The retreat in the Netherlands from November 15–21, 2025 is now fully booked.

Due to continued interest, we’re exploring the possibility of offering an additional small-group retreat:

Dates: November 24–29, 2025
Duration: 5 days
Group size: Intimate and Limited

This retreat is being considered in response to heartfelt requests from a few deeply intentional seekers like you. Stay tuned—we’ll share more details soon!

If you feel called to join, please express your interest by filling out the form.

The retreat in the Netherlands from November 15–21, 2025 is now fully booked.

Due to continued interest, we’re exploring the possibility of offering an additional small-group retreat:

Dates: November 24–29, 2025
Duration: 5 days
Group size: Intimate and Limited

This retreat is being considered in response to heartfelt requests from a few deeply intentional seekers like you. Stay tuned—we’ll share more details soon!

If you feel called to join, please express your interest by filling out the form.

Are you in control of the flow of your life, or the flow of life is in control of you?

Are you feeling the calling to surrender to your inner awareness and experience true freedom?

Do you feel the inner seeker awakening within you for the greatness of the next phase of your life?

Then, let’s run away to the  peaceful northern skies  for a week and connect with the flow of cosmic consciousness.

The grass is greener on this side – literally!

Our intention is to guide you towards an awakening!

We invite you to a heart-based, holistic, and transformational journey, and the outcome of the retreat focuses on three elements of life enhancement.

What is an awakening?

Having accompanied self-healers through this journey, we have come to experience that often, we have conscious awareness of realities and insights that directly impact the well-being and success of our lives, and we try to practically incorporate them into our life or being. However, often we end up self-sabotaging in spite of the fact that we consciously comprehend the awareness and insight.

Simple awareness such as ‘smoking is a self-destructive behavior’ or ‘significant spiritual comprehension’ can be only a matter of conscious understanding if it is not actualized in the subconscious or unconscious states of your mind. That is why an individual who is well aware that smoking is a self-destructive behavior or compulsive/emotional eating is a self-destructive behavior, the moment they feel the urge, are driven by the impulse uncontrollably and end up sabotaging themselves. Similarly, even though we consciously comprehend higher spiritual truths which can enhance well-being and success in our life, it is the same dynamics of our mind that sabotage ourselves in embodying this awareness and wisdom holistically in our lives.

Hence, we come to understand that ‘conscious awareness’ of destructive behavior and higher awareness of spiritual realities or insight are not adequate to directly influence behavior modifications and life alterations. Only when you are able to ‘actualize’ the ‘conscious awareness into subconscious and unconscious transformation’, you are able to fully embody these changes in your life effortlessly, which leads to creating freedom from destructive mental, emotional, and behavioral patterns, enabling you to fully embody emotional bliss, success, and abundance naturally and effortlessly as your unconscious mind has actualized the surface level of conscious understanding and your actions, emotions, and well-being are a product of your subconscious and unconscious mind.

Thus, the actualization of conscious awareness into your subconscious and unconscious mind is the AWAKENING. All Evolving Temple programs are based on these fascinating dynamics of the human mind. We have carefully created a methodology to enable you to expand your awareness and actualize them with the power of Integrative Neuroscience, the Buddhist Meditation Practice Vipassana with a modern twist, and the power of naturally occurring Plant Energy Medicine.

This carefully crafted intervention will enable you to actualize your intentions and awareness and then solidify behavior modifications, alignments, and transformation within you effortlessly as you complete the treatment through the retreat. As you rise from the experience, you will find yourself awakened to new ways of thinking, feeling, behaving, and experiencing yourself and your world. This new actualized awareness is the awakening.

If you have been fighting invisible battles to overcome destructive behaviors and create a healthy and peaceful way of living and being, this is your opportunity to actualize your intentions and experience an awakening that is unique to you!

1. Measurable enhancement in a specific, meaningful aspect of your life from one of the elements below:

Behavior modifications:

Re-engineer a behavior, freedom from addiction, rejuvenate sexual energy, reset healthy eating, reboot body image & confidence, revitalize weight loss, conquer stress and anxiety, experience the superposition and etc.

Recovery and healing:

Heal root cause of imbalances, mental & emotional healing, freedom from fear, heal from grief, guilt & shame, emotional recovery, ancestral healing, metaphysical energy alignment, resolve an un-answered question.

Life Enhancement:

Exploration of internal relationship to self, focus on specific external relationship, a reboot of energy, reawaken creativity, expand inner wisdom of the universe, experience the power of superior states of consciousness, a spiritual awakening.

2. Literal reboot of your emotional, mental, physical, and metaphysical energy by eliminating inhibitions and reinvigorating yourself towards a pivotal point of your life for a fresh start.

3. Create lifelong soulful friendships. And connect with the mountains and the earth, rivers and the rain, tears and the fire, love and the pain, wisdom, and the magic. Then, you and the universe.

The retreat consists of therapeutic application of energy medicine commonly known as Hallucinogenic Mushrooms or Magic Mushrooms (Psilocybin).  Naturally occurring Psychedelic Plant Medicine has been shaping the development of Human Civilization, and there is evidence that the human evolutionary process has been heavily influenced by this miraculous natural medicine.

