Psychedelic First Friday is where visionary art, spirituality, and the psychedelic meet, creating a one-of-a-kind event that leaves you inspired, enlightened, and awestruck. This session is organized by the Santa Cruz Psychedelic Society along with their community partner Green Magic Yoga.
This event is +21 Only, this is not the setting for you to sell or buy controlled substances, no soliciting.
🌀 Highlights:
Visionary artists exhibition
Psychedelic Educational Talk
Conversation and discussions to expand your mind
Community Gathering with like-minded folks
Live Music & Dancing
Agenda
5:00 PM Social time & Tabling
6:00 PM Opening
6:30 PM Dance Ritual Dance Deep Dive with Katelyn Colia & Christina Sabella
7:00 PM Psychedelic Educational Talk, Sebastian Beca & Javiera Kostner
8:00 PM Community Gathering & Networking
For details, artist submissions, and speaking opportunities send us a message to: javi@greenmagicyoga.com
Santa Cruz and Local Artists:
Carissa Louise Martin https://www.instagram.com/carissalouisemartin/?hl=en
About Santa Cruz Psychedelic Society
We are a community-oriented non-profit organization interested in all facets of psychedelics and wellness. We are dedicated to education, advocacy, outreach, and overall support for the safe and responsible use & research of psychedelics, entheogens, and plant medicines for therapeutic, spiritual, and recreational purposes. We organize monthly community gatherings and events.
About Green Magic Yoga
Green Magic Yoga is a studio and community dedicated to integrating yoga, mindfulness, intentional psychedelic use and movement practices for healing, growth and transformation.
About Sebastian Beca
Seba (he, him) is a hacker gone healer. After working as a computer engineer for over 2 decades he decided to shift paths towards the study of consciousness and the healing arts. In 2014 he became a licensed psychologist in Chile and in 2018 he received his Masters in Integral Counseling Psychology from CIIS in San Francisco. In 2022 he obtained his California Licensure as a Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT #134131).
Seba works from a humanistic-transpersonal framework and specializes in working with adults, healing trauma, overcoming anxiety and working through life transitions. He has specialized in Gestalt (Claudio Naranjo school), EMDR, Eco-Therapy and different modalities of Psychedelic Therapy. He is certified as a Mindfulness Based Psychedelic Therapist with the Center for Medicinal Mindfulness and guides journeys with Cannabis for individuals and groups. He has also trained with Polaris, Journey Clinical and Fluence in offering Ketamine-Assisted Psychedelic Therapy (KAP). Seba is also a graduate of the Certificate for Psychedelic Therapies and Research (CPTR) at CIIS, which includes complete the 100 hour MDMA-Assisted Therapy Training by MAPS. Seba is currently an assistant and mentor for the CIIS CPTR program.
Together with Javi they founded Green Magic Yoga in 2018 as a community centered around Cannabis, Psychedelics, Yoga and Mindfulness. In 2023 they opened a Yoga Studio in downtown Santa Cruz, where they host Ganja Yoga, Cannabis Circles and other community healing events. Seba is also the Executive Director of the Santa Cruz Psychedelic Society, through which they offer Psychedelic Integration, Microdosing Hikes and other community gatherings.
Seba has a private practice in Santa Cruz called Natural Bridges Therapy specializing in EMDR, KAP and CAPT. Seba lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains with his partner and their two cats and in his free time he enjoys walking in the forest, biking, yoga, reading, learning music and other life hacks.
