How are our Sacred Entheogen Ceremonies Structured?

The Preparation Phase 

Your transformational journey starts well before taking the sacred sacrament.  The entheogen does not show us anything that is not already within us.  If you don’t know how to “sit” with yourself, such as observe, feel, or experience those things within you that may be challenging to face or accept, your entheogen journey could be a difficult one.  We’ve learned from years of experience and working with hundreds of people, the better you prepare for your plant medicine journey, the safer and more profound your experience will be.

Under our professional coaching guidance, we help you:

• Set and review ceremony intentions using pdf worksheets
• Understand obstacles or impediments to achieving your goals
• Begin to break down these barriers and reshape disempowering thinking
• Connect with your true nature using Daily Practice preparatory pdfs using the breath and body work
• Identify your unique way of processing and handling life’s challenges
• Learn to process your life in a way that is aligned with entheogen use, by balancing mind, body, mental, spiritual centers
• Prepare you for the journey, so you know:
  • how to handle potentially uncomfortable experiences
  • how to work with the sacrament for profound results
  • what to potentially expect during the ceremony
  • how we can assist during your experience
  • the sacred space and container is customized for your needs

The Ceremonial Space & Setting 

Our ceremonies are always held in a safe private space, either indoors or outdoors.  The actual activities included in each ceremony vary depending on its duration (ex. single day vs. multi-day retreats).  Regardless of the duration, your ceremony includes:

• A preparation process, including a discovery form completion and screening call with us to assess safety and fit
• Guidelines for ceremony preparation, including dietary suggestions and worksheets for helping you craft effective intentions
• At ceremony, energy clearing, including movement and/or breathwork
• Drinking of ceremonial-grade Cacao for heart opening
• An attachment releasing ceremony
• Intentions review and invocation
• The sacred ceremony, including sacrament and facilitation
• Sound Healing
• Personalized reassurance, assistance, and immediate integrative support, if needed
• For 1-day ceremony, vegetarian soup and snacks
• For a multi-day retreat, accommodations and meals for the duration
• One-on-one follow-up session to help you integrate your experience into your day to day life
• Ongoing support via monthly group integration meetings, online and in-person

The Integration Phase 

Despite the limited scope of what many videos, documentaries, books or testimonials suggest, rarely do we witness participants having sustained, life-changing results just from the ceremony itself.  It can happen.  It is rare.  More likely, an integration phase is required, where you take what you learned, experienced, felt, released, etc. in ceremony and you integrate the “changed” you back into your day to day life.  People can have difficulty understanding their experience, processing emotions, unhealthy behaviors could increase rather than decrease, knowing how to make changes in their life, etc.  This is a process that takes time, patience, and support to work through.

Through our integration follow-up sessions and professional coaching, we help you to navigate and ease your changes and shifts into your existing environment, community, family, relationships, and work.  This can take some skill and practice to learn.  We are here to help you every step of the way.

Our Role as Facilitators and Coaches

During the coaching preparation and integration phases, we work together closely, 1:1, week to week to offer guidance, reassurance, effective planning, tools, etc. to empower you on your path.

During the ceremony experience itself, we believe strongly that your preparation, the entheogen, and integration efforts bring through the energies that do the work.  When you embark on a journey using entheogens, simply put, the plant medicine wants to develop a relationship with you.  Our experienced, ordained facilitators and coaches are simply there to provide you with reassurance and assistance, as needed.  During ceremony, we do not interfere in your process, but rather encourage participants to relax, lie down, surrender to the process, and allow the experience to unfold introspectively.  We encourage releasing and expressing that aid in your transformational journey, while we ensure you and the ceremony space are kept safe.  As facilitators, we could assist by playing music, using light language, and using sound healing instruments (crystal bowls, drumming, rattling, etc.).  The conversations and dialogue with us after ceremony play a significant role in the integration process, during the ceremony event and ongoing.

The Power of the Group – consider a Retreat experience

If participating in one of our Retreats, your spiritual journey can be profoundly accelerated by a group dynamic.  People’s self-discovery can be closely linked to the amplified value of combined energies brought forth from communal ceremony experiences.  Some benefits reported by group participants include:

• • Opportunity to find your community (“your people”)
  • Development of deep and intimate bonds
  • Immediate support during the ceremony event
  • Ongoing connection and integration support
  • Assurances that you are “not alone”
  • Synchronistic gatherings of like-souls whose collective energies combine for your spiritual connection
  • Opening up to vulnerability and releasing of social anxiety
  • Increased accountability, self-trust and confidence