Therapeutic use of these psychedelics is clinically researched and approved for specific therapies in numerous developed countries, and Psilocybin is scientifically proven to be the safest Psychedelic substance for human consumption. 

When used in therapeutic application, Psilocybin acts as a miracle cure for clinical depression, anxiety, PTSD, and other mental illnesses. The clinical research concluded that healthy individuals benefit from Psilocybin when integrated with integrative therapies

This retreat is an invitation to a handful of seekers who are ready to connect with the unseen depths of self and the universe itself - directly! We will create a safe space for courageous and soulful reflective co-creations enabling the expansion of your conciseness and soul because it’s the energy medicine that chooses you, not the other way around!

“I’ve come to think of meditation and Psilocybin have been complementary processes for investigation of the nature of mind, and in fact, neuroimaging studies show that they both produce similar changes in brain regions related to the sense of self.

Well, if meditation represents the true course of the investigation of the mind, Psilocybin surely represents the crash course.”

Clinical Research

Depression Study: One month follow up

70% Clinically significant improvement

50% Full remission to normal

Cancer Study: Six months follow up

80% Clinically decrease in depression and anxiety

67% One of the top 5 Spiritually Meaningful Experiences in their lives

70 % One of the Top 5 Meaningful Experiences of their lives

 HEALTHY ADULTS  after one or two psilocybin sessions

About 50% single most Personally Meaningful Spiritual Experience

About 80% – Personally Meaningful Spiritual Experience

About 90% reported increased Life Satisfaction and Positive Behaviour Change, including Increased Positive Mood and Better Social Relationships.

This is an infographic representation of scientifically accurate representation of brain connections. Diagram (a) shows the brain connections at our normal awake state. Diagram (b) shows the brain connections on Psilocybin. This is hyper connected state is where the mystical experience take place and subconscious and unconscious transformation takes lace in you. Resource: Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

I am not your Healer.

In moments of distress or dis-ease, many of us quickly turn outward, seeking solace in doctors, medicine, or healers. Though these avenues provide temporary relief to the symptoms of dis-ease, the true origins of our ailments often reside deep within, periodically surfacing in our body, mind, and emotions. Genuine healing emerges when you recognize that the ultimate healer isn’t external but resides within you.

With utmost empathy and care, I am here to serve you with guidance, intervention, insight, and accountability on your path to healing. So, you are your own healer, and I’m your compass.

Fernando Sig

Founder of Evolving Temple

I am not your Healer.

In moments of distress or dis-ease, many of us quickly turn outward, seeking solace in doctors, medicine, or healers. Though these avenues provide temporary relief to the symptoms of dis-ease, the true origins of our ailments often reside deep within, periodically surfacing in our body, mind, and emotions. Genuine healing emerges when you recognize that the ultimate healer isn’t external but resides within you.

With utmost empathy and care, I am here to serve you with guidance, intervention, insight, and accountability on your path to healing. So, you are your own healer, and I’m your compass.

Fernando Sig

Founder of Evolving Temple

OUR TREATMENT METHODOLOGY

Preparation Protocol | The Ceremony | Integration Protocol

When you invest your time and energy in taking a journey to a mountaintop in the Himalayas to create an awakening, we understand the responsibility and the gravity of the outcome we boast about.

Behind the confidence, we have a unique and proven systematic protocol that has created breakthroughs beyond the expectations of our self-healers. The Psychedelic Intervention we offer at Evolving Temple embodies three carefully designed methodologies:

Preparation Protocol: Live interactive group reflection sessions. Begins six weeks prior to the mountain journey. Individual preparation sessions according to your unique personal needs. Fully online, via Zoom.

The Ceremony: (Application Protocol): Takes place during the mountain retreat in the Nethrlands.

Integration Protocol: Live interactive group integration sessions followed by the mountain journey. Individual integration sessions according to your unique personal needs. Fully online, via Zoom.

We take the clinical route to Psychedelic Intervention embodying integrated neuroscience, Vipassana (seeing or observation) derived from the Buddhist meditation technique with a modern twist and metaphysical aspects of the experience in creating subconscious and unconscious transformation in you.

The Flow of the Retreat

An AWAKENING

Prepare for an experience that provides you space to truly slow down and spend time in retrospection, reflection, and observation (Vipassana). The retreat is designed with minimal activities and promotes a serene space to truly take time for yourself. Be fully present to yourself, nature, and the mountains.

The Retreat Schedule

All our Retreats in Nepal are fully booked.

Our next retreat will take place in the Netherlands from November 24–30, 2025 (7 days, 6 nights).

While we’re unable to hold retreats in Thailand due to regulatory reasons, we’re delighted to offer our immersive experiences in the Netherlands.

5 - 7 Days Mountain Retreat incorporating Psychedelic Integration, Vipassana & Integrated Neuroscience in the mountains of Sarangkot, Nepal.

What are included?

