A Sacred Container for the Woman Who Is Ready to Come Home to Herself
The Awakened Journey: Tailored for the Feminine Soul
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 help you move beyond limiting patterns and awaken to your highest potential.
True transformation isn't about adding more to your life - it's about shedding everything that is no longer yours to carry. The Awakened Journey is a fiercely guarded, exquisitely crafted opportunity for you to quiet the world around you and begin to:
Heal Your
Inner Wounds
Balance Mind, Body
& Spirit
Restore Your
Well-Being
Awaken to
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, personalized preparation, a guided ceremony, and — critically — an integration and embodiment 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 — 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 with no guidance afterward. It is a 3-month transformation protocol — one that uses the medicine as a catalyst within a comprehensive mind-body-spirit framework.
Psilocybin Doesn't Just Heal. It Reveals.
Most people come to plant medicine looking to heal and release something — a wound, a pattern, a grief or belief they can't seem to move through. And yes, the medicine meets that.
But what surprises most women is what waits on the other side of the healing.
Psilocybin is one of the few substances on earth with the capacity to temporarily quiet the ego — that relentless inner narrator that filters every experience through the lens of past pain and future fear. When that narration quiets, something remarkable happens.
You remember.
You remember the vastness of who you are beneath your story. You experience — not intellectually, but viscerally — a sense of connection to something larger than yourself. Call it source, the universe, the divine feminine, pure consciousness. The name matters less than the experience itself, which research from Johns Hopkins consistently describes as among the most meaningful of participants' entire lives.
Women who have sat with the medicine describe:
- A profound sense of unity — with themselves, with others, with life itself
- Direct access to wisdom they couldn't reach through thinking
- The dissolution of fear around death, failure, and not being enough
- A felt sense of being held by something intelligent and benevolent
- Clarity about their purpose, that no coaching session had ever touched
This is not mysticism for its own sake. It is consciousness expansion as a practical tool — one that creates the internal conditions for your outer life to genuinely shift.
The neuroscience confirms what ancient lineages have always known: when the Default Mode Network quiets, the mind becomes extraordinarily plastic. New ways of seeing become possible. Old wounds lose their charge. The version of you that's been waiting beneath the noise finally gets to breathe.
At The Awakened Journey, we don't rush past this. We build a container worthy of it.
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.
Preparation - Before Your Retreat
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 create the conditions for deep healing.
Through guided coaching and a personalized brain health assessment, we surface the beliefs and patterns quietly running the show, so the medicine has clear ground to work with.
Time: 4-6 weeks
Immerse — 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.
Time: Varies from 1 - 5 days depending on program selected.
Integrate - The Days after Your Retreat
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 days right after your ceremony, you'll be supported through a structured integration process that uses the window of neuroplasticity a psilocybin journey opens — a brief period when your brain is primed to form new patterns. Through guided reflection and one-on-one support, the insights you touched in ceremony get anchored into daily life, so the change actually sticks.
Time: 1-2 weeks
Embody — Creating Lasting Change
Embodiment is where transformation becomes a way of life, not just a memory of one powerful experience. This phase is about grounding insights into daily habits, identifying patterns and opportunities for growth, and building the practices that sustain the changes the medicine initiated.
Through your private client portal, you'll have ongoing access to guided practices, somatic and mindset tools, and resources designed to reinforce your new insights. This is the structure that turns a single breakthrough into a lasting way of being.
Time: 4-6 weeks
Choose Your Psychedelic Retreat Experience
Individual Program — Private Psilocybin Retreat in British Columbia
A deeply personal, one-on-one 3-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 3 months
- Personalized Brain Health Assessment
- Exclusive access to The Awakened Journey’s digital portal—a curated sanctuary of transformative videos, guided meditations, and soul-centered growth tools
- One private, guided psilocybin ceremony in BC *(accommodations not included)
- Full preparation and integration support from Cindy
Best for: Women who want complete privacy and a journey that is designed entirely around them.
Investment: $5550
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. This is the same 3-month journey as the Individual Program, culminating in a 4-night, 5-day luxury retreat set against the mountain landscape of interior BC.
- Everything included in the Individual Program
- 4 nights in a luxury mountain retreat setting in BC, including all meals and round-trip transport to and from the local airport
- 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.
Investment: $9850/pp
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
- 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.
Frequently Asked Questions — Psychedelic Retreats
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 long is the program?
The full Awakened Journey program runs for three months. This includes preparation sessions, your psilocybin ceremony or retreat, and a structured integration and embodiment period. The extended timeframe is intentional — lasting transformation requires more than a single weekend.
Look to invest approximately 1-3 hours per week. This includes coaching calls, inner reflection, and curated learning materials that support you after your medicine journey.
How is this different from other psychedelic retreats in Canada?
Most psychedelic retreats 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 and embodiment 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.
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.
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.