Sacred Space Holder Program
Become a Skilled Psychonaut!🧙♂️
We believe all of us should have the skills at our disposal to hold safe, psychedelic space for ourselves and our loved ones.
Currently, countless programs are popping up left and right, focusing on training skilled psychotherapists in clinical settings or multi-year programs diving deep into ancestral indigenous use.
Often these programs are focused on professionals and come at a steep ticket price. We’ve created this program for making this deeply powerful information accessible to psychonauts from all facets walks of life.
With this program, we intend to provide psychonauts and, particularly, sacred mushroom enthusiasts with the tools to work with, support, and share the medicine to the best of their capacity.
While the course will reference harm-minimization and medical (therapeutic) use, the intention is to provide you with an excellent grounding in what we could call the ‘Sacred Mushroom operating manual.’
- Get the most out of your psychedelic experiences by exploring the psychedelic space with preparation and confidence 💪
- Discover the role played by psychedelics in the Euro-American cultural story🧙♂️
- Understand how to make the experience flow easily. Blend and blur the boundaries - This is all one experience 🌌
- Learn how to create a ceremony that is practical and personal to you!✨
- 6 Days of Magic, Psychedelic Education and Connection 🎓
Live, Learn and Grow in Paradise
Tzununa, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
Sacred Space Holder Program
The program will provide you with techniques for navigating psychedelic space and equip you with tools to support others in their journeys. Drawing on the latest insights from psychedelic science combined with ancient ceremonial methods our approach will include breathwork, bodywork, mythology, music and a touch of magic!
Education Vacation Destination
We are located in the Guatemalan Highlands, the heartland of ancient Mayan Civilization. You will learn to work with altered states while experiencing the indigenous culture here at Lake Atitlan. This is an uniquely inspiring learning environment.
Make Authentic Connections
Become a node in the mycelial network. Collaboration is the foundation of our learning environment. The more meaningful connections there are in a network, the stronger it is. By learning together with everyone, you weave yourself into a global web and form bonds that last.
Holistic Lifestyle
It's fun to live and learn together if we keep ourselves healthy and centered. Healthy food, yoga, qi-gong, sauna, swimming, walks in nature and meditation are some of the holistic lifestyle elements that help to keep our inner and outer space activated.
What You Will Learn
A solid foundation of practical Psychedelic skills
- Theoretical and Practical Preparation & Ceremony Design
- Psychedelic Substance - history, mystery, chemistry and culture
- Screening processes for journey participants
- Support people as they begin or deepen their psychedelic journey
- Techniques for navigating psychedelic space
- Embodied integration and preparation practices
- Learn by sharing skills and experiences with fellow guides
- Ethical issues and confidentiality
- Become part of a community of practice
- Get guided by world-class Space Holders and develop your own unique style
Sacred Mycology
What is the Sacred Mycology movement?
Sacred mycology is about creating meaning and purpose in our lives with the help of mushrooms.
It’s about learning to interact and listen to nature’s wisdom within and around us.
This wisdom has the potential to help us heal and regenerate ourselves and our environment.
Sacred mushrooms can inspire us to find purpose and a deeply meaningful existence while living here on earth.
We envision a global culture that is educated, conscious, and tolerant towards psychedelic medicines and the people who use them.
Cultures Connecting through Ceremony
We shall sit together, people from many different lands and cultures, sharing our space, our experiences, and our questions.
This is a chance for you to connect more deeply with the mycelial network of those who practice the art and science of working with sacred earth medicines.
We will demonstrate ways of holding psychedelic space, learn from techniques of ancient lineages inspired by indigenous wisdom, and discuss findings from the cutting edge of psychedelic science.
We will travel through the landscape of the sacred lake of the Mayan people and through the inner worlds of deep ceremonial practice. We hope you can join us on this journey!
Limited spots Available!
For an optimal learning experience we have limited the group size to 16 students.
To assure our limited spots are available to a diverse range of people, we have decided to work with an application form.
After your application has been accepted by the Fungi Academy Family you are able to secure your spot by paying a $500, non-refundable deposit.
The deposit needs to be paid within 7 days of your acceptance before your spot will be given to the person next in line.
Sacred Space Holder Program
December 3-9 2023-
Complete Sacred Space Holder Program
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Online Psychedelic Journeywork Course
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Extensive Workbook
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Food & Accommodation included*
*This price includes accommodation in a dorm or camping. Limited private accommodation is available for an extra fee first come first serve.
One Scholarship for low-income psychonauts interested in taking their skills to the next level is available for this course.
Meet Your Facilitators
Julian Vayne
UK
Sacred Space Holder✨
Since childhood, Julian has been fascinated by magic, mysticism, and altered states of awareness.
Julian has explored many of the techniques humans have used to access the hidden dimensions of reality. He started group ceremonial practices at age 16 and has worked in ceremonies with practitioners from many traditions.
In the 1990s, Julian edited Britain’s best-selling pagan newspaper, Pagan Voice, and in 2001 he published one of the first books of the modern psychedelic renaissance, Pharmakon: Drugs and the Imagination.
In addition to using traditional sacred substances like Sacred Mushrooms in his practice, Julian’s work includes the first published account of the entheogenic ritual use of ketamine and several novel psychedelics.