01 October 2024

Arriving in Kathmandu

02 October 2024

Day One: Crown Chakra – The Intention

Aligning intentions for the Cosmic Journey

Look at life from extreme realities – Out in Kathmandu City

Reflective co-creation

03 October 2024

Day Two: Third Eye Chakra – The reflection

The journey begins – Travel from Kathmandu to Sarangkot by Road.

Pondering up on the window – a self-reflection

Bonfire Traditional local dinner in the mountains

04 October 2024

Day Three: Throat Chakra – Self Expression

Finding inner expression: Nature Trial and Walking Meditation

Ceremony One (three selected healers)

Self-Expression & Creativity

Pokhara City walk and Traditional Local dinner by the Phewa Lake.

05 October 2024

Day Four: Heart Chakra – The Emotion

Sailing on Phewa Lake and walking in the nature

Ceremony Two (three selected healers)

Quantum Healing

06 October 2024

Day Five: Solar Plexus – The core

Energy Alignments and Cosmic Alignments

Your inner and outer universe

Womb work and inner child healing

Connect with the earth and the skies.

Traditional Local dinner by the Phewa Lake.

07 October 2024

Day Six: Sacral Chakra – Rebirth and Creation

Group Ceremony

Rebirthing a new self – group Integration session

Rebirth – Bonfire & celebration

08 October 2024

Day Seven: Root Chakra – The grounding

Travel from Sarangkot to Kathmandu by Road.

Pondering up on the window – a grounding reflection

Dinner in Kathmandu City

09 October 2024

 Departure from Kathmandu

Your home in the himalayas

Hotel Annapurna View, Sarangkot

Hotel Annapurna is a place where ancient Japanese architecture meets modern luxury located at a height of 1600 meters at Sarangkot, Pokhara. This luxury resort feels like going on a retreat without having to leave your home. The breathtaking view of the mountain ranges, combined with luxury and the comfort of the hotel room, is literally a doorway to the mountains right from your bed. The hotel is strategically positioned at the end of the Mountain range, hidden away in nature, and surprises you with a window to the Annapurna Mountain Range from one side, and on the other, you experience the expansiveness of Pokhara Valley and Phewa Lake. The hotel staff goes beyond the heartwarming Nepali hospitality, making your stay truly celebrated. When we were looking for the location for this retreat and, by chance, arrived upon this property, we instantly knew that we had just found it, and we invite you to a serene experience in the magnificent nature.

Secure your Seat now

FLEXIBLE

$3600 $ 3,000
Offer Valid Until 1st of August
  • 7-day Retreat
  • One guided energy medicine ceremony
  • One guided group energy medicine ceremony
  • Comprehensive post-ceremony integration throughout the retreat.
  • Post-ceremony support and assistance.
  • Two individual intention-setting reflective conversations
  • Six small group preparation sessions
  • Six small group integration sessions
  • Observation Meditation at Pashupatinath temple
  • Walking meditation on nature trails in the lush forests
  • Experiences of local traditional cuisine
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If you are interested in joining the retreat in November 2025, please submit your expression of interest to join by completing the form below. We will get back to you within three business days with an appointment for an initial consultation.

Fernando Hettiyadura – Your Lead Guide

As an unusually curious child, Fernando Hettiyadura, from a young age, embarked on a journey of self-discovery and healing, driven by his personal experiences with childhood trauma. His path, marked by a commitment to reflective practices and self-exploration, led him to the powerful realm of plant-based psychedelic medicine. This pivotal encounter unveiled the transformative potential of psychedelic integration, reshaping his understanding of the healing potential and evolutionary capacity of the human mind.

Driven by deep passion, he devoted his life to sharing this journey with other seekers. He founded Evolving Temple, Ignite Global, Awaken Mind Guide, and the Global Center for Reflective Practices and Consciousness, organizations dedicated to exploring the depths of the human mind and its potential.

Fernando’s pioneering work includes the introduction of the world’s first Psychedelic Integration Professional Coaching Qualification accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF) for Advanced Psychedelic Practitioners. This program blends coaching science and psychology with psychedelic integration as a unique methodology.

As an ICF Master Certified Coach and an Eclectic Psychotherapist with over 20 years of experience and 4,000+ hours of documented therapeutic practice, Fernando brings a unique focus to integrating various therapeutic approaches, professional coaching, and Vipassana into his practice, blending clinical and metaphysical aspects in an intentional and mindful balance. His role as a healing practitioner further extends as an educator, mentor, and supervisor for advanced professionals in reflective practices, encompassed by his unique experiences, deep empathy, and nurturing professional insight. Fernando’s work in this field is aimed at gently yet comprehensively guiding individuals and professionals toward greater personal, professional, and spiritual evolution making positive impact at the global scale, co-creating world peace as a ripple effect.

His academic background includes an MSc in Counseling Psychology, postgraduate certification in Ayurveda Psychology, certification in Clinical Regression, and psychiatry coursework from Harvard University. He is currently pursuing a Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Psychology, and a PhD in Psychology, researching the use of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy in treating childhood trauma.

Watch this video of Fernando Hettiyadura addressing Psychedelic Intervention with Coaches, Therapists, and Doctors during International Coaching Week 2023.

An intention has no meaning to me unless it expresses an element of love.

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