Ancestra is a nonprofit organization offering legal, land-based psilocybin retreats in Jamaica — guided by ancestral wisdom, modern science, and deep intention.
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Evidence-Based ApproachAncestra is a woman- and BIPOC-owned nonprofit organization offering small-group, legally held psilocybin retreats in Jamaica. Our retreats are structured, trauma-informed, and intentionally designed with a focus on preparation, ethical facilitation, and post-retreat integration. This is not a recreational retreat. It is a professionally supported process designed for lasting change.
We do not treat plant medicine as a consumable experience. We approach it as a lineage-rooted practice in which plants are regarded as teachers, requiring proper preparation, ethical relationship, and respect for the traditions that steward this sacred work.
Many paths lead to the same threshold. Eventually there comes a recognition that healing is not only psychological, and not only individual. It involves reconnection. With your body. With your history. With the land beneath your feet.
Again and again, participants tell us the same thing: what mattered most was not the experience itself that led to transformation, but how it was held.
"I came expecting an experience. I left with a relationship — with the land, with the facilitators, and with a part of myself I hadn't spoken to in years. The support before and after the retreat is what made the difference."— Retreat Participant
"I was skeptical going in. I'd done therapy for a long time and wasn't sure this was anything more than another thing to try. It was different. The structure, the people holding the space, the land itself — it wasn't what I expected, and I mean that in the best way."— Retreat Participant
"The integration support afterward was something I didn't know I needed until I had it. The weekly calls in the weeks after gave me somewhere to bring what had surfaced. I didn't feel dropped."— Retreat Participant
A retreat with Ancestra begins three weeks before you arrive and continues for a month after you leave. What happens on the land in Jamaica is held by everything that comes before and after it.
Weekly group calls on Zoom to orient you to the work ahead — building the container, establishing trust with your cohort, and preparing your nervous system and intention.
A restorative arrival day. Gentle breathwork, mindfulness, and meditation to help you settle fully into your body and the land.
Connection with the land, local culture and community, and the medicine in a gentle, introductory dose. Workshops prepare your system for what's ahead.
Morning mindfulness yoga and intention-setting. Then a full-dose psilocybin ceremony, held by your facilitators in a carefully prepared space.
Somatic work, movement, and workshops to harvest what surfaced. The focus: how do you bring what you encountered back into your actual life?
A second full-dose ceremony. For many, this is where the first journey's insights deepen, or where something entirely new emerges.
Breakfast, a final sharing circle, and closing workshops to distill your learnings. Not an abrupt end, but a conscious one.
Weekly Zoom integration calls continue for a month. What surfaces in the weeks following matters — this support exists so you're not navigating it alone.
Ancestra is a woman- and BIPOC-owned nonprofit. The work is shaped by service, not profit, and held with the understanding that this is more than an experience: it is a responsibility.
Psilocybin is legal in Jamaica. We operate openly, with no legal ambiguity, no gray areas, and no risk to you.
Our work is built on genuine, ongoing relationships with Indigenous and lineage holders. We cultivate relationships of reciprocity, not extraction.
One month of preparation. A structured on-the-land program. One month of integration. Most retreats end when you leave. Ours doesn't.
We work on the land because place matters. Healing is relational — it unfolds within the context of the body, ancestry, community, and the living world.
The word heal comes from the root word whole. One way to understand healing is as a return to wholeness. It is not an isolated event, but a restoration of relationship: within yourself, with your history, and within the larger world. This work is not about becoming someone new. It is about returning to a much deeper way of belonging.
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Cohorts are kept small by design. Seats are limited.
Land-Based Group Psilocybin Retreat · 5 nights · Full program arc · Pre and post integration support included
Land-Based Group Psilocybin Retreat · 3 nights · Full program arc · Pre and post integration support included
Your retreat is guided by facilitators who bring both rigorous training and genuine personal relationship with this work.
Mária's work lives at the intersection of clinical precision and ancestral reverence, bridging the gap between Eastern, Western, and Indigenous ways of knowing.
Rooted in her diasporic lineage and shaped by years working in mental and medical healthcare, she creates trauma-informed spaces that honor both the intelligence of the medicine and the innate wisdom of the body. She is especially committed to cultivating containers that feel safe, inclusive, and affirming for members of diverse or historically marginalized communities.
Grounded in somatic and person-centered practice, Mária approaches facilitation as both personal healing and collective liberation, ensuring that each journey is held with integrity, cultural humility, and deep reciprocity.
After four years of training within a contemporary Mahayana contemplative lineage, Ethan's work is deeply informed by his commitment to the Bodhisattva path — a dedication to awakening in service of collective liberation.
He has completed additional training in herbalism, Internal Family Systems, and somatic healing, weaving these modalities into a grounded, compassionate approach. At the heart of Ethan's work is a devotion to restoring right relationship between people and themselves, one another, and the living Earth.
Sharon's approach weaves together psychology, physiology, neuroscience, and spirituality, creating innovative and embodied pathways for lasting change.
In recent years, she has focused her work on expanded states of consciousness and therapeutic integration, supporting individuals in navigating profound experiences with clarity, safety, and compassion.
She is proud to identify as a grandmother, an elder, and a teacher to many. At the heart of Sharon's work is a commitment to healing in sacred reciprocity between self, community, and the living Earth.
If you feel the call, submit your application to begin a conversation with a member from our team. Each application is reviewed personally to ensure a good fit. We look forward to connecting with you.