BEFORE YOU BEGIN
Everything you need to know.
These are the most common questions from people preparing for ceremony. Read through, take your time, and apply when you feel ready.
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Application & Investment
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It begins with a complimentary 30-minute connection call. This is an opportunity for us to feel into alignment, answer questions, and ensure you are seeking a deeper relationship with the medicine - beyond recreational use. If it feels like the right fit, you will be invited into an upcoming ceremony.
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The investment for each ceremony reflects the depth of transformation, the expertise I bring to this work, and the level of personalized care provided. Group ceremonies are my most accessible offering, starting at $875. Private 1:1 ceremonies are my highest-tier service, beginning at $3,500 in the Bay Area, and are designed for those seeking a deeply individualized, immersive experience. Private small-group ceremonies (up to six participants) start at $5,000 and are ideal for partners, families, or close circles wishing to journey together. A single mushroom ceremony often facilitates emotional and psychological healing that exceeds what many experience through years of conventional therapy.
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Absolutely. It can be meaningful to experience a journey with friends and partners. If you have a group of friends who would like to participate in a ceremony together, I can also guide ceremonies at private residences.
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Yes. I offer in-home private ceremonies for those seeking deep, personalized healing. This is a 4-figure investment for those ready to go deep. Limited availability - please schedule a call with me to discuss it further.
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Ceremony
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Ceremonies are held indoors in a carefully prepared healing space in the Bay Area. There is also access to an outdoor patio area for fresh air, grounding, and integration throughout the day.
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This is a full-day experience lasting approximately 8 hours. Arrival: 10:15 AM. Ceremony begins: 10:30 AM. Closing and integration meal: around 6:15 PM. I encourage participants to keep the entire day open and give themselves spaciousness afterward for rest and reflection.
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No. Music is a very intentional part of the ceremony and is carefully curated to support the emotional and energetic flow. Throughout the day, I guide the ceremony using curated playlists, live singing, drum, rattles, moments of silence, prayer, and energetic guidance.
The Experience
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A supportive, trauma-informed environment. Emotional release, clarity, and breakthroughs. A beautiful, shared meal and space to ground after the journey. Ongoing integration support to help you embody the shifts long after the ceremony ends.
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In my experience, what people often call a 'bad trip' usually happens when this work is approached without proper preparation, guidance, or reverence — treating it as a recreational experience rather than a sacred process. When you enter ceremony with sincerity, curiosity, and a willingness to meet yourself, what arises is rarely bad. It may be intense or emotional, but those moments often hold the deepest healing. Every detail — screening, intention-setting, music, environment, and integration support — is designed to help you feel safe, grounded, and guided throughout your journey.
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No. Participants remain conscious and aware throughout the experience. Most people are able to open and close their eyes, speak if needed, use the restroom independently, adjust their body position, and move in and out of deep reflection. The medicine can create strong emotional, visual, or energetic experiences, but you are not unconscious.
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Each person's experience is unique, but some common responses include nausea, temperature changes, crying, laughter, yawning, stretching, shaking or movement, emotional release, and vocal expression. These are often normal signs of the body and nervous system processing and releasing accumulated emotions, stress, or tension.
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No. These ceremonies are intentionally facilitated in a healing and ceremonial context. The focus is on emotional healing, self-understanding, nervous system support, spiritual connection, breaking unhealthy patterns, and reconnecting to oneself and others.
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For many people, the time just after their first mushroom experience feels like a new beginning. You may have been given a new sense of purpose — or simply been reminded of the one you've always had. In many ways, mushrooms place you at the start of a new road. There will always be more to learn, more ways to change, and more healing to do.
Preparation and Readiness
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Invited participants will receive a preparation guide that includes dietary recommendations, along with emotional and spiritual preparation suggestions and details about the group preparation call.
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Shower before arriving. Wear white clothing. Eat a light breakfast, or fast the day of the ceremony.
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Please bring a blanket and pillow so you can rest comfortably during the journey. You are also welcome to bring anything that helps you feel grounded — like a small personal altar item (crystal, photo, or object with meaning).
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Preparation is an important part of the process. Once accepted into ceremony, participants receive preparation guidelines, dietary recommendations, emotional and spiritual preparation suggestions, and details about the group preparation call. The more intention and care you bring into preparation, the more meaningful the experience becomes.
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Many participants are first-timers. A large part of my role is creating a grounded, supportive environment where people feel safe, informed, and guided throughout the process. A required intake call helps determine readiness and allows space for questions before joining ceremony.
