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FIND RENEWED INTIMACY, CONNECTION & JOY
Are you longing for a deeper connection in your love relationship?
Sharing a transformative psychedelic experience is one of the most profound ways to renew and strengthen your bond. Science is now catching up with what many couples have already discovered: psychedelics can foster deeper emotional connection, healing, and intimacy. Research suggests that substances like MDMA and psilocybin can enhance communication and help partners reconnect on a level that words alone cannot (TIME, 2023).
Numerous couples have experienced the deep healing that a guided psilocybin journey can bring—not just personally, but within their relationship. By going beyond the rational mind and verbal expression, you reconnect on an energetic and subconscious level, allowing for a renewed sense of intimacy and understanding.
This private retreat is designed exclusively for couples seeking a deeply personal and meaningful experience with psilocybin. Whether this is your first time or you are looking to explore deeper layers together, this journey offers a unique opportunity to strengthen your relationship in an intentional and supported way.
Your experience will be expertly guided by a balanced team of two facilitators—always ensuring the presence of both a man and a woman. This thoughtful pairing creates a harmonious environment, supporting your journey with complementary energies and deep care.
Would you like to explore this journey together? Book your free exploration call!
Location
Spinoza Forest Home
The Netherlands
Group Size
2
Price
Starting from € 2.750 per person
What can you expect?
Your truffle ceremony is entirely tailored to your needs, with dosing personalized to your specific intentions. Whether you seek a deep dive or a more gentle experience, we consult with you to find the dose that best supports your journey. The ceremony is enriched with meditation and breathwork practices designed specifically for you, creating a solid foundation for your experience.
Your private psilocybin ceremony takes place at a location of your choosing, providing you with the flexibility to create the ideal setting for your journey. The retreat is fully customizable to your needs—whether you prefer a one-day experience, an extended day-and-night retreat, or a multi-day journey.
To ensure your journey is tailored to your specific intentions and needs, we offer a personalized intake call with your guide. During this call, we’ll delve into your aspirations, background, and what you hope to achieve. This is also an ideal opportunity for you to ask any questions or express any thoughts or concerns. Your journey is our priority, and we are committed to making it as fulfilling and transformative as possible.
Your journey begins with a one-on-one intake call with your guide, where we tailor the retreat to your specific intentions and needs. This conversation allows us to understand your aspirations, background, and goals, ensuring a customized experience. It’s also an opportunity for you to ask any questions or share any thoughts or concerns, helping us create a journey that is both fulfilling and transformative.
To make your journey as beneficial as possible, we offer a private, two-hour online preparation workshop. In this session, you’ll connect directly with your guides, learning how psilocybin work on a physiological level, and practicing meditation and breathwork tailored specifically for you. This personalized preparation equips you with the knowledge and tools to confidently embark on your psilocybin journey.
Integration is a crucial part of your journey. After your retreat, we provide a private, two-hour online integration workshop to help you process and reflect on your experience. With expert guidance, we’ll explore how to incorporate the insights gained into your daily life, ensuring that your transformation continues beyond the ceremony.
Are you booking this as a love relationship? We offer additional private integration sessions to make the most out of your experience together.
The Spinoza app provides access to our educational platform, which includes a comprehensive psilocybin Masterclass, a library of meditation techniques and breathwork practices – both in audio and video – and mesmerizing, four-hour Music Journeys – specifically composed to follow the flow of a psilocybin experience.
We understand the importance of nourishment during your retreat. Before the ceremony, we offer personalized dietary suggestions, including fasting recommendations if suitable. After the ceremony, enjoy a delicious, organic vegan meal prepared to your preferences, designed to nourish your body and soul as you begin to integrate your experience. All meals and drinks are included and customized to meet your dietary needs.
book your free call
This call is a relaxed and personal conversation where we take the time to truly understand you. It’s a dedicated space where we listen to your story, explore your needs, and learn about where you are on your journey. We’re here to support your aspirations with genuine care and attention.
Much love, Liv & Niek
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
Joseph Campbell
OUR ScIENCE-BASED
THREE STEP PROGRAM
1. PREPARATION
Online workshop about psilocybin with meditation and breathwork practices. Meet your psilocybin guides and fellow ceremony participants. Get access to our intuitive app with music, guided meditations, and more.
