Wisdom Within is a psilocybin assisted creative retreat for women held in the Netherlands.
This retreat will help you access and embrace the embodied wisdom within you. Together we will explore within a ceremonial framework, incorporating tools from traditional therapeutic modalities including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Internal Family Systems (IFS).
We'll use creative and playful activities designed to help facilitate your unique journey and to help you bring home the wisdom you'll cultivate to fuel your ongoing vitality.
Wisdom Within Retreat Details
DATE: October 1st - 5th, 2023
COST: $2800 - $3500 based on accommodations ranging from dormitory style to private rooms (limited availability)
$500 deposit due with registration via
VENMO: @CenteredNewHaven
Please contact events@centered.one if you are interested and we will reach out to you with additional information. We look forward to connecting with you!
Four nights/five days shared accommodations in a in the Dutch countryside, about 90 minutes outside of Amsterdam
Home includes: outdoor hot tub, fire pit, walking trails, and indoor sauna
Daily yoga and meditation practice
Two guided psilocybin ceremonies
Three meals per day prepared with love by our private vegan chef (we can accommodate any special dietary needs)
Pre-retreat Introduction and preparation meeting
Four post-retreat Integration sessions
Lasting connections with kindred spirits
Mother’s house retreat centre is located in a grand and luxurious sixteenth century mansion hidden in the woods of a vast private estate. Recently renovated it combines rural charm with lavish modern comforts such as a sauna, jacuzzi and indoor swimming pool. In the front yard a monumental century old oak tree welcomes you to Mother’s house of healing. The imposing driveway leading up to the house is surrounded by woodlands and meadows for as far as you can see.
Meet Your Facilitators
Vicki Marnin, RN, CNM
Vicki has been assisting with ketamine and psilocybin assisted therapies for the past two years at Centered. Vicki has developed her skills for space holding for journeys in her practice as a midwife for the past 27 Years. Her path has turned toward helping people with personal growth and mental health concerns and she is currently in school to become a psychiatric nurse practitioner. Vicki co-facilitated a retreat in the Netherlands in March 2023, and is honored and delighted to be facilitating this retreat.
Tamara Slock
As a former nurse, Tamara realized that the compassion she had for her patients was a big part of the healing process. She started following the path of Yoga, became a breathworker, bodyworker and Reiki practitioner, exploring different pathways for holistic wellbeing. At Beckley Retreats, she uses music and various healing practices to help facilitate ceremonies. Tamara has studied plant medicine with a Mestizo Maestro and is currently studying under a Shipibo Maestro from Peru. She is the co-founder and manager of Mother’s House, where she supports research and conducts psychedelic ceremonies. She also works closely with ICEERS, organizing workshops on harm reduction and safety protocols for facilitators working with psychedelics.
Over the years,Tamara has witnessed many people heal their trauma with the help of psychedelics. She’s driven to enact a balance between therapeutic practices and indigenous shamanic teachings. For her, it’s not a job—it’s a calling and a way of life.“We can provide many tools, but in the end it is up to you. You are the medicine. A change in perspective is a change of life.”
Annette Miliron, APRN
Annette Ephroni, APRN, is co-owner of Mandala Healing Journeys in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she offers psychotherapy, psychiatry, and psychedelic therapy. She graduated in 2005 from Yale School of Nursing. She is a teaching assistant for Skydancing Tantra®, USA; an ABS Certified Sexologist; and a sex and intimacy coach trained in the Somatica® Method.
Her personal growth journey began as a young adult studying meditation and yoga alongside her university education in Women’s Studies. These varying ways of understanding led her to activism, attempting to reduce suffering in the world: to political advocacy, home birth midwifery, and a deep dive into psychoanalysis and training as a psychiatric nurse practitioner.
Rachael McGann, LPCA
Rachael is one of the co-founders of Centered, PLLC and has worked for the past 4 years on opening our Center in New Haven, CT, She is a Licensed Professional Counselor Associate, registered Yoga teacher, and Reiki Master Teacher. She has studied plant medicine with the Cofan tribe and has also assisted in plant medicine ceremonies with the Shipibo lineage. Formerly in the corporate media industry Rachael went to her first plant medicine ceremony in 2013 and it changed her life. Soon after, she left NYC and traveled around South America for 5 months, studying with and learning from indigenous communities working with these medicines including the Cofan tribe.
Over the years Rachael has witnessed the healing powers of these medicines in herself and in so many others. She is passionate about the abilities psychedelic medicines have to help us release trauma and unwire deeply ingrained belief patterns that trauma and conditioning embeds with us, in order to be free.