Pathfinders Program - A Transformative Therapeutic Journey

Retreat Highlights

• 4-Month Pre-retreat Preparation
• May to September 2024
• 8 bi-monthly group sessions online led by our team
• -What to expect, understanding the neuroscience of psychedelic therapy
• -Personalised psychological sessions
• -Internal Family Systems, hesitant parts work
• -Building your inner resources
• Yoga and mindfulness
• Enhancing neuroplasticity through movement
• Breath, self-soothing, and grounding skills training
• Nutrition, plant and herb recommendations
• Intention setting
• 6-Day Retreat
• September 2024
• Two psilocybin journeys
• Bespoke dosage
• One-on-one therapeutic support
• Yoga & breathwork
• Shiatsu & craniosacral massage
• Chiropractic realignments
• Nervous system regulation treatments
• Meditation
• Sound healing and Gong baths
• Ecstatic dance
• Integration guidance
• Forest & countryside walking
• Comfortable and luxurious accommodation
• Private chefs, delicious vegetarian food & serene vistas
• Time for relaxation & dips in the pool
• Personalised plant and herb medicines
• 6-Month Post-Retreat Integration
• September 2024 to February 2025
• 12 bi-monthly virtual group sessions
• Personalised psychological support
• Internal Family Systems, parts work
• Turning psychedelic experience into wisdom
• Insights and the body
• Translating insight into action
• Integration and relationships
• Yoga and breathwork for emotional regulation
• Neuroprocessing interventions EMDR, DBR, Brainspotting as needed
• Maintaining lifelong transformation

About this Retreat

Your Guides

Shabina

Dr

Alex

Dr

Shabina

EXPERIENCE Shabina is the Lead Consultant and a Psychotherapist at Neu Practice. She has been working for over two decades with individuals and couples fostering happier relationships, and helping clients overcome the underlying issues that hinder their fulfilment in life. Shabina's exploration of trauma treatments has fostered a profound understanding of how the body and mind align to achieve inner healing. She integrates into her practice Internal Family Systems, Deep Brain Reorienting, Brainspotting, Sensorimotor therapy, and psychedelic medicine. By creating the right conditions, Shabina helps clients tap into their innate healing intelligence. WHY PSYCHEDELICS Curious about psychedelic medicine’s transformative potential, Shabina embarked on her own psychedelic journeys, witnessing profound healing that complemented her therapy. Inspired by the power of plant medicine, Shabina underwent a comprehensive psychedelic therapy training called Vital. She has played a crucial role in developing a safe structure for psychedelic use in therapuetic settings. WHAT SHE BRINGS Shabina's therapeutic style is deeply rooted in her warmth, compassion, and open-heartedness. Her extensive knowledge and experience enables participants to feel seen, understood, and empowered to explore new ways of relating to themselves and others. During one-to-one sessions on the retreat, Shabina will enable participants to feel safe, calm, and equipped to get the most out of their journeys. Shabina lives in a forest with her family— two children, four dogs, a cat (who likes to join their daily walks), and a flock of chickens. Her activities are mostly fuelled by a vibrant imagination. During quieter moments, she can be found nestled at her loom, weaving intricate patterns while immersed in music or contemplating theories that dance within her mind.

Dr James Le Couteur

James is a Clinical Psychologist, helping adults for over 15 years. While working as a Health Psychologist, James developed a passion for teaching patients the fundamental link between physical and mental health. Following his NHS tenure, he’s now in private practice using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Mindfulness, and Eye Movement, Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR). James is warm, compassionate, and considered. With curiosity and collaboration, he helps clients develop self compassion and overcome emotional barriers in order to move towards what matters most to them. WHY PSYCHEDELICS James advocates that psychedelic-assisted therapy is the next frontier in psychological therapy. Having undergone his own transformative breakthrough experiences with psychedelic medicine, James has become a trained facilitator, skilled in comprehensive preparation and integration methods as well as the journey itself. WHAT HE BRINGS He uses Mindfulness and ACT techniques to help participants lean into the more challenging aspects of psychedelic experience, so that they are open to receive greater understandings of their mind and the material they need to work through. James's favourite thing to do is take his dog, Cozmo, for long walks in the forest. He loves tennis, swimming in the sea, climbing big rocks, and ten-pin bowling with friends.

Alex

Alex is a Yoga, Pilates teacher and body therapy practitioner with over 20 years of experience in treating people from all around the world Many of Alex’s clients have kindly described her as inspiring and intuitive. Some with a more wicked sense of humour have named her 'Dr Spock' as she has an uncanny ability of knowing just the right spot to focus on to achieve profound physical and emotional release in the body. Alex’s curiosity for body therapies began during her degree in Journalism from Cardiff University when she also began training in yoga and contemporary dance. She became fascinated by movement, both internal and external. Brilliant teachers helped her on her journey. One was was Philip Jones, an ex-coal miner whose lungs were 70% saturated with coal dust. Philip kept himself alive with pranayama, a form of yogic breathing. Another was Mary Madhavi who specialised in the psychological aspects of yoga as well as shamanism. Alex also found that her own struggles with asthma were eased through Chinese medicine and natural health practices, she was inspired. Alex moved from Wales to London, where both her brothers were living and involved in the film and art world, which she loved. In London, she began working with Torben Hersborg at his clinic on Old Street. At the time she was suffering from an ankle injury she had received while dancing professionally. Alex resigned herself to this being a long-term issue as she’d tried all sorts of treatments. However, after a couple of sessions with Torben, who realigned her ankle joint and foot, the pain disappeared. She was sincerely impressed, and the experience inspired her to work alongside him to this day at the Central London Osteopathy Clinic.

Dr Antonia Regojo

In her free time, Antonia loves exploring forests in the Spanish countryside, gathering medicinal plants, and crafting remedies. Antonia cherishes moments spent with family and friends and sitting around with her young kids building things badly and giggling when they fall apart. EXPERIENCE With two decades of experience as a Psychiatrist, MD and Consultant Medical Psychotherapist, Antonia specializes in psychedelic psychotherapy. Drawing from her medical and psychological expertise, Antonia integrates psychological interventions with natural medicines, nutrition, and lifestyle to foster a healthy balance between mind and body. Currently, she works in private practice and conducts pioneering clinical trials using psychedelics in therapeutic settings. WHY PSYCHEDELICS During her search for therapeutic medicine in the natural world, she discovered psychedelic mushrooms. By integrating psychedelics with effective psychotherapy, Antonia guides patients in finding their own resolution of deep-seated issues, facilitating healing that might otherwise be prolonged. WHAT SHE BRINGS Antonia assesses each participant to ensure journey dosages meet their individual needs. She shares her knowledge of plant and herbal medicines throughout the programme, providing remedies to calm the mind and body before, during, and after the retreat. Her expert guidance and warm, light-hearted manner ensures participants feel safe to focus on their experienc

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