2. CEREMONY
One day and one night retreat in a lush forest outside Amsterdam. A psilocybin ceremony with beautiful live music and expert guidance. Includes delicious organic meals, mind-body techniques, and overnight stay.
3. Integration
Online workshop to clarify your insights and reflect on their meaning. Get practical tools to integrate your learnings into your daily life. Learn how to get the most out of your psilocybin experience.
THE MAGIC OF WORDLESS CONNECTION
A wordless experience, like a psychedelic journey, creates a unique bond—one built on silent understanding and shared vulnerability. Whether you’re processing emotional insights or exploring your inner landscape, having someone by your side whom you deeply know brings a sense of comfort and grounding. In moments of intensity, their mere presence can provide reassurance without a single word being spoken.
This silent connection fosters a new kind of intimacy, strengthening your relationship long after the retreat ends. You’ll discover a deeper sense of empathy, trust, and emotional understanding that will stay with you both.
Experiencing a retreat with someone you care about is not just about the psychedelic journey—it’s about creating a shared space for healing, growth, and connection. It’s a journey that speaks louder than words. And, having someone at home to share this wordless experience with is of immense value for your integration process.
This silent connection fosters a new kind of intimacy, strengthening your relationship long after the retreat ends. You’ll discover a deeper sense of empathy, trust, and emotional understanding that will stay with you both.
Experiencing a retreat with someone you care about is not just about the psychedelic journey—it’s about creating a shared space for healing, growth, and connection. It’s a journey that speaks louder than words. And, having someone at home to share this wordless experience with is of immense value for your integration process.
"I FEEL LIKE I PACKED THOUSANDS OF HOURS OF THERAPY IN 24 HOURS"
Silvana
Frequently Asked Questions
A psilocybin experience allows you to gently and calmly open up to thoughts and feelings that you may avoid in everyday life. You may feel a deeper connection with yourself, allowing you to address a wide range of issues. Psilocybin improve the brain’s neuroplasticity, which can be helpful in breaking thought patterns and replacing old habits with more beneficial behavior. Psilocybin journeying is most beneficial when supported by our preparation and integration workshops and the daily practices we offer in our app.
Psilocybin plants and fungi have been used in indigenous medicinal traditions for thousands of years. The scientific world has studied the benefits of psilocybin truffles since the 1950s and has repeatedly reported positive effects on behavior, cognition, spirituality and consciousness. As scientific research continues, promising results are made in neuroscience, mood and mental disorders, addiction and habit formation.
There are two main considerations when taking psilocybin: your physical and mental health and the timing in your life. If you are receiving treatment or taking medication, please consult your doctor. As for timing, trust your intuition. Do you have enough time and space in your life? Are you in a balanced and open state of mind? The tools we offer, like our Psilocybin Masterclass, are designed to help you create the optimal conditions for mind and body.
Your experience and the duration of its benefits are likely to improve when you’re well-prepared. Our Psilocybin Masterclass offers a variety of practices to create the right mindset and environment for a meaningful, insightful and safe journey. We will give you detailed practical information on dietary recommendations and help you find peace of mind through meditative practices and breathwork in the Preparation workshop and before we start the ceremony.
Psilocybin is completely safe when used responsibly in a safe environment with people you know and trust. It is a naturally occurring substance that is converted by the body into psilocin, which acts on the serotonin receptors in the brain. Psilocybin is not addictive and there are no known reports of overdoses. We do advise you to conduct your own research as well and to consult various sources of information.
Fresh truffles containing natural psilocybin are legal to buy and consume in the Netherlands. This is not the case in most parts of the world yet, but more and more countries currently have legislation under consideration to make psilocybin therapy more widely available.
In our ceremonies, we offer legal truffles containing natural psilocybin. This induces a psilocybin experience of approximately 4-6 hours. We generally offer a high dose of 21 grams of fresh truffles or more. Dosages are determined in consultation with each individual participant and based on your experience, intention, and physical and mental condition.
Our Sclerotia Psilocybe are 100% natural, unprocessed and free of additives. Do not consume if you are under 25 years of age, pregnant or breastfeeding. Do not take in combination with alcohol, drugs or medication or while driving. Please consult your doctor beforehand if you have a mental and/or medical condition. Read more in our protocol.
If you are taking medication, consult your doctor before taking any further steps. You cannot partake in our programs if you are taking any of the following medications. If you have any specific questions, we can also consult our medical expert to help you gain clarity.
