Psilocybin For Golfers — Licensed Retreats in Oregon
What happens when you combine one of the most mental games in sports with one of the most powerful tools for shifting perspective? Together, they offer a new way to work on your game and yourself from the inside out.
Psilocybin and golf are a natural pairing—one reveals the underlying patterns of your performance, the other gives you a place to play them out in real time. This combination can offer a unique opportunity for insight and integration.
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Private Psilocybin Retreats For Golfers
Pairing a licensed psilocybin journey with high-level golf coaching creates a guided retreat designed to help you see your game and yourself more clearly. With Jeff Ritter, you’ll uncover the patterns affecting your performance and receive expert coaching to help you play at a higher level. With Cate Ritter, you’ll move through a legally facilitated psilocybin journey, supported by preparation and integration, to help shift deeper patterns.
Unlike traditional golf schools or psychedelic retreats, this experience is customizable to your goals, intentions, and desired level of support. While we recommend at least 5 days, your retreat can be adjusted to your schedule. We accommodate individuals, couples, and groups of up to 6.
Psilocybin Experience
Prism Bend’s Oregon-Licensed Psilocybin Facilitator, Cate Ritter, will support you through every stage of the process.
Pre-Retreat Preparation
Two 1-hr Zoom psilocybin preparation sessions
Psilocybin Journey
6—8 hr facilitated psilocybin experience
Licensed facility access and psilocybin product
Post-Retreat Integration
Two 1-hr Zoom psilocybin integration sessions
Golf Experience
MAKE THE TURN Golf Performance Founder, Jeff Ritter, will guide you through an immersive golf learning experience to deepen your connection to the game and create a clear path to better scoring.
Half-Day Intensive
3 hrs of golf coaching
Focused work on key priorities
CoachNow video analysis
Personalized lesson plan
Optional Upgrade: Full-Day Intensive with 6 total hrs of coaching, including lesson tee and on-course experience.
Resort Experience + Add-ons
Juniper Preserve offers a luxury resort setting for rest, relaxation, and renewal throughout your retreat. You’ll receive a 25% off link to book your accommodations and have the option to connect with Juniper’s Concierge to arrange additional experiences during your stay.
Included with Your Stay
Heated pool, hot tub, and sauna
Nature trails and a labyrinth
Group fitness classes
Optional Retreat Upgrades
MAKE THE TURN Golf Performance: Full-Day Intensive
Cate Ritter Wellness: Lava Cave Integration
Optional Add-Ons
Transportation (Bend or Redmond airport, downtown)
Golf at two top-ranked, award-winning courses
Juniper Spa treatments (15% discount)
Lava Cave Sunset Tour
Stargazing and Moonlight Paddle Tour
Wheel Fun Rentals, including bikes and surreys
Pickleball equipment and court reservations
Starting Investment
Starting prices include the retreat elements listed, excluding transportation, meals, lodging, and any optional upgrades or add-ons.
Individual: $3,750 per person
Couples: $2,750 per person
Groups: Available upon request
Sample 5-Day Retreat Schedule
A minimum of five days is ideal for maximum relaxation and transformation. We’re happy to extend your retreat so you can fully enjoy your time in Bend, Oregon.
Pre-Retreat: Two 1-hr Zoom Psilocybin Preparation sessions
Day 1: Arrive — Explore Bend & get grounded
Day 2: Prepare — MTT Golf Performance Coaching
Day 3: Journey — Psilocybin Experience at Bendable
Day 4: Integrate — Time for nature, pampering & reflection
Day 5: Depart — Optional 9-hole round at Pronghorn Club
Post-Retreat: Two 1-hr Zoom Psilocybin Integration sessions
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Juniper Preserve in Bend, Oregon
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Golf Coaching with Jeff Ritter
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Top-ranked golf courses
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Psilocybin journey with Cate Ritter
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Lava Cave sound bath
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Iris Restaurant, Juniper Preserve
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Fitness Center yoga
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Luxury rooms with views
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Juniper Preserve luxury rooms
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Resort lobby
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Psilocybin Journey with Cate Ritter
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Biofield Tuning® sound therapy with Cate Ritter
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PSYCH-K® subconscious reprogramming with Cate Ritter
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Yoga class on the lawn
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Juniper Spa massage
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Scenic nature walk
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Poolside wood-barrel sauna
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Teepee guided meditation
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Iris Restaurant at Juniper Preserve
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Relax in the heated pool
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Labyrinth walk on property
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Juniper Preserve
“This program isn’t just about playing better. It’s about changing your relationship with the game—and yourself.”
