https://compassionretreats.com/resources Long-form writing on psilocybin, Tantra, rest and retreating in Mexico. en Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://compassionretreats.com/blog/how-to-choose-a-psilocybin-retreat https://compassionretreats.com/blog/how-to-choose-a-psilocybin-retreat Choosing a psilocybin retreat comes down to twelve questions and the answers you get back. Ask who stays in the room, how screening works and what happens after you go home. Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Lena Kurganska https://compassionretreats.com/blog/private-retreat-mexico-cost https://compassionretreats.com/blog/private-retreat-mexico-cost Three days for one person at Compassion Retreats costs US$1,999 and five days for a couple costs US$5,999. That figure covers the villa and the practices, and it does not cover flights or the optional psilocybin session. Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Konstantin T. https://compassionretreats.com/blog/private-vs-group-psilocybin-retreat https://compassionretreats.com/blog/private-vs-group-psilocybin-retreat A private psilocybin retreat holds one party at a time and a group retreat brings strangers into one room. Which one is right for you turns on cost and on how you want the session held. Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Lena Kurganska https://compassionretreats.com/blog/psilocybin-as-a-couple https://compassionretreats.com/blog/psilocybin-as-a-couple Sitting together means two people taking psilocybin on the same day in the same room, with doses set for each person. Sharing a room does not mean sharing an experience. Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Lena Kurganska https://compassionretreats.com/blog/discovering-mexico-soulful-retreats https://compassionretreats.com/blog/discovering-mexico-soulful-retreats A beach holiday gives you distance from routine. A retreat gives you structure around rest, with fixed hours and a house of your own. Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Olga Kukharenko https://compassionretreats.com/blog/mexico-today-tradition-tourism-tribulations https://compassionretreats.com/blog/mexico-today-tradition-tourism-tribulations Mexican federal law places psilocybin mushrooms and peyote under control and exempts traditional use inside indigenous ceremonies. For visitors and for the retreat trade the law leaves a grey area, and tourist demand is pressuring the Wixárika and their land. Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Konstantin T. https://compassionretreats.com/blog/modern-research-psychedelics https://compassionretreats.com/blog/modern-research-psychedelics Randomised double-blind studies at Johns Hopkins and Imperial College London report large and lasting drops in depression and anxiety after psilocybin sessions given with support. The trials are early and the samples are small. Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Konstantin T. https://compassionretreats.com/blog/planning-your-retreat https://compassionretreats.com/blog/planning-your-retreat Planning a retreat in Mexico comes down to checking what the price covers and what you sign before you travel. Compassion Retreats quotes one price for the villa and all meals and takes a 30% deposit. Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Konstantin T. https://compassionretreats.com/blog/plant-medicine-holistic-wellness-mexican-retreats https://compassionretreats.com/blog/plant-medicine-holistic-wellness-mexican-retreats A plant medicine retreat is a stay built around psychoactive plants or fungi, with preparation before a session and integration after it. A well-run one screens every guest and promises nothing. Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Konstantin T. https://compassionretreats.com/blog/popular-mexican-retreat-destinations https://compassionretreats.com/blog/popular-mexican-retreat-destinations Four regions hold most retreats in Mexico: the Riviera Maya, Oaxaca, the Pacific coast and the central highlands. Each has its own pace and its own way of getting there. Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Konstantin T. https://compassionretreats.com/blog/psychoactive-plants-in-mexico https://compassionretreats.com/blog/psychoactive-plants-in-mexico In ancient Mesoamerica psychoactive plants such as peyote and teonanácatl were tools of medicine and religion. The Spanish Conquest drove the practice underground after 1521 and the ceremonies survived in hidden and Catholic forms. Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Konstantin T. https://compassionretreats.com/blog/spectrum-of-mexican-retreats https://compassionretreats.com/blog/spectrum-of-mexican-retreats Retreats in Mexico fall into a few recognisable kinds: yoga and meditation stays, body-based work, ceremonies such as the temazcal and plant medicine work. The kind you pick shapes the stay more than the region does. Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Konstantin T. https://compassionretreats.com/blog/tantra-misconceptions-neo-tantra https://compassionretreats.com/blog/tantra-misconceptions-neo-tantra No. Classical Tantra aims at liberation and most of its practice is meditation and breathwork. The association with sex comes from neo-Tantra, a 20th-century Western movement. Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Lena Kurganska https://compassionretreats.com/blog/tantra-modern-retreats-discernment https://compassionretreats.com/blog/tantra-modern-retreats-discernment Ask what the programme teaches, who holds it and where its boundaries sit, in writing, before you pay. Classical Tantra is not about sex and a retreat that leads with sexual technique is selling something else. Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Lena Kurganska https://compassionretreats.com/blog/tantra-unveiled https://compassionretreats.com/blog/tantra-unveiled Tantra is a family of Hindu and Buddhist spiritual traditions from India, aimed at liberation rather than pleasure. Its texts date from the 6th century CE onwards and classical Tantra is not about sex. Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Lena Kurganska https://compassionretreats.com/blog/transpersonal-compassionate-container https://compassionretreats.com/blog/transpersonal-compassionate-container Holding space means staying present with someone through difficult hours without fixing, steering or judging. At Compassion Retreats one facilitator stays within reach through the whole session day. Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Lena Kurganska https://compassionretreats.com/blog/transpersonal-foundations-psychology https://compassionretreats.com/blog/transpersonal-foundations-psychology Transpersonal psychology is the branch of psychology that studies the parts of human experience that go beyond the ordinary personality, from mystical states to psychedelic sessions. It formed at the end of the 1960s and its first journal appeared in 1969. Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Konstantin T. https://compassionretreats.com/blog/travelling-mindfully https://compassionretreats.com/blog/travelling-mindfully A safe retreat answers specific questions in specific words before it asks for money. Ask who screens guests and who stays in the room when the hour gets hard. Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Konstantin T. https://compassionretreats.com/blog/whispers-form-oaxaca https://compassionretreats.com/blog/whispers-form-oaxaca In June 1955 the banker R. Gordon Wasson took part in a mushroom velada in Huautla de Jiménez with María Sabina. His account in LIFE magazine in 1957 told the world about the mushrooms and set off the wave of visitors that damaged her village. Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Konstantin T.