Plant Medicine
What Plant Medicine Is, and What It Isn't
Plant medicines like psilocybin and ayahuasca are ancient sacraments, now legal under specific frameworks. The medicine alone is not the healing, preparation, ceremony, and integration are the work that inspires real change.
The Medicines
The medicines we hold
Psilocybin
Psilocybin
The medicine in our flagship Awaken retreat. Held in a state-licensed Colorado container with NMHA-licensed facilitators, screening, supervision, and on-site medical staff.
Learn the scienceAyahuasca
Ayahuasca
An Amazonian brew of vine and leaf. We hold ayahuasca journeys within our 508(c)(1)(a) church framework, with the same preparation and integration that grounds every Ceremonia retreat.
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The Container
How we use plant medicine
Prepare
Screening, intentions, three preparation calls in the four weeks before retreat. We teach skills of curiosity and connection.
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Ceremony in cohort, with facilitators, on retreat. Two night ceremonies plus a day ceremony, woven with workshops and group work.
Read moreIntegrate
Daily check-ins the first week, weekly group calls weeks two through four. Optional 4-month Awaken at Home extension for deeper integration.
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Plant medicine ≠ recreational use
Ceremonial use means intention, setting, preparation, and integration. Take the same molecule out of that context and the outcome is different, sometimes neutral, sometimes harmful. Ceremonia operates under specific legal frameworks because legality is part of safety, not a marketing claim.
Lineage
These traditions have roots. We honor them, name them, and never pretend a tradition is ours when it is not. Read about our inspiration-not-appropriation approach →