Stellar Folk facilitates gatherings and guidance focused on self-discovery, with help from natureβs sacred allies. Our intention is to contribute to the ease of our collective suffering without overlooking the systems that create so much of it, to celebrate what binds us rather than what divides us and to increase our awareness and guardianship of the wonder and beauty that surrounds us.
Stellar Folk aims to bring humans togetherβwith the natural world, with each other and with themselves, holding ceremonial space for the collective evolution and growth of the soul. In essence, this means pealing off layers of fear, conditioning and what we might call colonisation, to arrive home to our authentic core: freedom and love, through safety, dignity and belonging.
We organise single and multi-day, transformational plant medicine retreats and one-on-one sessions that will hopefully bring you from your head to your heart. β‘
Stellar Folk is currently based in Ibiza (Spain) and occasionally offers events elsewhere in the world.
Words from the facilitator
Hello, Iβm Andrea.
Born in The Hague in 1987, I grew up on Ibiza, where I now live again with my partner Jeroen and our little dog Joe, after many years abroad. My lifelong passion has been exploring the intricacies of the human psyche and bodyβunderstanding the roots of our suffering and pathways to healing through presence, reciprocity, and connection with the living world.
With over 15 years of experience in energy work, various therapeutic modalities, plant medicine, and ceremony, I continue to learn and evolve in how I support the healing of trauma and repressed emotion. In 2016, this work gave rise to Stellar Folk. In 2020, following profound personal transformationsβmy own and Jeroenβsβthrough entheogens, we welcomed their guidance into our retreats. Jeroen now assists in many of the ceremonies.
My work rests on the understanding that all poison can become nectar. When we meet the shadow or the unseen parts of ourselves with compassion and curiosity, they begin to soften and integrate. We don't need to become something newβwe remember who we already are. The mushrooms are a powerful ally in this process, though not a requirement. I honour them as ancient, sacred, wise and humbling earth medicine, that can be catalysts for personal and collective liberation.
People often come seeking relief from suffering. But if weβre lucky, they leave with more than personal healingβthey leave with a deeper sense of belonging, a connection to social and/or ecological justice and a renewed love and kinship for the Earth.
We are all in this together. Everything is longing to return to Oneness.
I believe deep peace, vitality, and radical freedom come when we tend to the whole beingβmind, body, and what we might call spirit or soul. I am committed to my own continued growth through self-inquiry, somatic and psychedelic therapies, and as much time in nature as possible, our greatest teacher, as I understand that growth is never-ending, also on the side of the space holder.
My presence as a guide is informed by non-dual teachings, sacred ecology, and shamanic traditions. Iβm also devoted to land regeneration, social justice and decolonisation, which I see as inseparable from healing the individual. This has been one of the clearest teachings from the mushrooms.
My approach is somatic, trauma-informed, and shaped by the work of Gabor MatΓ©, Drs Bessel van der Kolk, Staci K. Haines and Peter Levine, alongside non-duality or Zen Buddhist teachers like Jeff Foster, Thich Nhat Hanh, Tara Brach, Louise Kay, Lisa Cairns, Gangaji, Eckhart Tolle, Anandamayi Ma, Anthony Burgs, Joanna Macy and Ram Dass.
Good to know
What I offer is to use my experience, intuition, knowledge, presence and heart to coach, guide and enable the betterment of well people, through their conscious exploration of psychedelics. You might call this guided psychedelic self-discovery.
There is a large movement of psychedelic assisted psychotherapy which is making amazing progress in treating serious mental health issues using psychedelics in controlled medical settings. This is not what I offer here. I am not, nor do I claim to be a psychologist or mental health practitioner, and it would be unethical of me to work with folks diagnosed with mental health issues.
What I can say though, is that the structure and approach of my sessions has been put together with guidance from a clinical psychologist.
As part of the intake process for these services, a personal and medical screening will take place to ensure we are able to work together. I only work with healthy people over the age of 18.
The sessions can be held in English, Spanish, Dutch or French.
And lastly: free Palestine!
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Podcast interviews.
Intentional Ceremony, Mushroom Consciousness and Womanhood in Interbeing with Stellar Folk
βFeaturing Andrea Barneveld, founder of Stellar Folk, we discuss her approach to healing through intentional ceremonies. She emphasises the integration of somatic practices, sacred earth medicine in the form of mind-altering fungi, and a deep connection to nature to facilitate personal and collective transformation. The conversation delves into themes of womanhood, interbeing, and the sacred relationship between humans and the natural world, highlighting how these elements converge in her retreats and ceremonies to support healing and belonging and interconnectedness.ββ
Interviewer: artist Bodhi Shola from Invisible Threads of Kindness
This podcast is also available on Spotify and Apple Podcast.
Symbiosis: Stellar Folkβs Healing Journey With Somatic Practices and Plant Medicine.
βJoin us for a soul-nourishing journey with Andrea Barneveld, also known as Stellar Folk, where she shares how her own journey with mental health, therapy and plant medicine has led her to create Symbiosis retreats, where participants immerse themselves in somatic experiences, guided exploration with magic fungi, mindful introspection, and nature immersion. The podcast opens with a 10-minute meditation, setting the tone for deep exploration and inner reflection.
Tune in to discover how Andrea's Symbiosis retreats are reshaping the landscape of holistic healing and empowering individuals to embrace their own path to wellness. Each retreat offers a unique opportunity to reconnect with the natural world, cultivate inner harmony, and explore the interconnectedness of mind, body, and spirit.ββ
Elisa Mantovani from Invict/us
The modern self, alienated from nature and community, has an endless craving to consume and possess, seeking to grow in compensation for the lost infinity of the interconnected, inter-existent, true self that psychedelics reveal.
β Charles Eisenstein