4 Day Mushroom Retreat

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We are “Prana Foundation”, a team dedicated to preserving traditional Earth medicines and making them safely available in Europe. Currently most of our retreats are in Portugal under the guidance of Devi Chandra Ma, a Mexican medicine woman with over 20 years of experience in multiple healing modalities.

Plant medicines can be psyche-shattering while carrying enormous potential to re-imagine oneself from the ground up. In this process, we, as facilitators, do our best to assist with absolute compassion and gentleness, while also having the strength to hold safe space for the primitive material that comes to the surface during the retreat. It is our job to provide a secure base which will allow for deep experiences to unfold.

Keeping company, containing, ensuring safety and connection when sought for, paying careful attention, and surrendering to what the situation calls for— these are our goals as facilitators. We follow, accompany, support; but never lead.

Our main healer, Devi Chandra Ma, is a mother through and through, in personal life and in ceremony, and all the other facilitators assist with care, empathy and sensitivity. These journeys run so deeply that it is essential we navigate them while being held and guided by people who are experienced. As knowledgeable travellers through the shamanic realms, the facilitators are experienced in staying present in the face of extraordinary emotions and energies.

During the ceremony, Chandra’s voice and the musical instruments create a bridge to other worlds. Her voice is described by those who hear her icaros as ‘angelic’. Chandra is the secure, stable lifeline everyone can safely hold on to during the journey. We invite you to listen to some of her songs on our website, to feel the connection and the depth.


INTEGRATION

As we offer these experiences, we also acknowledge the need for integration and preparation. That is the only safe way to work in these spaces.

The challenge is to weave together insights, downloads, visions, and mystical experiences in order to translate them into greater wisdom and loving- kindness in daily life. Following the retreat, we offer an integration session with the group. In addition, should you need it, we highly recommend therapy sessions with our handpicked guides.

Plant medicines can reveal the baggage that you have carried all your life, and when you acknowledge it, you can finally put it down. In the right context this is a very deep experience, and it is our role as facilitators to create that context.


ABOUT DEVI CHANDRA MA

Chandra has studied with masters from various parts of the world, such as the Shipibo Conibo, Red path, Vedic path and others. They taught Chandra not only about Ayahuasca but also other medicinal plants and healing modalities and guided her path as a medicine woman. Chandra’s therapies and healing modalities include: biomagnetism, biodecodification, sound healing, breathwork, tantric breathwork, energetic cut and cleansing, womb blessings, Vedic meditations, singing circles and cacao ceremonies.



AFTER THE RETREAT

We encourage participants to take a couple of days away from society, both before and especially after the retreat. The process of transformation is still extremely powerful in the first few days, and the psyche is too tender to be returned abruptly to day to day life.

We’ll stress again the importance of integration, either with a therapist chosen by yourself or one recommended by us, or even by yourself. Two weeks after the retreat we hold an online sharing circle, which is a wonderful occasion to talk about your realisations and hear your fellow travellers speak about theirs.

Also, if you accept, you will be added to the extended circle of the Prana spiritual family, as we grow together into a community of people dedicated to personal and societal spiritual growth.