— Jeff Ritter, MAKE THE TURN Golf Performance in Bend, OREGON
How Psilocybin Benefits Your Game
Playing golf can reveal deeper patterns in how you think, respond, and perform under pressure. The way you play the game is often a reflection of how you live your life. How you handle a bad bounce on the 9th hole can mirror how you handle a setback at work or home.
Psilocybin is a naturally occurring psychedelic compound known for its ability to shift perspective, which can greatly impact how you show up on and off the course. For athletes, it can provide a powerful reset for the mind and body, helping dissolve mental patterns that get in the way of performance. For a golfer, a psilocybin journey can support greater resilience, a more adaptable mindset, and a game that feels more like play than work.
Quiet the Mental Noise
For many golfers, the real obstacle isn’t mechanics—it’s the constant internal dialogue that gets in the way of their game.
Psilocybin has been shown to temporarily quiet the Default Mode Network (DMN), the part of the brain responsible for self-criticism, rumination, and overthinking. When that noise quiets, something shifts. You stop trying to control every shot, trust your swing, and separate your scorecard from your self-worth.
Reset Your Response to Pressure
One shot can change everything—not because of the shot itself, but because of how you react to it. Bad shots happen. What matters most is what happens next.
Psilocybin influences the amygdala, the brain’s fear-processing center, helping reduce stress and emotional spikes. For a golfer, this can mean clearing old mental baggage from past three-putts or water hazards, making it easier to stay confident and centered as you finish your round.
Open the Door to Real Change
Most players know what they need to fix, but the challenge is making changes stick. That’s where psilocybin may help. After a psilocybin journey, the brain enters an adaptable state, often called a neuroplastic window. When paired with golf coaching, this can interrupt old patterns and establish new ones that last.
Restore Feel, Flow and Connection
When the game becomes frustrating, it becomes mechanical. Psilocybin can help shift attention out of the analytical mind and back into direct experience—timing, rhythm, awareness. As a result, many golfers describe a renewed sense of connection to the game, where flow returns and playing becomes fun instead of forced.
We often treat the golf course like something to conquer. But the course is something you play with, not against. When you’re connected to yourself, the club becomes an extension of you, and when you’re connected to nature, the land becomes a guide. From that place, you’re present with each shot—which is often when you play your best golf.
Schedule Your Psilocybin Golf Retreat!
Jeff Ritter — Golf Performance Coach
For more than 30 years, Jeff Ritter has helped golfers of all skill levels play better golf, shoot lower scores, and achieve their goals. As the founder of MAKE THE TURN Golf Performance and a Golf Digest Top-Ranked Coach, his work goes far beyond mechanics.
Through his own journey, Jeff discovered that the pursuit of mastery in golf is not just about performance. It’s a path to becoming the best version of yourself. That realization became the foundation of his coaching philosophy and the driving force behind MAKE THE TURN.
Jeff uses the game as a vehicle for meaningful change in how you think, perform, and live. His coaching helps players shift perspective, access clarity, and develop a more natural, powerful way of playing.
Cate Ritter — Licensed Psilocybin Facilitator
Cate Ritter is the founder of Prism Bend and Cate Ritter Wellness, a Licensed Psilocybin Facilitator, a Transformational Wellness Coach, and a former Division I scholarship golfer. With nearly two decades of professional experience, she brings a unique blend of presence, compassion, and transformation to this work.
As part of Oregon’s first wave of licensed facilitators, Cate is deeply committed to guiding individuals, couples, and small groups through safe, intentional psilocybin journeys. Her path into this work was shaped by profound, life-changing work with plant medicine in the Peruvian Amazon.
She creates a space grounded in safety, intuition, and deep care.
Psilocybin Golf Retreat FAQ
For additional FAQs and cancellation details, please visit our Services page. Cate will also answer your questions during your complimentary consultation.
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No. Many clients don’t have psychedelic experience. You’ll begin with a complimentary consultation with Cate to make sure you’re eligible and that this retreat is a good fit for you at this time.
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Yes. We welcome individuals, couples, and small groups. We can also help coordinate logistics if members of your group are traveling separately.
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Start by scheduling a complimentary consultation with Cate. This is the best way to ask questions, explore fit, and begin designing a retreat that aligns with your goals.
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No. Staying at Juniper Preserve is optional. If you’d like to stay there, you’ll receive a 25% off booking link for accommodations.
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No. Transportation, meals, and accommodations are not included in the starting investment. Optional upgrades and add-ons are also priced separately.
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Bendable Service Center is about a 25-minute drive from Juniper Preserve. You’re not permitted to drive on your journey day, so transportation will need to be arranged in advance through Juniper Preserve, a rideshare service, or another driver.