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.
Join us for an enlightening evening conversation on “Psychedelics Through the Wisdom of the Divine Feminine” with Carla Detchon and Jen Christian at our monthly Psychedelic First Friday in downtown Santa Cruz.
We're honored to have Carla, coach, transformational guide and creator of the Psychedelic Divas Podcast in conversation with Jen Christian a Transpersonal & Somatic Psychotherapist. They'll be sharing with us on how invoking divine feminine energies, we can restore the balance lost to patriarchal dominance. The term "Divas" honors the feminine divine, guiding us to equilibrium. They invite people of all genders to embrace traits like intuition, creativity, compassion, and nurturing to bring balance to ourselves and the world.
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 with Carla Detchon
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 Artist:
Victoria Miessler has been an artist since she was 9 years old when she decided to make it her career. She took painting classes in college in 2014 & 2015 and graduated with a bachelor's in fine arts in 2017. Right before graduating she got hired as a textile artist for a
fashion company and learned a lot about how to make eye catching patterns and textile designs. After about a year of working there
she left to start her own clothing line and soon after that began teaching painting classes at an after-school art program called Priscilla and Tiffany's Art Academy in Miami Florida. There she discovered her strong passion for teaching. Today she lives in Santa Cruz and has a studio space in downtown called the Vision Sanctuary where her and 5 other artists have a gallery space where they also host workshops, events, and classes. She also teaches painting classes at Palace Arts on Mondays. Victoria finds her inspiration in nature and animals, particularly cats, and loves fluorescent colors and rainbows. Her main medium is acrylic paint but also works a lot with gouache paint and sometimes oils and watercolors. She also works digitally to create vibrant eye-catching patterns. Her art tends to provoke a deep knowing within of how intricately connected we all are to nature and animals.
Please visit her website www.studioviki.com if you'd like to sign up for painting classes, see more of her work or check out her online store where she sells all her clothing designs.
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.
