Blue lotus and hypnosis: a gentle way to prepare for your truffle ceremony

Ask participants afterwards what the hardest part of their ceremony was, and the answer is rarely the truffles themselves. It is letting go. That is why we offer an optional preparation: the Journey Deep Dive, a guided hypnosis session with blue lotus tea, the day before your ceremony.

Kelly Schuller, orthopedagogue and ceremony facilitator with us:

In a truffle ceremony it is very important that you surrender. That you can go along with it, that you feel safe, that you can let whatever comes up happen.

What gets in the way is usually not a lack of courage, but what Kelly calls the mental wall: resistance, and the urge to stay in control. That wall is understandable. In everyday life it has often served you well. During a ceremony, though, it can keep you standing at the edge for a long time.

Blue lotus, Nymphaea caerulea, is a water lily that was already used in ancient Egypt. It is legally available in the Netherlands and it is not a psychedelic. We make a tea from it. You lie down, you stay awake and present throughout the session, and you can talk with us at any time.

Participants often describe the tea as relaxing, and Kelly sees that too: people settle down. That makes it easier to let the hypnosis take you along.

While you lie down, we take you inward with guided hypnosis. Kelly describes it as a small foretaste:

With the guided hypnosis we already take you on a small foretaste, into the subconscious. In a safe, gentle way, so that you feel safe and your body is more open to it.

In her words, that lets you start working on the mental wall in a very kind way. You also get used to the room and to our voices, and you can set an intention for the day after. The session takes about two hours.

What Kelly sees in participants is that the next day they can go into their journey more quickly and more deeply, because they have already practised letting go once. They feel safer and find it easier to surrender.

That is her experience, not a promise. Nobody can say beforehand how a ceremony will unfold, not even after good preparation.

The Journey Deep Dive is entirely optional and is not a standard part of a ceremony. It takes place the day before your ceremony at our practice in Vijfhuizen, with others or privately. If you have booked a ceremony and would like to add it, mention it in the intake call or get in touch. We will then send you an invitation with the available times.

Do you take any medication, or are you pregnant? Let us know first, so we can go through it with you. More about the rest of your preparation is under preparing for a psilocybin ceremony.