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The Buena Vida Psilocybin Retreats
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The Buena Vida Psilocybin Retreats is a private mental health and retreat organisation that offers psilocybin mushroom retreats. Its own site says it runs guided retreats in Mexico and California with preparation, ceremonies, and integration support. LinkedIn describes it as a female-led holistic psilocybin retreat focused on mental health, yoga, breathwork, and mindfulness-based support.
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The Buena Vida sits in the premium, highly curated end of the psychedelic retreat field, with a strong emphasis on ceremony, screening and hands-on containment. Its training arm is best for people who already have meaningful plant-medicine experience and want a structured, practice-led pathway into facilitation rather than a purely classroom-based course. The lineage is personal and founder-led, with Amanda Schendel presented as the central guide, alongside a faculty mix that includes neuroscientific input and retreat-based practice.
Who is The Buena Vida Psilocybin Retreats for?
This training best suits clinicians, coaches, wellness practitioners and emerging facilitators who want supervised, in-person psilocybin facilitation experience. It is especially aimed at people who are comfortable with intensive personal work and want to learn in a small, selective cohort.
What do you need before you start?
Applicants must have sat in at least three sacred plant-medicine ceremonies, including psilocybin, ayahuasca, huachuma, bufo or peyote. The programme also screens out applicants with a current history of personality disorder, suicidality or other severe mental health conditions, and requires an application plus interview call.
Is The Buena Vida Psilocybin Retreats accredited?
The Buena Vida does not publish formal third-party accreditation, CME or CE credit for this training. It describes the course as a facilitator certification track and says it is designed to build competency for future psychedelic-assisted therapy and research settings.
How much does it cost?
The Core Certification Track is priced at $9,800 and the Advanced Mentorship Track at $14,800. The published inclusions are the online curriculum, an 8-day in-person immersion in Joshua Tree, supervised practicum, integration and somatic foundations, legal and ethical frameworks, and access to community integration circles; the higher tier adds biweekly supervision, 1:1 mentorship, case review and shadowing opportunities.
What do you walk away with?
Learners are intended to leave with foundational or advanced facilitation competency, supervised practicum experience and a clearer pathway into psychedelic support work. The course is framed as preparation for research support, future psychedelic-assisted therapy training, integration work and group leadership.
Clinical Care Delivery Snapshot
Residential & Intensive ProgramsProvider Model
Residential / Intensive Program
Organization Status
Unknown
Psychedelic Services
Unknown
Service Coverage
1 country
Service Profile
Care Settings
Residential Program
Service Modalities
Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy
Payer Models
Unknown
Service Coverage Countries
Panama
Non-Psychedelic Service Mix
Unknown
Care Delivery Notes
Seeded from user-provided care-delivery.xlsx list. Contacts: Amanda Schendel (Founder) Contact emails: amanda@thebuenavida.net Contact phones: (+1) 949-441-4726
Non-Clinical Facilitation Snapshot
Retreat OrganizationsOrganization Model
Retreat Center Operator
Organization Status
Active
Facilitation Status
Active Facilitation Services
Access Posture
Unknown / Unclear
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Quick Facts
- Founded
- 2018
- HQ
- Panama
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