No matter what your personal intentions may be for your journey, when you begin the session, your task as the journeyer is always the same: explore your inner experience with an equanimous mind and an open attitude. Welcome every experience that naturally comes up for you. Remain open, receptive, engaged, and curious about what is actually transpiring within you on a moment-to-moment basis. Relax completely, but remain alert. Forget about trying to make sense of the experience while it’s happening (we can do that in the coming days); for now, just inhabit your experience at the level of the senses, rather than the intellect, as it naturally unfolds itself to you, from moment to moment, to moment. What seems to be reliably true is that when we have the opportunity to work with the medicine in such a way, we get what we need at the time that we need it, though it’s almost never what we expect!

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As a participant, you need to follow the preperation guidelines for at least three days before and after your session. Then, when we meet for the session at around 6pm, we will take about 90 minutes to settle into the space and remind ourselves about our intention for the practice and also how best to navigate the experience while under the influence.

 

I remind you that I will be with you for the first 90 minutes after you take the medicine and then I will step away. During the entire time, I am available to you when you ring the bell. I want to let you to work with the medicine without interference so the agreement is that no matter what you are going through, I am going to honor you by letting you go through undesturbed. Im not going to come up to you and ask ‘are you ok, do you need some help”. You can feel restassured to know that you are safe to explore this experience with the assurance of safety and if you need anything, literally anything, I am a moments notice away to be able to support and guide you in any way. I have facilitated huindres of sessions and I have never had someone needing serious support from me during the session because the preperations and guidance I give beforehand is the best support I could even give so people never get into any resistance during the session.

 

Then, we begin the session in silence darkness with a few candles glowing. I will begin the session by clearing you and the space with sage and paolo santo. I will offer you the medicine to drink and guide you in a mindfulness practice to support your entry while the medicine begins to take its effect.

 

I will offer you some honey and cacao which will support your experience. It will keep you sharo and your heart open.

 

I encourage you to sip the Ooolong tea during your session. This will also keep you sharp and relaxed.

 

Get as comfortable as you can. Sit upright or lay down on your back. Do not lay on your side. You need to be relaxed and comfortable as possible but engaged and alert. Breathe deeply. Surrender. Relax and let go. Trust. You are going to be taken to exactly where you need to go. Don’t resist. Stay open. Stay curious. Stay receptive. If you see something scary, don’t run away, turn towards it. The medicine always gives us what we need in our session but never what we expect! Let go of trying to understand your experience while it is happening because we will do that after. Your job is to stay humble, attentive and engaged like a student before the grand master.

 

I will remain with you for “the come up”, do a final check in with you if you would like to continue in silence or if you would like music in which case I will put headphones on you.

 

When I step away, you will begin to enter the “peak” of the experience. Whatever is coming up for you, allow it and go with it. If you need to cry, let it flow. If you need to shout, shout into the pillow. If you need to spit then spit and spit and spit. If you need to throw up, do not resist, get up and go to the bathroom and purge! The medicine is going to do its work on you, recalibrate, realign and show you and teach you.

 

The experience will last for about 4 - 6 hours and then I will sit with you again and we will close with some tea and fruit.

At this point the effects of the medicine have worn off and I encourage you to recount your experience at length. If you feel that its too soon and you want to keep it sacred for the time being, I understand that and its perfectly ok. If you do feel like sharing I very much encourage you to speak at leangth and openly. There is no place for judgment in any of my sessions. No one is going to draw conclusions or psychoanalys you or your experience. This is a very impiortant part of the process to recall all the details, messages, visuals and realizations from your experience.

 

You will feel tired at this point and you can eirther sleep at the space or reeturn to your private accomodation.

 

 

In the days going forward I will encourage yoiu to listen to the voice recording of your trip report and/or journal and draw about your experience as a way to recount and integrate what the medcicine was taking you to.