Cultivate connection
to yourself, your purpose, and life around you

Guided practices and experiences to nurture presence, intimacy, and transformation

In a fast-paced world, many search for deeper meaning. Rising from the Roots invites you to slow down, realign, and reconnect with what can always hold you: inner balance, deep connection, and the natural world.
I support you to root yourself in purpose and let your actions ripple out.

The path of Rising from the Roots is grounded in three core pillars

  • Self exploration and introspection through guided psilocybin journeys to gain access to deeper insights and transformation

  • Cultivating authentic relationships through brotherhood and intimate mixed spaces.

  • Reconnecting to the greater cycles of life. Aligning with nature’s
    force and the natural world around you.

These pillars form the roots and fundament to rise with presence, resilience, and authenticity. This is an invitation to remember the power within you and cultivate a life guided by purpose and connection.

The journeys weave together rituals, embodiment practices, coaching, breathwork, meditation, visualization, movement, sound, nature, honest sharings. Intuitively chosen according to the need of the journey to support your process.

Psilocybin: recognized by nature, tradition and science

  • Ancient cultures see psilocybin as a natural medicine to access deeper insight, wisdom, healing, and connection to mystery

  • Modern science recognizes it helps the brain open up and form new connections, making space for fresh perspectives and lasting change.

  • Nature honours the power of mycelium that transform dead material into fertile soil. Similarly, psilocybin can transform the human psyche.

    An invitation to look within, with the intelligence of nature. Supported by an experienced guide and a grounding framework including preparation and integration to take the experience home into your daily life. To go to the roots of the processes that are present, beneath the surface. And rather then loosing control, regain control and clarity.

1 month microdosing journey psilocybin

Welcome the wisdom of nature into your daily life in a subtle, supportive way. Cultivating simple practices that bring presence, clarity and direction.

Let your days begin with intention, clarity and connection to yourself. This month- long journey goes beyond microdosing psilocybin. It is aimed to offer grounded support for your inner processes and direction in life. With experienced guidance and practices to make make you feel held, especially when this is something new for you. The microdosing is served with high quality ceremonial chocolate, crafted with plant wisdom, ritual and care. With love for the earth, that ripples out in the landscape by planting a tree for every month your microdose.

Deep dive 1:1 psilocybin ceremony

3 day nature immersion to look deeply inwards, held by nature and experienced guidance.

Immersed in a beautiful forest days that shapes a quiet and connected bubble, we dive into a deep process. We start with grounding preparation, landing in your intention and connection to the forest that will hold you, and so will I. On the second day we dive into ceremony, to explore your inner realms and tap into the potential for transformation. The third day is a nourishing day to integrate and alchemize the processes that came to light in your ceremony. For you to be able to take the lessons in home, into daily life.

Small group psilocybin ceremony

2 days nature immersion in domes in the forest. To go within, held by the group and grounded guidance.

Held by the group, experienced guidance and the forest, we go on a journey together. Starting with preparation, landing in the space, rituals and intention setting. Followed by a journey with the medicine of the forest. After a night in the forest we start the integration process together so you can take home the insights you received and let them ripple out into your every day life.

Authentic relating through Men’s work and cultivating intimacy

Men’s work is an invitation for men to meet life fully, with its joys and its struggles. The vulnerabilities and the celebrations. Inviting the real, the raw and the quiet parts that are often left in the dark. Because we all have them.

Often, men carry their burdens alone, believing their story is theirs alone. Here, you’ll find stories that could be yours, and yours that could be theirs.
Practices and rituals create the foundation to feel deeper, out of the mind, into the heart. Building connection that heals, strengthens, and shows we are all part of something bigger.

These are opportunities for you to be witnessed for the man you are inside, without judgment, shame, guilt or anger. A place to show up without pretense, competition or masks. Supported in your deepest hopes and dreams with compassion, accountability, and honesty.

Men’s journey

A three month journey into brotherhood where we meet every second week.

In this journey of 6 sessions we dive into different aspects of men’s work. Creating a deep container with a committed group that is ready to get to know themselves and each other deeper. To meet beyond the usual stories, witnessing and being witnessed with all there is. No masks, no judgement, no competition. The length of this container provides consistency, depth and integration into daily life.

A call from the forest

4 day men’s retreat in nature, in brotherhood, in ceremony

5 days immersed in the forest with a small group of men. In brotherhood.
In nature. In ceremony. Dropping the fast pace of life, slow down and connect deeply. Around the fire, in embodiment practices and rituals, creating a space to be connected with ourselves, with brothers, with the forest that holds us.
From our hidden shadows into our deepest hopes and dreams.
As we challenge each other to look deeper within. And find space to be. Amongst men. To explore what brotherhood means.

