What Happens After Ayahuasca? Inside the World’s Largest Integration Study

What really happens after ayahuasca? In this landmark episode of the Ayahuasca Integration Podcast, we go inside the largest global study on ayahuasca integration ever conducted — “Life After Ayahuasca: A Qualitative Analysis of the Psychedelic Integration Experiences of 1,630 Ayahuasca Drinkers” (2023). Across five continents, participants shared their real stories of life after the ceremony: the struggles, the breakthroughs, and the slow, layered work of turning visions into lived change.

We unpack:

• The most common challenges people face after ayahuasca, including disconnection from friends, family, and culture.
• The shift in values and priorities that follows the medicine — and why it can feel like “reverse culture shock.”
• Key practices and support systems that actually work: community, meditation, somatic practice, nature immersion, and ongoing integration circles.
• Why integration is not a checklist but a psychosocial–spiritual process of weaving insight into everyday life.
• How retreat centers and facilitators can close the “post-ceremony support gap” revealed by the study.
• Evidence of long-term transformation: personal growth, deeper compassion, improved mental health, and reconnection with nature.

This episode moves beyond hype to focus on the real work after the visions fade — the part of the journey most people never see. Whether you’re a first-time seeker, an experienced facilitator, or running a retreat center, the data in this episode can help you build more effective, ethical, and human-scaled integration support.

This episode of the Ayahuasca Integration Podcast delves into the largest ayahuasca integration study ever conducted, encompassing the experiences of 1,630 participants worldwide. The episode examines the challenges and transformations that occur after the ceremony ends, highlighting the ongoing process of integrating sacred insights into everyday life. Key topics include the importance of community and personal practices, the holistic nature of integration, and the need for comprehensive support systems. Listeners are also introduced to the Ayahuasca Integration Alliance, a unique organization dedicated to providing ongoing integration support and training for facilitators.

00:00 Introduction to Ayahuasca Integration

00:22 The Ayahuasca Integration Study

01:07 Understanding Integration

02:21 Challenges of Integration

10:03 The Importance of Support Systems

22:52 Preparing for Ayahuasca Integration

25:21 Positive Outcomes and Personal Growth

34:10 Invitation to Join the Ayahuasca Integration Alliance

TRANSCRIPT:

yahuasca Integration Global Survey Episode 2

Speaker: [00:00:00] Welcome to the Ayahuasca Integration Podcast.

Wherever you have sat in dozens of ceremonies or you are just beginning to feel this calling, this episode is for you. We’re diving deep into one of the largest ayahuasca integration studies that has ever been conducted, featuring insights from 1,630 participants across our very globe. We’re unpacking the challenges.

No one talks about the transformations that continue long after the, the ceremony ends, and the support systems that actually help you integrate what you’ve seen, felt and experienced. Today we’re picking up right where most people actually stop. So not in the ceremony, but after. It’s after the beautiful medicine, music fade, and the [00:01:00] medicine settles in your body after the visions to solve into your memory.

That’s where we begin today. Because this space, this sacred in between is where integration lives, and it’s a fascinating area. And honestly, it’s where most of us doing the work says that the real work begins. And I’ve got this incredible global survey for you from 2023 called Live After Ayahuasca, a qualitative analysis of the psychedelic integration experiences of 1,630 ayahuasca drinkers.

Over 1600 people share their stories in this survey from all kinds of ayahuasca communities, from churches, from shamans, from local current eras, from retreat centers, and ayahuasca healing hubs all around the world. And what it reveals is something truly powerful. It offers insight that anyone involved in this work, participants, [00:02:00] facilitators, integration, coaches, therapists, needs to hear.

And to be real with you, I feel deeply. Every single retreat center especially needs to listen to this because this report highlights a big gap. A gap that is actually creating real challenges for our beloved Ayahuasca healing community. So just to ground us before we go further. If you need a quick refresher, ayahuasca is a sacred plant medicine, a psychoactive brew used in the Amazon for centuries.

Many of the indigenous tribes say for thousands of years, some even say for 13,000 years. And in the West, it’s gaining massive traction. People are drawn to ayahuasca for healing trauma, for spiritual awakening, and for reconnecting with their true purpose and nature. But we’re not here to talk about the hype today.

We’re asking a deeper question. What happens after the bishops? What happens when the music stops, the ceremony ends, and [00:03:00] you’re back in your kitchen with a to-do list and entire body? How do you actually weave all of those sacred insights into your everyday life? ’cause that’s what integration is. And no, it’s not a one time thing.

It’s not a checklist. It’s an ongoing unfolding relationship with yourself, with the medicine and with your souls par. So integration is about making meaning of what came true, and it’s also about asking what now and letting that question actually open a new door. It’s about taking the heart, blowing vision, or the gut wrenching truth and actually start to live it in your relationship, in your boundaries, in your morning routine, in how you show up for others and yourself.

