Plant Medicine
What Plant Medicine Is, and What It Isn't
Psilocybin and ayahuasca are sacraments, and people have worked with them for a long time. The medicine alone is not the healing. Preparation, ceremony and integration are the work. Here is how we hold each one. Not sure which is right for you? Start with Check Readiness below.
The Medicines
The medicines we hold
Psilocybin
Psilocybin
The medicine in our Awaken retreat in Colorado. Our facilitators include Austin Mao, Tamara Golden and Jo Ann Forristal, who each hold a Colorado natural medicine facilitator license. Our ceremonies are held under RFRA.
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Ayahuasca
An Amazonian brew of vine and leaf. Heal takes place in Baja California, Mexico, held as ceremony, with the same preparation and integration as every Ceremonia retreat.
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The Container
How we use plant medicine
Prepare
A free connection call, then your application and medical intake. Our nurse practitioner reviews every intake. One month of virtual preparation before retreat, where we teach skills of curiosity and connection.
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Ceremony in a group, with facilitators, on a one-week retreat. Jo Ann Forristal, a family nurse practitioner, is on site.
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One month of virtual integration is included. Optional two-month extension if you want more support.
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Ceremony is not recreation
Ceremony means intention, a held setting, preparation and integration. Take the same medicine out of that context and the experience can be very different, and sometimes harmful. Read more about how our ceremonies are held.
Lineage
These traditions have roots. We name them, and we do not claim a tradition that is not ours. How we think about this →