At Evolution Retreats, you can leave the stresses of everyday life behind. We promise an all-inclusive experience at the highest rated boutique resort in Jamaica, Tensing Pen, located upon the beautiful shores of Negril. Listen to the waves of the Caribbean Sea while our highly trained staff guides you through your personalized psilocybin experience.
When you book your psilocybin experience with us, we take each step of your journey seriously. After you have been cleared by our medical and clinical guidelines, you will begin a personalized experience with a facilitator. You will also be provided an Evolution Retreats workbook that will help you prepare, guide, and integrate your psilocybin experience.
With our program, you will be guided by our facilitators from start to finish to assure the best possible results. With Evolution Retreats, our facilitators will be available to you after you leave Jamaica, to ensure that you are able to take the best of your experience and integrate into your everyday life. Our goal is nothing short of life contentment and fulfillment.
We take full responsibility as part of the Third Wave of the psychedelic movement when it comes to psilocybin retreats and psychedelic therapy. Evolution Retreats offers an inclusive education program for clinicians & therapists. Joining our efforts with major players in the psychedelic field, we promote responsible and ethical ways of working with powerful psychedelics for human betterment. The leader of our educational division is Zach Leary.
At Evolution Retreats, we create a neutral and non-judgmental space for psilocybin ceremonies. We employ the wisdom and experience of the world’s psychedelic cultures and traditions, but the program does not promote any one philosophy in particular. To ensure our clients get stable and reliable results from our psilocybin retreats, we believe in applying the scientific method to psychedelics, basing our program on research and experience.
Our host resort Tensing Pen immerses you in Jamaica’s beauty on the coast of Negril, enhancing the therapeutic container beautifully. Surrounded by the unique island ecosystem and set on top of beautiful limestone cliffs along the Caribbean Sea, Evolution Retreats offers the perfect opportunity to disconnect from everyday life while exploring your inner life.
Our team specializes in psychedelic transformation. With decades of combined medical and underground experience working with psilocybin and psychedelics in a therapeutic setting, our professional facilitators provide a perfectly curated experience at our Jamaican psychedelic retreat. Combined with cutting-edge psychotherapeutic methods and practices, they’ve paved the safe path for your wellbeing and happiness.
Listen to the MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) podcast episode featuring Evolution Retreats and our Head Facilitator, Teodor Gorbunov. 65 stimulating minutes.
Arrival, meet other guests and pre integration time
Monday
First trip day, light dose
Tuesday
Non-trip day
Wednesday
Trip Day, higher dosage
Thursday
Non-trip day
Friday
Last trip day, heaviest or same dosage compared to 2nd trip
Psilocybin
“Unlike other widely used recreational drugs, certain psychedelics aren’t reliably addictive. It’s not an easy drug escape if that’s your goal.”
“The idea psychedelics liberate some of these powerfully valent, deeper emotional areas of the brain—the limbic areas involved in memory and emotion—to have their say is consistent with what people are reporting”
“I think as we’ve learned more about how the brain works, we began to realize that these are potential tools for research purposes and might be clinically beneficial”
“It’s almost as if the brain for a period of time goes offline and then recalibrates in an enhanced state”
Benefits of psychedelic therapy
“Psilocybin Therapy produced rapid and large reductions in depressive symptoms, with most participants showing improvement and half of study participants achieving remission through the four-week follow-up”
“You shake up the brain, you see things in a more positive way, and then you lay down those positive circuits with the neuroplasticity,” he added. “It’s a double whammy.”
“What we have access to are medicines that have been used, tried and tested for thousands of years”
“Beginning in the late 1990s but exploding only in the past few years, a steady thrum of studies has illuminated the potential benefits of psychedelics in helping with myriad mental-health disorders, including depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).”
“… a motion center is talking directly to your visual cortex, which could allow you to see things you’re feeling. It could result in hallucinations. Those new connections may […] manifest as new perspectives, new ideas, new means, new metaphors. But the point is that by temporarily disrupting the order of the brain, a new order forms. And that order may have incredible value at either the level of mental health and psychology or the level of creativity.”
“What the experience does is it presents you with the idea of mortality. It’s your own mortality, the mortality of the planet…that is the central issue of consciousness. For me, the meaning of the universe cracked open”
“Everyone thought I was crazy, I bit this guy’s ear off… I did all this stuff, and once I got introduced to the shrooms … my whole life changed. To think where I was: almost suicidal – to this now. Isn’t life a trip, man? It’s amazing medicine, and people don’t look at it from that perspective. I believe this is good for the world. (Wesana Health) was on the same level of thinking that I was. They wanted to share this with the world. This is very limited, us doing this in these small ceremonies. It needs to be open to the world.”
“The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend”.
“It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation… I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance. It is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be.”
“There are aspects to those two particular drugs [psilocybin and LSD] that the places you can go in your brain are much deeper and more healing than anything else”
“I was lost. I was lost in life. Nobody really wanted to hang out with me. I could tell I was a burden to my family. I didn’t want my kids to learn how to grow up seeing the way I was acting. I just thought it might be better for me to be gone. Now I’m living my best life. I’m doing phenomenally well”
“Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important: creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.”
“I found I was hiding behind all kinds of defenses, hypocrisies and vanities. I had to get rid of them layer by layer. The moment when your conscious meets your subconscious is a hell of a wrench. With me, there came a day when I saw the light.”
Evolution Retreats offers a premiere Jamaican psychedelic retreat experience for those seeking to expand their consciousness and grow in understanding and wellness. Our hosted psilocybin retreats feature guided mushroom trips amidst the beauty and splendor of natural Jamaica, along with consummate hospitality in a perfectly curated setting. We are honored to facilitate your transformative psychedelic retreat in a warm, trusting, safe environment where our patrons thrive and delight in their life-changing psilocybin experience.