Frequently Asked Questions

No. One price, the same for everybody, no sales and no codes. If it is genuinely out of reach, tell us on the call and we will find a way.

Tell us on the call. You cover what the retreat costs us to run and we leave it there. No forms, and nobody else will know.

Yes. One price, the same for everybody, and it is the same figure whether you book here or through a booking platform. We do not run sales and we do not negotiate. If it is genuinely out of reach, tell us on the call and we will find a way. If the work turns out to be worth more to you than the list price, you are welcome to give more after you go home, and it goes to the fund that brings someone else.

Only where someone genuinely cannot reach the price. Tell us on the call and you can cover our costs instead. Otherwise the price is the price.

Yes. Leave it with us after your stay and it goes into the fund that pays for someone who could not otherwise come.

For a full retreat: your room, your meals, the transfers, the practices and the integration afterwards. For a one-day retreat: the day itself, everything in it and the food. Flights, insurance and the psilocybin are the only things outside it.

By transfer or card before you arrive, or in cash while you are here. If you book through a booking platform, they take the deposit and we collect the balance seven days before you arrive.

One day is $450 per person, or $750 per couple. Lunch, the practices and the run of the house are included, and the price is the same for everybody. A night is not part of a day retreat.

The price on each retreat page is the price for one person. On a full retreat that is one person in the private villa: three days is $1,999, four is $2,999 and five is $3,999. If the two of you take the same villa, the price is one and a half times the single price, so $2,999, $4,499 or $5,999, and the second person shares your suite rather than taking another one. A small group of three or four, or anything else you have in mind, is arranged on the call. A one-day retreat is $450 per person, or $750 per couple.

No. Everything we offer is optional, including the medicine. Your retreat is built around what you need and what you are ready for, and nothing is compulsory. Plenty of guests come for the rest, the work and the food, and never ask for a ceremony.

Both. People come alone, and people come as a couple. We build the days differently for each, and we will tell you honestly which retreat suits your situation.

Classical Tantra, which works through breath, slow movement, energy awareness and non-sexual conscious touch, always with consent and always at your pace. If you are a couple and want to explore intimacy, we give guidance, and our facilitators never take part in any sexual touch. Our Tantra guide explains how this differs from what you will find online.

We do not promise results, and we are suspicious of anyone who does. Seeing yourself clearly, or knowing what to do next, comes out of your own work rather than out of ours. What we bring is preparation, the tools and a steady space, and we stay with you while you use them.

To help you put down the tension you arrived with and hear yourself think again. We keep the days quiet and unhurried, and we leave room for the work you came to do.

Quiet, unhurried and friendly. Some hours are hard, and we do not pretend otherwise, but nobody is left alone with a difficult one.

Personalized. There is no set programme to fit yourself into. We build each retreat with you, from what you tell us and from what we see on the day.

It is not religion, and it is not decoration. It means the connection to your own heart, to whatever you call the larger thing you are part of, and to the part of you that already knows what it wants.

You will know more after the discovery call than you do now. Our retreats suit people who are ready to look at their own life honestly. The call is where we both find out whether that is you, and whether we are the right people to sit with you through it.

Yes. One party at a time, whether that is one person, one couple or one small group arriving together. Nobody else is booked into the house while you are here, and no strangers are put in circle with you.

Yourselves, and us. The most we take is four people arriving together, and a group of three or four is a special case we agree on the call. We never mix parties.

No. The medicine is optional on every retreat, arranged separately, and most guests do not take it. We will tell you if we think it is not a good idea for you.

No. Most people who come to us have never done any of it. The yoga is slow and adapted to the body you bring, the meditation is guided, and anything with the medicine happens only after a screening call. You do not need to be fit either.

No. Everything is available and nothing is compulsory, including the sessions you have paid for. Guests who arrive exhausted usually do very little for the first two days, and that is the point of the retreat rather than a failure of it.

Most retreats in Tulum are a group, a single ceremony or a yoga holiday. Ours is private, held at our own place in the jungle, and it includes screening before you book and integration sessions afterwards, with two people whose entire job for those days is you.

Safety comes first, and we screen for it before you arrive. We use well-grown mushrooms in carefully considered doses, in a calm and protected setting, and one of us stays with you for the whole of it.

Preparation and intention setting first, sometimes weeks before. The session itself usually happens lying down with a sleep mask, so that the attention stays inside. Afterwards there is time to rest, to eat, and to talk it through, and nobody is rushed out of the room.

Whole mushrooms, grown in Mexico by a provider we know and trust. Non-commercial, and cultivated with care.

Small, carefully considered doses. This is not a recreational experience, and we do not run it like one. You can read more in our Ethics Guide.

Almost all of them are held for one person or for a couple. We will take a small group, but only people who already know each other, such as a family or close friends, and only if everyone wants to be there.

