The Buena Vida

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06/04/2026

We adore when guests leave us with their words of change, love, healing and expansion. 🍄💗🍄💗

Thank you Katrina for sharing your love with the world and we wish you nothing but the best on your journey to serving the world!

06/04/2026

Everyone wants a big dramatic transformation.

Honestly, that’s not usually what happens here.

What I see is something much simpler.

A woman arrives carrying something she’s been dragging around for years. Grief. Shame. Burnout. A story about herself that stopped being true a long time ago.

Then, somewhere between the conversations, the tears, the laughter, the nature, the meals, the medicine, and the moments she finally tells the truth out loud…

she puts it down.

She doesn’t come home as a different person.

She comes home as herself.

A little lighter.
A little clearer.
A little more free.

Funny how healing can look less like becoming someone new and more like finally stopping carrying all the stuff that was never yours to hold in the first place!

Application is in the bio.

06/03/2026

Don’t wait…July & August want to see you on the OTHER SIDE 🍄🍄🍄🍄

06/01/2026

SUMMER DATES:
June 15-21 Mexico
July 9-13: California
August 17-23: 🇲🇽 Mexico

We have small groups of 6-10 guests so we can go DEEP. Don’t miss out and keep waiting on a big transformation…

05/29/2026

Give me your best excuses in the comments…
(I will reply to all!)👌🏼

05/27/2026

You’ve done the therapy.
The SSRIs.
The podcasts.
The journaling.
The breathing exercises.
The “doing the work.”

And still something in you feels stuck in the same loop.

Sometimes healing doesn’t need another coping mechanism. Sometimes it needs interruption. Depth. A real reset.

At The Buena Vida we use a holistic approach to transformation through psilocybin, movement, nervous system work, music, community, nourishment, nature, integration, and actual human care.

Yes mushroom medicine.
AND A full ecosystem for healing.

05/25/2026

Message from our Head Leader & Nurse, Nikki!

05/23/2026

Founder of The Buena Vida

Things that have changed my life:
Psil0cybin.
Somatic therapy.
Live music.
Dancing for five minutes.
Ocean air.
Animals.
Leaving the country at 19 and realizing there are a thousand ways to live a life.

I currently own a dog, a cat, fish, a jumping spider, and alpacas which feels less like adulthood and more like a spiritually confusing petting zoo.

I built Buena Vida because I wanted to create the kind of place I desperately needed when I was struggling.

Also, I still have no idea how people consistently answer emails before noon. I also need a real matcha fluffer thingy.

RECIPE (based on Coconut Cloud Matcha from )
-ceremonial matcha
-1 tbs coconut cream
-1 tsp raw honey
-1 cup coconut water

05/21/2026

Almost 8 years ago… I really wanted to find somewhere safe and beautiful and joyful that I could safely take psychedel@c mushrooms. 🍄

at the time it didn’t exist…

There were a few other places running mushroom Retreats at the time, however, I visited a few of them and I didn’t resonate with the way that they held the space.

Some just gave you the medicine in a pill form and you turned on your headphones and fussed with a playlist and did the journey all on your own. No ceremony. No sacred honor.

I could do that at home 🙈😆

I had spent the past three years in the mountains of Ecuador, studying the ways of the Camino Rojo: indigenous, beautiful sacred Ceremony that prioritizes the community, prayer # for the Earth and for all creation, and creates a bubble of safety that is beyond just the physical world.

CEREMONY. INTENTION. JOY.

These founding principles have remained true through every iteration of who we have become as a team.

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Yucca Valley, CA
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