Women's Psychedelic Retreats in Canada —
Sacred, Safe & Science-Backed
The Awakened Journey: Tailored for the Feminine Soul
Most psychedelic retreats are open to everyone. That sounds inclusive — but in practice it means they
are designed for no one in particular.
The Awakened Journey is specifically created to honor the unique biological and emotional landscape of women.
While other medicine circles offer broad paths, we recognize that a woman's path to wholeness demands a precise, holistic harmony of mind, body, heart, and spirit. Held entirely in a trusted woman-to-woman space, this journey honors your specific biology and emotional landscape to facilitate true, embodied healing.
Bridging Science, Soul and Transformation
The Awakened Journey provides a framework designed to to help you move beyond limiting patterns and awaken to your highest potential. Through a powerful blend of scientific, mindset and spiritual practices, you’ll be on a journey to:
Heal Your Inner Wounds
Balance Mind, Body, Brain & Spirit
Restore Your
Well-Being
Reconnect with
Your True Self
What is a Psychedelic Experience/Retreat Like?
A psychedelic retreat is a structured, guided experience where participants work with a plant medicine — most commonly psilocybin (found in magic mushrooms) — in a safe, intentional setting, supported by an experienced guide throughout preparation, ceremony and integration.
Unlike recreational use, a psychedelic retreat is a therapeutic and spiritual container. It is built around intention, safety screening, personalised preparation, a guided ceremony, and — critically — an integration process that helps participants translate the insights of their journey into lasting change in their everyday lives.
Research from institutions including Johns Hopkins and Imperial College London has shown psilocybin to be a profoundly effective catalyst for treating depression, anxiety, PTSD, addiction and existential distress — often producing breakthroughs in a single session that talk therapy may take years to approach.
At the Awakened Journey, we take this further. Our psychedelic retreat isn't a weekend and a wave goodbye. It is a 4-month transformation protocol — one that uses the medicine as a catalyst within a comprehensive mind, body, brain and spirit framework.
What Happens at a Psilocybin Retreat with The Awakened Journey?
If you've never attended a psilocybin retreat before, it's natural to have questions — and perhaps some nerves. Here's what you can expect when you join the Awakened Journey.
Before Your Retreat - Preparation
Preparation is the foundation of a safe psilocybin experience. Before any ceremony, you and Cindy will work together over multiple sessions to clarify your intentions, address any anxiety, review your health history, and build the trust and inner safety that creates the conditions for deep healing.
You will also receive your personalised brain health assessment — a roadmap for optimising your mental clarity and readiness before the medicine journey begins.
During Your Retreat — The Guided Psilocybin Ceremony
Your guided psilocybin ceremony takes place in a comfortable, secure, and beautiful British Columbia sanctuary. Cindy supports you throughout a journey tailored entirely to your intentions, pace, and emotional needs.
Psilocybin meets you exactly where you are, gently dissolving mental defenses to surface what needs attention and opening a window to deep self-reflection. Luxury Group Retreat participants experience two guided journeys, balanced by dedicated time for rest, nature immersion, and integration.
After Your Retreat — Integration Coaching
Integration is where a psilocybin retreat either becomes lasting transformation or fades into memory. This is the step most retreat providers overlook — and it's where the Awakened Journey goes furthest.
In the weeks and months after your ceremony, you'll be supported through a structured integration process: grounding insights into daily habits, identifying patterns and opportunities for growth, and building the practices that sustain the changes the medicine initiated. You will not be left to navigate the aftermath alone.
Choose Your Psychedelic Retreat Experience
Individual Program — Private Psilocybin Retreat in British Columbia
A deeply personal, one-on-one 4-month journey tailored entirely to you. Everything is designed around your specific intentions, history, and healing needs.
- Private one-on-one coaching sessions throughout the 4 months
- Personalised brain health assessment and optimisation roadmap
- The Awakened Journey's transformative online program
- One private, guided psilocybin ceremony in British Columbia
- Full preparation and integration support from Cindy
Best for: Women who want complete privacy and a journey that is designed entirely around them.
Luxury Group Retreat — Intimate Women's Psilocybin Retreat in the BC Mountains
Designed for an intimate circle of 2–3 women — close friends, sisters or chosen family — who are ready to heal and grow together. Set against the mountain landscape of interior British Columbia, this 4-night luxury retreat is a rare and beautiful experience.
- Everything included in the Individual Program
- 4 nights in a luxury mountain retreat setting in BC
- Nature immersion and digital detox
- Group circles, guided meditation and body work
- Two guided psilocybin ceremonies
- Shared integration in a trusted women's circle
Best for: Women who want to experience transformation alongside someone they love and trust.
Is This Psychedelic Retreat Right for You?
The Awakened Journey is not for everyone — and we mean that with deep respect. It is designed for women who are truly ready. Not just curious. Ready.
You might be the right fit if you:
• Have tried therapy, personal development or mindfulness and feel ready to go deeper
• Are carrying trauma, grief, anxiety or patterns that haven't shifted with conventional approaches
• Are ready to do genuine preparatory and integration work — not just the ceremony itself
• Are seeking lasting, embodied change rather than a single powerful experience
• Are medically and psychologically screened as suitable for a psilocybin experience
• Are open to a blend of neuroscience, heart-based practices and sacred plant medicine
• Are a woman based in Canada or the US
Every participant completes a confidential health questionnaire and a discovery call before acceptance. Your safety is the highest priority. We will always be honest with you about whether this is the right fit and the right time.
