Coming Home: A Private 5-Day Psilocybin-Assisted Retreat for Two in the Costa Rican Mountains

The structure is loose on purpose. Instead of a rigid schedule, Sebastiaan and Anaïs build the week around your intentions and what comes up. Typically each day opens with a walk through the jungle to the private river for a cold dip — a simple ritual to wake the body and quiet the mind before the deeper work begins. From there the days alternate between preparation, the psilocybin journeys themselves, and integration, with bodywork, meditation and conversation threaded through.

The approach rests on three movements the facilitators call Witness, Feel and Listen. Witness is about stepping back to observe your own thoughts, emotions and patterns from a wider vantage point. Feel brings attention into the body so tension and emotion can surface and release — this is where the Rebalancing bodywork comes in, Sebastiaan's main somatic discipline since 2013. Listen is about recognising what feels true underneath the mental noise, so that over time you trust your own direction more. These show up across the whole retreat, not just during the journeys.

What makes the 'for two' version different is the shared container. You each do your own work, but you're doing it beside someone you know, which often surfaces the patterns that shape how you relate to each other. You might notice how you listen, or come to appreciate the other person's experience in a new way. There's room to share when you want to and room to be alone when you don't — no expectation to process everything together or reach the same place.

Sebastiaan Ruigrok founded Mushroom Awakening after nearly two decades as a business consultant and a personal turning point that pulled him into bodywork, meditation and psychedelic work. He trained for three years in Rebalancing bodywork in the Netherlands, has guided intentional psilocybin experiences since 2018, and spent six months in Peru in 2018 in plant-medicine and shamanic work. Anaïs handles integration exercises and cooks the plant-based meals, and brings the warm, grounded presence that holds the space.

The setting is a private property deep in the mountains of Pérez Zeledón: a villa and a modern cabin with a terrace opening straight onto the jungle, surrounded by birdsong, trees and mountain air, with the river a short walk away. There are no distractions and no obligations — the whole point of the five-day format is to leave space for experiences to settle between sessions rather than filling every hour.

What's included

- 5-day (6 nights/days) private retreat for two - Private cabin accommodation on a private property - Personal preparation and intention-setting beforehand - Two supported psilocybin journeys per person - Rebalancing bodywork and somatic exploration - Guided Self-Inquiry, Voice Dialogue and coaching - Meditation sessions - Daily plant-based meals and snacks - Morning river dips - Dedicated integration time throughout - Personal Progress & Integration Report for each person - Online integration session for each person

What's not included

- International flights - Travel insurance - Airport transfers (assistance arranging them available) - Pre-retreat night's accommodation in San José - Personal expenses - Longer-term integration support beyond the included session - Optional upgrades and extras