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Founder

I'm Austin. I started this because I got it wrong.

I went to my first ayahuasca retreat thinking it was a networking event. I came home knowing how much I had been avoiding, and I have been learning to hold that kind of work ever since.

400+ alumni. 60+ retreats.

What I do

Facilitator, speaker, host

  • I have guided 700+ people through about 2,000 sessions.
  • I hold a Colorado natural medicine facilitator license, as do Tamara Golden and Jo Ann Forristal.
  • I am a TEDxBoulder speaker.
  • I host the Modern Enlightenment podcast.

The podcast · The full story

One thing I teach

Two kinds of safety

Inner safety is how safe you feel with your own emotions. Outer safety is how safe you feel with the people and the room. Most of us were never taught the first one.

So I ask a simple question: what's that like? Then I ask it again. Somewhere in the third answer, people usually land on something new. A hard experience is a trigger that is bigger than your capacity to hold it, and capacity can be built.

How we prepare you

Want to see if this fits you?

Check readiness, or watch the free masterclass where I teach this in full.

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A nonprofit sanctuary in the Colorado Front Range, dedicated to the safe and ceremonial use of psilocybin. Psilocybin ceremonies held as religious practice under RFRA.

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