Sacred Peaks Retreat

Psilocybin Mushroom Retreat in Boulder, Colorado, United States
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  • Retreat Info

    About the Retreat:

    Sacred Peaks Retreat offers Nature-Based Psilocybin Retreats in the Colorado Foothills.

    An immersive mountain sanctuary offering licensed natural medicine experiences, wilderness integration, breathwork, yoga therapy, health coaching, and private on-site lodging.

    Nestled at 7,500 feet in the Arapahoe National Forest just outside Boulder, Colorado, Sacred Peaks Retreat is a private mountain sanctuary where healing unfolds in relationship with the natural world. Surrounded by the iconic peaks that inspired its name—Bear Peak, South Boulder Peak, and the Green Mountain Range—our retreat offers a peaceful setting for guided psilocybin experiences rooted in safety, reverence, and lasting transformation.

    The land offers expansive mountain views, abundant wildlife, a sky-deck hot tub, and private forest trails for guided integration walks, where movement, breath, and the living landscape become powerful allies in embodying the wisdom of the journey.

    A signature feature of Sacred Peaks Retreat is Colorado's only legally designated Outdoor Administration Area.

    Set on a spacious, covered flagstone patio with unobstructed views of Green Mountain, Bear Peak, and the Indian Peaks Wilderness, this protected outdoor setting invites participants to remain immersed in the sights, sounds, and rhythms of the natural world while enjoying comfort, shelter, and immediate access to the indoor healing center.

    Guided by the quiet intelligence of wilderness and the profound teachings of mushroom medicine, Sacred Peaks Retreat is dedicated to helping people reconnect with themselves, deepen their relationship with the Earth, and remember their innate capacity to heal, grow, and live with greater authenticity.

    Description of Services:

    Within the ecotherapeutic setting, we will co-create an intentional journey, preparing as we would for a wilderness backcountry expedition — equipping ourselves with the appropriate gear, skills, and navigational tools so we can venture boldly, and meet the medicines with preparation and reverence.

    The inherent ‘ecodelic’ or ‘eco-visionary’ properties of psilocybin mushrooms enhance and amplify our connection to nature, expand our awareness, and our subtle energies entrain with the wild, healing landscape.

    The mushroom tea ceremony at Sacred Peaks is rooted in the spirit of adventure and exploration, harkening back to the early days of tossing handfuls of mushrooms into a vat of ginger tea, loading it into a Camelbak, and snowboarding under the full moon at Loveland Pass.

    Now with precision, intention, and skillful action, the dosing employed at our retreat is calculated based on the Johns Hopkins research, the potency of the mushroom strain, and your visions and intentions.

    Traverse | Transform | Transcend

    An immersive 3- month program combining psilocybin-assisted journeys, microdosing, breathwork, and coaching to support deep healing, expanded awareness, and lasting lifestyle transformation.

    Psilocybin Journeys & Offerings

    Full-day, or multi-day guided experiences supported by music, nature immersion and personalized care.

    • Stay overnight at the Sacred Suite to optimize post-journey reflection, and nature immersion/gentle hike integration

    Alchemical Breathwork Sessions

    • Curated music and body scan meditation
    • Includes: Preparation +  integration session

    Integrative Yoga Therapy

    By combining the subtle, yet potent effects of breath, movement, and meditative awareness, this practice becomes a powerful integration tool — ideal before or after deep journey, or as a stand-alone modality for nervous system healing and insight.

    • Releases somatic tension and trauma stored in fascia and the nervous system
    • Refines energetic sensitivity, allowing deeper connection to subtle body awareness
    • Cultivates emotional resilience through grounded nervous system regulation

    Wellness Coaching & Journey Preparation/Integration

    As your facilitator and coach, I integrate this knowledge into our work together — helping you nourish both your body and psyche in tandem.

    Whether you’re microdosing, preparing for a deep dive psilocybin journey, or integrating life-changing insights, gut-centered wellness, and nervous system resilience is integral to the path.

    Prepare your system not just mentally and spiritually, but biologically — through tailored protocols that include:

    • Preparation: Supporting the microbiome with whole-food nutrition & supplementation can cultivate a more receptive inner terrain for the medicine.
    • Administration: A balanced gut may affect how your body metabolizes psychedelics, shaping the onset, depth, and duration of the journey.
    • Integration: Post-journey, a healthy gut biome can help anchor insights, improve mood stability & durability,  and enhance emotional resilience long after the ceremony ends.
    • Accessible and gentle, tailored to your unique needs, abilities, and intentions

    Combine an psycholytic (low-dose cannabis or mushrooms) state with a yoga therapy session to develop, deepen and track somatic experiencing.

    Cannabis- Assisted Psychedelic Therapy

    When used with intention, cannabis can offer deep somatic release and emotional clarity.

    Ideal for a gentle entry into altered states, emotional release, and creative insight.