(PLEASE CONSULT A DOCTOR WHEN IN DOUBT) There are a few important contra-indications, such as if you are suffering from heart problems, if you are currently dealing with mental issues, or when you are pregnant. Please make sure that you carefully check the following contra-indications:
– You have no current physical or mental health disorder;
– You have no history of psychosis or close relative with a schizophrenic disorder;
– You do not currently take any medication;
– You are not currently pregnant or breastfeeding.
Payment in three installments is available for bookings more than 2 months ahead. You will pay a first installment upon booking of your retreat and two subsequent installments before the start of the program. Our Support team will contact you to discuss your personal payment schedule.
Things You Need To Know
Openness and Understanding
Psilocybin truffles enable us to create new pathways that can transform the way we approach the challenges of life. A high dose of psilocybin-containing truffles will take you beyond visual hallucinations and into the realm of the metaphysical, allowing a different perspective on your everyday life.
We offer both Group Retreats as well as Private Retreats.
Our Psilocybin Nature Retreat is a group process with around 8-11 fellow participants. While we believe group ceremonies are really powerful, and hold deep meaning and transformation, we also recognise they may not suit everyone. If you have any uncertainties about whether this is the right choice for you, feel free to schedule an exploration call to discuss alternative options.
Scientific research and development
Our organization’s name is a tribute to the philosopher Benedict de Spinoza, who lived and worked in Amsterdam.
In his most influential work, Ethica, he places significant emphasis on the importance of reason and evidence in the pursuit of knowledge. His way of reasoning has been essential to the establishment of modern science.
Like Spinoza, we highly value scientific research and ideally base our assumptions on facts and objective observations.
To perpetually improve our method, programs and ceremonies, we have initiated several research and development programs in collaboration with the Universities of Lisbon and Buenos Aires.
Our Guides
Janneke
MASTER OF CEREMONY
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.
Maarten
MASTER OF CEREMONY
Maarten has been teaching meditation and assisting people to make the journey inward for nearly fifteen years. With silence, music, plants and fungi he guides people toward their own natural wisdom. Maarten’s on a mission to explore, expand and integrate the health potential of natural medicine and nature therapy. Spinoza forms the pinnacle of his personal journey with plant medicine which started in 1999.
Kim
Kim builds much-needed bridges between the seemingly different worlds of science and spirituality. After 15 years of academic therapeutic service in mental healthcare and hospitals, and over a decade of meditative practices, she’s come to realize that ‘struggle’ is universal and innate to our human experience. As a guide, Kim loves to create space for people to feel, and to remember their truth. She supports transformation using science-based techniques, her own intuition, and her creativity. She sees the benefits of using a broad variety of modalities, from psychotherapy to plant medicine, from tantra to storytelling and from meditation to breathwork.
Marijn
For Marijn, working with psilocybin 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.
Merel
Merel supports transformational processes by bringing her compassionate presence to each ceremony. She also offers breath coaching, yoga classes and is a professional trainer and mediator based on the method of Nonviolent Communication. With her work, she aims to foster a deeper understanding and a direct experience of our true nature. Merel loves singing and is actually named after a singing bird. She brings her voice and music on harmonium and guitar to each ceremony.
Hidde
Hidde’s journey with psilocybin started after a severe accident, when he began investigating the benefits of plant medicine and microdosing. This healing experience was the starting point of a new journey, which led him to work at several reputable institutions in the field of holistic care and psilocybin therapy. Hidde is convinced that psilocybin can play an essential role in establishing a holistic view on healthcare in Western society.
Aleksandra
Aleksandra brings her unique perspective, humor and professionalism to each ceremony. As a psilocybin guide and transformation coach, she helps people navigate altered states of consciousness comfortably and supports people in the process of returning to alignment and harmony. She has both a psychological academic background and a BBA degree. Aleksandra brings years of experience guiding people before, during and after psilocybin experiences.
George
George’s approach is rooted in transpersonal psychology, and he also holds certificates in personal coaching and music therapy. He is currently completing his Master’s in Psychology, specializing in the psilocybin experience. As a multi-instrumentalist, his approach to guidance in ceremony includes the integration of music and meditation. Following his passion for music, he has performed around the world from the deserts of Burning Man to the fields of Glastonbury.