The Fruiting Body: A day of connection through your body to some of our most powerful fungi friends

We will go on an embodied journey to build our relationship with three of nature's gifts: Cordyceps, Lion’s Mane & Reishi combined with ritual and somatic practices designed to attune to the very nature of these incredible fungi. We will gather surrounded by rolling hills and rare grass chalkland in the heart of one of the south downs most important rewilding projects.

What are functional mushrooms?

Functional mushrooms help to support the different systems in the body related to immunity, stress, sleep, and cognition. They provide benefits that go beyond basic nutrition and caloric value.

Why this way?

We live in challenging times, our bodies hijacked by constant stimulation and overwhelm, our minds distracted from the present moment, our values being shaped by individualistic and extractivist culture to consume to survive. We want to offer an antidote into the world that allows us to reconnect, to embody and to build relationships. With ourselves, with our community and with these incredible healing fungi.

Finding harmony and opening our bodies to feel more. Increasing our capacity to unlock the true potential of ourselves and the power of functional mushrooms.

We aim to support you to….

• Connect to rhythms of nature
• Relieve stress
• Detox from tech
• Make meaning from your experience
• Release blocks & tension
• Develop internal clarity
• Intentionally reconnect

What You’ll Experience

This workshop is a journey which will flow between in-depth bio-medical and spiritual knowledge and guided practices and ritual to support the unfolding path.

You will take part in:

• Cordyceps tea ritual combined with an Expansive Breathwork session

  • Expanding consciousness
  • Boosting stamina and alertness

• Mindful Lion’s Mane lunch and walking meditation in spectacular countryside

  • Social mycelium
  • Clarity and coherence

• Reishi Cacao ceremony combined with downregulating guided breathing meditation

  • Rest and calm
  • Integration

• Teaching on the folk lore, medicinal properties and benefits of each fungi

• Journalling prompts and sharing circle

• Connection to body, fungi and community

You don’t need prior experience or knowledge, however, if you are already engaged with these medicines we hope to deepen the relationality, and therefore the depth of how they interact with you.

Is it safe?

Yes, However we ask that everyone completes a health questionnaire so that we can support your unique journey and adapt it where necessary.

How to join

Register and choose your exchange tier to join. Once registered you will receive:

• A welcome letter
  • What to bring
  • Preparation guidance
  • Health questionnaire
  • Location
  • Link to a Signal Group

About the facilitators

_ Oli Genn-Bash - The Fungi Consultant _

Oli Genn-Bash is a UK-based writer, educator, and cultural practitioner working at the intersection of functional mushrooms, mycotherapy, psychedelics, and contemporary wellness culture. His work sits between research, lived experience, and creative practice, with a focus on education and the responsible development of psychedelic and mushroom spaces.

He has several years’ experience researching and teaching the therapeutic potential of medicinal and functional mushrooms, including Lion’s Mane, Reishi, Cordyceps, Turkey Tail, and Chaga. He is the creator and lead educator of multi-month mycotherapy training programmes, including practitioner-level courses for clinicians and prescribing professionals in the UK and Southern Africa. He teaches on the Microdose For Healing course, exploring the role of functional mushrooms in wellbeing and recovery, as well as facilitating a 5-week long biohacking with mushrooms course in collaboration with The Psychedelic Society.

Liz Lilley (She/Her) - Insight & Integration Therapies

Liz is a qualified Psychotherapist, Breathwork Facilitator, Psychedelic Therapist and Bodyworker. She has over 20 years experience working with people in deeply transformational ways through the body, mind and soul. She brings her knowledge of functional and expanded states breathing techniques, years of experience facilitating group spaces supporting safely accessing the body and expanded states for healing and growth purposes.

Her path bridges the exploration of psychedelic clinical research where she is a Lead Therapist and Mentor on studies with psilocybin. Liz is involved in pioneering Breathwork research to evidence non-substance based ways of accessing expanded states of consciousness and the potential health benefits and is a committed student of the Mazatec tradition of mushroom ceremonies.