Nature Loves Courage
A traditional ceremony, held outdoors or in a carefully chosen space. Opened with smudging and carried by a soundscape of beautiful music, it's an invitation to slow down and let the experience unfold naturally.
HideasSocials and Ceremony
Hideas creates intimate gatherings for people who want more from their time. Alongside our curated social events, we host small, private ceremonies centred on the safe and thoughtful use of plant medicine. We don't sell plant medicine. We design the experience, and we work only with experienced practitioners who operate properly and within the law. Our guests often describe leaving lighter and clearer, with a renewed sense of purpose and a quiet release of patterns that no longer serve them.
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Golden Frequency
A modern, sound-led ceremony. Each session is built around chosen frequencies that work hand in hand with the experience, and many guests describe vivid geometric patterns and a deep sense of focus.
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Headphones on, sitting comfortably. The journey is about to begin.
Set and setting are everything. Before the journey begins, every guest is settled in comfortably and knows exactly what to expect. We walk you through each step, from finding a headphone volume that feels just right for your intention to knowing who is there to support you. Nothing is rushed, and nothing is left to chance, so you can let go and be fully present.
Intention SettingEvery meaningful journey starts with a clear intention. Before the ceremony begins, we take a quiet moment for you to name what you'd like to bring into your journey, whether that's clarity, healing, or simply letting go. Then we turn to the breath. Not deep or forced, just steady and aware. With each focused breath, your intention settles a little deeper, gently carrying you into the ceremony.
CeremonyThis is the heart of it all. A single ceremony holds several journeys, often three, four, five or more in one practice. With your intention set and your breath steady, there's nothing left to do but let go. Experienced sitters are with you throughout, holding space and looking after you, so you can drift into the experience completely. This is where the real depth of the practice unfolds.
NotebookAs you return from the journey, insights often arrive with remarkable clarity. That's why we invite you to bring a notebook. Many guests reach for theirs straight away, capturing what they experienced, what it meant to them, and the new ways of thinking it opened up. It's a little like writing down a dream before it fades, except these reflections tend to stay vivid, becoming something you can return to long after the ceremony ends.
Integration CircleOnce you've had time to write or simply sit quietly with your experience, you rejoin the group in the same circle where the ceremony began, only now everyone has returned to the same shared reality. This is a time to share, to listen, and to draw out the deeper meaning of each journey together. Something special happens here. Individual experiences weave into one another, and the circle becomes a force of one.
02Socials + Ceremonies Calendar
Gather with us
Small circles, held across British Columbia — Kelowna, Vernon, Kamloops, Vancouver and Lake Country. Seats are limited on purpose.
Nature Loves Courage
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Golden Frequency
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Before you sit with us
Everything you need, before you arrive
Every seat is screened. Reserving holds your place — it’s confirmed once a facilitator reads your intake. Your form opens in your email app so you can review it before sending.
03Private & Couples Sittings
The ceremony
made for you.
We bring the ceremony to you. Whether it's just for you, for you and your partner, or for a small group you trust, every private ceremony is shaped around your intention and your space. We currently offer private ceremonies in Vancouver and throughout Central BC.
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04Hideas Episodes
Talk
Medicine
Useful information, the history of psychedelic medicine, and ceremony playlists gathered under one roof.
History & Heroes · Ep 01
The Importance Of Set, Setting & Sitting In A Hero's Dose Journey
Simple tips that drastically reduce your potential for a bad trip — and why there is no such thing as a bad trip, only a challenging journey.
Full episode →History & Heroes · Ep 02
Alex & Ann Shulgin — History And Heroes Of Psychedelics
How the synergy between Sasha and Ann Shulgin led to extraordinary contributions to psychopharmacology, freely shared at the cost of their peril.
Full episode →History & Heroes · Ep 03
Bicycle Day: In Celebration Of Dr Albert Hoffman's Acid Trip
The origin story of Bicycle Day, why it is celebrated, and why riding a bicycle on Bicycle Day is a bad idea.
Full episode →History & Heroes · Ep 04
Santo Daime — Live Interview With Marina
An Ancestral Medicine Ambassador and facilitator from the Santo Daime, met at a cacao event called The Chocolate Groove.
Full episode →05Hideas Playlists
Spotify
The soundscapes behind Nature Loves Courage and Golden Frequency. Press play and listen right here.
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06About Hideas
Celebrating the virtues of gratitude and intention setting through hosted meditation, breathwork, and cacao ceremonies in a silent-disco format.
07Who Holds The Circle
The Facilitators
Victory brings years of experience holding live rooms; Salar brings visual storytelling and a long personal relationship with plant-medicine culture. Together they balance structure with imagination, helping people feel held without making the experience feel clinical.
Victory Battle
Founder & Ceremony Facilitator
Victory has spent more than a decade building experiences where the audience is inside the moment rather than watching it. He joined the event production platform Artery in 2018, hosting intimate gatherings out of his Toronto loft studio, and was later chosen as their Event Ambassador.
Before that he designed corporate team-building through The Field Trip Program at Pursuit OCR — stripping away titles and seniority — ran Camp Pursuit for kids across the GTA, co-hosted live charity broadcasts for the Boobie Ball, and built the Dance On Cancer's Grave Relay For Life campaign in memory of his friend Danielle.
Hideas has since relocated from Toronto to British Columbia, where Victory now holds Nature Loves Courage silent-disco meditation and breathwork ceremonies and Token of Gratitude cacao circles in Vancouver and across Central BC, including Kelowna, Vernon and Penticton.
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Salar Salahi
Creative Director & Visual Artist
Salar is a visual artist with over 12 years of experience — film, caricature, photography and collage all live under the same hand, and that is where Hideas visual language comes from.
In 2018 he ran a podcast about plant medicine for 18 episodes, and since then he has been in the discovery of different medicines to heal his own traumas and to help others overcome theirs.
He is currently a student of Human Garage, learning to help himself and the community release tension and trauma held in the body.
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08Audio Feedback
We only publish real words from real journeys ✦
If you’ve journeyed with us, you can leave a short audio reflection below. Choose whether to share your name; nothing is published without your permission.
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09Questions
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It is normal to have questions before joining a circle. Here are clear, honest answers about safety, cost, preparation, and what the experience is like.
Hideas offers unique ceremonies and curated events, including Nature Loves Courage and Golden Frequency, both original creations of founder Victory Battle. We also produce ceremonies for guest practitioners and for the Santo Daime church.
10Contact & Socials
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