How to Use Psychedelics with a Sitter
Learn to safely and effective explore psilocybin mushrooms for spiritual discovery, personal growth, and healing with a trusted sitter.
Uncover the benefits of mushrooms with ongoing support from intimate community and expert guidance.
How to Use Psychedelics teaches techniques and perspectives to safely and effectively engage with psilocybin mushrooms for discovery, healing and growth.
Learn to engage with psychedelics in a safe and intentional way.
Learn to prepare for, navigate and integrate a psychedelic experience for transformation.
Discover a holistic view of psychedelics rooted in the latest science and ancient wisdom.
Improve your mental heath by integrating the ritual use of psychedelics into your way of life.
Develop a better understanding of yourself with a therapeutic approach to psychedelics.
Deepen your relationship to others, yourself and nature through psychedelics.
I highly recommend this course to anyone interested in developing a healthy and holistic relationship to psychedelics. The best part is you get to take the course with a friend and learn to sit for each other.
— Jeff, Canada
People have engaged with psychedelics safely for healing, divination, and celebration for millennia. You can too.
Psychedelic experiences are a natural human experience which connect us intimately with the intelligence of the web of life.
Approached with reverence, wisdom and support from community and guides, psychedelics hold great potential as tool, medicine, and sacrament.
Renown curandera, Maria Sabina, used psilocybin mushrooms ritually to facilitate healing and insight for thousands of people. Through sacred ceremony, she guided people in transformative healing journeys. Learn about the traditional use of psychedelics and why we need to approach psychedelics with deep respect.
Since the 1950’s, renown psychiatrist and spiritual psychologist Stanislav Grof used psychedelics in a variety of doses to help his patients heal, access more of their mind and reconnect to their spiritual identity. Learn about the therapeutic use of psychedelics and how to approach these substances with care, diligence, mindfulness and effectiveness.
What’s included:
Access to future course material updates.
Weekly Zoom calls with your instructor and group.
Access to Psygaia’s Circle community platform.
Access to regular online breathwork ceremonies.
Access to regular online integration circles.
Access to a growing library of resources.
Learn to use psychedelics intentionally.
With the course, you’ll learn to:
Engage with psychedelics safely, effectively and intentionally for spiritual discovery, creativity, healing and growth.
Cultivate a healthy and lifelong relationship to psilocybin mushrooms.
Learn the fundamental practices of mindfulness meditation and conscious connected breathwork.
Deepen your relationship to life through nature.
Connect more deeply to your spiritual identity.
Enhance your creativity and life meaning.
Course Instructor
Louis Belleau
Psychedelic Researcher & Guide
Yoga, Mindfulness & Breathwork Teacher
Louis has been intentionally exploring cannabis, LSD, and mushrooms for spirituality, healing, and transformation since he was 16. These early experiences helped him overcome ADHD, addiction, and suicidal ideation, and led him to study and practice Buddhism and yoga. At 18, Louis attended McGill University, where he majored in Psychology, Philosophy, and Comparative Religion. Louis currently teaches yoga, meditation, and breathwork at a healing center and privately. He also teaches forest-bathing and ethnobotany at Talaysay Tours in collaboration with Indigenous elders, facilitates transformational retreats at Woven, and studies psychedelics at the University of Ottawa, where he is working on the Psygaia hypothesis. Louis contributed to the development of Nectara and founded Psygaia. He is passionate about writing, spending time in nature, skiing up and down big mountains, trail running, and designing projects that serve the Earth and its people.
Course Advisors
Dr. Kwasi Adusei, DNP, PMHNP
Dr. Kwasi Adusei is a service-oriented, curious Ghanaian native passionate about the intersections of community, well-being, and technology. He has a vision for a future driven by inner and outer restoration and how they converge to alter the maladaptive systems of our current world. As an educator and community organizer, he is informed by his experience with the war on drugs and community mental health, both as a patient and a clinician. He is also a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner at Journey Clinical, co-founder of the Psychedelic Society of Western New York, and led the development of a grassroots psychedelic harm reduction organization—the Sanctuary Project.
Vanathy Paranthaman
Vanathy works as a Registered Nurse with a focus on holistic health and wellness. Vanathy has professional training and expertise with various plant and psychedelic medicines, including extensive experience working with ketamine to treat various mental health conditions. Vanathy has continued to further her education in different therapeutic modalities over the years. Some of these trainings include Breathwave, yoga, Internal Family Systems, Compassionate Inquiry, Psychedelic Psychotherapy (TheraPsil) and the Gottman Method Couples therapy. Vanathy is now building Conscious Minds Clinic in Vancouver, an alternative medicine clinic offering various treatments while conducting psilocybin for wellness studies in collaboration with medical professionals, firefighters, business executives and elders.
Course Structure
2
Months
Weekly
Meetings
12
Peers
Satisfaction Guaranteed
If you aren’t satisfied with the course, let us know to 14 days after joining and we’ll issue a refund.
No questions asked.
