About this Retreat
As a mindset and transformation coach and psychedelic facilitator, my mission is to help humans to connect to their true essence, to transform their limiting belief systems and start claiming a life full of purpose.
With an interest in personality development and psychology, as well as exploring inner and outer worlds, I have been driven to understand what keeps people from pursuing their dreams & create the life they long for. I am convinced that we can make this world a peaceful and loving place by healing our wounds from the past.
If we are willing to look at our traumas and forgive ourselves for our imperfections, mistakes and insecurities, we can create healing, trust and unconditional love for ourselves and the world around us.
I love guiding my clients through this process of discovering and feeling into their self-sabotaging patterns, which have been blocking them for so many years. By lifting the filter of their perception, they are able to connect on deeper levels and access all the answers which already reside inside them.
This way they finally start to give themselves permission to consciously manifest a life full of purpose and meaning.
I have been on the path of spiritual and personal growth for more than a decade and love accessing expanded states of consciousness with and without substances. As a former photographer and anthropologist, I love to travel the world in order to learn about its peoples, cultures and human behavior. After having lived and worked in various countries around Europe and in Melbourne, Australia, I’ve settled with my partner and our two girls on an old farm on the countryside of east Belgium.
The biggest challenges in my personal life that I have overcome are letting go of a deep sense of guilt, transforming a long lasting people pleaser syndrome and re-establishing my self-worth. I have also healed deep rooted codependency patterns, anxieties and overcoming two traumatic birth experiences.
Transforming my own childhood traumas with tenderness, has helped me to be a more compassionate mother and to guide my children to become confident, open-minded and creative human beings who engage in this world with an open heart.
When I’m not working you’ll find me on the ecstatic dance floor, playing with my children, gardening, writing, meditating, practicing yoga and studying a variety of topics. I love to be inspired and to inspire.
Rachel Bongartz (facilitator) was born (1981) and raised in Belgium, experienced Holotropic Breathwork® for the first time in 2005 and from then on it has become an important part of her life. She studied Clinical Psychology and later obtained a second Master in Transpersonal Psychology and Consciousness Studies. In August 2016, she accomplished the Grof Transpersonal Training and became a facilitator in Holotropic Breathwork® and continued her studies to become a trained Psychedelic Facilitator. She lives in Berlin and Belgium. Self-awareness and spiritual growth is very important to her. She is a passionate 5 Rhythms dancer and she has experienced that expanded holotropic states of consciousness carry the potential for healing and self-fulfilment.
I am a transformation catalyst. I am here to break trail and show you how amazing life can be if you live it by your own rules. I am an Out of the Box Thinker, who speaks her truth no matter how different to the norm it might be. This way of thinking (which definitely comes from my gut and not my head) helps me to find the most creative solutions to your most entrenched problems. I will ask the right questions in the right moment and will guide you to find your own answers deep within so that the clarity you have been searching for is clearly there.
I am a powerhouse who will help you to throw off old conditioning, release stuck emotions, fully claim your power and create a meaningful life that was always meant for you by unapologetically stepping into who you really are. I blend therapeutic, coaching and shamanic tools with my intuition and show you possibilities you have never even heard of.
I have a Masters degree, speak three and a half languages and have travelled and lived in many different places in the world (many exotic ones such as Haiti, Costa Rica and Bali). I have created and published The Ghetto Tarot that was featured in international media outlets and worked as an award winning photographer before becoming an expert in the field of consciousness and a psychedelic guide. After training with shamans as well as western psychologists and researches in the field of Psychedelics, I have led more than 200 people through psychedelic journeys and have witnessed extraordinary transformations in the shortest amount of time.
My biggest life lesson has been to overcome a depression and heal highly dysfunctional family patterns. I know what it is like if life feels pointless, everything seems stuck and your relationships are just not working out. But I also know that it is possible to create a life that you LOVE waking up to each morning. And I can teach you how. When I am not guiding my clients into deep transformations, you can find me in my little garden speaking to my plants, dancing to African or Haitian music, spending quality time with my friends and their adorable children, taking long baths or cuddling with my very best friend Kerrie.
Details of this retreat
Take Psilocybin with trained trauma integration therapists and systemic coaches..
