Psygaia’s Circle
A sliding-scale membership for people working with psychedelics intentionally. Live integration circles, breathwork, a vetted library, and peers and guides who take this seriously.
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our place in
the web of life Remembering
our place in
the web of life
Psychedelic practice for healing and growth: rooted in nature, guided by research, supported by community.
Independent Nonprofit Founded in 2020
About Us
Psychedelics can change how we relate to ourselves, each other, and the living world.
Psygaia is a Canadian nonprofit advancing an ecological approach to psychedelic practice. We help people build an intentional, healthy relationship with psychedelics and the living world through research, education, guidance, and a community of practice.
About Psygaia →Partners & Collaborators
What We Offer
Three ways to work with us
Each is grounded in our research and goes on after the experience itself, whether you're preparing, integrating or keeping up a practice.
Fieldwork
A self-paced program on preparing for, navigating and integrating psychedelic experiences, with mindfulness at its core. Pre-order and start Microdosing Mindfully today.
Explore the program →1:1 Guidance
Personalized support from a Psygaia guide for preparation, navigation, and integration, whether you’re planning your first experience or making sense of one you’ve already had.
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The Psygaia Hypothesis
An ecological theory of psychedelics.
Developed through graduate research at the University of Ottawa, it draws on Gaia theory, enactive cognition and biosemiotics to explain what happens when people take psychedelics.
Explore the research →Systems & Gaia Theory
Psychedelics disrupt the boundary between organism and environment, activating a felt sense of embeddedness in living systems.
Enactive Cognition
The mind arises from a body in relation to a world, and psychedelics make that easy to feel.
Biosemiotics
Other living things make meaning too, and psychedelics may tune us to their signals.
Flagship Project In development
Trustworthy answers, with no ads or paywall.
How to Use Psychedelics is Psygaia’s public education platform: evidence-informed guidance across preparation, navigation, and integration, grounded in harm reduction and the Psygaia Framework. Free to read, funded by donations.
- 8 topic areas, foundations through facilitation
- 3 interactive tools: readiness, planning, interactions
- No ads, no sponsors, no paywalls
Project Fifth edition, May 2027
Rave, ritual, research.
AFTERGLOW takes seriously the oldest finding in psychedelic research: that set and setting shape the experience itself. The event opens with a guided ceremony of meditation, breathwork and dyads, then unfolds through an immersive audio-visual environment, electronic music, art, and optional sensory experiences. No shared belief is asked for. The common ground is the sense of interconnectedness and sacredness available to anyone, by many means.
- Four editions held, the fifth at MAPS Psychedelic Science in Denver, 2027
- Opens with a ceremony the whole room takes part in
- Developed alongside survey research on group psychedelic settings
From the Journal
View all → Recent articles.
Psychedelic & Ecological Medicine for Planetary Health
How psychedelic experiences foster nature connection, ecological identity, and a vision of health that extends beyond the individual to the living world.
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Bad Trips and the Dark Night of the Soul
A bad trip can carry real darkness, and its shape is often inherited. A personal essay on difficult psychedelic experiences and the dark night of the soul.
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Psychedelics & Setting: An Ecological View of Mind
New research on psilocybin and the psychedelic brain reveals how set and setting shape experience, ecological cognition, nature connection, and integration.
Read more → Every New & Full Moon
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