The Empowered Path: 8 Day Psilocybin Retreat and Four-Month Program in Playa Grande, Costa Rica

The Empowered Path with Psilocybin, the Connector

You know what needs to change. The medicine shows you the truth. Twelve weeks give you the time to live it.

The Empowered Path is a twelve-week program held in three phases: Attune, Immerse, and Anchor. Four weeks of preparation name the change you came for and sharpen your intention. Eight days at Ananda Lodge open the door. Eight weeks of integration build what you saw into how you decide, speak, and live. The same guardians and the same cohort of ten walk with you through all of it.

Psilocybin, the Connector

Just as mushrooms compost matter into rich soil, the medicine works within each person to transform what no longer serves and make way for new connections aligned with who you are. Psilocybin composts what no longer serves and reconnects you to who you were before the pattern took hold, seen in a new way.

The Connector shows you who you are beneath the pattern. Twelve weeks give you the time to live from there.

What Psilocybin teaches

The root of your adaptive patterns in thinking, acting, and reacting. How those patterns built the reality you live in. How to step out of the pattern and into choice.

Who Psilocybin often calls

• You are curious and self-aware, and your patterns keep running the show anyway.
• You understand where a pattern came from, and you are ready to stop living by it.
• You want to feel what has been held and not felt.
• You are ready to see yourself in a new way, and to choose from there.

What this medicine asks of you

Self-awareness and informed curiosity. Openness to new ways of seeing. Not certain psilocybin is your medicine? Your alignment call is where we decide together.

Who the Empowered Path is for

This path is for people ready to move beyond their story. You are open to coaching and want to be held accountable to something bigger than yourself. You do not assume you know it all, and you want to learn from your guardians, the medicine carrier, and the medicine itself.

How you are held

The Empowered Path is guided by trauma-informed principles for safety. The work centers on empowerment, accountability, and ownership of life today: compassion for the past and understanding of the patterns that once protected you, without letting the past decide the present. Your guardians know your story, your intentions, and your nervous system. You are never handed off.

Phase I · Attune · January 18 to February 17 · Preparation

Attune sets the compass. You begin with a 45-minute intake call, then two 30-minute one-to-one calls with your guardian to build trust, explore where you are, and shape your preparation. Four live online cohort sessions on Mondays build safety as a circle before you arrive. Your preparation guidebooks and psilocybin microdose ally support you between sessions. You arrive in Costa Rica regulated, connected to your cohort, and clear on your intention.

Phase II · Immerse · February 18 to 25 · The retreat

Eight days and seven nights at Ananda Lodge in Playa Grande. Three daytime San Pedro ceremonies, each held from morning to evening on a day of fasting and each followed by a full day of integration. Around the ceremonies: breathwork, gentle yoga, art therapy, time for rest, healing or one-to-one support, beach sunsets, a private chef, and your own ocean-view suite.

• Ceremony One · Evening: the opening ceremony. The circle forms and the work begins.
• Ceremony Two · Dawn: held at first light, with sound.
• Ceremony Three · Evening: a community ceremony with live music.

Phase III · Anchor · March 8 to April 19 · Integration

Anchor is where what you saw becomes how you live. Six live online cohort sessions, every two weeks, explore the integration pathway, pattern re-programming, authentic power, personal integrity and discernment, and aligning your actions with truth and purpose. Three 30-minute pathway calls with your guardian help you build your own resource toolkit. Pod pair-ups and a WhatsApp community keep you connected between sessions.

Tools you build: daily micro habits, healthy and compassionate communication, boundaries for healthy relationships, and your personal resource toolkit.

Your microdose ally

Psilocybin, following the James Fadiman protocol of one day on and two days off. It begins after the first Attune session, pauses 5 to 7 days before the retreat as your guardian directs, and resumes no earlier than two weeks after the retreat for two months. Strain selection and ordering details are shared once your registration is confirmed.

In our guests’ words

“I feel more alive, joyful, grateful and full of love than I have in my entire life.” Kim, retreat guest

“This amount of people allowed actual community to be built between all of us. Nothing is missing. Everything is within.” First cohort guest

How to join

1. Apply: share your story, goals, and intentions.
2. Alignment call: explore fit and which medicine is calling you.
3. Reserve your place.
4. Complete intake: a confidential health and safety screening.
5. Begin Attune with your guardians.

Your registration is confirmed once your alignment call and intake are complete. Two partial scholarships are available for this cohort. Enrollment closes February 4, 2027.