Julian is the author of numerous books, essays, journals, and articles in both the academic and esoteric press. He sees his work as part of the process to re-imagine an earth-centered, curious, non-dogmatic spirituality. His practice is informed by the approach of chaos magic and lineages within Wicca and Uttarakaula Tantra.
Julian is a co-organizer of the psychedelic conference Breaking Convention and is a trustee of The Psychedelic Museum Project. As a founding member of the post-prohibition think tank, Julian holds a position on the Journal of Psychedelic Studies’ academic board. A regular speaker at conferences and workshop leader, Julian facilitates psychedelic ceremony and provides one-to-one psychedelic integration sessions and support.
He is the author of the celebrated book Getting Higher: The Manual of Psychedelic Ceremony.
Nikki Wyrd
UK
Sacred Space Holder✨
Karena Beana
USA
Cosmic Community Operator🌌
Karena has been a health blogger and influencer since she was 16. Her passion for wellness started at a young age when her parents grew ill due to poor lifestyle choices. When Instragram first released she jumped on board and decided to take the influencer route. She focused her time and energy into using this platform to spread positive and informative health and wellness tips that she learned through helping heal her parents from chronic diseases and illnesses.
She turned this passion into a career becoming 200hr+ Yoga Teacher, a NASM Certified Personal Trainer and Health Coach in 2016. As medicinal mushrooms became more popular online, she began to incorporate fungi into her practices and teachings, helping demystify and spread the magic of mushrooms
Jasper Degenaars
Netherlands
Fungal Facilitator🍄
Jasper is a first-grade mycophile. His love for mushroom cultivation started in the Netherlands after growing his first mushrooms from ‘Sacred Mushroom Grow kits.’ Baffled by the mystery of the process, he set out on a journey to learn more!
With 10+ years of mushroom growing experience and more than 2,000 students taught since 2019, Jasper has set out on a mission to make learning mushroom cultivation Easy, Fun, and Exciting!
This Myconaut did not fit in the traditional academic system, AT ALL. Yet, his thirst for knowledge carried him on a path of life-long learning. With the skillset of a self-taught teacher, he aims to make the art and science of mushroom cultivation accessible to everyone aspiring to be a citizen mycologist.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Guatemala City (GUA) is the nearest international airport.
You can either take a shared shuttle bus or a private shuttle to get to Panajachel (biggest town on the lake). From Panajachel you can take a Lancha (public boat) to Tzununa. In Tzununa you will easily find a TukTuk driver who will happily take you to the Fungi Academy! (Locals know it as the Ashram)
Shared Shuttle bus departure times
This service makes a stop in Antigua and then continues to Panajachel, travel time 4-4.5hrs
- 06:00am – Guatemala City/Airport to Panajachel
- 11:00am – Guatemala City/Airport to Panajachel
- 02:30pm – Guatemala City/Airport to Panajachel
There is also a shuttle leaving once a day that goes directly to Panajachel
- 2:30pm – Guatemala City/Airport to Panajachel (min 3pax)
Private shuttle
There are plenty of taxis available to take you directly to Panajachel on Lake Atitlan. They cost between 120$ – 130$ and take around 3 hours. You can either arrange one yourself outside of the terminal or book one through an agency at the airport.
Please let us know if you need any help with arranging transport to the lake. We will happily secure your place in one of the shuttles!
There is plenty to do from amazing sunrise hikes up a nearby volcano, swimming or paddle-boarding out on the lake.
You can even take a course in Spanish, cooking, yoga, permaculture and more!
There are ecstatic dances, open mics and all of the events you can image.
You will find lots of variety in Tzununa, San Marcos or the other communities around the lake.
Yes! All our meals are vegetarian by default (We get happy eggs from our neighbors happy chickens) and our in house chef has no problems catering to your needs!
- Vegan
- Gluten free/Celiac
- Allergies
- Paleo
- Keto
Please let us know your preference and we will make sure your belly and body are healthy and happy!
All course-prices include shared accommodation in one of our or our neighbors’ beautiful dormitories. Private accommodation is available for an additional fee.
Our amazing jungle property is close to the river, filled with bananas, avocados, dragon fruit, zapote and all of the following amenities.
- Wi-Fi
- Sauna
- Yoga Shala
- Warm showers
- Laundry service
- Hammocks
- Library
- Firepit
- In-house cinema
- Communal Guitars, Drums and Ngoni
We live in a pretty rural area. Most of the pandemic, we didn’t notice much difference in our lives. Traveling to Guatemala is easy. You can either be vaccinated, have a negative PCR test, or take a test when you arrive at the airport.
Right now if you’re from the UK or Brazil you need to have left these countries two weeks prior to arrival. This is most likely to change before we start our programs.
Kids play in the street. Masks are optionally everywhere. Life’s good🌞
Absolutely not!
If you want to become a psychedelic therapist, then you have to go through proper training. This program is made for people wanting to get more out of their personal experience. We will cover basic peer-to-peer psychedelic support on how to be the best co-journeyer for your loved ones. When it comes to becoming “shaman” it’s better to search for people who have a lineage of doing it. Or wear crazy hats.🧙♂️
