Essence to Essence, in collaboration with Toad.School, invites you into
WHOLENESS
Have you ever had tea with your soul?
What might you discover beneath the familiar?
Come with curiosity.
WHOLENESS is an intimate intentional ceremony, held across two live online circles
for preparation and integration and one in person ceremony day.
You are invited through an application and suitability review.
The Journey
Each WHOLENESS gathering honours the rhythm of its season,
weaving ceremony alongside our everyday lives.
Live Online Preparation | In-Person Ceremony in Calgary area | Live Online Integration
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Applications are currently NOT OPEN but if you feel interested, please join the waitlist. We will begin with a confidential intake and thoughtful suitability review, soon.
This process offers space to explore your intentions, reflect and consider together whether your participation can be safely and responsibly supported within this container. -
Date/Time TBD · Live online circle
A 1.5-hour circle to meet one another, co-create the shared container, and prepare practically, emotionally and spiritually for ceremony.
Together, we will gently explore the astrological themes accompanying this seasonal journey.
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Date / Time TBD
An intimate ceremonial day held on private land in Calgary area, followed by time for grounding, connection and a shared community dinner.
Wholeness is not the outcome. It is the ground from which we begin ♡
We will gather on the land with time to arrive, settle into the space and reconnect with the small circle before ceremony begins.The day is intentionally spacious, allowing room for individual pacing, ceremony, quiet, grounding and connection.
Afterward, we will not hurry the return. We will come back together over food and share a community meal before making our way home.
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Date/Time TBD · Live online circle
A circle for reflection, meaning-making and exploring how your experience may become embodied within your relationships and everyday Life.
During this gathering, we will also explore whether the group feels drawn to continue an optional three-month integration circle, meeting online every two weeks. This extended journey will be shaped and offered only if there is shared interest.
Come as you are
You do not need to arrive fearless, certain or somehow spiritually prepared.
You may feel curious. Nervous. Excited. Tender. Skeptical. Quiet. Ready. Not quite ready.
All of that can have a place here.
There will be time to settle into the land, meet the small circle and find your place in the space. There is no particular experience you are supposed to have, and yours does not need to resemble anyone else's.
After ceremony, we will not hurry the return. There will be room for quiet, warmth, food, laughter, tears, conversation or simply some space around you. We will share a meal before leaving the land.
Between ceremony and integration, there is time for rest, everyday life and noticing what unfolds.
Integration comes later, with room for what happened to settle into the ordinary texture of your life.
Gently expand your relationship to the WHOLENESS already alive within you.
Held in relationship
In a circle this small, there is time for us to meet each other as heart to heart
Dr. Trina and Oasis bring different forms of knowledge and care to the circle, held together by a shared commitment to safety, sovereignty, curiosity and the dignity of each person's unique experience.
Dr. Trina Nguyen
Ceremonialist · The Dharmacist · Toad.School
Dr. Trina Nguyen, also known as The Dharmacist, is a Doctor of Pharmacy, a psychedelic safety consultant and founder of Toad.School. She brings two decades of experience across pharmacy, hospital administration and medicinal research and has provided psychedelic-safety consultations to more than one hundred journeyers and guides.
Within WHOLENESS, she brings together pharmacological knowledge, harm reduction, spiritual practice and ceremonial service.
Oasis Heart
Integration Facilitator · Essence to Essence
Oasis Heart is an Energy and Psychedelic Integration Facilitator, community builder and founder of Essence to Essence. Her work is rooted in lived experience and grounded in more than twenty years of entrepreneurship, a longstanding commitment to personal transformation, and embodied sovereignty.
Oasis brings to WHOLENESS a decade of somatic awareness practices, nervous-system literacy, shadow safety, and intentional journey preparation and integration focused on relationship and depth.