Safety First — How We Protect Every Participant
We take the responsibility of holding a psychedelic space with the utmost seriousness. Before any participant is accepted, they complete a rigorous, confidential health and psychological screening process.
Psilocybin is not suitable for everyone. Certain medical conditions, medications (particularly SSRIs and MAOIs) and psychological histories require careful consideration. Our screening process exists to ensure that every woman who enters the program can do so safely, fully and with confidence.
- Full medical and psychological screening prior to acceptance
- Confidential health questionnaire reviewed by Cindy personally
- Clear guidance on contraindicated medications and conditions
- Cindy present throughout every ceremony — you are never alone
- Post-ceremony check-ins and structured integration support
- Ability to pause or close the experience at any point
Your wellbeing is the highest priority of this program. If a psilocybin retreat is not the right fit for you right now, we will tell you — and we will always point you toward what is.
Meet Cindy - Your Psychedelic Guide
Hi, I'm Cindy. For over 35 years I've been studying what actually creates lasting transformation — not just breakthroughs, but real, embodied change that holds. As a Certified Psychedelic Guide, Certified NLP Practitioner, HeartMath® Practitioner, and Certified Brain Health Coach, I've built and taught personal development programs rooted in mindset principles, supported women through some of the hardest seasons of their lives, and done my own deep inner work — including many medicine journeys that changed everything for me and for my family.
Over the years I've attended numerous ceremonies — both private and in group settings — and what I witnessed unsettled me. The experiences were often profound, but when the ceremony ended, so did the support. Participants were sent home with little guidance, left to make sense of some of the most significant experiences of their lives entirely on their own.
What too many retreat programs fail to prioritize is that the ceremony is only the beginning. The real transformation happens in the integration that follows — that is where lasting change is born. Without proper structure in that window, even the most powerful experience can fade or go unresolved.
I also recognized that women's needs in this space are uniquely specific. As someone who has navigated significant hormonal and emotional shifts throughout my own life, I understand how profoundly those layers shape the way we process and heal. These nuances deserve to be honoured with intention — and most programs simply aren't built with women in mind.
The Awakened Journey was created from everything I've learned — as a guide, a coach, a brain health specialist, and a woman who has sat with the medicine herself, many times. A psilocybin ceremony can feel like ten years of talk therapy in a single afternoon. But the medicine alone is not a protocol. The preparation, the container, and the structured integration support that follows are what determine whether a woman walks away with a beautiful memory or a genuinely transformed life.
I created this retreat for women who are ready.
Not just curious — ready.
If that's you, I would be honoured to walk beside you.
Frequently Asked Questions — Psychedelic Retreats
Are psychedelic retreats legal in Canada?
The legal landscape around psilocybin in Canada is evolving. Health Canada has granted exemptions for therapeutic and ceremonial use, and a growing number of facilitators operate under these frameworks. The Awakened Journey operates with full transparency and participant safety as the guiding principle. We discuss the current legal context in detail during your discovery call.
What is psilocybin and is it safe?
Psilocybin is a naturally occurring compound found in certain species of mushrooms. It is non-addictive and has a strong safety profile when used in a properly screened, guided setting. Research from Johns Hopkins, NYU and Imperial College London consistently shows psilocybin to be safe and therapeutically effective for a wide range of conditions when used responsibly. All participants in the Awakened Journey undergo medical and psychological screening before acceptance.
Do I need prior experience with psychedelics to attend?
No. Many of the women who join the Awakened Journey have never had a psychedelic experience. The 4-month preparation process is specifically designed to build the inner readiness, trust and intention that makes a first experience safe and profoundly effective. Prior experience is not required — genuine readiness is.
How is this different from other psychedelic retreats in Canada?
Most psychedelic retreats in Canada offer a ceremony — and not much else. The Awakened Journey is a 4-month protocol that uses psilocybin as a catalyst within a comprehensive program of cognitive behavour coaching, HeartMath®, brain health and deep integration coaching. It is also exclusively for women — designed from the ground up to honour the specific biological, emotional and spiritual landscape of feminine healing. There is no other program like it in Canada.
Where is the retreat held?
Individual psilocybin ceremonies take place in a private setting in British Columbia, Canada. The Luxury Group Retreat is held in an intimate mountain setting in the interior of BC. The program coaching sessions take place online and are available to women across Canada and the United States.
Travel to and from the retreat is not included in the retreat pricing.
How long is the program?
The full Awakened Journey program runs for 4 months. This includes preparation sessions, your psilocybin ceremony or retreat, and a structured integration period. The extended timeframe is intentional — lasting transformation requires more than a single weekend.
What does the screening process involve?
Every applicant completes a confidential health questionnaire covering medical history, current medications, and psychological history. Cindy reviews every application personally. This is followed by a discovery call to discuss your intentions, your history, and whether this program is the right fit for you at this time. Certain conditions and medications may be contraindicated for psilocybin; we will discuss these honestly and always prioritise your safety over programme enrolment.
I'm in the US — can I still join?
Yes. The Awakened Journey is open to women in both Canada and the United States. Coaching sessions take place online. The psilocybin ceremony and group retreat are held in British Columbia, Canada, and travel to BC is required for that element of the program.
Ready to Begin Your Women's Psychedelic Retreat Journey?
If you've read this far, something in you is already responding. That quiet pull — toward healing, toward depth, toward the version of yourself that's been waiting — is worth listening to.
The first step is simply to apply. We'll review your application, invite you to a discovery call, and together we'll determine whether the Awakened Journey is the right fit for where you are right now.
There is no pressure, no obligation and no judgment. Only an honest conversation about whether this is your time.