Campout

A 3-night immersion exploring meditation, nature and psychedelics

Welcome to our lovely home, the Earth!

This campout is my version of the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible. I view healing as spacious, intimate and community-centered, not time-restrained, clinical or hierarchical.

For three nights, you’re invited to come into nature with me. We’ll cook meals together with ingredients sourced from local farmer’s markets. We’ll drink spring water from the land and sync our bodies to natural circadian cycles.

This is a deep opportunity to receive spacious healing in an environment that transcends the Western therapy paradigm.

A Four Day, Three Night Journey

Day 1- Landing

Pickup from airport or residence will happen before 2pm. We’ll drive to the campount location and do a meditation around 4pm. At 5pm, we’ll cook dinner together and enjoy an evening of conversation. By 8pm, we’ll retire for the evening in preparation for the work on Day 2.

Example Dinner

Polenta bowl with delicata squash, broccolini, mushrooms and homemade pesto.

Another Example Dinner

Rice bowl with veggies, avocado, kimchi, micro greens, eggs

Day 2- Journeying

After you naturally wake up, we’ll meditate then go on a short walk. Then, we’ll begin the first medicine journey. Post journey, I’ll provide a snack plate and you may rest until it’s time for dinner.

Example Snack Plate

Strawberries, watermelon and walnuts

Example Dinner

Miso soup with bone broth base, turmeric, greens, mushrooms, ginger, rise.

Day 3- Journeying

After you wake up, we’ll meditate and spend an hour integrating Day 2’s experience and how it will unfold into Day 3’s journey. Post journey, I’ll provide a snack plate and you may rest until it’s time for dinner.

Example Snack Plate

Peaches, plums and walnuts

Example Dinner

Yellow curry with potatoes, onion, carrot, kale, ginger, garlic, coconut milk, aminos

Day 4- Heading Home

After you wake up, we’ll have breakfast and conversation. We’ll then meditate and spend time integrating the previous days experiences. You’ll be heading on your way back home sometime between 11am and 12pm.

Example Breakfast

Corn tortillas with pasture-raised eggs, delicata squash, avocado and fermented veggies (curtido)

In addition to the three day retreat, we’ll spend two sessions preparing for the retreat. After the retreat, we’ll spend two sessions integrating the retreat experience. These preparatory and integration sessions will be on Zoom for those whom are flying or driving longer distances.

Schedule Exploratory Call

Tools We’ll Work With

Meditation, nature and psychedelics

Meditation

Beginners perspective
A telescope needs a stable tripod to see clearly into the night’s sky. Meditation practice will stabilize and sharpen your ability to focus awareness and stay with the details of experience. Without this stabilization of your attention, you won’t be able to deeply inspect the nature and content of your mind, just as a poorly-focused telescope will not yield much insight about the nature of space.
Advanced Perspective
Meditation allows you to become incrementally more established in your essential nature—consciousness. When you settle the mind and go beyond thought, you transcend the mind. You experience your essential nature, as consciousness, which is the source of thought itself. Resting in this state is known as Pure Consciousness or Pure Being. It is a state of supreme contentedness or wholeness. In this state of wholeness, your body enters a state of rest deeper than sleep where it can release irrelevant stresses and repair itself.
Becoming more established in a baseline of wholeness reveals that you already are the wholeness for which you seek because one’s essential nature, as consciousness, is already whole and complete. Upon this realization, the separate self can give up its search for completing its perceived incompleteness through the objective world of material pursuits, activities and relationships.

Nature

Nourishing the body is foundational for spiritual growth. For any root structure to establish security and resiliency in its environment, it must have a nourishing environment. There is no separation; the health of the body is a direct product of the health of the environment.
Together, we’ll look at your relationship to food, water and sunlight and how you can build a regenerative body which repairs itself faster than any rate of damage. We will reconnect your body to its natural environment, attuning to circadian rhythms, sourcing food from regenerative farms and drinking wild spring water. Through rewilding your body you will become a regenerative force of healing, immune to disease and primed for spiritual growth.