IF YOUR LIFE ISN’T IMPROVING, YOU’RE JUST TAKING DRUGS
We love this quote, Why? Because it encapsulates the exact difference between taking drugs to get high and having a conscious drug experience. Most people aren’t exactly sure HOW to create this difference for themselves and that’s perfectly ok. This is where we, as Trauma Integration Practitioners can alter your experience from a fun and interesting but non-eventful trip to a heart-opening meeting of the self that will shift your life and way of being around.
If you want to get crazy, focus solely on seeing colours and shapes and/or trip out to music without looking at yourself, we are not the right guides for you.
If, however, you wish to:
Receive information about the unanswered questions circling around your head
Look deeply into yourself and rediscover who you are and with it learn what you truly want from life
Bring yourself into alignment or connect to the wisdom of your heart
Connect to your inner child, become your higher self or future self and experience giving yourself all the knowledge needed to move forward in life
Meet the aspects of yourself that you have buried or don’t even realise you’ve forgotten
Make lasting positive changes in your life
Then look no further, we are the right guides for you. Book a Legal Psilocybin Therapy Session in Maastricht, the Netherlands today.
WHAT IS PSILOCYBIN? WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS?
Psilocybin or its derivative psilocin are both a naturally occurring psychedelic compound found in more than 180 species of hallucinogenic mushrooms and truffles all around the world.
For thousands of years psilocybin mushrooms have been used in religious and shamanic ceremonies in many different cultures around the world. Nowadays psilocybin has shown to be one of the most effective therapeutic assistants for the treatment of depression, cluster headaches, obsessive-compulsive disorders, PTSD, anxiety, as well as addiction.
WHAT TO EXPECT?
Many entheogenic voyagers have their trip assisted by a traditional trip sitter, whose role is to act as an anchor and resting place as well as providing physical safety throughout the experience. We believe this is incredibly helpful, however we take this to another level. We will lead you through your subconscious mind using your intention as a compass. Using our intuition and experience, we will ask you the right questions at the right time to guide you deeply into a place of clarity and fulfilment.
With profound trust in your own inner wisdom, we do not provide the answers for you but rather lead you to a place in which you can find them within yourself. Even if you find it difficult right now to believe that you hold this wisdom and clarity within you, fear not, we are fully confident and experienced in guiding you there.
When needed, we will help you to embrace difficult moments and surrender to uncomfortable emotions, teaching you how to work with your resistance instead of it working against you so that even what could be a frightening trip can transform into an experience of awareness and bliss.
Most psychedelics potentially bring traumatic memories or repressed emotions to the surface, which is one of the reasons why they are such an incredible aid. When this happens, we will not only hold space for you, carry you through the experience and make you feel safe but may also take on the role of a mother for example or family member or being. This gives you the missing experience from your childhood which caused an aspect of your to remain stuck in a place of intense emotions.
By re-experiencing the painful moment but in this case having your needs met, you will be able to “complete” the experience by moving through and letting go of the unprocessed emotions, reconnecting to the fragmented aspects of yourself, therefore creating wholeness within, allowing you to move forward in life.
If you are fearful of a “bad” or “frightening” trip, rest assured we can guide you through such challenges as they arise leading you to a highly spiritual, liberating and transformative experience.
We use the following different tools to guide you into liberation and release:
Music
Constellation Work
Parts Work
Breath Work
Somatic Therapy
Soul Retrieval
EVEN MORE IMPORTANT THAN THESE TOOLS IS OUR TRUST IN YOUR OWN INNER HEALER. WITH THIS TRUST WE HELP YOU TO LEAD YOURSELF OUT OF RESISTANCE INTO FLOW… OUT OF SUFFERING INTO SURRENDER.
WHERE AND HOW?
A Private Psilocybin Therapy Session includes a preparatory session (this can take place via Skype) to get to know you, discuss your dosage and to help you to get clear on your intention. You will have your own private trauma integration facilitator staying present with you for full 6 hours to assist you on your journey within.
We ask you not to plan anything afterwards but just to be with yourself fully for the rest of the day until you go to sleep. Or have a supportive friend or partner with you.
After your Psilocybin Experience you can choose to have one or several integration sessions (in person or online) on the following day and/or in the days/weeks following your Psilocybin experience.
HOW TO PREPARE?
There is no special diet needed to participate in a Psilocybin Therapy Session, but we recommend vegan food prior to the session to cleanse your body energetically. We ask you to come to the ceremony with an empty but not starving stomach (no food 3 hours before the session starts). Please come with an intention.
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