Episode Details

Today’s two-part episode was recorded in the mountainous tropical forest of Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula, featuring a play-by-play account of my eight-day experience at Soltara Healing Center. 

These are my raw, intimate, and uncut thoughts after traveling to Costa Rica, dealing with an EMF nightmare of a hotel room, and embarking on four ayahuasca ceremonies, this time in the Peruvian Shipibo tradition — and, to be honest, I had second thoughts about putting these episodes out. 

I’m pretty much an open book on this show, don’t get me wrong, but it’s hard to be more vulnerable than the morning after an ayahuasca ceremony.

In addition to recounting the first six days of my time in Costa Rica, this episode also features an interview with Melissa Stangl, a Founding Partner and the Chief Operating Officer of Soltara Healing Center. Melissa left Corporate America back in 2015 and has since used her background in engineering, science, and management to help advance the plant medicine and psychedelic movements. She’s helping to bridge the gap between the Western world and the incredible healing potential of plant medicines and holistic health, and the way she combines compassion and science definitely helps you feel safe before embarking on this profound inner journey.

In part two of my Jungle Journey, which also releases today, I’ll share what happened on my last two days in Costa Rica, plus an interview with Todd Michael Roberts, the lead facilitator at Soltara, and Daniel Cleland, the co-founder of Soltara.

But that’s not all! 

As many of you know, this isn’t my first plant medicine retreat in Costa Rica. And when I came back from Soltara, there’s one question I got more than any other: which is better, Soltara or Rythmia? I can tell you now that neither is better or worse than the other, they’re very different experiences, but this Friday I’ll be releasing a detailed side-by-side comparison of the two Costa Rican retreats to help answer any questions you might have.

07:45 — Field Report #1: Hacks for a long flight + EMF-ridden hotel room

• I was able to meditate for nearly three hours of my flight with help from the NuCalm
• Plus a one-hour Joe Dispenza meditation to put myself in a great emotional state before arriving
• I wore earplugs from the moment I got out of my car at LAX to the moment I left the airport in Costa Rica
• Clear and TSA Precheck will help you get past a lot of the stress and chaos of the airport
• To deal with the crazy energetics of the plane, I always bring two devices: the Blushield cube and the Somavedic travel unit.
• Samina pillow for comfort
• Comrad compression socks
• Get Lambs EMF-proof beanie and underwear
• My secret weapon is my KTC Lab EMF sleeping bag (which isn’t commercially available yet, but I’ll let you all know as soon as it is)
• Vital Reaction hydrogen tabs