Psychedelics

Beginners Perspective
We use psychedelics to deeply introspect the content of the mind. Just as telescopes reveal the content of space, psychedelics reveal the content of mind. It's much more effective to look through a telescope to learn about space than to look through the naked eye. You can’t see what you can’t see and psychedelics reveal the unseen. Once the unknown is known, you can consciously choose the actions and behaviors which lead to less suffering and more happiness.
Advanced Perspective
Psychedelics are very effective tools for collapsing the identity of the suffering, limited self, thereby producing experiences of reduced suffering and a more liberated self.
Where is meditation relevant where psychedelics are not? Many people think psychedelics allow you to experience your essential nature directly, but this is a misconception. One’s essential nature is consciousness isolated by itself, aware of itself— also referred to as pure consciousness. Essential nature transcends time and space. It knows nothing but itself and it's not an exotic or colorful experience like the psychedelic experience. While psychedelics can certainly thin the veil of the content of mind that obscures essential nature, they don’t allow you to experience your essential nature directly, as pure consciousness. Instead, meditation is the appropriate tool for resting as the source of the mind—pure consciousness, our essential nature.

Our work together

We’ll explore the following areas utilizing the powerful tools of meditation, nature and psychedelics.

Expand Awareness & Reduce Suffering

Awareness, the unified consciousness field, is the source of all knowledge. Knowledge is embedded within awareness. As you expand awareness beyond the finite mind, more knowledge is held within your awareness. As you expand into more knowledge, suffering is decreased because you become more and more aware of all the actions and behaviors that result in suffering. Through expanding awareness and gaining knowledge, you can disengage from activities which result in suffering. Thus, life becomes increasingly frictionless — a smoother, more joyful experience.
Cultivate Self Intimacy

Your experience with yourself will be as tender, compassionate, and loving as you intend and allow it to be. All outer relations come back to the relationship with the self—the inner work. It starts with a deep listening to hear the inner voice. When you heed its whispers and calling, you begin the journey of becoming whom you are meant to become. There is a cosmic plan for you. Cultivating a deep intimacy with self will reveal the blueprint of this plan.
Regenerate the Body

Your body is a print-out of your consciousness state. When you have happy thoughts, you print out a “happy” body. When you have stressed thoughts, you print out a “stressed” body. A stressed body is likely to be in a diseased state--a state of dis-ease. When you expand awareness, you become aware of the causes of good health and you see, with clarity, how the laws of nature influence bodily health. You see the relationship between bodily health and water, food, and sunlight. When the rate of regeneration and repair exceeds the rate of disintegration and damage, your body becomes a regenerative force of healing. Rewild yourself and reconnect with nature. Be part of the regenerative minority, instead of the sick majority. Achieve health outcomes not available within allopathic (Western) medicine.
Reframe Old Stories & Remove Negative Beliefs

“The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.” -Einstein
Consciousness becomes what it sees. What you think, you become. You think you see reality but you only see the reality you’ve constructed. Through expanding awareness, you can begin to highlight and delete negative core beliefs that no longer serve the reality you wish to experience.
When you expand awareness, your perception of reality changes. You begin to reframe the hardships. Problems and difficulties seen from one perspective can be seen as gifts and the shaping mechanisms of growth from a wider perspective. You tend to label an event as "bad" when you don't know the next part of the story. Let's wait and see what this event looks like in hindsight. The "bad" event may have been just the thing you needed to catalyze a transformation leading to a state of thriving. After every dip in life, there is a rise. There is always another chapter. What can you alchemize? What past experiences can you turn into gold?
Release Stress & Trauma

If you are on this planet, you are a survivor. The multi-generational stress load in the physiology distorts one’s perception of reality. When you feel awful and stressed on the inside, this inner experience gets projected onto external experience. The inner stress experience then becomes mirrored by an outer stress experience that reifies the inner stress experience. This negative feedback loop keeps you stuck in the same ever-repeating pattern of stressful thoughts, actions, and behaviors. As you purify the stress from your physiology, your experience shifts. Better thoughts lead to better actions and behaviors. Let’s spiral up instead of down. Let’s move from a life of surviving to a life of thriving.
Express Yourself

You are the universe, embodied. As you expand awareness, release stress, remove negative beliefs, heal and cultivate an inner intimacy with yourself, life becomes more free and joyful. Established in a baseline of happiness, you now have the capacity to find outlets to channel your cosmic essence. Life is for living and expressing, after all. Where does your expression want to take you? Singing? Dancing? Sexual expression? Claim your joy. Claim your expression. There is no greater pleasure or service to the web of life than being yourself.