Gwyneth Paltrow is taking on psychedelics, female sexuality, and energy healing in her new Netflix show, The Goop Lab, which focuses on the boundary-pushing — and sometimes dangerous — wellness treatments featured on her lifestyle website.
The 47-year-old Goop founder and CEO hosts the series alongside Chief Content Officer Elise Loehnen, who boldly reveals she had an ‘exorcism’ in the new trailer for the six-episode series that premieres on January 24.
Keeping a very open mind is undoubtedly a requirement to work at Goop, and in the clip, Gwyneth asks her employees: ‘We’re here one time, one life. How can we really milk the s**t out of this?’
Pushing boundaries: Gwyneth Paltrow explores psychedelics, female sexuality, and energy healing in her new Netflix show, The Goop Lab
The trailer is broken down into sections: energy healing, psychedelics, cold therapy, psychic mediums, and orgasm — all topics that have been explored by the lifestyle guru and her team.
‘What we try to do at Goop is explore ideas that may seem out there or too scary,’ Elise explains while footage from the series shows her meditating with her boss and sporting a face full of acupuncture needles.
‘Just another day at the office,’ she says with a laugh in another scene.
While Elise doesn’t divulge what exactly when down during her exorcism, Gwyneth says, ‘Oh, wow!’ when the CCO says she had one.
Team: The 47-year-old Goop founder and CEO hosts the six-episode series alongside Chief Content Officer Elise Loehnen
What happened? In the new trailer for the series, Gwyneth gasps when she sees her bright red face after an unidentified treatment
One woman opens up about taking psychedelics in the trailer, saying: ‘I went through years of therapy in about five hours.’
Footage shows her lying down and sobbing while a man cares for her during the intense group session.
The up-close and personal look at psychedelics in the series shouldn’t be surprising considering Gwyneth predicted they would be the next ‘big’ wellness trend during an interview with the New York Times in March 2019.
While she believed their effects on mental health and addition would ‘come more into the mainstream,’ she admitted that she was too ‘terrified’ to try them herself.
Wellness: Gwyneth and Elise can be seen stretching and meditating in the preview clip
Say what? Elise reveals she has had an ‘exorcism,’ prompting Gwyneth to say, ‘Oh, wow!’
Feeling zen? Another scene shows Elise sporting a face full of acupuncture needles
Viewers will have to tune into The Goop Lab to see if she has a change of heart.
Another woman admits to feeling ‘a panic attack coming on’ before she and a group of people get ready to plunge into an icy cold body of water as part of a cold therapy treatment.
‘This is dangerous,’ the guide tells the cameras.
Gwyneth and Elise interview a variety of researchers, doctors, and ‘alternative health practitioners,’ including psychic medium and author Laura Lynne Jackson — who has stopped taking on new clients because of her ‘years-long’ waitlist.
‘She knew something my husband didn’t even know,’ Gwyneth reveals while sitting down with Laura.
Going for it: The series explores the use of psychedelics for mental health, which Gwyneth predicted last year would be the next ‘big’ thing
Intense treatment: One woman (pictured) says taking psychedelics helped her go through ‘years of therapy in about five hours’
The wildest chat, however, may be their conversation with an expert on female sexuality and orgasms.
When Gwyneth asks her what happens in one of her workshops, she bluntly replies: ‘Everyone gets off.’
‘What the f**k are you doing to people?’ Gwyneth asks with a smile.
The woman stresses that you ‘want to talk about the vulva,’ while the clip shows her guiding a female client as she looks at her vagina with a mirror.
The expert asks Elise if she has ever seen herself in that way, and when she says, ‘No,’ the interviewee asks, ‘Why not?’
Next level: On the show, Gwyneth talks to a sexuality expert, admitting she doesn’t think she has the ‘guts’ to be ‘naked in a room with a bunch of women’
Exploration: The clip shows the expert guiding a female client as she looks at her vagina with a mirror
Yikes: The word ‘unregulated’ pops up during a shot of a woman having something injected into her face, though it’s unclear what it is
‘Naked in a room with a bunch of women? I don’t know if I have the guts,’ Gwyneth admits during the sit-down.
The word ‘unregulated’ pops up during a shot of a woman having something injected into her face — a treatment that the Goop founder, herself, appears to try.
‘Should I be scared?’ she asks while lying down on a table wearing a hairnet and a white robe.
The mother of two later gasps when she looks at her red face after the session.
Gwyneth has come under fire over the years for touting eccentric and expensive health fads on Goop, including vaginal steams, a ‘psychic vampire repellent,’ and detoxes.
Upsetting: Another woman admits to feeling ‘a panic attack coming on’ during an emotional moment in the trailer
Chilly: She and others are seen getting ready to plunge into an icy cold body of water as part of a cold therapy treatment
Extremes: ‘This is dangerous,’ one man says of jumping into the freezing water
In September 2018, Goop paid $145,000 to settle a lawsuit accusing it of making unsubstantiated claims about the health benefits of vaginal eggs and a flower essence that ‘could help prevent depression.’
Goop has been barred from making any claims regarding the health benefits of its products ‘without possessing competent and reliable scientific evidence,’ and from manufacturing or selling any falsely advertised medical devices.
However, that doesn’t mean Gwyneth and her team have squelched their desire to try far-out practices in the name of wellness.
‘The Goop Lab explores the universal questions we’re inherently curious about,’ Gwyneth said in a statement about the show.
‘We took the open-minded approach that we’ve cultivated at Goop and applied a different, visual lens with Netflix. In the process, we found new ways to answer this: How do we make the most of our lives?’