Globetrender

Beckley Retreats prescribes psychedelic wellness for burnt out execs

Since launching in 2021, the number of entrepreneurs and corporate professionals joining retreats has doubled year on year Read More>

3 Magazine

The Allure of Luxury Psychedelic Retreats

High achievers are turning to this growing trend in wellness tourism to find clarity, calm and a new level of consciousness. Read More>

Daily Mail

struggled with depression for more than 50 years... until I came across this brutal miracle cure that fixed everything

I’m on a magic mushroom trip at a psychedelic retreat in the Netherlands and it is blowing my mind. I’ve done some pretty wild things in my travels, but the craziest journey I’ve ever taken is this one inside my own head. Read More>

WTSP-TV (St Petersburg, FL)

Transformative wellness retreats: the perfect way to relax after the holidays

When it comes to true restoration, not all wellness retreats are created equal. Read More>

Amy West Travel

Three Transformative Wellness Retreats Changing How We Reset

For travelers seeking something deeper than a vacation — an experience that nurtures the mind, body, and spirit — wellness retreats around the world are redefining what it means to recharge. Read More>

Time & Leisure

Can Magic Mushrooms Take on Menopause?

Hot flushes. Brain fog. Erratic periods. Insomnia. Sore joints. If you’re a woman of a certain age, you’ll know we’re talking about the dreaded perimenopause. But that list of symptoms barely touches the sides. It’s arguably the insidious psychological symptoms – a pervasive malaise, unfathomable snappiness, a semi-permanent dusting of anxiety – that are more soul destroying. This latter set of symptoms, less physical and often less discussed, are the ones that, for me, suck the joy out of life. But there may be a way to replenish this joy: psilocybin, AKA magic mushrooms. Read More>

i newspaper

I took magic mushrooms for the menopause – they restored my joy

It’s a Tuesday afternoon in a Utrecht forest. I’m lying on a mattress in a sun-dappled studio, part of a group about to embark on a journey where our bodies remain stationary, but our minds travel to other places, other times. Soon, some of us are thrashing around, reliving the trauma of childbirth. Some are screaming on behalf of their oppressed female ancestors. One is muttering ‘f**king men’. All of us are crying. Sobbing. Howling, in fact. And yet some of us are also laughing. Life-affirming, uncontrollable hysterics. Every human emotion is being felt in this group of nine brave women. Read More>

Hip and Healthy

The Best Wellness Retreats

Retreats could well be the highest form of self-care. How often do you dedicate time solely to yourself? Between juggling work-life chaos, one of the only ways to truly unwind is by stepping off the hamster wheel and hitting the reset. As our lifestyles demand more and more from us, the retreat industry has evolved. What was once a relatively small market has come on leaps and bounds in the past 5 years, with every retreat option imaginable coming to fruition. Read More>

Healing Maps

Do Psychedelics Make CEOs Quit Their Jobs?

Recent social media discussions have sparked a debate about the impact of psychedelic experiences on Silicon Valley executives, with some venture capitalists claiming that CEOs are quitting their jobs after using substances like psilocybin and ayahuasca Read More>

The Purist

Top Wellness Resorts + Retreats

Purist’s guide to the best luxury and wellness getaways around the globe. Read More>

Evening Standard

The Beckley Retreat: a trip of a lifetime?

I’m sitting under tent canvas, eye-mask on, swaddled like a newborn in a linen blanket. There is a woman singing a Jamaican folk song somewhere in the distance and the air is perfumed with sage and incense. Time and space are abstract concepts and I’m overwhelmed by a deep feeling of surrender. I think I might be sobbing. Welcome to Jamaica’s Good Hope Estate, a 200-acre former plantation which is now also the home to the Beckley Retreats. Read More>

Keep Going

Keep Going University: Finding Space to Change

What stood out wasn’t just the psychedelic retreats, or even Amanda Feilding’s remarkable legacy. It was the way Neil described burnout, recovery, and the hard choices people face when they feel stuck. Read More>

Keep Going

Keep Going: From Combat and Burnout to Psychedelic Healing

How Neil went from combat deployments and corporate burnout to guiding people through psilocybin retreats in Jamaica and the Netherlands. Read More>

