Odyssey - Psilocybin Retreat for Bereavement

Amanda’s personal experience with psilocybin has been life changing. It has helped her to process debilitating grief, trauma and depression from the loss of her daughter and a near death experience and eventually come back to herself with renewed vibrancy and extreme gratitude for the mystery and magic of the mushrooms. After experiencing the healing potential, Amanda was inspired to work more closely with psilocybin, and she graduated from InnerTrek with the inaugural cohort of the first legal psilocybin facilitators. Amanda began work as a massage therapist in 2003 after graduating from the Phoenix Therapeutic Massage College in Flagstaff, AZ. In the years since, she has extensively studied many additional modalities, always striving to deepen her understanding of the body, heart and mind. In 2020, Amanda became a certified end of life doula, and she holds a deep reverence for the ways in which grief and death shape us, teach us, and connect us to the cycles of life. Amanda’s private practice, established in 2008, continues to evolve, incorporating bodywork, nature-based practices, sauna, somatic grief support, end of life doula services and psilocybin facilitation. Her healing arts practice has been influenced by decades of working closely with people in vulnerable, transformative states- some of the lessons she received from this include the importance of listening, being focused and present in the moment, creating a deeply nurturing space- both physically and emotionally, establishing client's trust, and utilizing intuition to guide the process. Outside of work, Amanda enjoys gardening, paddle-boarding, snuggling cats, travel, and the adventures of mothering a teenage son. Areas of focus: grief, end of life, near-death experiences, motherhood, pregnancy loss, bereaved parents, depression, sparking creativity, rites of passage, reclaiming joy, shadow work, ADHD/ADD