integration &
community
the experience is just the
beginning
Integration helps you turn what you see and feel into
something you can live with, long after the retreat ends.
the experience is just the
beginning
Integration helps you turn what you see and feel into
something you can live with, long after the retreat ends.
Why integration matters
If I was to tell you what defines your success with ayahuasca, especially in improving your life and making long lasting changes I would say this:
50% Taita and his medicine (Ayahuasca)
50% proper integration.
I have met so many people that see Ayahuasca as a magic pill that will take all their problems away and will change them, and these people go from retreat to retreat expecing that day for their life to change at it never does.
The problem is Ayahuasca is not a fix itself, it is an instruction for the fix.
Don’t get me wrong, after the retreat you will feel amazing you will feel temporarily releaved from all the ailments and some of them might forever disappear. But some of them will persist.
What you will get from your visions will be as a list of instrucions on what to do. And it is importance you apply this information. So don’t leave healing on the table.
our 3 approachs to integration:
→ Written integration. We will issue everyone with the integration journal that will allow you to write down your experience and start making sense of it (included in price)
→ Word circles. When we gather to speak, sometimes for hours, you will be able to start weaving your thoughts into coherent words and start making sense of your experience, even better sometimes by listening to others with similar problems you will get breakthroughs and realisations.
→ US trained and US licensed professional Psychedelic integration therapist (extra cost)
book your professional
integration therapy session:
from experience to insight
We see psychedelic integration is an ongoing process which begins immediately after your first ceremony.
It is a process of making sense of your experience, internalizing and gradually processing your insights into a list of actionable steps to make a long lasting positive change in your life.
If you just drink ayahuasca and see pretty images in your mind, but do nothing about it, there will still be healing, but much less. It is important not only to have the experience, but also remember it and understand it. Otherwise just like after waking up from a dream you will slowly forget your experience and will only be able to say it was interesting or meaningful, but without being able to recall the details.
So think about integration this way. You will go through the process of taking a giant amount of chaotic and ineffable insight and transforming it into a list of actionable items. Not to take away and belittle the experience, but to prepare you for life after the retreat. Come out of it all a better person.
your integration journal
Your integration will continue for months and years depending on the depth of your experience. Some information might keep coming to you in your dreams and even in the day to day life.
At our retreat we take Integration very seriously, we don’t want you to lose out on your healing. Some cases are tougher than other and just writing in the journal and speaking in the word circles might not be enough for everyone, especially when the trauma that surfaced is severe.
In that case we recommend the professional help.
