Vol. 04 — Gratitude & Intention

CeremonyShopPodcast

One long, colourful scroll. We hold medicine ceremonies, cut-and-paste socials, hand-made ceremonial carts and a podcast about the people who championed the plants.

come as you are, leave lighter ✦

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01Medicine Ceremony

A circle held out loud

Overhead view of hands holding cacao bowls around candles on a bright woven blanket

Ceremony at Hideas is not solemn. It is warm, loud in places, and full of colour. We open with gratitude, pass cacao hand to hand, sit with the medicine, and close by writing down one intention small enough to actually keep.

ArriveTea, blankets, and no rush. Leave your shoes and your résumé at the door.
OpenOne round of gratitude out loud. Nobody performs; everybody speaks.
SitCacao, sound, and a facilitator holding the room for two slow hours.
CarryOne written intention, one token, and a group chat that keeps going.

02Ceremony Calendar

What's next

Small circles, held across British Columbia — Kelowna, Vernon, Kamloops, Vancouver and Lake Country. Seats are limited on purpose.

Donation
Next circle29JUN2026Monday
Nature Loves Courage

Nature Loves Courage Medicine Ceremony

A two-hour held ceremony in a secluded spot in nature. The experience shares the same molecule as Ayahuasca, but a single journey lasts 20–30 minutes, so most participants take several journeys in one sitting. No food restrictions. Those on SSRIs, who are pregnant, or who feel this may conflict with their mental health should refrain.

Time
6:00 PM – 9:30 PM
Where
Kelowna, BC
Space
8 seats
Offering
By donation / sliding scale

Secluded property overlooking the valley (address on confirmation)

Full ceremony details →
Before you sit:
$45
11JUL2026
Token of Gratitude

Token Of Gratitude — Cacao & Creative Social

Vernon, BC · 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Ceremonial cacao paired with a table full of scissors, glue and salvaged paper. You leave with a matchbook postcard and a portion

Donation
27JUL2026
Nature Loves Courage

Nature Loves Courage Medicine Ceremony

Vancouver, BC · 6:00 PM – 9:30 PM

Whether you seek spiritual growth, mental clarity or emotional healing, you are gently led through the Nature Loves Courage experi

$45
15AUG2026
Token of Gratitude

Token Of Gratitude — Junk Journal Afternoon

Lake Country, BC · 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Slow afternoon of cacao, stamps, bone folders and scrap paper. Bring a photo of someone you are grateful for; leave with something

Dates shift with the moon and the weather — message us on WhatsApp for the exact address and current openings.

Before you sit with us

Everything you need, in one drawer

Every seat is screened. Reserving holds your place — it’s confirmed once a facilitator reads your intake. Nothing here leaves the page.

03Token of Gratitude

Cut. Paste.
Give it away.

Our social pairs ceremonial cacao with a table full of scissors, glue and salvaged paper. You leave with a matchbook postcard and a portion of cacao to hand to someone you're grateful for. That's the whole assignment.

ScrapbookingCacaoLive musicNo phonesAll ages
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04Ceremonial Carts & Kits

The Shop

Every cart is hand made using ingredients chosen purposely to support the journey. No empty fillers. No lung-irritating stabilizers.

Celestial Traveller Ceremonial Cart
$175.00$125.00
Sale

Celestial Traveller Ceremonial Cart

Hand made with ingredients chosen purposely to enhance your journey.

$175.00$125.00
Mothership Ceremonial CartridgeMothership
$200.00$150.00
Sale

Mothership Ceremonial Cartridge

No empty fillers. No lung irritating stabilizers.

$200.00$150.00
Heaven's Kiss Vaporizer CartridgeHeaven’s Kiss
$200.00$150.00
Sale

Heaven's Kiss Vaporizer Cartridge

$200.00$150.00
Commander Jack Ceremonial Cartridge
$150.00$100.00
Sale

Commander Jack Ceremonial Cartridge

$150.00$100.00
Custom Made Ceremonial Changa
$150.00

Custom Made Ceremonial Changa

$150.00
Token of Gratitude Kit
$75.00

Token of Gratitude Kit

Everything you need to make a matchbook postcard and share cacao.

$75.00
Real Bone Folder
$20.00

Real Bone Folder

For crisp folds and burnished creases in junk journals.

$20.00
Natural Agate Stone Folder
$20.00

Natural Agate Stone Folder

$20.00
Cosmic Washi Tape Set
$25.00

Cosmic Washi Tape Set

$25.00
Fancy Scissors
$20.00

Fancy Scissors

$20.00
Wood Block Stamp Kit
$35.00

Wood Block Stamp Kit

$35.00
Six Rubber Stamp Set
$20.00

Six Rubber Stamp Set

$20.00
Mandela Rubber Stamp
$20.00

Mandela Rubber Stamp

$20.00
Beehive Rubber Stamp
$20.00

Beehive Rubber Stamp

$20.00
Flower Print Rubber Stamp
$20.00

Flower Print Rubber Stamp

$20.00
Ceremonial Smudging Sage
$25.00

Ceremonial Smudging Sage

$25.00
Folk Saint Necklace
$400.00

Folk Saint Necklace

$400.00

05Hideas Episodes

Talk
Medicine

Every video we make lives here — History & Heroes of Psychedelics, Token of Gratitude and Nature Loves Courage. Pick a series and press play.

Scrapbook-style photo of a vintage microphone, notebooks and pressed flowers

more episodes every new moon

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 →

07About Hideas

Celebrating the virtues of gratitude and intention setting through ceremonies and creative social events.

Hideas started around one kitchen table in Canada with a pot of cacao and a pile of scrap paper. We're still that: a small, colourful, hands-on circle that believes ritual should feel alive rather than reverent.

08Who Holds The Circle

The Facilitators

Two people, one kitchen table, twenty years of making rooms feel alive.

Victory Battle, Founder & Ceremony Facilitator

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 medicine ceremonies and Token of Gratitude socials across Kelowna, Vernon, Kamloops, Vancouver and Lake Country.

Ceremony holderLive eventsBroadcast & A/VYouth programming
Salar Salahi, Creative Director & Visual Artist

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.

Visual artistFilm & collageLive caricatureHuman Garage student

09Words From The Circle

We only publish real words from real circles ✦

Nothing here is invented. If you’ve sat with us and want to share what the circle gave you — a sentence is plenty — send it over and we’ll ask before anything goes up, first name only if you prefer.

Share your circle

10Questions

Ask anything

Legality, sobriety, cost, nerves, first circles. If it isn’t here, message us on WhatsApp — no question is too small.

  • Our public circles are cacao and breath-based ceremonies and creative socials — fully legal and open to everyone 19+. Cacao is a food. Anything outside that scope is not sold or advertised here; if you have questions about legality, ask us directly on WhatsApp.

11Contact & Socials

Say hello

Message us, follow along, or join the mailing list if you’re not ready to sit yet.

Reach a human

Land acknowledgement

Hideas gathers on the unceded, ancestral territories of the Syilx (Okanagan), Secwépemc and Nlaka'pamux peoples, and on the lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. The medicines and rituals we hold come from Indigenous lineages around the world. We name them, we do not own them, and we ask everyone in the circle to sit with that gratitude.

Private, group & corporate

Birthdays, team days, retreats, wedding-eve circles, creative workshops. We travel across BC and build the format with you.

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