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Experience Plant-Based Medicine Safely at These Luxury Retreats

One of the new travel trends emerging today is incorporating a transformative mind journey with your physical trip to another destination.

Plant Medicine or Psychedelic retreats are becoming better and more widely understood with scientific evidence that proves it to be safe and effective in addressing common mental health challenges, including anxiety, depression, addictive disorders, and PTSD, as well as improving well-being and performance in healthy individuals, benefiting from improvements in cognition, mood, behavior, brain function, and social connectedness. 

Bold Retreats

Behold Retreats is a Plant Medicine retreat facilitator hosting life-changing, guided retreats in Portugal, Costa Rica, and Mexico. As its popularity grows, it has never been more important for individuals to have a place where plant medicine can be facilitated safely and with the utmost care and discernment. Behold Retreats hosts small, intimate groups for six-seven days, led by expert guides and healers, after careful and thorough consultation with their team to create consciousness-elevating experiences that have the power to positively transform people’s lives. 

The plant medicine retreats that Behold Retreats facilitates include Ayahuasca, Psilocybin, and 5-MeO-DMT (Bufo), given during three ceremonies over consecutive evenings. Typically, these psychoactive substances induce mind-elevating and heart-opening experiences for the purposes of cognitive enhancement, spiritual development, and healing. Anthropological studies have established that these have been used for religious, magical, shamanic, or spiritual purposes in many parts of the world, predominantly in South America and Africa.

Today, Behold Retreats respects the sacredness of these Medicines in a modern-day context that includes a new wave of self-improvement, such as Biohacking and Body Optimization, as people seek healthier, happier lives. The experience of psychedelic plant medicine often leads to a transformation of thinking that supports a long-term approach to living more purposefully and with greater clarity. It also has a deep impact on those looking to heal from trauma in their lives, to find peace and become the best versions of themselves.

Safe Spaces

Due to the safe and supportive nature of the retreats that Behold Retreats facilitates, intergenerational family exploration and healing are encouraged as building and nurturing connections in this way can be incredibly powerful. This was highlighted by Jordan Poyer bringing his mother and brother to the retreat. The support network starts with the pre-retreat preparations that take place months before with various calls and meetings with the team to vet the suitability of the retreat for each person on a case by case basis and support them with any queries they may have; and is concluded with extensive post-retreat integration for long-lasting results. 

“We create the space for people to experience plant medicine in the safest and most beautiful environment with a highly experienced team to guide them through the whole process. With science supporting the work that we do and proving the effectiveness of plant medicine not only for healing but for biohacking and general optimization of health, we are proud to be a leading retreat facilitator working in this space and demystifying the life-changing experiences that plant medicines contain,” says Danny Yepez and Sarah Thomas, co-CEO’s of Behold Retreats.

Luxury and Privacy

During a Behold Retreats retreat, guests stay in luxury private accommodation with their group in stunning locations in Portugal, Mexico, and Costa Rica. A six night retreat starts from $5,250 USD on an all inclusive basis and may include Daily Movement & Meditation, Poolside Yoga, Massage & Spa Treatments, Safety Screening, Nutritional Meals, Physical & Digital Detox, Travel & Planning Assistance, Pre Retreat Dietary Protocol, Complimentary Airport Shuttles, Unwavering Support. Behold Retreats also curates tailored private and personal retreat for individuals or small groups.

While Behold truly hopes that all people who are called will find the healing and help that they need, these retreats are not for everyone. An invitation to a Behold retreat is only extended after a thorough screening and interview process.

For more information, visit behold-retreats.com.

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