There is a difference between experiencing your own seismic transformation on plant medicine and being responsible (and capable) of delivering that to another.
The psychedelic space has become a bloated industry full of trends, fads, opportunists, influencers, venture capitalists, and some very earnest people trying to do good. Certifications, masterminds, novelty retreats, and endless panels of 'experts' have a lot to say on the topic - there's no lack of data! - and, it's possible, that you might benefit from participating with it. It's also possible that you might benefit from stepping away from the scene, the industry, and the noise and taking a different path.
Devoted service to the Medicine Path asks something of you.
It asks you to: slow the f*ck down, listen deeply to what’s inside and outside of you, walk the walk and talk the talk especially when nobody is watching. It asks you to practice reciprocity, not as a performance but in consistent and authentic ways, and cultivate relationship and apprenticeship with nature and the medicine. It requires that you learn radical authenticity, and get comfortable with telling your truth and keeping your mirror clean.
It asks for commitment. For devotion. For mastery. For patience. For trust. For humility. For integrity.
This isn’t a vocation or side hustle. It's not easy or sexy or effortless. It’s a path of service and devotional offering to all of Creation and it takes more than a 12 month certificate training and a couple of profound trips to call yourself ready to guide.
Taking responsibility for somebody’s wide-open consciousness is not something to do casually. It’s not a path everybody can - or should - walk. Beana’s dedicated commitment to her craft, honing of her well-respected and high-integrity practice, and devotion to - and apprenticeship of - the mushrooms is not something she can simply give you.
It’s not for sale.
If we're honest, Beana does not assume that you’re suited for this work. Her commitment to mentoring aspiring guides and transformational space holders is as interested in self-selecting people out of this field as much as into it.
She does not offer shortcuts. In fact, she will likely invite you to take the long way!
She does not certify anyone as “ready” to serve.
What she can offer is something rarer and much more precious: over three decades of lived experience working with psychedelics and over 8 years experience inside a thriving, full time practice, context for how The Work works, frameworks for navigating all aspects of the practice and the business, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of case studies and living examples of medicine in action, radically honest reflection, and a track record of consistent, honest-to-goodness impact.
Beana has a gift for this work and knows how to do it.
The commitment of taking on apprentices and holding space for mentees is not something Beana does casually. It's a big responsibility to hold the holders and guide the guides and, after a wonderful year of teaching inside her mystery school, The Root: Open Source Mystery School and Psychedelic Salon, she's laying the groundwork for another season of support in 2027.
The Guide Inside: An Alchemical Path to the Path
For those who feel called to serve Earth medicine, facilitate ceremony, or hold transformational space for individuals, couples, or groups.
Many people are feeling "The Call..."
To hold space.
To guide.
To facilitate.
The Guide Inside: An Alchemical Path to the Path is a mash-up of Beana’s open-source mystery school, The Root, and some additional curriculum designed to root The Root into YOU and your ethos and your practice! It’s a mycelial response to the explosion of certification programs and fast-tracked “psychedelic facilitators.”
This is not a certification.
It does not make you ready.
It offers something better:
Raw, lived insight from over 30 years of psychedelic exploration and 8,000+ hours holding therapeutic space.
Inside you’ll explore topics like:
Fundamental Truths & Pillars of Guideship
The Alchemical Process of Becoming Yourself
Your Psychedelic Lineage
Lineage Creation: Your brand of prayer, ritual, & ceremony
Holding Space for Initiation
Fundamentals of Psychedelic Healing - How the Work Works
Preparation Strategies - For You and Not You
Dosage & Duration - How Much is Enough?
Set & Setting - Curating Containers
Navigating Hard Times: Resistance, Disappointment, Boredom
Integration strategies & Strategies for Leveraging Plasticity
Somatic healing & Touch in the Psychedelic Space
Energetic hygiene: For You and Not You
Mortality and the Inevitable: Medicine Work as Death Prep
Economics of Guideship: The Business of Transformation
Radical Self-Assessment
...and a whole lot more!
This is an unprecedented offering from a living, working, thriving guide who wants to tell you the truth about what it means to give your life to The Medicine Path and support you to understand the dimensionality and dynamic truth of what facilitating non-clinical, therapeutic psychedelic sessions demands and has the potential to deliver.
In addition to Beana's teachings, this curriculum will function like a call and response. It's not designed to make more Beanas; it's designed to draw out the medicine of YOU. If this is what Beana does when X happens, what will you do? By the end of this immersion you will know who you pray to, what you're rooted in, what hill you're willing to fight for or die on, and how - and if - you are destined to serve.
This is for:
Aspiring or practicing medicine guides
Therapists and clinicians exploring or supporting psychedelic work
Integration & Microdosing coaches
Retreat hosts and Sacred Space facilitators
Community builders
Serious people wanting to serve with impeccability, integrity, authenticity, and impact.
This offering pulls back the veil on The Mystery with out demystifying it.
It invites:
Impeccability
Humility
Integrity
Self-reflection
Commitment
Style
Authenticity
Competence
Designed to be a companion to whatever other paths or courses you take, this astounding body of work that we will co-create together and this carefully carved path is one-of-a-kind and certain to improve the quality of your capacity to dwell inside, and guide people into (and safely out of!) the Mystery.