Standing in the North here at the retreat center is a family of aspens, their trunks slender and upright, their leaves quivering in the slightest breeze. Aspens have incredible healing qualities. In fact, I often work with Aspen as a flower essence for those who experience anxiety. However, one of the greatest lessons these trees can teach us is about connection. 

One of the most beautiful truths about psychedelic work is that the journey itself is only the beginning. The real medicine unfolds in the days, weeks, months and even years that follow as we integrate what was revealed and allow it to shape the way we live.

During a journey, there are often moments that have deep meaning whether that be an image, a sound, a sensation in your body, or an encounter with something beyond words. These moments are not random; they are gifts. These moments we can use as “anchors,” which are living threads that you can weave into your daily life to keep you connected to the heart of your experience and moving you toward your purpose.

One of the most important things I’ve come to understand through my years of walking this path, both as a guide and as a student of the medicine, is that the medicine never works in isolation. It works in relationship…always.

That is why I so wholeheartedly believe in a wholistic and multi-dimensional approach to, well, everything!

They say a true pilgrimage begins long before your feet touch sacred ground and mine began not only the moment I boarded the plane to India, but 15 some years earlier when my mentors were taken by Rudiji to many of the sacred cities and sites. I heard the mystical stories, the way that myth and magic are woven into the fabric of Indian culture, quite the opposite of our “rational” Western existence that is really, anything but rational.