Bridge The Beyond

A retreat that focuses on ‘the bridge’ between psychedelic insight and lived experience.

A trauma informed three-day immersion inviting you to slow down, listen inward, and create space for what emerges. The retreat is designed to bridge profound inner experiences with lasting integration.

Facilitated by accredited psychotherapists and psychologists trained with MAPS, who bring expertise in IFS, somatic inquiry, with experience supporting both therapeutic and ceremonial work, the retreat is grounded in trauma-informed practice, relational safety, and careful integration.

This thoughtfully curated retreat is tailored for individuals seeking personal insight, emotional exploration, and deeper connection.

Rooted in safety and depth, while also allowing room for creativity, good food, music, connection, and quiet moments of privacy and reflection.

_ Why We Created This Retreat _
Through years of working within both therapeutic and ceremonial settings, we have witnessed the profound potential of psychedelic work, but also the importance of approaching these experiences with care, preparation, ethical facilitation, and meaningful integration.

We created Bridge the Beyond from a shared belief that healing and insight are not found solely within the experience itself, but in how those experiences are understood, embodied, and woven back into everyday life.
Our intention is to offer a space where depth, curiosity, and exploration can unfold within a carefully held environment.

This retreat may be supportive for those who are:

• Navigating a life transition or period of uncertainty
• Feeling stuck in recurring patterns, behaviours, or relationships
• Seeking greater connection with themselves, others, or a sense of meaning and purpose
• Looking to deepen self-awareness and explore their inner world within a carefully held environment
• Processing grief, loss, or significant life changes
  Experiencing burnout, disconnection, or a feeling that something in life needs attention
• Interested in approaching psychedelic work within a trauma-informed, relational, and ethically grounded setting
• Curious about how insight can be integrated into everyday life through embodiment and meaningful change

The retreat takes place within a group of no more than eight participants, with each person having their own private room.

The setting unfolds within a beautiful centuries-old farmhouse nestled in the North Holland Dune Reserve, close to the sea and easily reachable from Amsterdam. The space includes a Finnish sauna, outdoor shower, plunge pool, and quiet natural surroundings designed to support rest, reflection, and integration.

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I ncludes:

Pre-retreat

• Careful screening session
• 1:1 preparation session (option of more if needed)
• Group preparation calls

The immersion

• 3-day & 2-night residential retreat
• Private Accommodation and meals

The ceremonies

• Legally sourced psilocybin truffles
• 2 x Guided ceremonies with experienced facilitators

Post-retreat integration

• Group integration call
• 1:1 session
• Monthly integration circle & community

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_Check out the websites _

https://liminalpath.nl/bridge-the-beyond-retreat/ _ _

_ __https://rebeccaoterotherapy.com__ _

CURIOSITY

Compassionate observation of what emerges through the experience, thoughts, emotions, memories, patterns, and moments of insight.

EMBODIMENT

Allowing insight to settle and take root through the body. Developing a deeper relationship with yourself, your nervous system, and the ways meaningful change unfolds over time.

INTEGRATION

Integration is the ongoing process of translating insight into daily life. Rather than a single moment, it continues to unfold through reflection, practice, relationships, and time.

Music & Creativity

Taking you through a creative journey is central to how we work. Music acts as a guide throughout the process, supporting movement, emotion, reflection, and release.There are moments of stillness, reflection, emotional depth, and gentle movement through different inner states.

The musical arc is carefully curated and intentional, designed to hold and support you as you move through your own experience. Alongside this, we invite gentle forms of creative exploration through movement, artmaking, imagination and expression, offering ways to engage with what emerges beyond words.

Food & Nourishment

Food is an important part of the retreat experience. Meals are thoughtfully prepared to support grounding, nourishment, restoration, and connection throughout the weekend.

Our chef brings extensive experience working in restaurants and within retreat environments, lovingly creating dishes that are both nourishing and full of character, balancing taste and comfort.

Shared meals become part of the rhythm of the weekend: moments to land, reconnect, reflect, and return to the body.

Facilitators

Rebecca Otero Smith

MBACP · Integrative Psychotherapist (Psychodynamic & Humanistic) · MAPS-trained (MDMA-AT)

Rebecca is a UK-trained integrative psychotherapist working at the intersection of trauma-informed therapy, somatic IFS and non-ordinary states of consciousness. Her background includes clinical practice, research settings, and frontline crisis support, with a focus on complex trauma, relational wounds, and post-traumatic stress.

She also holds an MA in Fine Art, which brings a creative and intuitive dimension to her work, supporting engagement with imagery, symbolism, and the deeper layers of inner experience.

Over recent years, she has worked closely in plant medicine retreats, supporting preparation and integration and facilitating therapeutic group processes.

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Kati Palsynaho-van den Toorn

MSc Psychology · MAPS-trained (MDMA-AT)

Kati is a psychologist specialising in Internal Family Systems (IFS), with additional training in psychedelic integration. Her work is grounded in trauma-informed care and focuses on cultivating the internal safety that supports deep psychological integration and connection.

Together, Rebecca and Kati bring extensive experience supporting preparation, integration, therapeutic process, and non-ordinary states of consciousness within both clinical and ceremonial settings.

Example Schedule

A creative Journey of Preparation, immersion and Integration

DAY 1: Arrival & Connection

• 14:00 – 16:00: Arrival, tea, and time to settle into the space, experience the natural surroundings
• 16:00 – 17:00: Opening Circle: introductions & intention setting.
• 18:00 – 20:30: 1st Ceremony- A gentle session exploring creativity, and relational practices
• 20:30: dinner.

DAY 2: Ceremony Day

8-9.00 Breakfast

• 9.30 Breath, movement & Preparation
• 11:00: Opening Ceremony
• 12:30 – 18:30: Psilocybin Ceremony: a music-supported journey held in the chapel.
• 19.00 closing & dinner
• FIRE CIRCLE /
• SAUNA & RELAX

DAY 3: Group Integration & Return

• 8-9.00 BREAKFAST
• 9.30 gentle somatic release.
• 10:00: Guided Meditative walk through the surrounding dunes and forest
• 11:00: Integration session
• 13.00 CLOSING & LUNCH

14:00: Departures.

This retreat includes a careful screening and intake process and may not be suitable for everyone.

JOIN US

Reduced cost places available slideing scale from €1350

Investment: €1550

Application PROCESS

Screening & Suitability
To support the safety and wellbeing of all participants, the retreat includes a careful screening and preparation process and may not be suitable for everyone.
We take time to understand each participant's intentions, support needs, and personal circumstances before confirming a place.

Spaces are limited. This retreat is held in a small group (MAX 8 participants) with a careful screening and intake process.

Get in touch to book an introductory call.

**Send us an email**

**hello@rebeccaoterotherapy.com ** **or ** kpvdtoorn@gmail.com

Tel 07377753358

Retreat located in the Castricum area of the Netherlands, Amsterdam.

Included

Preparation & Integration

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

Creative exploration

Somatic & embodied practices

Psychedelic Ceremonies

Intake session & screening