CREATIVE SOURCE

FIVE-DAY 5MEO-DMT RETREAT IN PORTUGAL

Are You Ready to Embark on a Transformational Journey 5MeO-DMT and the Ancient Art of Alchemy?" 

Join this one-of-a-kind retreat to connect with your natural creativity, deepen your life purpose, and discover the mystical wonders of nature.
The ancient art of alchemy is the seemingly magical process of transformation or creation, converting base metals into valuable materials like gold, or finding a universal elixir. We invite you to use the metaphor of alchemy as a way of deepening your own relationship with the sacred dimensions of life. 
Bufo Alvarius 5MeO-DMT is an entheogen that invites you on the path of uncovering hidden truths — The truth about the soul, cosmos and nature. We believe this is one of the most profound sources of healing energy in the natural world. The secretions of the Sonoran Desert toad, 5-MeO-DMT, the Spirit molecule, is one of the most potent psychedelic compounds you can consume, and the experience can be intense and powerful — in both beautifying and challenging ways. In our retreats, everyone will undergo a unique and individual experience that reveals what they need today.
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In our retreats, everyone will undergo a unique and individual experience.
This retreat program is intentionally created for you to expand and move towards the embodiment of our mystical universal truths. We have created this very bespoke boutique container for individuals to partake in a ceremonial ritual to experience a total reset. This is most significantly a holistic reset that allows for a deep release of destructive emotional and mental patterns, as well as an influx of life force that is both inspirational and healing. Partaking in this retreat program can potentially be a life-changing experience of immense significance.
Our mind, body, and energy are intimately connected. When you impact one, the other two feel it.

Our understanding of a "holistic reset" in a 5-MeO-DMT experience.

In the context of a holistic reset working with 5-MeO-DMT, we prioritise the highest safety and care with this potent molecule. We focus on creating a secure environment, ensuring that the transformative experience is both profound and secure, addressing the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects with utmost attentiveness to safety and individual well-being

In the context of a holistic reset working with 5-MeO-DMT, we prioritise the highest safety and care with this potent molecule. We focus on creating a secure environment, ensuring that the transformative experience is both profound and secure, addressing the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects with utmost attentiveness to safety and individual well-being.

1. Physical and Psychological Transformation: The experience with 5-MeO-DMT is often described as a reset for the nervous system, particularly for individuals grappling with conditions like emotional distress. Participants often seek such experiences to find relief and reset their mental and emotional baselines, leading to a significant reduction in their symptoms.

2. Spiritual and Consciousness Awakening: The experience is described as a journey into a void where the individual loses a sense of self, time, and individual consciousness, leading to a state of mental release, and a feeling of harmony with existence. This is often sought by spiritual seekers as a peak experience of divine nature.

3. Emotional Release and Healing: During the 5-MeO-DMT experience, individuals often go through intense emotional release, manifesting through physical reactions like shaking, convulsing, and vocal expressions. These are seen as releases of suppressed emotions and energies, deeply embedded due to societal, cultural, and familial conditioning.

4. Long-Term Impact on Awareness and Relationships: Following the experience, individuals often report a heightened level of self-awareness and an improved ability to manage their thoughts, feelings, and emotions. This can lead to more harmonious relationships and a greater sense of peace and well-being in daily life.

5. Continued Self-Exploration and Growth: The transformative effects of 5-MeO-DMT are not limited to the immediate experience but continue to unfold over time. Individuals often engage in practices like meditation, body-oriented approaches, and breathwork to integrate and extend the insights gained during the experience into their daily lives.

Overall, a holistic reset through a 5-MeO-DMT experience is about profound transformation across all facets of an individual's being, leading to a deeper understanding of oneself and a more harmonious relationship with life.

Upcoming Retreats

YOUR PERSONAL INVESTMENT FOR THIS BESPOKE PROGRAM € 3700 (incl. 21%VAT)

We offer three flexible instalment payment options to accommodate your financial preferences.

(Partly scholarship available, enrol here)

  • FEBRUARY 7th - 11th '24 - Portugal

    A "holistic reset" a deep and all-encompassing shift that touches upon the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of an individual's being.

    For individuals intrigued by the exploration of liminal spaces, this offers an opportunity for a unique personal journey, potentially including experiencing traditional rites of passage.

    • Professional screening

    • Small groups with max 8 participants

    • Four nights and five days of shared accommodation

    • Two 5MeO-DMT Ceremonies

    • Cacao Ceremony & Rapéh Ritual

    • Group Breath- and Bodywork

    • Sharing circles, personal and group coaching

    • Sacred plant baths custom-blended

    • Two-group preparation and two-group integration virtual calls

    • One private preparation and integration call with a lead facilitator

    • One year of free access to our membership and education portal, for ongoing personal growth and integration

    • Delicious organic vegetarian meals optimized to ceremony guidelines

    • Transportation to and from the local International airport

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  • OCTOBER 29th - 2nd NOVEMBER '24 - Portugal

    A "holistic reset" a deep and all-encompassing shift that touches upon the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of an individual's being.

