Preparation is the first step in shaping the path and creating the space for transformation to unfold.
Integration means taking the knowledge and lessons learnt during your retreat experience and putting them into practice within your daily life.
Psychedelics are powerful tools for breaking old patterns and creating real change. However, they are not magic pills that will fix your problems for you. Without an integration process wonderful insights and healing may slip away from you as you return to daily life and old habits reassert themselves.
With proper recourses and guiding principles focusing on preparation and integration you can get the most out of your psychedelic retreat to embody your transformational experience that is both sustainable and consistent.
At Acsauhaya we understand that preparation and integration are key to long-lasting positive change. All our retreats have these principles built into how we approach this sacred work and as such, we provide ongoing holistic support both before and after your retreat through a multidimensional lens.
We invite you to follow the higher perspective of your inner knowing and let your direct experiences during your healing retreat guide you towards a better understanding of yourself and what resources work best for your own unique needs.
What We Offer
Before Your Retreat – Preparation
Preparing for your retreat helps you to clarify your mind, body, and soul in a way that creates the perfect internal set and setting for your transformational experience. Intentions and expectations are important aspects of the preparation stage as these help us to occupy the most advantageous space before embarking on a psychedelic journey.
- Preparation Call: As part of our preparation guidance, we offer a preparation call with our experienced and compassionate team to walk you through what to expect and can offer resources to help you with your spiritual, emotional, and mental preparation as well as Dietary Guidelines.
- Onboarding Call: Before your retreat you will be invited to an online video call – meeting your Integration Coach as well as your fellow travelers. In this connecting ambience you get to know each other, you can address your questions, you receive helpful advice how to prepare for your retreat and how to set your intention.
- Community Platform: Also with the day of your booking your retreat we welcome you to the Rejuvyn & Acsauhaya Community Platform! Our community offers a unique opportunity for you to delve into the rich and transformative experience of plant medicine retreats. By joining us, you are stepping into a space dedicated to the path of the heart, a path of collective healing and incredible transformation.
- Connect with your fellow travelers: Accessing our unique platform you can directly connect to your fellow travelers in a closed group. You can share thoughts, emotions and everything that feels important for you to share before your retreat. This connection builds a strong base of „we“. You will notice: everyone is in the same situation, it helps a lot to go to this experience already being connected with your retreat group.
After your retreat – Integration
Integration is everything! We always say that when you go home the real work begins, however, this can also be the most exciting time as you re-experience your life from a place of openness and healing.
At Acsauhaya we will continue to provide ongoing support as part of every retreat package – as during this important phase of your transformation your brain has reopened a special neuroplastic state called the ‘critical period’. This time offers you a powerful opportunity to anchor your psychedelic experience into tangible positive change in your life.
Guidance at this stage can greatly accelerate your progress, expand, and enhance the transformational gifts you have received within your psychedelic journey.
- Integration Calls: As part of our integration guidance, we offer several integration calls in the following weeks of your retreat. You will re-connect to your fellow-travelers, explore your integration progress with your Integration Coach, profit from the group spirit of coming back home and finding your way to make the changes to your new chosen life. Our Integration Coach will support with helpful advice, tools and methods to guide you through your individual transformation journey.
- Community Platform: Our platform contains a lot of resources for your personal integration. Courses, videos, support with journaling, meditations, music, arts. All that helps you to implement your knew YOU into your private and personal surrounding.
- Stay connected with your fellow travelers: The communication with each one in your retreat group will give you a lasting feeling of connection, exchanging experiences in your integration process, sharing emotions, challenges, breakthroughs. Especially if you have no one around you to share this special and life-changing experience it is good to know there is „someone“ who understands you and can encourage you to continue your path.
- 1:1 Integration Sessions: Even after the guided integration process with several online conversations with our Integration Coach and your group it might be helpful to continue your individual integration journey. You can always book individual online sessions with our Integration Coaches to discuss certain situations, changes that you feel are important for you to address, emotions that are not clear to understand in the first place. We are glad to be there for you – guiding you on your path!
Connect with our Psychedelic Integration Coaches, Guides & Psychedelic Therapists
Our full Preparation and Integration Program
Program Details:
- Small groups (max. 10 participants)
- People of all ages, experiences and cultural background
- Self-paced Preparation for the retreat supported by our unique platform including courses, methods of mindfulness, inspriration for setting your intentions, dietary guidelines and more
- Online-call with the group hosted by our Integration Coach before the retreat
- The retreat itself, hosted and guided by experienced and passionate facilitators and the Integration Coach
- A 3-week or 5-week integration program with weekly online-calls with the retreat group hosted by the Integration Coach
- Integration support with our unique platform by courses, videos, meditations, tools and methods for your integration – with a life long access
What is psychedelic preparation?
Psychedelic preparation is about creating the right conditions for your mind, body, and spirit to have a safe and transformative psychedelic experience. Preparation is the first step of integration–in order to weave the lessons of a psychedelic journey into your everyday life, you must first make sure you’re prepared to do so. Preparation helps you build your capacity to receive and hold new insights and nourish the resources necessary to integrate them after the experience. From this connected perspective, we view preparation as a phase of integration.
What is psychedelic integration?
Psychedelic experiences can be gateways to blissful states and the celestial realms of the universe, expanding your mind and consciousness itself. Sometimes, they can also lead to challenging journeys through the more challenging aspects of your life story and what doesn’t serve you anymore. These experiences can be extremely profound, powerful, and a lot to process on your own.
Integration refers to the ongoing process of translating all of these mystical experiences into a happier, more aligned, and healthy life. It’s about creating wholeness through dedication, patience, and embodied living.
As Huston Smith said beautifully, integration is ‘the challenge of transforming flashes of illumination into abiding light.’
Integration resources provide the tools and pathways you can utilise when absorbing the insights from your retreat into realised transformation. The resources chosen will vary for everyone, and what works for you will shift depending on your intention, interests, and current situation. Popular modalities include meditation, breathwork, journaling, walks in nature, 1:1 coaching, and dance.