Financial Times

Amanda Feilding – The First Lady of LSD

A low mist is hovering above the fens on either side of the mile-long track to Beckley Park. This patchwork of marshland is said to have inspired Lewis Carroll’s mind-bending chessboard in Alice Through the Looking Glass, and on this eerie morning such strangeness tilts the perspective. The feeling is heightened by the knowledge that at the end of the path is a house not only steeped in intrigue dating back to King Alfred, but one whose current châtelaine, Amanda Feilding, has for almost 60 years been a passionate agitator in “The Psychedelic Renaissance." Read More>

Essence

Fall Apart Without Fear: Inside My Psychedelic Wellness Experience In Jamaica

I didn’t expect to sob, to soften, or to be seen so fully. But at a retreat for women of color, psilocybin helped me release what I didn’t know I was carrying. Read More>

Marijuana Moment

Psychedelic Retreats ‘Significantly Improved’ Mental Health For Military Veterans With PTSD And Depression, Study Finds

Psilocybin and ayahuasca retreats significantly improved veterans’ mental well-being, quality of life, PTSD, anxiety, depression, sleep, concussion, and post-deployment reintegration. Read More>

Medium

Trippy trips: Why psychedelic tourism is the future of wellness travel

What comes to your mind when you hear the word “psychedelic”? A hippy crowd at 70s Woodstock? But what if it can set you apart from competition in the travel sector? Read More>

The Times UK

How ‘Magic Mushrooms’ Helped Me to Face My Grief

I’m sitting in a room on a converted farm in the Dutch countryside 25 miles from Amsterdam with 15 people I have only just met when I am handed a cup of psychedelic truffles. I’d been curious about the mental health benefits of psilocybin — the psychedelic compound found in magic mushrooms and (some) truffles — for years, and had dabbled with microdosing. It had had a positive impact on my mental health, making me feel a bit lighter. Read More>

Service 95

“The Medicine Will Show You What You Need”: How A Week At A Psilocybin Retreat In Jamaica Rewired My Mind

Thousands of years ago, psilocybin – the active compound in magic mushrooms – was used in sacred ceremonies for healing and transformation. Read More>

Jamaica Gleaner

What’s in a psilocybin retreat?

Guests have shared they were drawn by the desire to accelerate personal growth, expand self-awareness, and tap into deeper layers of creativity and performance. Read More>

GlobeTrender

Beckley Retreats believes psychedelics are the future of wellness

Once considered taboo, psychedelic retreats are now emerging as a legitimate branch of transformational travel in the luxury sector. Read More>

GlobeTrender

Globetrender’s highlights from the first-ever SXSW London

We highlight five standout discussions from across the festival that have a direct bearing on the future of travel. Read More>

Vogue

Are Psychedelic Retreats the Future of Wellness Travel?

Statistics show incredible opportunity at the intersection of psychedelics and tourism, especially in the form of retreats. But why are people drawn to them in the first place? When looking at the data, the answer seems to be mental health. Read More>

Telegraph UK

The Countess of Wemyss, trepanning enthusiast who researched the medical benefits of psychedelics

Known to the public as Amanda Feilding, she was dubbed ‘the crackpot Countess’ but her championing of LSD has come to be vindicated Read More>

The Sybarite

The Best Luxury Psychedelic Retreats Around the World

Not long ago, psychedelic retreats were something you had to hear about through word of mouth. Now, the scene has changed dramatically. Read More>

Global Newswire

Psychedelic Science 2025 Expands Business Track, Announces Select Speakers and Featured Sessions

nvestors, Entrepreneurs, and Industry Experts to Convene at the Premier Psychedelic Science Business Forum in Denver Read More>

Psychedelics Today

Combining Modern Science, Tradition, and Holistic Wellness

Interview with Co-Founder and CEO of Beckley Retreats, Neil Markey. Markey describes Beckley Retreats as comprehensive well-being programs, and talks about the importance of holistic wellness. He breaks down the details of the retreats and what they look for in facilitators, and tells a few success stories that really highlight how trauma, opposing ideas, and an infatuation with material objects and amassing wealth can all get in the way of real relationships and meaning. Read More>

Condé Nast Traveler

Psychedelic Travel Experiences Are More Popular Than Ever

Psychedelic retreats are becoming increasingly popular. Why now? Because a growing body of research into the therapeutic benefits of long-illegal psychedelic compounds is becoming widely available, making their therapeutic use less stigmatized for the first time. Read More>

Frederick News Post

Take the trip of a lifetime: Psilocybin is changing lives at Beckley Retreats

Rooted in our pioneering legacy, modern science, and ancient wisdom, we offer holistic, communal psychedelic programs designed to improve well-being. Read More>

