Psychedelic & Plant Medicine Integration

17/04/2024

I am making an effort to get really practical and specific with my spirituality.

Etched in my memory is maestro Alonso Del Río describing the shame he feels whenever he uses single-use plastic.

And that same feeling has been passed on to me now! Grateful for the gift of this "shame" and learning to use it positively to stimulate change. 💪

I went to the beautiful Bristol shop Better Food today and found these products which come in plant based compostable packaging. 🌱

It's a small gesture but one which felt really really aligned, and has left me feeling joyfully as I cook my quinoa and sweet potato tonight! 😋

Sharing this to perhaps pass on the thought and inspiration to others.

Praying for the inspiration and motivation to find more ways to reduce my impact on our beautiful Mother Earth, to be in right relation with all of Mother Nature, mother life 🌱🌿🌳💐🍄🌹🌼🌍

PS Interestingly in Buddhism, shame is called "Hiri" and is described as a guardian of the world, encouraging us to do positive things... but that's another post as there are definitely negative aspects to shame - indeed it is at the core of many western mental health problems, I see it all the time with clients. So the trick is to work with it skilfully, in a motivating sense. For more you can read here https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/bodhi/bps-essay_23.html

15/03/2022

Hello beautiful people!

Next Tuesday, 22nd of March, at 19.00 UK time, we will be holding an online Integration Circle for a limited amount of people.

Everyone who is looking for extra support + guidance to integrate their experience/experiences are welcome to join us. Or, if you are looking for a sacred space to share what is on your heart after plant medicine experiences with brothers and sisters, this is for you too.

If you are interested to join us, please reach out directly to me or leave a comment below so I can send you a DM.

(Please spread this information with those brothers and sisters you know of who are looking for help, support, and guidance to integrate their Plant Medicine/Psychedelic experiences. We are here for each other)

Much love to all,
Inesa.

(Painting by: Unicornio Dorada by Pablo Amaringo)

18/01/2022

🦅 Next integration session in 3 hours! 🦅

🦜 DM us if you want to attend and we'll get you set up! 🦜

10/01/2022

🌿🤓 Integration is as important as the medicine taking! 🤓🌿

Next integration circle in < 24 hours - DM us for more info!

03/01/2022

❤️ Less than 24 hours until our next weekly Integration Circle! ❤️

🌸 If you want to attend, comment or DM us! 🌸

21/12/2021

❤️ Next Integration Circle in less than 8 hours! ❤️

If you haven't received the event link yet, comment or DM us!

16/10/2021

Since immersing myself in this magical work with Mother Ayahuasca, I've been blessed to be surrounded by people who are on a similar journey so we can share and support each other.

Following this path I'm aware that not everyone has an opportunity to be around people who are on a similar journey, not everyone is coming back home and receiving enough support through their integration process.

Supporting you through your integration is our way to give back. My dear medicine brother and I are holding Ayahuasca Integration & Support Circles Online. The next circle is on Saturday, 23rd of October, at 19.00 (GMT+1 time zone). Visit this link to register: https://plantmedicinesupport.wordpress.com/

Much love to you all,
Inesa.

Free Ayahuasca Integration & Coaching Circle Saturday 23rd October 2021 (7PM GMT+1) Join Event Sign up to receive the link to the event (in case you cannot join the upcoming event, you are still welcome to sign up to receive notifications about the upcoming events) WHY INTEGRATION IS KEY? Drinking t...

15/10/2021

Integrating the lessons learned with Ayahuasca can be very confusing!

Lifelong beliefs are being shaken.

A realisation sometimes that I don't know anything!

What is a fabricated delusion of my mind vs what is actually close to reality? 🤯

At the same time, my experience has been that some of the people around me seem so sure about certain beliefs and stories that it is difficult sometimes not to swallow those beliefs.

I’ve now learned to be very selective what I listen to.

At the end of the day, I need to figure this Universe out myself!

During integration, how do you navigate this difficult territory of letting go of old and forming new?

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Pictures from my month long dieta in August in the Peruvian Amazon, with Bobinsana, Chullachaqi, Supai Chakra, Ajo Sacha.

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Our next free integration circle is on 23rd October at 1900 (GMT+1) - reach out to us for more information or to sign up go to plantmedicinesupport.wordpress.com

10/10/2021

Hello beautiful people!

What has felt as the toughest thing to integrate after your Ayahuasca ceremonies?

Integration process is a fundamental part to this medicine work, if not the most important part. However, it doesn’t come easy if we don’t have enough support + tools available to truly understand how to take what we learned to the next level.

Would love to hear what has been the toughest thing to digest for you which you may still have not managed to integrate into your life 🐍

09/10/2021

In tribal cultures, integration is built into the Ayahuasca experience.

Except they don’t call it that.

It’s just called community.

Community living together; helping each other; talking. A conversation around the breakfast pot. A conversation during a walk in the jungle. People just talking with each other.

Most people in Western cultures have lost this.

We’ve moved away from our close and extended family for study or work. We eat alone, sometimes not even paying attention to what we eat as we continue to work or watch netflix. A lot of us don’t have time for “chit chat” - every conversation needs a purpose.

Then we go to drink Ayahuasca to sort our lives out - “I’ll cram 2 ceremonies into the weekend, then I can be back at work on Monday a new me”.

But the real juice of this experience comes when you give it time and space. Time and space for the ceremonies; but also time and space for the integration.

Time and space to talk.
Time and space to be heard.
Time and space to listen to others, to relate to their experiences and see the similarities and the differences.
Time and space to make small changes, and to evaluate those changes.
Time and space to make mistakes, and then to have your resolve strengthened again by your integration community.

Madre Ayahuasca wants us to open our hearts and to give ourselves time and space; to give ourselves community we can trust; to give ourselves permission to become what she needs us to become for the benefit of this planet.

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Think of integration as a kindness - you are doing a kindness to yourself and all humanity by giving yourself the time and space to integrate the gifts that Madre Ayahuasca has given you.

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I spent 1 month with a mestizo shaman and his family in the Peruvian Amazon, drinking medicine every 2-4 days.

I would be sitting in the hammock pondering, and he would just sit down in the hammock next to me - sometimes in silence, sometimes chatting, sometimes playing music or singing icaros.

We let whatever surfaced, surface. If something was on my mind from a previous ceremony, I would share it and we would discuss it. This impromptu integration was critical to my process and it was beautiful.

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Integration seems to be the bit that people underestimate - either not thinking about it, or not making time for it.

But it is the critical bit that gives you the time and space to make those new patterns; to surface that repressed material in the unconsciousness and come to peace with it; to develop the beautiful new you that Madre Ayahuasca wants to help you to be.

That’s why we have created this group and page - since immersing ourselves deeply into the medicine work, we felt called to use our coaching skills to support people through their process, through their journey, and most importantly, through their integration process.

Let me know in the comments how much time have you given yourself in the past for integration? What have you done to help yourself integrate?