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For many people, this work feels less like a random decision and more like a calling. Often people begin feeling a deep pull toward healing or self-understanding, emotionally stuck or disconnected, curious about their patterns or purpose, a desire for clarity and reconnection, or drawn toward a deeper level of inner work beyond traditional self-help. The intake call helps determine whether this experience feels aligned for where you currently are.
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I recommend no more than three ceremonies a year, spaced months apart. This work is not meant to be habitual or dependent. Each ceremony offers deep insight — and it takes time to integrate what you receive. The real transformation happens after the ceremony, in how you live, relate, and choose differently. These journeys are not an escape from life — they are an invitation to engage with life more fully, with clarity, compassion, and purpose
Integration
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Integration is where the real healing happens. The ceremony opens the door — but integration is how you walk through it. It is the process of weaving your insights, emotions, and realizations back into daily life. Without integration, a ceremony can feel like a beautiful dream. With it, the ceremony becomes a turning point. This unfolds over time — sometimes days, sometimes weeks, sometimes years yet the shifts are often felt immediately. Integration may look like making different choices in relationships, creating new habits that support your peace, speaking your truth instead of suppressing it, and reconnecting with your body, nature, and spirit.
The Medicine
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Psilocybin is a naturally-occurring compound found in certain mushrooms. Once ingested, the body converts it into psilocin — the compound that interacts with serotonin receptors to create an altered state of consciousness. Psilocybin has been shown to promote neuroplasticity, helping the brain form new connections and release rigid thought patterns. In ceremony, psilocybin can help heal emotional trauma at the root, interrupt cycles of anxiety, depression, and burnout, support physical healing by reducing inflammation and rebalancing the nervous system, and reconnect you to your body, intuition, and purpose.
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My ceremonies are rooted in the Mazatec tradition, which emphasizes integrity and heart in healing. Niños Santos ('Holy Children' or 'Little Saint Children') is the name renowned Mazatec healer María Sabina called magic mushrooms. The Mazatec healers of Oaxaca, Mexico, view Niños Santos as living entities with divine healing power.
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The effects of psilocybin are highly variable and depend on your mindset and the environment. Generally within an hour of ingestion, you will begin to experience shifts in consciousness, perception, and mood. Psychedelic journeys typically last between 4-6 hours and can shift throughout the experience. Some people experience nausea, which can be alleviated with breathing and movement. During your journey, you may experience visions, release stored emotions, access lost memories, and gain deeper insights into your life and relationships. Psilocybin is not known to be physically addictive, and current research has not identified a known lethal overdose from psilocybin alone.
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Research indicates that psilocybin can induce neuroplasticity — the brain's ability to change and reorganize thought patterns — enabling people to find new ways to process anxiety, depression, or deeply embedded trauma. Potential benefits include reduced negative mood and increased positive mood, increased feelings of tolerance, understanding and empathy, release of fears that allow you to take a big leap, accelerated emotional and psychological healing, new compassion for people who may have wronged you, more compassion for self and self-love, and deeper alignment with your purpose.
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Mushroom ceremonies are not for you if you are looking for a recreational experience, are on antibiotics, are on lithium medication, have a personal or family history of bipolar, schizophrenia, or other personality disorders, or are pregnant.
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Mushrooms are physiologically safe. There have been no confirmed cases of death from psilocybin toxicity — a lethal dose would require eating roughly half your bodyweight of fresh mushrooms. With the right mindset and setting, they are remarkably gentle, even in moderate to strong doses. Risk only arises by mixing psilocybin with other substances, taking mushrooms in an unsafe environment, or consuming them at a particularly fragile point in time.
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No. Microdosing involves taking very small amounts that typically do not create psychedelic effects and is often used for mood support, focus, creativity, and emotional regulation. Ceremony involves a larger intentional dose designed to facilitate deeper emotional, psychological, and spiritual exploration.
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Ceremony is the heart of this work — the deep dive. Many describe it as the equivalent of five or more years of therapy in a single day, allowing access to what's been stored beneath the surface — emotions, memories, and patterns that talking alone cannot always reach. Not everyone is ready for that intensity right away. Microdosing offers a gentle, consistent way to begin working with the medicine — cultivating awareness, emotional balance, and nervous system regulation over time. It is also a beautiful way to continue your relationship with the medicine after ceremony. Both paths lead to transformation. It depends on where you are in your journey and what kind of support your spirit is asking for.
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No. I work specifically with psilocybin mushrooms within a ceremonial and healing context. Ayahuasca is a different medicine belonging to different traditions and lineages, most often served within Indigenous communities with deep ancestral connections in the Amazon and throughout parts of South America
BEGIN WITH A CONVERSATION
Ready to take the first step?
The intake call is where we begin. It is a space to ask questions, share your intentions, and determine whether ceremony feels right for you right now.