Business Insider

100 People Transforming Business

The psychedelics industry is experiencing a renaissance, but Feilding is no stranger to the potential that compounds like psilocybin and LSD have for consciousness and mental health. Over the past 50 years, Feilding has helped to design and fund study after study through Beckley Foundation to better understand how psychedelic compounds work in the brain and how they can be used as medicines. Read More>

New Zealand Herald

I went on a posh magic mushroom retreat. Here’s what I learnt

Research says some hallucinogenics could be as effective as antidepressants. Times fashion editor and mother of two Harriet Walker checks into a psychedelic retreat to see if tripping can stop her feeling so stressed. Read More>

Well Intelligence

Whether leading or being led, get to know yourself

The first half of last year was overwhelm central. Later, a few things took shape that I hadn’t specifically planned for but knew without hesitation, they were gifted opportunities. I embarked on an eleven week psychedelic programme with Beckley Retreats followed immediately by a 42 day Mandala (a space for transformation) in India. Read More>

NR Times

A new frontier in psychedelic TBI treatment

The non-profit organisation Heroic Hearts is carrying out groundbreaking research looking at the impact of psilocybin – the psychoactive compound found in a variety of mushrooms – on traumatic brain injury (TBI) in military veterans. Read More>

Bangkok Post

5 wellness retreat trends in 2025, from sexual healing and psychedelics to horse therapy

Psychedelic Retreats are growing in profile as a result, usually multi-day programmes in groups where guests are administered psychoactive substances to improve their mental health. Read More>

Emerald Magazine

The Wellness Retreat Renaissance Normalizes Psychedelic Therapy

Making social progress, psychedelic wellness retreats are attracting clients who seek natural remedies for anxiety, depression, trauma, eating disorders, and more Read More>

European Spa Magazine

Psychedelic Retreats: A Wellbeing Frontier

Psychedelic Medicine is heralded by some as the next mental health frontier. As our understanding of the possibilities around expanded consciousness grows, could this mark a shift change for the wellness industry? Read More>

Yale Daily News

Mind-altering remedies: inside the new wave of psychedelic research

A new effort into studying psychedelic substances for mental health treatment is getting attention from researchers at Yale and beyond. Read More>

Double Blind Magazine

Psychedelic Legend Amanda Feilding is Turning 80—And Her Retreats are Open for Business

Major players such as Beckley Retreats, co-founded by Amanda Feilding, are now offering psychedelic healing retreats in progressive locations like the Netherlands and Jamaica—countries that have swiftly, and officially in the latter case, unshackled hallucinogens ahead of the majority of the west. Read More>

Max Afterburner

Transforming Trauma: Neil Markey's Journey from Battlefield to Mindfulness and Psychedelics

Neil shares his journey from serving as a Captain in the US Army Special Operations 2nd Ranger Battalion, with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, to overcoming depression and PTSD during his time as a Columbia University graduate student. Read More>

RoadBook

Illustration: Matthew Johnston Hedonism, healing and credible science – where next for drug tourism?

Psychedelic retreats are booming, and evolving science and legislation are opening up new destinations. We explore the intersection of drugs and tourism and ask what’s next for those who fly to get high Read More>

Condé Nast Traveller

The rise of psychedelic retreats: the most intrepid, life-changing trip

So far, four weeks post-retreat, I feel calmer and clearer, my mood noticeably lighter – it’s as if a surgeon has excised a swamp from my brain. Life-changing? Very probably. Read More>

Mind Hack

How Psychedelics Transformed My Life A Journey of Healing

Dive into the transformative potential of psychedelics as a tool for self-healing and well-being Read More>

Country & Town House

Tripping with Truffles: Beckley Retreats

My ambition was to break my scarcity mindset around money. I liked the idea of busting my financial block without effort – thinking my way out of this conundrum had not been yielding results. So I signed up to Beckley Retreats, a sister organisation to the Beckley Foundation. Read More>

Travel Begins at 40

Transformational Journeys: Exploring the Healing Power of Psychedelic Retreats for Midlife Renewal

n recent years, a growing number of midlife adults have been turning to alternative methods for personal transformation and healing, including carefully guided psychedelic experiences. Read More>

Lifeblood

Understanding Psilocybin with Neil Markey

We talked about the benefits of psilocybin, what it is and does, who it benefits, what it replaces and what it doesn’t, how perceptions about it have evolved, and what the future holds. Read More>

The Dales Report

Does Beckley Retreats Offer The World’s Best?

