Private Individualized Programs
Built around one person rather than a calendar. Some come for ceremony; others for time in nature, solitude, or a longer stretch of preparation before a next step.
Built around one person.
A stay designed around you — your intentions, your circumstances, and how much support is actually useful. No two are the same.
Some people come for ceremony. Others come for time in nature, for solitude, or for an extended period of preparation before they take a next step at all. Our experience is that what happens before a ceremony often matters as much as the ceremony.
Programs run from a single day to several weeks. Part of a longer stay may be spent in a canvas tent set away in the trees, with regular contact from the team but most of the time deliberately your own.
What the stay includes.
- Accommodation on the property for the length of the stay
- Meals
- One-to-one guidance and integration
- An extended preparation period where it is useful
- Time in nature, and intentional solitude
- Breathwork and meditation
- Private ceremony where appropriate
- A traditional plant dieta where appropriate
- Continued integration after you leave
Preparation is most of it
Time in nature, stretches of silence, breathwork, meditation, writing, dietary guidance, and daily contact with someone who knows what you are working on. By the time anything else happens, most people arrive at it steadier and more present than they expected to be.
Solitude, on purpose
One defining part of a longer private stay is real time alone outdoors — a simple canvas tent set away in the trees, deliberately removed from the noise of ordinary days. There is something in slowing down enough to hear wind in the pines, watch a sunrise without rushing it, and simply be there. Many people describe that stretch as the part that mattered most.
A process, not an event
Our role is not to provide answers or to fix anyone. It is to build the conditions in which something real can happen, and then to help you carry it home.
What it feels like.
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Before
A conversation first — what you are hoping for, what is going on, and what combination of preparation, solitude, ceremony and integration would actually serve it. Some of the work starts here, weeks before you arrive.
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While you are here
Quiet, with shape. Daily contact with the team, and long stretches that are genuinely yours — walking, resting, writing, sitting with nothing to do. For some people that unstructured time turns out to be the part that mattered.
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After
Integration does not stop at the gate. What continues, and for how long, is agreed as part of the program rather than left to chance.
Every program is different. This is how they tend to be shaped.
Who comes to this.
- People for whom a fixed weekend in a group is the wrong format — because of what they are carrying, their circumstances, or simply their temperament.
- People who want more preparation, more solitude, or more time than a weekend allows.
- Anyone under a clinician's care, or taking prescribed medication, should talk to them before enquiring. Some conditions and medications make participation unsafe, and that is covered properly in the first conversation.
Sacred medicine ceremonies within this retreat are conducted by Tikkun Healing Center, an affiliated spiritual organization.
Retreat registration, accommodations, programming, and payment are managed by Tikkun Retreats. A donation is made to Tikkun Healing Center on the participant's behalf for ceremony participation.
What it costs.
Cost depends on the length of the stay and what it involves, so it is agreed in the first conversation rather than listed here.
Every program begins with a conversation. Nothing is booked before that.
Your facilitators
Aaron Stefansky
Co-founder · Lead facilitator
Aaron co-founded Tikkun and leads the retreats here. He is still studying: long dietas with master plants in the Peruvian jungle and here in Florida.
In Aaron’s words
Is the ceremony the point of the retreat?
The retreat itself is where the work comes alive. That's where we start to integrate what's coming up, start to understand our patterns, and actually get to practise some of it while we're still here, with support in the room.
What does the medicine do, then?
Medicine isn't the answer. It's one of the tools. A lot of people arrive expecting one big breakthrough that changes everything. What we start to learn is that we have a choice, and we have the ability to change our lives — and that it takes time. It isn't done in one ceremony; it follows us into the world.
Are you teaching, or guiding?
I see myself as a guide, just like a tour guide. A tour guide has been along the path, they know the ins and outs… I can be the guide to show you the way, however your journey looks, however long it may be, whatever route you want to take. I am patient. It's not about me trying to get you to a specific point, because my journey isn't over either.
How should I prepare?
Take preparation seriously. Prepare mentally and physically. Come with an intention — intention is really powerful with this medicine… Minimize distractions, whether that's screen time, smoking, or something else. Just feel.
Moishe Goldstein
Co-founder
Moishe co-founded Tikkun. He grew up in the Chabad community in Crown Heights, and came to this work the long way round — through his own years with addiction, and out the other side of them.
He spent nearly two decades inside the addiction-recovery and mental-health field, helping treatment centres around the country build honest systems for how people are admitted and looked after. That work showed him plainly what those models do well, and where they leave people standing.
At Tikkun he runs the practical side and sits in the rooms. His own view is simple: people move when they feel safe enough to be seen, and then supported to actually do something about it. He is still walking the same path he asks of anyone else.
Before you register.
How long do these usually run?
Anywhere from a single day to several weeks. Length follows what you are there for, not the other way round.
What is a plant dieta?
A period of deliberate simplicity and focused attention on one medicinal plant, rooted in Indigenous Amazonian practice: simple food, little stimulation, and a lot of time alone outdoors. It is offered where it fits, not as standard.
Do I have to take part in a ceremony?
No. Some private programs include one, some do not, and some are built entirely around preparation, solitude and integration.
Can I really stay in a tent?
Yes — a canvas tent set away in the trees, for part of a longer stay. It is simple and comfortable, and it exists because the quiet is the point.
How do I start?
With a conversation. Nothing is scheduled or paid for until we have both worked out whether this is the right thing.
Begin the conversation.