    For individuals intrigued by the exploration of liminal spaces, this offers an opportunity for a unique personal journey, potentially including experiencing traditional rites of passage.

    • Professional screening

    • Small groups with max 8 participants

    • Four nights and five days of shared accommodation

    • Two 5MeO-DMT Ceremonies

    • Cacao Ceremony & Rapéh Ritual

    • Group Breath- and Bodywork

    • Sharing circles, personal and group coaching

    • Sacred plant baths custom-blended

    • Two-group preparation and two-group integration virtual calls

    • One private preparation and integration call with a lead facilitator

    • One year of free access to our membership and education portal, for ongoing personal growth and integration

    • Delicious organic vegetarian meals optimized to ceremony guidelines

    • Transportation to and from the local International airport

    ENROLL NOW

OUR TEACHING ALLIES

  • 5MeO-DMT TEACHER

    5MeO-DMT TEACHER

    Bufo Alvarius Toad contains the psychoactive compound 5-MeO-DMT and is a potent psychedelic that comes from the Colorado River (or Sonoran Desert) Toad. Working with Bufo helps you to put your ego aside to enable you to connect with a divine source.

    Interestingly enough, though some 5-MeO-DMT plants have a history of traditional use (like ayahuasca), there is no evidence of lineage of any indigenous Bufo alvarius practices. At Awaken, we make sure to work with a synthetic version of 5-MeO-DMT—which is an ethical alternative as no animals are harms, and it has less variance in potency than the naturally-sourced substance.

    In a 5-MeO-DMT journey, you can expect less of a visual experience and more a total transcendence, hence its nickname as the ‘God Molecule.' This divine molecule has the powerful capacity to connect us directly back to the source of creation — a place where ego and mind dissolve

  • tobacco ceremony retreat

    MAPACHO TEACHER

    Rapéh snuff. Pronounced “ha-peh” or “rapay”, Rapéh is a fine, ground-up shamanic snuff. It contains Nicotiana Rustica, a type of tobacco also known as mapacho. Although it contains tobacco, there is no smoking of Rapéh. Instead, it’s administered into your nose. The snuff contains other medicinal and sacred plants, including parts from tree bark, leaves, seeds, and various plants. Rapéh is the perfect medicine to still your mind. In just one blow it helps you to go out of your head, into your heart, and connects you with your soul. Because tobacco-based rapéh contains nicotine, it increases blood flow to the brain and stimulates the release of several neurotransmitters that heightens alertness and uplifts your mood. The indigenous people believe that rapéh can increase your focus, presence, and intuition, spiritually opening up your body and mind to higher communication and holistic thinking.

  • cacao ceremony retreat

    CACAO TEACHER

    Pure cacao is used as a heart-opening medicine for people to safely experience awakening, revelation, and inner healing. It is also used to set intentions and once consumed, euphoric states are unlocked, negative emotions are released and we are able to connect to ourselves and the loving energy in our body. We work with the Ceremonial Cacao in all our retreat programs, it is a key component in process. This medicine is one of the most powerful, gentle facilitators, teachers, and guides on the planet. Cacao opens the heart and allows for a deeper, authentic love-based connection with yourself, others, the world, and all of life. You will experience a Cacao ceremony that is specifically designed for psychedelic sharing, release and playfulness, and integration work. This journey is specifically focused to help you find clarity, and process some of the more confusing aspects of your experiences. Cacao is the perfect medicine to dive deep and integrate while remaining fully conscious and aware.

  • breathwork retreat

    BREATH TEACHER

    We bring breathwork such as Transformational, Holotropic, or Circular Breathing, in all our programs, and this is a very deep therapeutic technique, in which one through accelerated and deepened breathing with an open mouth while lying down can reach access to his subconsciousness as well as enter into higher states of consciousness. During a breath session, all levels of our being are addressed. On the physical and mental level, it is a deep cleansing process. Emotions and body sensations can arise that are associated with unprocessed experiences and old traumas, which are stored in the muscles and in the cell consciousness and can be integrated and cured through breathing. On a spiritual level, one can open oneself to a transpersonal experience, perceive oneself as a spiritual being and receive deep insights into human potential.

A DEEPLY ROOTED SPACE HOLDING TEAM

  • Space Holder

    Natasja Pelgrom

    ATMW Founder & Vision Keeper

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    Jessica Grotfeldt

    Facilitator & Traditional Chinese Medicine Therapist

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    Mela Mariposa

    Breathwork & Cacao Ceremony Facilitator

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    John Newton

    Facilitator & Transpersonal Psychologist

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  • PRAISE

    "This was my second retreat with ATMW and might be not the last one! Each of them was a beautiful journey of self-understanding and self-love. I had heard some "warnings" towards Bufo Medicine before attending the retreats, but I can for sure tell, how safe and truly amazing an experience this can be when done with proper preparation and support. Natasja and Lorraine are very experienced guides, who hold the space from a place of the highest integrity, wisdom, love, and respect for the Medicine. The ceremony itself is beyond words to describe - pure Magic. I know that I will be integrating its lessons for a long time and am super grateful for having heard a call and listening. Thank you."

