Have a Great Trip

What we keep seeing isn’t dramatic. It is steady.

We are not telling you what is possible. We are telling you what keeps happening. People come through a single retreat, return home, and over the next six months their lives quietly rearrange. These are the patterns we watch, across cohorts. None of them are promises. All of them are real.

• The chronic pain that lived in someone’s back for years, gone after one ceremony.
• A mother and daughter who hadn’t spoken in years, first phone call within a week of returning home.
• A two-decade prescription for antidepressants, tapered with a doctor, no longer needed.
• A new business someone had carried in their head for a decade, finally started.

The medicine does not give you any of this. It clears what was in the way of you giving it to yourself.

Three phases. The medicine sits in the middle.

A great trip is not something the medicine hands you. It is something you build, across three phases, the six weeks before, the six hours during, and the six months after. Miss any phase and the experience either does not land or does not last. The class walks the whole arc, with two practical moves you can take with you no matter where you sit on it: compassion and curiosity.

Preparation is the practice. The ceremony is the test.

The work before the medicine is the work. Set intention as inquiry, not a wish list. Body prep, sleep, nutrition, abstaining from what dulls. Mind prep, what are you bringing into the room? When preparation is treated as a six-week practice rather than a checklist, the ceremony has somewhere to land. It's easy to live from what you have or what you do. Harder to live from who you are. Preparation builds that muscle. The medicine has someone home to greet.

Treated as homework, preparation skims the surface. Treated as practice, it becomes the soil the experience grows in.

The medicine doesn’t take you somewhere. It removes what was in the way.

Surrender is the wrong word. The right word is curiosity. When the experience gets uncomfortable, the question stops being “how do I escape this” and becomes “what is this trying to show me?” The shift from fighting to meeting is what separates a hard trip from one that opens something. Each pass at the question turns the diamond, same self, different facet. What reads as fear from one angle is grief from another, devotion from a third.

What you fight grows louder. What you meet with curiosity, opens.

Insights die in isolation. They live in circles.

You cannot integrate alone. The mind that took you to the insight is the same mind that explains it away by Tuesday. Integration in community, weekly circles, accountability partners, ongoing facilitation, lifelong alumni network, is the mechanism that turns a six-hour ceremony into lasting change. Try this before May 7: ask for three small things this week. A glass of water, a ride, a read on something you wrote. Most of us have spent years being the one who gives, the muscle for receiving has gone soft, and that muscle is what integration runs on.

The trip is six hours. Integration in community is six months. The trip is the door. The community is the home.

One hour. Three things, in order.

Alumni, live. People who have lived through this will join the call and tell you, in their own words, what changed and how, including the parts that were hard. Not testimonials. Texture.

Two practical moves, taught. Compassion is the muscle for receiving, most of us have spent years being the one who gives, and that muscle has gone soft. Curiosity is what you do when the experience gets uncomfortable, instead of fighting it. Both are trainable. Both are usually missed.

A preview of the rest. Preparation as a six-week protocol. Integration as a six-month practice in community. We walk through the cadence so you can see the whole arc, and decide for yourself whether the retreat is the right next step.

If this is the class you were waiting for:

Thursday, May 7 · 12 PM Mountain Time · Zoom · Free · Capped at 200.

Six hours of medicine, six months of community.

The retreat itself is six hours of active ceremony. What makes the change last is what comes before and after, and the after happens in community, not alone. Here’s the cadence we hold:

• Week 1, Daily integration journaling, one-on-one with your facilitator
• Week 2, First post-retreat group circle (your retreat cohort, weekly)
• Week 4, Accountability partner check-ins begin
• Month 3, Monthly alumni circle (open to all past participants)
• Month 6, Optional return retreat or deepening intensive
• Lifelong, Alumni network, private channel, annual gatherings

If this cadence is what you’ve been missing, save my seat, May 7.

Austin Mao, founder, facilitator, alumnus.

Meet Your Host

Austin Mao

Founder & Licensed Psychedelic Facilitator, Ceremonia

Austin is a licensed psychedelic facilitator, keynote speaker, and founder of Ceremonia — the leading legal, non-profit psilocybin retreat in Colorado. He has spoken at TEDx, Mindvalley, Necker Island, and MAPS Psychedelic Science on how connection is the foundation of healing.

He has guided 600+ individuals — from Fortune 500 executives to combat veterans — through transformational experiences. As host of the Modern Enlightenment podcast, he has interviewed Rick Doblin, Robin Carhart-Harris, and Louie Schwartzberg.

Approach

• Internal Family Systems (IFS)
• Somatic Experiencing
• Mindfulness
• Circling / relational presence practices

One hour, May 7. Save your seat below.

Free. Live on Zoom. Capped at 200. The replay link, good for 48 hours, goes only to people who register before the call. If the rest of this page resonated, this is the next step. Bring a notebook and a quiet hour.

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The questions we hear most.

The trip is the door. The community is the home.

One hour. May 7. The most honest teaching we know how to give on what makes the experience last.