Preparation & Integration Programs

Taozen acts as a bridge to first help you to prepare for your experience, before transitioning into the integration of your plant medicine ceremonies to achieve long-lasting wellbeing in your daily life.
Preparation
Preparation is the personalised support we provide before a retreat. It involves getting clear on what’s driving you towards a retreat with us. This includes helping you set an intention to work with during the retreat in question. Our preparation program not only helps you prepare psychologically and emotionally, but also energetically and physically.
Integration
Integration involves making sense of and applying the insights and healing experiences gained during the retreat into one's daily life. This can be achieved through a number of methods to ensure that the benefits are integrated into one's mindset and behaviour and continue to unfold long after the final day of the retreat.
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Coaching programs

Our preparation & integration specialists come from different backgrounds and use distinct techniques in order to prepare for, harmonise and integrate the retreat over a 5 or 9-week framework.

We encourage you to read and feel into the different options available, and then make an intuitive decision on which approach you’d like to work with when you choose to join us.

Why is integration important?

Those that live in the jungle with indigenous communities do not typically follow any specific preparation and integration program. Among other reasons, this is often because their lives are already so intertwined with the medicine, meaning the jump from daily life to a ceremony and back to daily life is minimal and significantly easier to navigate than those living in a WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich & Democratic) environment.
However, a traditional Western/WEIRD lifestyle is generally not optimal as an environment for preparing and integrating plant medicine ceremonies. The stressors of work, distractions of modernity and toxic by-products of a consumerist and highly individualistic culture can be the complete antithesis of a retreat experience. Since it can be shocking and lonely to go back to our Western culture, we have created a strong integration framework to help you prepare and assimilate your experiences in a practical and lasting way.

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