Rick is a Minnesota-born, gay, white, cisgender, assigned male at birth (AMAB), human. He started his undergraduate degree as a musician, focusing on classical music performance (the oboe). After struggling with the high stress levels involved with performing, he shifted his focus to French Studies. This led to a confusing, uncertain wandering with his life. He spent time as a barista, worked at a wine bar, worked as a receptionist, and eventually in sales and marketing.

After a tragic loss, he evaluated his path and decided to make a shift: an entry level job at a HIV social services organization. It was there he discovered that although his life had taken a series of bizarre turns, his passion was really in helping people access their ability to flourish, even in the face of adversity.

He especially found passion in connecting with people around their sexuality and identity. Some cultures have very oppressive values when it comes to fundamental components of our lives: who we are, desire, the erotic, sex, and pleasure. We are meant to do more than survive the day-to-day; we are meant to flourish.

This belief in each person's ability to flourish eventually led him to psychedelics and how they can enhance those who are on their own, unique, healing paths.

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Rachel Blackman is a somatic coach, trainer, ritualist, and Feldenkrais practitioner, as well as an educator and theatre maker. She trains coaches in embodied intelligence through The Somatic School and her own animist modality, Integrative Somatic Feedback. Her work is grounded in creativity, biological intelligence, and supporting sustainable change through neuroplasticity.

An animist at heart, Rachel creates spaces that weave together the sacred, the embodied, and our relationship with the living world. She works one-to-one and with groups, offering somatic coaching, earth-honouring ritual, and creative practice. She is an ICF-accredited coach, an FGUK-registered Feldenkrais practitioner, and has over two decades of experience supporting people to integrate profound and numinous experiences into everyday embodied life.

Alongside her therapeutic work, Rachel is an award-winning theatre maker and has written and created five original full-length plays. She also appeared as Charra in The Matrix Revolutions.

Rachel has European, Scandinavian, Scottish, and English ancestry, with more recent family roots in Australia, where her relatives now live largely on the unceded lands of the Bundjalung and Yugambeh Nations. She is currently based in Brighton, UK, where she lives by the sea with her husband Shad and her bonus son Akash.

Rachel stands in deep gratitude to her many teachers, including ancestral lineages, Indigenous elders, somatic and therapeutic mentors, ritual and theatre traditions, and the medicines of land, water, stone, and song.

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Zeger is a musical pilgrim who finds inspiration in the many ways people from all over the world have approached music as a doorway to transcendence.

He traveled the world in search for the spiritual roots of music, eager to learn more about the ways in which the healing properties of music are used in different sacred music traditions around the world.

Besides his work as a musician and composer, Zeger has been working as a music educator, hosting workshops and retreats, born out of a desire to help people deepen their connection with music, find more flow and freedom in their creative expression and learn more about the many different ways in which music can be used as a tool for healing and meditation.

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Celina, is based in Cologne. Her own psychedelic journey began several years ago,  first alone, then with the compassionate guidance of Susanna. Through this, she came to deeply appreciate the healing power of this work, which makes her all the more grateful to now contribute herself.

As a wilderness educator, cycle mentor, and nutritionist, Celina supports people in reconnecting with themselves, with nature, and with forgotten wisdom. She also brings her passion for food, foraging, and cooking into the retreat, caring for the group in the kitchen with love and mindfulness helping you to nourish the body, heart, and soul throughout the process.