The truffle ceremony experience at a glance
If you like to know what you're walking into, an overview helps. Not to script the experience in advance, because it unfolds differently for everyone, but so you know what's happening around you. For people who run their lives from their heads, that alone often brings a lot of calm.
A ceremony at Stars Frequencies has these phases:
- Beforehand: a free 30-minute intro phone call with screening. After that you get the truffle guide for your preparation at home.
- Arriving and settling in: time to arrive, and a sharing circle (opening circle) where you share your intention.
- Meditation and sound: the day starts calmly, with meditation and singing bowls before you take the truffles.
- The ceremony itself: you take the truffles as a calm ritual, and the experience follows, with music and sound.
- A slow return: the experience gradually softens.
- Closing: a closing sharing circle, then heading home quietly.
A group ceremony runs from 11:00 to 18:00, in Amsterdam, 10 minutes from Schiphol airport (sometimes in Blaricum). Private ceremonies take place in Blaricum. You get the address after the intro call. Everything about the day, the dates and the prices is on the page about the truffle ceremony in Amsterdam.
Before the day: intro call and preparation
In a way, a ceremony starts weeks before, with the intro call. It's a free 30-minute phone call. If you come as a duo or with your own group, each person has their own intro call. Rosa asks about your health, your medication and why you're considering a ceremony. You ask all your questions. If a ceremony isn't responsible for you right now, she'll say so honestly.
The amount is tuned to each person, based on the intake and your experience. After the intro call you get a truffle guide with all the information, including advice on what to eat. That way you know what to eat, how to phrase your intention and what to bring. There's more on the preparation page.
A ceremony is not a substitute for medical or psychological help. Read more about safety
Arriving and settling in
On the day itself there's no rush. You arrive in a calm room with singing bowls, prepared beforehand with palo santo or white sage, and you're given time to actually arrive. Many people notice their nerves easing a little here, simply because nothing is being asked of them.
Then there's the sharing circle, an opening circle. Everyone briefly shares an intention for the day: something you hope to see, feel or understand. There's no right or wrong intention. I want to see what's there is an intention too.
“The group was small and felt really good from the start. Nothing was forced, and precisely because everyone was so absorbed in their own journey, I wasn't distracted from mine.”
Meditation and sound healing: always part of it
Meditation and sound healing with singing bowls are a fixed part of every ceremony, in the group and in private or duo ceremonies too. They give your head something to follow and help your body settle.
The day starts calmly, with meditation and sound before you take the truffles. Singing bowls sound at the start and in between. For every ceremony Rosa makes a personal playlist, and sometimes there's a live sound bath as well. She also uses an ocean drum and koshi chimes. If there's a song that means a lot to you, you can always send it to her.
That isn't decoration. For someone used to handling everything with their head, it's a bridge: you don't have to let go all at once, you get calmer. The view at Stars Frequencies: letting go is not a condition. It is a result. How sound and ceremony fit together is explained in truffle ceremony with sound healing.
What happens during a truffle ceremony?
During a truffle ceremony you take the truffles as part of a calm ritual, then lie or sit in stillness while the effects gradually come on, accompanied by music and sound. Rosa is in the room for the whole ceremony.
What happens next differs from person to person. Participants describe their thoughts slowing down, emotions or memories surfacing, seeing images or feeling their body differently. Sometimes it's mostly quiet and soft. You don't have to do anything, understand anything or achieve anything.
If it gets hard for a while
A difficult moment can happen. Fear, sadness or restlessness may come up. That doesn't mean something is going wrong. Rosa is in the room for the whole ceremony. If someone panics, Rosa handles it with care and knows how to help that person calm down. A gentle touch only happens with your permission. There's more on this in hesitating about a truffle ceremony.
Coming back and closing
Slowly the experience softens. The music gets quieter and, step by step, you come back into the room. There's time: nobody needs to be anywhere. If you want to talk, you can. If you need silence, that's fine too.
The day closes with a closing sharing circle. You share what you want to share, nothing more. It helps you give what you went through a first place. After that you head home quietly. Don't drive yourself that day, arrange transport and keep the next day free. After a week there's a check-in with Rosa, and in the meantime you can always text or call her.
How long is a truffle ceremony?
A group ceremony at Stars Frequencies runs from 11:00 to 18:00, about 7 hours from arrival to closing. That includes settling in, the meditation and sound healing, the ceremony itself and the slow return.
On top of that, count on needing rest that evening and the next day as well. So keep the next day free. Many participants describe a light, clear mood, while others mostly feel tired. How that feels for people is covered in how you feel after a truffle ceremony.
Group or private: what's the difference?
The structure of the day is the same. The difference is who's around you. Stars Frequencies guides truffle ceremonies in Amsterdam in a small group of at most 8 people (€295 per person, the most chosen option) or privately (€495). As a duo you pay €425 per person. For your own group of 3 people you pay €350 per person, for 4 people €325 per person.
Many people find a group supportive, because everyone is in their own experience. If you'd rather have all the attention on you, read when a private truffle ceremony suits you.