Yes, and we take them seriously. We screen confidentially before anything is booked, and **we require you to speak to your own doctor before any psychedelic experience**. A personal or family history of psychosis can rule it out, and so can some medications, including MAOIs, lithium and possibly SSRIs. Tell us everything relevant during screening, including anything you think is minor. This is not medical advice. Our screening and your doctor's assessment are what decide whether this is safe for you.

Difficult hours happen, though not often in the way we work. We are trained for them, we do not panic, and we have seen enough of them to know how to stay with you. A hard hour usually has something in it worth having.

Breathwork, slow movement, partner exercises, energy work and conscious touch, which is always non-sexual and always something you agree to first. What we use on the day depends on what you are ready for.

Yes. Like yoga, these practices adapt to the person doing them, whatever their experience, age or body. They work for one person and for a couple, and everything is set to your pace rather than to a standard.

Classical Hatha yoga in the lineage of Maha Sadhana, as taught by Sri Dharma Mittra. Sessions adapt to whatever level you are at.

Several kinds, including practices from the Osho tradition and the way we have come to teach it ourselves. All of them are for noticing what is happening rather than for emptying your mind.

A private chef cooks for you, mostly vegan and vegetarian, from fresh local ingredients. Food is part of the work here rather than a break from it, and we cook around whatever you cannot eat.

Most run three, four or five days, and the couples retreat runs four or five. The one-day retreats run from the morning until before dinner, with no night stay. The length is yours to choose, and we usually suggest at least three days, because preparation, the work itself and the settling afterwards each need room.

It depends on what you have done before and what you are coming for. We give you guidance on the call and in writing afterwards, so that you arrive prepared in body as well as in mind.

The retreats happen at our own place in the jungle just outside Tulum, run by us alone and kept for you alone. The house is modern and self-sufficient, and it is the quiet that guests remember. We will tell you more on the discovery call.

On a full retreat there is no fixed schedule, because there is no fixed retreat. We agree on a rhythm with you, with one or two sessions a day and long gaps in between for rest, food and doing nothing. A one-day retreat has a shape rather than a timetable, and we will tell you what is on offer when you arrive.

We send a list before you come. In short: loose clothing for a hot climate, something to move in, swimwear, a hat, a warm layer for the evenings, natural sunscreen and biodegradable repellent, and something to write with. Leave the heavy perfume at home.

Yes, for the retreats. We arrange private transfers from Cancun (CUN) or Tulum (TQO) with drivers we know, and they are included in the price of a three, four or five day retreat. For a one-day retreat the transfer is not included, since most day guests are already in the Tulum area, and we will arrange one at cost if you want it.

Mostly English. We also speak Russian and Ukrainian between us, and enough Spanish to get by and to ask for help.

There is wifi at the house and a phone signal across most of the property. Nothing is switched off for you and nothing is confiscated. Guests who want to put the phone down tell us, and we hold them to it.

Not during the retreat days. The work here is quiet and it does not mix with alcohol, and nobody misses it after the second day. Tell us before you arrive if that is a problem for you and we will talk it through.

Often, yes. Extra nights, massage, the Mayan clay spa and a temazcal can be arranged subject to availability, and we quote them before you decide. One-day guests can add a treatment to the day.

December to April is dry and cooler, and it is the busiest season. May to November is hotter, the rain comes in the afternoon, and the jungle is at its loudest. We host all year and will tell you honestly what to expect in the month you are considering.

A one-day retreat starts in the morning and finishes before dinner, and we set the exact hours with you when you book. There is no night stay.

No. One day is one day, morning to evening, and a night stay turns it into a different retreat.

Two online meetings after you go home, included in the price. Most guests spread them over the first month, because the week after a retreat is usually the strangest one, and it helps to have someone to ask.

If you want company for the longer stretch, our support packages include regular online sessions: nutrition, practical guidance for the weeks you are working through, and someone to talk to who already knows your story.

What happens here stays here. We do not discuss guests, we do not use your story, and we do not post photographs without asking. The full Privacy Policy has the detail.

We wrote them down rather than leaving them implied. The Ethics Manifesto sets out what we commit to, including our screening standards, our position on touch, and how we handle money.

A 30% deposit holds your dates. It is refundable for 72 hours after you pay it, and after that it is not refundable, though you can move your dates at no charge. The balance is due seven days before you arrive. If we ever cancel, you get back everything you paid us. The Terms of Service hold the detail, and we go through it with you before you book.

Between us we have spent close to forty years practising and teaching. Lena is a certified nutritional practitioner, a Dharma Yoga teacher and a Tantra Kriya Yoga instructor, with twenty years of practice and teaching across Canada, the United States and Mexico. Olga trained under Sri Dharma Mittra from 2007 and teaches at his centre in New York, spent seven years at the Karma Triyana Dharmachakra monastery including a three and a half year sealed retreat, and has a background in medical science, massage and bioenergetics. Full biographies are on the About page.

No. We do not diagnose and we do not treat. We screen, we prepare, we hold the space and we help you make sense of what comes up. If you are already working with a therapist or a doctor, keep them involved, and we will work alongside them.