5-MeO-DMT Deep-Dive Sessions
for Individuals and Couples
We offer individual and couples ceremonies by appointment in our city space in Vancouver, B.C. Our offering consists of four sessions, including an initial consultation to discuss fit and suitability of the medicine; an in-person preparation session, where we dive deep into exploring intention and give you tools that can help you navigate the medicine space; the journey day, during which offer a series of increasing doses building up to the full-release dose with preparation and integration in between doses; and an integration session in the week following your journey. In addition to the four sessions, we also offer at-home exercises and resources to assist with your preparation and integration, and referrals to complementary practitioners to assist the integration of your experience when appropriate.
Click the "read more" links after each heading below to learn more about our process.
Consultation (1 hour)
Our process starts with a free one-hour consultation, either in-person in our space or on Zoom, as suits your needs. This is an opportunity for you to meet us and ask us any questions you have about our work. [read more +] The consultation is also a time for us to learn about you and what you are hoping to get out of your experience with 5-MeO-DMT. We leave this time open for conversation and sharing to give us all space to feel out whether our service is a good fit for your needs at this time.
Prior to the consultation, we will ask you to fill out a questionnaire that helps us understand your needs better as a journeyer. The questionnaire covers motivations for journeying, previous experience with psychedelics, and medications and medical conditions relevant to your safety in journeying with 5-MeO-DMT. Should we have any concerns or questions in reviewing your questionnaire, we will discuss them with you during the consultation. [collapse -]
Preparation Session (3 hours)
Prior to your journey day, we will have a preparation session in our journey space to help you prepare for your journey and for us to learn more about how we can best support you. [read more +] Topics we cover include:
- Background about the medicine and what to expect on each dose.
- The role of intention in going into a journey. We offer therapeutic support and exercises for clarifying intention. We find that the inner work often begins before you even take the medicine!
- Grounding techniques and breathing exercises that can help move through difficult emotions such as fear should they arise on your journey.
- The role of therapeutic touch during your journey. We will explore your preferences around how much and what kind of touch you find helpful.
- Integration and planning for the days after your journey day to get the most out of your experience.
- We will also discuss our commitment to confidentiality and your safety.
The preparation session is also a space to raise any lingering questions or concerns prior to your journey day. Our intention is for you to feel confident and have all the tools you will need for your journey. [collapse -]
Journey Day (~6 hours)
When you arrive on your journey day, we will transition into ceremony space with mindfulness, movement, pulling an oracle card, and sharing of intentions for your journey. [read more +] Before offering the first dose, we give you the opportunity to practice inhaling from the empty pipe so that you don't need to worry about mechanics when you take the medicine for the first time.
We offer the medicine as a series of increasing doses—usually between 3 to 5 doses in one session. We start with a low dose of the medicine, which we call the handshake dose. The handshake for most people is exclusively experienced in the body, revealing where tensions and blocked energy are held, and begins the process of building trust with the medicine. While you are in the medicine, we offer therapeutic touch and live sounds to support your process, if it serves. After you come out of your first dose, we are there for you to discuss your experience and support your process of making sense of it.
Depending what comes up in the experience, we will decide together in collaboration with you on a suitable next dose. As the doses increase, they invite deeper levels of opening, allowing you to feel, experience, and express what you've suppressed. At the deepest level, many people have a profound encounter with themselves and the universe that defies explanation, but whose impact is not easily forgotten.
Whatever arises in your session, we are there to keep you safe, and offer a loving, compassionate presence. The session ends with some homecooked food to help ground you back into this world before you leave. We find that journeyers are quite functional and even able to drive by the time they leave. [collapse -]
Integration Session (1 hour)
Approximately one week after your journey day, we will have a one-hour integration session, either in-person or online. [read more +] We offer this space to assist you in bringing the insights you gained on your journey into your everyday life. This is also a space to ask us any lingering questions, give us feedback, and for us all to say our goodbyes until our paths cross again. We also offer ongoing support by as needed by email or phone in the days following your journey. [collapse -]
Integration Circles (optional)
We also offer a monthly integration circle open to our past journeyers, friends, and community members to share and seek support for their ongoing work integrating the learnings of their psychedelic experiences into their lives. [read more +] We welcome you to attend our circles after your journey for as long as they serve. You can read more about our circles under the Community section of our webstite. [collapse -]
Financial exchange We ask for $2,000 USD per journeyer for the full package, including consultation, preparation session, journey day, integration session and additional support as needed between sessions. We ask for a $300 non-refundable deposit to book your session dates, with the remainder due on the preparation day.
For those in financial need, we have a limited number of sliding scale spaces available upon request. All of our prices are subject to an additional 5% Canadian GST.
Our Ceremony Space
Our Chinatown, Vancouver space
We offer individual facilitation in our space in Chinatown in the heart of Vancouver, which offers convenience and the comfort of being close to home (or a short Uber to the airport). Our space is adorned with our musical intruments, ceremonial tools, and beautiful items curated with love from our travels.
Considering working with us?
We would love to meet you, hear your story, answer your questions, and see whether we and our work might be a good fit for you. Send us an email and we'll send you our booking link and intake questionnare for you to get started on. We look forward to connecting.
Our Approach
We provide a grounding and loving presence to hold space for your inward exploration. We work with you to provide a supportive, safe, and comfortable space, so that you can sink in deeper and explore further into the inner tender realms of your heart. We strive to be sensitive to and attuned to your needs throughout your journey. We use a variety of tools to enhance and flow the experience, including but not limited to sound (recorded music, singing bowls, drumming, singing), affirmations, breathing, therapeutic touch, grounding exercises, movement, poetry, and homemade herbal tea. We draw from person-centred and Internal Family Systems approaches to psychotherapy in some of our preparation and integration.
The short duration of the 5-MeO-DMT experience, lasting under 30 minutes, allows us space for multiple doses (typcially 3-5) within one session. We start with a very light dose, known as the handshake, to allow a gentle introduction to the medicine space. For most people, this dose is mainly experienced in the body and is non-psychoactive, but plays an important role in building trust and comfort with the medicine. If you are comfortable with the experience and wish to proceed, we then offer several increasing dosages, each of which have a characteristic quality and the potential to open up new areas of emotional processing and self-discovery. This multiple dosing approach allows you to develop comfort with the medicine and gradually deepen the experience within the session. We also see the multiple dosing approach as a method to maintain active informed consent, since at any point if you feel that you do not wish to proceed or your experience is complete, we can close the session.
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