Designed to elevate guests to peak performance and wellbeing, entheogen plant medicine wellness service Behold Retreats offers enlightening getaways in Costa Rica, the Netherlands and Peru where psilocybin, ayahuasca and the San Pedro cactus are legal. The retreats guide guests into an expanded state of consciousness and can help promote long-lasting psychological growth.
Behold Retreats create programmes tailored to each guests’ individual needs and preferences, each of which includes education, preparation, retreat and post-integration support with a qualified coach or therapist. On returning home, guests are supported to make sustained improvements to the quality of their everyday life.
While some university studies have found that the psilocybin experience made participants calmer, happier and kinder, research has also shown entheogen plant medicine to be effective in treating anxiety, depression and PTSD under therapeutic conditions, as plant medicine promotes neurogenesis, enabling reconciliation between parts of the brain that don’t normally exchange information.
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In a recent Goop Lab episode on Netflix, Gwyneth Paltrow’s team went to Jamaica for a psilocybin retreat. One team member summarised the experience as “five years of therapy”, another as “a turning point in her life”.
