears and all of you is welcomed there
This retreat has given me a new outlook on life. I entered into it not knowing anyone, feeling socially awkward even in bigger groups of people, suffering social anxiety for years. This community, the whole group, but especially the facilitators that created this beautiful sacred container for healing and expansion, made me feel so welcome and really at home from the moment I arrived.
They really succeeded in making me realize that coming together in a community is one of the most healing things we can do for ourselves. Seeing a reflection of ourselves in the other.
The way Pia, Veronica, Mar, Alberto, Marciano and Shane are working with these sacred ancestral medicines and are creating these beautiful ceremonial spaces is of the highest integrity and filled with nothing but love, powerful prayer, and songs.
I feel transformed after my week at Soul Medicine. A deep shift on a cellular level has happened to me and I am so inspired to carry my own medicine into my local community.
I cannot recommend this retreat enough. Go and become part of this beautiful family. You won’t regret it!
What can I say this has to have been the most transformational experience of my life. I came into this space looking for ways to let go of the anxiety and worries that’s have been suffocating me in my everyday life.
In search for a place to retreat I stumbled on Soul Medicine on Retreat guru. Not sure exactly why but it just felt like this was the place I needed to go.
Three weeks later I was in the jungle with 14 strangers thinking what did I get myself into? The 7 days that followed truly enriched my life. All the love and care the Facilitators put into the retreat is so strongly felt . I have so much trouble letting go but feeling so held and at the same time free to be as I want, I was finally able to surrender.
Each ceremony was so unique, filled with wisdom, songs and expression. Truly never felt my inner child more nourished than my time at Soul Medicine. I know that my healing journey is just beginning but what a beautiful reset to get going.
I feel so full of gratitude for my time with the family.
The location was out of this world and the memories will be with me for life. I could not recommend more I will never forget that night dancing around the fire I never felt so alive!
This was the most magical week of my life. I will never forget how healing it was simply to sit in community around such a well cared for fire, sharing so much and journeying through so much together in what felt like the most raw, intimate and connecting moments I’ve ever known. Each ceremony was so different and taught me more than I can possibly express here… And held by the jungle in such a visceral way. The sounds became me, the visions enveloped me and I felt less ‘I’ and more oneness, unity. I feel revived, inspired, touched, held and heard – that my pain and my problems no longer feel so lonely and heavy. I’ve fallen in love with life again.
The team are simply wonderful and I felt very safe and supported throughout this experience. The food was delicious, especially those vegan cheesecake deserts! It is very clear the amount of love and care that has gone into this retreat. I can’t recommend it enough.