This training is for clinicians, facilitators, and experienced practitioners who intend to hold people in altered states. It is not for casual curiosity, résumé padding, or people looking for a fast credential.
You stopped by our booth at the Evolution of Psychology Conference because something we’re doing is different.
For clinicians and facilitators who intend to hold real sessions, not just talk about them.
Embodiment and nervous system regulation
Facilitation presence and rupture repair
Safety, ethics, and containment
Supervised, in-person psilocybin practicum
This is hands-on training for people who will sit in the room.
For clinicians, organizations, and leaders who want to bring their clients into retreat work without building infrastructure. We design, staff, and operate retreats under a proven legal and clinical framework. Custom retreats for your clients or cohorts Clinician-specific and facilitator-led programs Co-branded or white-labeled options Private and concierge-level experiences You bring the people. We handle the complexity.
A bespoke retreat allows your clients to move out of weekly, cognitive sessions and into sustained, embodied change. Time, environment, and nervous system immersion create breakthroughs that standard formats cannot.
You can bring clients into retreat work without handling legality, safety protocols, staffing, medicine access, or logistics. The work stays yours. The risk and operations stay ours.
When a retreat is designed specifically for your client population, the experience is safer, more relevant, and more effective. Custom design replaces one-size-fits-all programming with intentional, clinically aligned work.
If you want to train, attend a retreat, or design one for your clients.
Experience the work directly before deciding anything else.
Collaborate with us to create a retreat aligned with your population and scope of practice.
Words cannot convey the depth and beauty of my transformational journey led by Amanda! Amanda is deeply wise and powerful yet vulnerable. I felt safe to also be vulnerable and still stand in my own power. The ceremonies were sacred and ancient and carefully designed. I highly recommend this to anyone
The Buena Vida retreat I attended was hands down the best experience I have invested and participated in throughout my entire life. I made lifelong friends there, worked through so many emotional hurdles and learned so much about myself and others all while feeling incredibly safe and well cared for. I would
I attended the 7 day retreat in Nov 2024. I chose to attend because I have struggled with Depression and Anxiety from a young age, and have tried many different treatments with little success. I’m so thankful for the opportunity to walk a new path with Buena Vida. This was a new experience for me, and I felt completely safe and supported.
If you're reading reviews you're already considering a psilocybin retreat. If you are truly ready to heal, if you are looking for meaning and understanding about your life and existence, if you are truly ready to take a leap, choose this one. The mushrooms are indeed the magic, but the leader and facilitators at Buena Vida create an environment ...
Review TextThe ceremonies were the safest ceremonies I’ve ever attended, which definitely helped the anxiety I had before each one. I felt truly cared for and supported by the staff, who were always readily available and extremely helpful. Through her words, song, drumming, and amazing presence, Amanda leads each ceremony with humor, power, wisdom, compassion, and connection to a Higher Consciousness within all of us, and is an amazing Shamanic healer.
Bespoke retreats are built for clinicians, facilitators, organizations, and leaders who want to bring their own clients or community into retreat work without creating infrastructure, legal exposure, or operational burden.
No. You need a clear understanding of your client population and your scope of practice. We guide the design, safety protocols, and operational execution so the retreat is appropriate, ethical, and well contained.
Retreats are designed for emotionally stable, well-screened adults. We do not run open-enrollment, high-risk, or poorly screened containers. Screening criteria are customized to your population.
This training is for clinicians, facilitators, and experienced practitioners who intend to hold people in altered states. It is not for casual curiosity, résumé padding, or people looking for a fast credential.
No. We do not sell symbolic credentials. This training builds real-world capacity, discernment, and responsibility. Whether or not you should facilitate is part of what the training clarifies.
Personal experience is preferred but not expected. Extensive facilitation experience is not required. What matters is emotional maturity, nervous system capacity, and the ability to take feedback under pressure.
Embodiment cannot be learned remotely. This training includes in-person, supervised practice where your presence, regulation, and decision-making are directly observed and refined.
A six-week foundational curriculum covering safety, ethics, medicine work, and facilitation principles, followed by an in-person retreat with supervised psilocybin practicum. Theory is immediately translated into application.
Not automatically. Training and collaboration are separate decisions. Capacity, alignment, and readiness matter more than completion.