Joining the Bionaut Program means becoming part of a fellowship dedicated to human growth and a renewed connection with nature. To participate in the upcoming fifth edition, starting this spring, please request an invite.
We will be exploring inner worlds with fungi and flora and discovering outer worlds with friends and fellows. We are committed to supporting each other through fields of joy and in moments of need.
The Bionaut Program is a transformative three-month journey that contains three immersive psychedelic ceremonies and ongoing one-on-one mentoring. This is an opportunity to unlock your intuitive intelligence and make nature your primary source of health and wellbeing. The program will introduce and help you navigate different ancient practices like meditation and breathwork to help you turn old habits into positive ones.
As we embark on this fifth edition, we’re excited to offer an experience that’s not just about personal growth but also about becoming part of something larger than yourself.
As a Bionaut, you’ll be invited to special curated ceremonies and retreats.
RETREATS
GUIDANCE & SUPPORT
DAILY SUPPLEMENTS
PRICE
€3300,- excluding VAT
(deductible as business expense)
noun
a curious traveller who investigates the intelligence of nature and sails the deep oceans of consciousness.
bio: refers to the natural world
naut: coming from the Greek word ‘sailor’: a person who has been trained in travelling the inner worlds.
a bionaut: someone who thrives instead of survives, is able to take ownership of their life and is able to mainain a healthly natural lifestyle.
Throughout the program, there will be an Introductory call, an initiation session, an immersion session, an integration session, a closing call, and lastly, a comeback call one month after the program.
In our group sessions, we will explore the insights and challenges we may have encountered before, during or after the psychedelic experiences. These sessions are meant to increase the potential of the individual and the group and to propel our personal transformation together.
Each group session is an opportunity to share yourself from a place of openness and authenticity and to be inspired by your fellow Bionauts. They will be supportive and heartwarming gatherings led by the Spinoza team.
Period Mid April – end of June, 2024
Location Buurtsteeg 7, 3951 LL Maarn, the Netherlands
CHAPTER 1 | INITIATION
Initiation Ceremony in Nature
Monday, April 22nd, arrival 11:00, departure 22:00
CHAPTER 2 | IMMERSION
Immersion Retreat with Deep Ceremony
Monday, May 20th, arrival 11:00, departure 12:00 the next day
CHAPTER 3 | INTEGRATION
Integration Retreat with Closing Ceremony
Monday June 17th, arrival 12:00, departure 13:00 the next day.
One-on-one sessions with your Spinoza mentor before and in between ceremonies
Online Closing one week after the last ceremony
Online Comeback Call four weeks after the program
Your mentors will guide and support you in your process, enabling you to integrate your experience and insights. Your mentor is there to support, challenge and empower you. Based on your intentions and background we will match you with one of the three mentors of the Bionaut Program for your one-on-one coaching.
Janneke aims to reconnect people to their most authentic selves. She has been teaching meditation, yoga and breathwork for over a decade, while also exploring the fields of plant medicine. Over the past seven years, she has been guiding personal growth processes, assisting people to find more clarity in the various challenges of life. She brings a peaceful and powerful presence as well as her soulful voice and music to each Ceremony.
Aleksandra’s greatest joy and honour is to support people on the inner journey of self-discovery and transformation. Her psychological and business academic background blended with her devotion to meditation and plant medicine taught her wide range of healing modalities, which she waves together offering a unique perspective. Over the past three years, Aleksandra has been dedicated to being a psychedelic guide and mentor, helping people to reconnect with their truth and reclaim their power and gifts. She brings joy, valuable insights and harmony to each ceremony. Aleksandra lives in Amsterdam with her fiancé Max and loves exploring and learning from Nature.
For Marijn, working with psychedelics has been an integral part of his life. As both an ACT-coach at the University of Wageningen and trained mediator, he brings a depth of educational knowledge and compassionate wisdom to his guidance in ceremonies. Marijn feels called to support others in reconnecting to the simplicity of being and the pure beauty of nature. Marijn brings insight and alignment where needed and shares his music and mantras with a gentle guitar strum. Marijn is a loving parent of two boys and a little girl, together with his wife Veerle.
JANNEKE
“I have been guiding the Bionaut program for 3 years now and it has become my favorite Spinoza Program. The power of being together with a dedicated group for a couple of months is very special; the intimacy of the sharings, the friendships that grow, the depth of the insights people get. It is the beautiful gift of committing yourself to going on a 3-month journey of self-discovery.”
ALEKSANDRA
“Warm welcome to this precious opportunity to dive deep within yourself, to reconnect with your truth and power. The Bionaut program is a transformative journey, where we will hold in a loving container your Courage and your Vulnerability, your Strength and your Tenderness. I am dedicated and excited to support you in the process of expanding your consciousness and embracing the totality of your being in the field of the Heart.”
MERIJN
“It is a precious gift to enter into a longer journey of transformation with a dedicated group. I already sense the potential of this program and I feel honoured to be a part of it. Deep commitment allows for deep realignment – may it contribute to the unfolding of the harmony and beauty of (our) Nature – as springtime blossoms around us.“
HOW TO CONTINUE FROM HERE
If you feel this program is what you need, request an intake call through this link. We will first ask you to fill in some questions about your motivation and medical condition.
Once read and approved, one of our mentors will schedule in a call with you to find out if this is the right time for you to step into this journey together.
Applications for the Spring edition close on the 7th of April 2024, or earlier if a group has formed. Know that there are limited spots.