Today we take you through a transformative journey as we meet with Neil Markey, co-founder and CEO of Beckley Retreats. Beckley Retreats promises ‘a transformative journey that meets you where you are’ using psilocybin ceremonies in a supportive retreats setting. It’s considered one of the best psychedelic retreats in the world. Read More>

The Science Times

The New Leadership Retreat: Psychedelics with Your CEO

Beckley Retreats is one of the leaders in this emerging field, offering psychedelic retreats where they guide participants through personalized and supervised psychedelic experiences, all while focusing on personal growth. Read More>

Fortune

How psychedelic mushrooms helped four leaders reinvent their leadership styles

im MacPhee, 66, the former COO of Walt Disney World, told Fortune that he never expected to join the ranks of early magic mushroom adopters after retiring from his C-suite job Read More>

Trip On This Podcast

Army Ranger Veteran to Mushroom Retreats

Neil Markey is the CEO & Co-Founder of the Beckley Retreats in Jamaica. As an Army Ranger Veteran, Neil takes us through his time in the military, moving into the corporate world and how he ultimately met Amanda Fielding to co-create the Beckley Retreats. Read More>

Benzinga

Psychedelics 2024: Veterans Blessing, Mental Health Paradigm Shift, Providers Training, Ketamine-MDMA Bonds & More

Neil Markey, co-founder of Jamaica and Netherlands-based Beckley Retreats, sees psychedelics' use will likely evolve into "the betterment of the well.” Read More>

The Standard UK

The Beckley Retreat: a trip of a lifetime?

A psilocybin retreat was never going to be a walk in the park, but Dipal Acharya didn’t expect the magic to be quite like this journey Read More>

fDi Insights

Beckley Retreats’s mindful psychedelic pitch

There has been a surge of interest in the use of psychedelics as a tool to treat mental health disorders and for self improvement. Several retreats offering psilocybin ceremonies have sprung up in recent years to meet demand. Among them is Beckley Retreats, which runs programs in the Netherlands and Jamaica. Read More>

Travel Noire

From Orgasmic Meditation To Laughter Yoga, Here Are 5 Of The World's Weirdest Wellness Retreats

In today's world, the wellness industry continues to roll out various unorthodox wellness retreats that defy conventional boundaries. Read More>

iNews

I went on a £4,000 legal psychedelic retreat in the Netherlands. This is what happened

A growing interest in the effects of psychedelics is reflected in the increasing number of retreats and ceremonies that harness their properties, Blindfolded, I lie wrapped in a blanket, and wait. The silence is deafening. All I can do is focus on my breathing to quell my rising anxiety and nausea. I can’t get comfortable. Then the drumming starts. A slow, booming, tribal heartbeat. Next come the visions. Read More>

USA Today

Ketamine bros are giving psychedelics a bad rap. That's a problem for those who need them.

These drugs could transform how we treat depression and other mental health ailments. Let's not let the behavior of a small set of irresponsible users take that away from them. Read More>

Medium

I Survived SXSW: Tales From a First Timer

This year I decided to embrace all that is SXSW and see if I could join in on the adventure from the perspective of a pass holder. Read More>

GQ Mexico

Por qué los retiros psicodélicos son más populares que nunca

Viajar en busca de sustancias psicodélicas que alteran la mente ya no es tabú: aquí te contamos todo lo que debes saber para hacerlo bien. Read More>

The Globe and Mail

As wellness tops travellers’ to-do lists, hotels offer sleep therapy, IV therapy and more

Holidaymakers are now seeking opportunities to be pampered, look inward and feel transformed through high-end health retreats that prioritize sleep, mindful movement and relaxation. Read More>

Vogue

Should I Book a Trip Based on My Astrology Sign?

There’s a chance you may enjoy your travels even more if you book trips according to your astrological sun sign Read More>

GlobeNewswire

Beckley Waves Celebrates a Year of Milestones, Including $3.3 Million in New Funding, 200 Retreat Participants, the Inaugural Cohort of Therapist Training, and the Acquisition of Ketamine Therapy Provider Nue Life

New Programs for Veterans, Women, and People of Color Also Mark the Growth of Beckley Waves’ Accomplishments Heading into 2024 Read More>

Yellow Scene Magazine

Understanding Newly Legalized Psilocybin Means Looking Ahead

An anthropological approach can help us understand the applications of psychedelics and mental health. Read More>