    • Duration: ~ 6 hours
    • Intention setting/ vision creation session + post-journey align/design session
    • Curated music set and body scan meditation
    • Pair with alchemical breathwork for a deeper psychedelic experience

    Microdosing

    45-day protocol includes daily tracker, Intention setting guide + Integration Handbook

    Practitioners:

    Karen Bakke MBPG, NMIT, BSC
    Joe Reid, LSW, NMIT
    Dave Cook, LSCSW, LCAC, NMIT

    Team/Medical Staff:

    Karen Bakke MBPG, NMIT, BSC
    Joe Reid, LSW, NMIT
    Dave Cook, LSCSW, LCAC, NMIT

  • Details

    Founder(s) / CEO: Karen Bakke
    Group Size: 1-6
    Price Range: $225 - $7117

  • Our Process

    Overview of Experience:

    Full-day, or multi-day guided experiences supported by music, nature immersion and personalized care.

    Each journey includes two preparation sessions & one post-journey integration session (3 hours total).

    Duration of mushroom journey: 6 – 8 hours

    Journey will commence in the morning to allow for optional booster dose.

    Custom mushroom tea ceremony, curated music set & body scan meditation.

    Stay overnight at the Sacred Suite to optimize post-journey reflection, and nature immersion/gentle hike integration

    Additional sessions are available and offered as a package discount.

    Each retreat guest is given my Sacred Peaks Retreat Field Guide; a 28-page Psilocybin Preparation & Integration Expedition Guidebook.

    Intake Process:

    Eligibility & Safety

    In alignment with Colorado’s Natural Medicine guidelines, psilocybin services are not appropriate for everyone and always require a confidential health screening.

    Our goal is to ensure this work is safe, efficacious, and supportive, and we are available to explore alternative or preparatory options and/or consult with your current health care provider.

    Step 1 — Initial Consultation & Screening
    After we receive your interest form and if you meet eligibility requirements, we will schedule an initial consultation to explore your intentions and determine whether this work is an appropriate fit.

    During this conversation we review health history, answer questions, and discuss your hopes for the journey. This step helps ensure safety, establish trust, and begin shaping the container for the work ahead.

    Step 2 — Preparation Sessions
    Preparation sessions are designed to orient and equip participants to enter the journey space with greater readiness in body, mind, and spirit. Together, we strengthen the container for the experience by preparing the nervous system, supporting the physical body, clarifying intention, and cultivating the capacity to remain present with intensity and the unexpected. Preparation also provides essential time to deepen resonance, rapport, trust, and the relationship between facilitator and journeyer, creating a stronger foundation of safety and connection. Rather than preparing for a particular outcome, this work cultivates greater steadiness, openness, and capacity to meet and hold whatever emerges during the journey.

    We will explore practices that support openness, emotional readiness, and the ability to navigate the journey with curiosity and trust.

    Step 3 — Administration Session
    The administration session is the psilocybin experience itself, held in an intentional and supportive environment designed to encourage inward exploration.

    Your facilitator remains present throughout the session to provide guidance and support while allowing the experience to unfold naturally. Many journeys include periods of quiet reflection, music, and rest as participants explore their inner landscape.

    Step 4 — Integration Session
    After the journey, we meet to reflect on the experience and begin weaving insights into everyday life. Integration sessions provide space to process emotions, themes, and discoveries that may have emerged during the session.

    This step helps translate the experience into meaningful and lasting change.

    We can hold integration sessions on site, neighborhood hiking trails, or on Zoom if you are not local.

    Step 5 — Ongoing Integration & Health Coaching
    For those who wish to continue the work, additional integration or health coaching sessions are available. These sessions support the continued unfolding of insights and help integrate new perspectives into daily life through supportive practices and intentional action.

    Healing and transformation often deepen within the Critical Learning Period following the journey.

    Supplemental Modalities: Yoga Therapy, Breathwork, Meditation, Nutritional Health Coaching, and Microdosing.
    Psychedelic Substances Offered: Psilocybin and Cannabis
    How does this Center source medicine?:

    Xochi Laboratories, a state-licensed mushroom cultivation facility

    Practice reciprocity with local communities?: Yes

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    1 Review on “Sacred Peaks Retreat”

    • Mary P. 3 weeks ago

      There aren’t enough wonderful words or adjectives to describe how beautiful my experience was with Karen at Sacred Peaks retreat.
      I’d done so much personal work to try and free myself, but I was stuck with these trapped childhood traumas and triggers that were making my life difficult. I had always wanted to try psychedelics but I live in Florida. My husband and I had an upcoming trip to Colorado and he found this place, which turned out to be more perfect than what I could have dreamt up in my wildest dreams.
      I was hesitant because I feared reliving the traumas and i also have trust issues. One zoom meeting with Karen, and I felt comfortable with her knowledge and professionalism, along with her heart being in the right place to help people heal.
      When I arrived I was greeted with a warm loving embrace and felt so at ease and safe (priceless). I believe Karen’s vision and thoughtful creation of this tranquil and sacred space immersed in nature, helped me to surrender totally to the process and to trust in the healing possibilities of the medicinal mushrooms.
      The medicine took me deep beyond ordinary awareness to my inner child and I was able to release trapped emotions without reliving them. Karen was gently guiding me through the process the whole way, along with her trusted “ co- facilitator” dog Tulsi. It was crazy how intuitive he was and knew just what to do at certain times. I could probably write a book on this experience because it was so beautiful and freeing and transformative. I rank the experience up there with holding my children after birth for the first time. I will be forever grateful to Karen for all the ways she guided me through the whole process and gave me a safe place to heal naturally. She truly is a gift to this world.

      Mary P, Tampa Bay Florida

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