12/10/2026
The Returning to Wholeness initiative brings together a psilocybin journey with movement, creativity, joy and community.
Created for women living with or beyond cancer, it speaks to the often unacknowledged layers of the experience - the grief, the fear, the exhaustion, the sense of disconnection that can linger long after treatment ends.
Through dance, movement, creativity, nature connection, music, song and a carefully supported psilocybin journey, participants are invited to rebuild trust, deepen awareness and allow themselves to feel more.
Across the retreat, these different modalities form an ecosystem of support, creating space to soften and slow down… to be truly seen, accepted and guided in coming home to the body.
At the heart of the retreat is a belief in the power of creativity and clinical expertise, science and lived experience, the body and the mind, vulnerability and joy, the individual and the community.
Participants speak of profound change, of meeting parts of themselves long buried, of relating to their illness in a new way and of feeling more open. A sense of wholeness found through spaciousness between thoughts, through felt compassion, through braving vulnerability and through feeling an embodied sense of aliveness.
This short film is a glimpse into some of those experiences - and into what becomes possible when women are held with care and respect.
Returning to Wholeness was created by Dr. Lauren Macdonald Emily Jenkins and Dr Catherine Zollman, with us Move Dance Feel and Drug Science alongside, as well as a select team of medics and facilitators.
🎥 Filmed and edited by Alice Underwood Films