1:1 coaching

Personal guidance for your path

Personally crafted guidance and coaching tailored to your needs and process to help you reconnect with yourself and your purpose. A grounded and compassionate mirror helping you to see the obstacles in life as opportunities rather then problems. Online or in person coaching sessions, developing healthy routines, practices and direction.

Alignment with natural cycles

Remembering that we are part of the natural cycles calls us back to the forces that have shaped life for millennia. Through gentle, intentional steps in every day life we can remind ourselves to care for the land around as an extension of yourself.

Through immersive sensorial journeys and regenerative design I help you cultivate presence, honoring the life that created us. This path aligns you with the role of humanity of keystone species: reminding that apart from destructive, we have an enormous potential to create positive impact. It is a return to the roots of where we come from and a path toward creating positive change that ripples far beyond.

Immersive breathwork journey

Invite life into your system and release through 1:1 or group deep breathwork sessions in nature.

Breathing is the first and last thing we do in life. Moreover, certain breathing techniques help us release tension, calm down our nervous system and allow to feel and transform deep emotions. In this 2 hour session we dive deep into the element of wind inside of our longs through conscious connected breathing. And by doing so, feel yourself and the earth that is holding you.

Creating a vibrant food forest

Tap into nature’s power by mimicking her regenerative strategies in your food forest that brings production, beauty and resilience.

Helping you to bring life to your garden or land by creating a productive, regenerative and resilient food forest: a source of vibrant life and natural beauty. Using regenerative techniques we create the best circumstances for the plants to develop and thrive. Aligning with the flow of energy that is harvested by the photosynthesis to harvest the food for today, and create a forest for the future.

Regenerative landscape design & implementation

Assisting you to become a land steward, regenerating your garden, project, landscape.

Do you need help to bring your land or project to life? Me and my team of Restore Nature Collective support you to bring more life, resilience and beauty to your land. we support people through three core aspects: water solutions, soil improvements and vegetation. With the right assessment, design and implementation any landscape can be regenerated, productive and resilient.

Hi, I’m Mattie

Facilitator, catalyst, pioneer, visionary of:

  • Inner exploration through journeys with and without the plant medicine psilocybin

  • Reimagining relationships through men’s work & mixed intimate spaces

  • Ecological belonging aligning with the natural cycles around us and empowering them

I am deeply passionate about life and its ever changing nature.

In every moment lays the possibility to change, if we are present enough to spot the opportunity and act on it.

Those that can adapt to change can move through life with resilience and determination. In my life change often revolved around (re)connecting worlds: Between the Netherlands and Portugal. From abundance of water to dealing with crumbling ecosystems and facing forest fires. From regenerating the natural world to the individual and collective human experience. Between the spiritual and the scientific, psychological frameworks and shamanic rituals.

This process, with its struggles and its flow sharpened my presence and resilience. Opened my heart deeper. Made me who I am today: a facilitator, regenerator, guide for deep journeys. In service of my purpose. In service of life.
Just like the natural force of regeneration. Driving transformation from the old into the new, death into life, the stagnant into flow. To remind us that all is impermanent, all is changing, as part of a bigger cyclical movements.

And within this big force we can find deep purpose. Riding its wave instead of trying to swim against it. 

I am here to remind you that you can align with this force, that lives inside.

Nature’s regeneration gave me meaning, belonging, and belief that I can make a difference.

In a world that felt heavy, empty and exploitative.

The path of Men’s work and deeper intimacy became my medicine.

Feeling deeply into the human experience, as an act of rebellion against the numbness in society

Plant medicine humbled me deeply. Offering me the initiations and direction I was longing for.

Giving me the eyes to see that we can create our own reality.

My mission is to help you cultivate your creative power
that drives your purpose and dreams.

To rise with clarity, courage and resilience through life’s challenges.

Rising from the roots is a path of steadily cultivating the perspective, mindset and confidence that allow you to reshape your story.

Through intentional practices, rituals and guided experiences, you remember how to recognize each moment as an opportunity. to choose differently and transform. To reshape the story of your life, one moment at a time.
Activating the power within that fuels your purpose and dreams.

The same creative power that moves through you also moves through rivers, forests, and the cycles of all life. Rising from the roots is an invitation to remember your strength, your purpose, and your place in the bigger rhythms of life.

Breath is one of the keys to change in my life.

When I was 6 weeks old, I almost lost my life through the lack of breath.

Now, intentional breathwork is a fundamental part of my daily routine that enables me to embrace life more fully.

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