Eleusinia

I’ve been to Eleusinia 3 times now, and I just love everything about it. Jess & Jay have created the best container to have a psychedelic experience. Their knowledge is outstanding, the classes they provide are detailed, the breathwork and meditation sessions are amazing, the Temazcal experience is wonderful, and the food is absolutely top notch.

I’ve been to other retreats, but I keep coming back to Eleusinia because it feels like a home away from home. I love everyone there: Jess, Jay, Josefina, Emilio, Tonya, Andrew, Frank, Ari, and the rest of the staff. They are supportive, experienced, compassionate, and empathetic towards everyone.

They provide an extremely safe environment with lots of tools to assist with your experience. They also have licensed, currently practicing medical staff with many decades of experience in emergency care. It’s probably the safest place to have an experience, heal, or just explore the internal universe.

I’ve gone for pain management, healing trauma from my childhood, for meditation and enjoyment. And for those wondering if this retreat is everything it claims to be — YES it is! I can’t describe how wonderful it is. It’s the most beautiful setting and the nature feels out of this world. The property is very well maintained and there is so much space for everyone. I love to walk around and smell the flowers, listen to the birds and their songs as they echo through the gorgeous valley.

I will continue returning provided I can, and I highly recommend attending if you are able to. I can’t wait until my next visit!

"Taking the risk to attend this retreat was one of the best decisions I’ve made. They created a safe and supportive container for deep work. The meditation sessions were powerful and the food was amazing. If you are on the fence, I highly recommend this experience. It was truly a gift." Thank you to the entire Eleusinia team!🙏

Eleusinia improved my perspective in a profound way. They prepare and manage every detail for you to have a life changing experience in a safe and long lasting way. It's not hyperbole to say it's a life changing experience. It's not just the medicinal mushrooms that cause a grounding, unifying epiphany, it's also the cradling forest and loving staff. The forest and gardens were extremely meaningful to me, but the professionally trained staff provided so much love and safety, they were a huge part of the healing process. I became a stronger, more confident person, with a deep sense that everything was going to be okay.

I was buried under grief, a shell of my strong self, and facing more eminent loss. Super fragile. I was scared to hand control over to a retreat to... "shuffle the deck". But from the bottom, I made a great decision choosing Eleusinia. I believed mushrooms could help me, but I didn't want a clinical experience. I certainly didn't want a teenage rave and I didn't want a hokey shaman experience either. Eleusinia was the perfect combination of science and knowledge meets nature and kindness. They teach you why and how classic psychedelics can have such a meaningful impact on the brain. How it can clean your serotonin receptors. How to integrate the feeling of unity and strength into your everyday life.

It does take a little grit and a little trust to transform ones self so quickly. But the luxury rooms and delicious abundant food help a lot too! My room was like a 5 star hotel. I loved my fireplace, my view, my bed, my privacy. You don't have to participate in a group experience if you don't want to. You can retreat to your beautiful room and eat all night if you want to. I did come out of my shell and really enjoy recapping parts of my intimate journey with other participants, but you don't have to. It's a wild ride, exhausting and exhilarating and ultimately extremely rejuvenating.

It's been two full weeks since my retreat at Eleusinia and I have taken some time to process the journey. Everybody's experience of psychedelics will be different, and I want my review to not be about my individual experience but everything that made it so wonderful.

Firstly: I'm a cynic. I believe in the scientific method and evidence based decisions and this proliferates around almost every choice Jessica and J make. Everything is explained extremely clearly and thoughtfully and every decision has been judiciously made to ensure the best possible chance of having a great experience.

I would extend that to all of the staff. Every single one of them went above and beyond to ensure we were not just comfortable and reassured but also felt deeply connected and supported. Whether that was putting a fire on in the living room as the night drew in, bringing us an extra lemonade when we were thirsty or having the time for a deep and meaningful conversation.. the whole team there should be extremely proud.

It's also worth taking a moment to mention the setting. Incredibly, the photos do not do the place justice. The surroundings really are beyond breathtaking and whether that's the natural area or the buildings themselves you feel safe, comfortable and surrounded by natural beauty. That includes Bernie!

For me, the impact of the two psychedelic experiences have been beyond anything I could have ever imagined. I can genuinely say that this is the longest period for several decades where I have haven't felt anxious or riddled with depression. I know the journey is just beginning - and there is a lot of reintegration work left for me but what has been possible from the retreat surpassed my wildest dreams.

Thank you all.

It has taken me some time to communicate what I experienced at Eleusinia. I went there with no expectations. I just needed some relief from the grief and trauma that I couldn’t heal from. I was paralyzed emotionally and had lost my passion for living, an internal fault line, a void. Nothing in Western medicine that I had tried was working.

What I encountered at Eleusinia was an extraordinary cathartic journey back to my true self and peace, finally peace. Really, a miracle for me to find such an authentic, science-based solution delivered by such caring experts in an incredibly beautiful setting.

I have already booked my return to Eleusinia to further explore my inner potential and be free to be happy. I didn’t think it was possible. Thank you, Eleusinia