    Magda Haver, NL, Spiritual Coach

  • PRAISE

    “ The ATMW retreat is, in a word, transformational. After having participated in other plant medicine retreats in the past, I was astounded and humbled by the depth of Natasja and Lorraine's expertise and loving care. It was so easy to put my trust in them; their wisdom, intuition and commitment allow for the cultivation of community and a container in which it feels safe to finally let go of that which is holding you back. Because of this retreat, I am experiencing the shifts I need to bring me closer to wholeness. The gifts I have received in return for taking the leap of faith to join this journey are only beginning to unfold, and I am forever grateful. '

    Leanne Lee, Canada, Entrepreneur

  • PRAISE

    ‘‘Natasja's face spins into the maelstrom of purple geometric patterns. I lie back and in an instant, it dawns on me how truly amazing life and all of creation is. We are part of an eternally loving and gentle spirit and I have been given this gift of life to cherish. Pain and pleasure are both there to define one another, and it is all perfect. I have that feeling when you wake from a nightmare and your realize it was just a bad dream and in fact it is all okay, just very intense. I begin to laugh uncontrollably, how silly I was not to have grasped it before. Round me I hear the song of angles. The sounds are passing through me like a comb combing through thick unwashed knotted hair. The sound is passing through my body, combing out the spiritual knots that have been there for so long. I can now release this sadness I have stored inside of me. I have been spiritually blind all my life and all I needed was to open up my eyes and the beauty his is my second ceremony with Natasja and it has opened up something in me that I subconsciously knew was missing. I had become trapped in a way of living where I was not taking pleasure from the beauty all around me, and instead feeling like everything I did was because I had to do it, rather than because I get to do it. Working with Natasja has allowed me to break free and start on a new journey, and it is an exciting one."

    Alan All, UK, Engineer

  • PRAISE

    “This retreat was something of a way of treating myself to a safe space to explore something I've always been interested in. I got so much more from it than I expected and would highly recommend to (almost) anyone. Natasja and her team are phenomenal facilitators and create a container where you can find yourself and truly grow. I am forever grateful that I had the chance to do this."

    Baz Haycock, UK, Entrepreneur

  • PRAISE

    "I don't even know where to begin... I attended the retreat a little over a month ago and I still get tears in my eyes when I settle in to reflect on it. The whole experience is beyond words and surpassed any of my expectations. Bufo was unlike any of my past psychedelic experiences - it was boundless and wordless. The facilitators were incredible - present and supportive. You feel very safe very quickly. The most beautiful part of the retreat was the unexpected bonds you make with the other people there... There is such a power in the community. In the second ceremony where you go as a group, I think that was one of the most important and potent experiences of my life. You connect so quickly and deeply that you question why are we not more like this with other people in our day-to-day lives when it is right there. All I can say is that this retreat was one of the if not the most precious gifts I have ever received. Thank you, Natasja. Thank you, Lorraine. Thank you, Mayatiita. Thank you, Mela. Thank you, Claire <3 Ps. The food is out of this world."

    Natalie Hermelin, UK, Filmmaker

  • PRAISE

    "What a transformational experience that continues to build on itself! Through the complete support and creation of a connective trust I was thankfully able to reconnect with the deepest parts of myself.

    Every part of the retreat was impeccably considered and has changed my life in a tremendously positive way. The fantastic setting, the space (inner and outer!) the prep and the integration cannot be overstated. The journey continues, and it’s with the deepest of thanks that I wish to to share these brief thoughts. Natasja, Lorraine, John, Claire, Sarah and Mela quite simply created the most incredible space through a integral desire to harness love, compassion and kindness."

    BJ Australia

  • PRAISE

    It would be hard to overstate the profound experience provided by ATMW. The medicine is itself profound, but the true wonder of the experience comes from the skilful and meaningful construction of the retreat around it. Each ceremony and ritual complements and strengthens the next in a completely tangible and experiential way. The result is an individual experience within a shared group experience that is focussed with precision to achieve what is needed by that person at that time, supported by a others. All this is powered with the authenticity, knowledge, and compassion of the facilitators.

    The location is glorious, the accommodation spectacular, and the food delicious. It is a genuine life-changing experience in a world where most things are over-promised and under-delivered. Not here. However good you think this retreat will be, it will be better. The reason for this is because there are no words available to describe and sell its true wonder, they simply don't exist. It can only be understood through experiencing it, and I'm so grateful that I did.

    Ed // Engineer // UK