Louis Belleau, M.A.

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Hi, my name is Louis—friends call me Lou. I like both, but the “s” is silent.I'm French Canadian with Northern European ancestry. I was raised in Hong Kong and now live on the West Coast of Canada.My research explores the symbiotic relationship between humans and psychedelic-producing plants and fungi. Drawing on systems theory, biosemiotics, enactive cognition, and ecological medicine, I examine how these organisms transmit information and shape human cognition and health. From this perspective, psychedelics function as communicatory agents within a self-regulating planetary system, with important implications for individual wellbeing, social organization, and ecological health. I also approach psychedelic experience as a question of human rights, ethics, and responsibility within a living Earth.My path into this work began in adolescence, shaped by both a deep curiosity about spirituality and significant struggles with mental health. As a teenager, this led me into intentional psychedelic exploration and, at seventeen, a dangerously high dose of LSD that brought me to the edge of psychosis. What followed was a harrowing yet transformative death-rebirth experience—what I later came to understand as a LSD induced Dark Night of the Soul, echoing St. John of the Cross. That experience marked a decisive turning point and set the trajectory for my life’s work.In the years that followed, I immersed myself in the study and practice of Buddhism, yoga, and Indigenous nature-based traditions. In 2020, I completed a triple major in Psychology, Philosophy, and Religious Studies at McGill University. Alongside my academic training, I became a certified yoga teacher and later a breathwork instructor. Today, I teach meditation, elemental breathwork, and yogic philosophy in both private practice and rehabilitation settings, supporting people in restoring health through embodied, relational, and nature-rooted inquiry.I am also the founding researcher of Psygaia, a nonprofit dedicated to psychedelic and ecological medicine research, education, and community support. Through Psygaia, my work bridges academic research and lived practice, exploring how psychedelic healing can move beyond individual benefit toward ecological reconnection and collective responsibility in a time of profound collective disconnection and disease.I've completed an MA in Psychedelics & Consciousness Studies at the University of Ottawa, where I developed the Psygaia framework. This work situates human cognition and the psychedelic experience within ecological processes. I intend to continue this research at the doctoral level.We live in a period marked by perceptual fragmentation, ecological collapse, cultural numbness, addiction—both digital and chemical—and accelerating technological mediation of human intimacy. In response, I offer elemental and essential practices: ways of returning to presence, meaning, and relationship with life. Grounded in psychology, philosophy, religious studies, and embodied contemplative traditions, I guide intentional psychedelic journeys, lead retreats and wilderness expeditions, and support individuals navigating transformation.I remain a student of Nature—grounded in breath, attentive to relationship, and devoted to wholeness.About 1:1 GuidanceGuided by the generosity of teachers who made their time and knowledge accessible to me, I offer my coaching, meditation, and teaching work in the spirit of dāna (दान, sacred giving). In Buddhist traditions, dāna is the practice of generosity and mutual support. Rather than setting fixed fees, this work is supported by voluntary contributions offered within your means. My approach is integrative and relational, oriented toward liberation through reconnection to Nature's wisdom.Areas I commonly support include:- Meditation and awareness-based practices
- Psychedelics as spiritual practice, medicine, and creative tool
- Ecopsychology, rites of passage, and vision quests
- Spiritual emergence and mystical inquiry
- Personal fitness and nature-based approaches to holistic health
- Philosophical and self-inquiryIf you are navigating the edges of awakening, grief, or a major life transition—or if you are seeking support in integrating psychedelic experiences in a grounded, ethical, and effective way—you are welcome to reach out. Your donation sustains the time, care, and ongoing study required to continue offering this work responsibly.You can book a free discovery call using the button above.Thank you for being here.