Because no, this is not like popping a pill and waiting for a miracle. This is deep, spiritual and transformational work. It requires commitment, community, and honest, soul level guidance. One of the most powerful insights from this survey was this [00:04:00] integration unfolds in layers. So you might think you’re processed the ceremony, your journal, you cried, you shared in the circle, and maybe even you changed some habits.

But then months, maybe even years later, something lands out of nowhere, a memory, a dream, a trigger, and suddenly a whole new layer of the same ceremony reveals itself, and that’s the beauty. And also the challenge of this work, ayahuasca doesn’t just give you the answers. She plants seeds. And those seeds, they don’t stop growing.

They evolve with you. They ask you to return to them, to feel them again, to live them in a deeper and more embodied way. That’s why integration is never a checklist. It’s not a week of journaling or a post retreat zoom call. It’s a relationship with the medicine, with yourself and with the life that you feel called to build after the veil has been lifted.

And yes, therapy can be a powerful part of this [00:05:00] process, but even therapy without the sacred context, without the spiritual tread, can miss the mark because this work is not just psychological, it’s spiritual, emotional, somatic, and ancestral. So integration needs to be able to weave all of those parts together.

Its embodiment of insight, the maturation of visions into wisdom. And this takes time, my friends, presence, support, and a whole lot of grace. And what really struck me in this study was that most participants, they weren’t looking for therapists or experts to tell them what to do. They were found in their own pots.

And that in itself is incredibly empowering. It’s a reclamation of inner authority. It says. The experience happened to me through me, and I get to decide how to honor it, but let’s not sugarcoat it as well because it’s not always smooth. The study also uncovered some very deep recurring challenges, and one of the most common one, and honestly one of the most relatable [00:06:00] one, was the feeling of being disconnected from others.

Disconnect. The quiet ache of not being understood or seen or heard. So, so many people spoke about how hard it was to come back from this life altering journey, only to find that the people around them just couldn’t relate to their experience. So you touch, something is sacred, you’ve seen through the whale, and suddenly everyday conversations feels shallow.

And it’s hard to talk about rent and traffic and gossip when your heart is still echoing with the sounds of the jungle or your soul. And it’s not just that others don’t understand it, it’s that you also can’t really explain it. How do you put the divine into words? What participant described this as trying to explain a dream, one that changed your entire life, but no matter how many times you try, the language just doesn’t reach it.

It becomes the secret part or the sacred part of your life, one you can’t share, and [00:07:00] that can also feel really isolating. Another layer to this disconnect, the shift in values that often follows the medicine. People come back more connected to nature, more sensitive, more curious about their meaning, less driven by consuming, more aware of collective suffering.

And suddenly the world that you lived in before your job, your relationship, your priorities, they no longer fit the same way. It’s almost like a reverse culture shock, except the culture you’re trying to reenter is your own. And this tension becomes especially raw in close relationships. Particularly with partners who haven’t shared the ayahuasca experience, suddenly one person is speaking an entire new language and the other one is still living in the old story.

And that gap can feel unbridgeable. And unless there’s deep communication and patience and understanding, the integration, PO can feel very, very lonely. And isn’t that a paradox you guys? Ayahuasca has often spoken as the [00:08:00] medicine of connection, connection to spirit, to nature, to ancestors, to purpose, and yet what so many people report is a deep sense of disconnection right off to the ceremony ends.

And this isn’t actually a contradiction. It’s more like a sacred tension because what IAS often does is to amplify connection, but not just a beautiful kind. It also reveals in sharp relief the places where connection is missing. It heightens our awareness of both beauty and shadow. It shows us the interconnected web of life.

And simultaneously the ways that we’ve been cut off from it, from each other, from our hearts, from our own truth. This is where the work gets real. Because it’s one thing to feel one with the universe and in ceremony, and it’s another thing to come home and realize your relationship is broken, your job feels meaningless, and your friends don’t speak the same language as your soul anymore, and maybe they never did.[00:09:00] 

One participant said it so clearly, who I had become was very different than who I was. That is the thing. Ayahuasca doesn’t just open your eyes. It changes you and it shifts your priorities and it wakes up the parts of you that has been asleep for years sometimes your whole life. I actually wouldn’t say it changes you, it just reveals who you really are on the inside.

It is like removing all the layers of conditioning and mud and trauma and belief systems so that your true self can come to the surface. Then of course you’re faced with a hard truth. Now your old life no longer fits. It’s like trying to squeeze into a pair of shoes that once felt perfect. But now after this journey, they just pinch and restrict an ache every single time you walk because you’re groan, you change, and now the task is to live embody that change.

But how? How do you bridge the gap between the profound sacred insights of the medicine and the raw mundane of the messy realities of everyday life? [00:10:00] That’s the question so many are sitting with. It’s why support true conscious, ongoing support is absolutely essential. The study show this so clearly many participants felt abandoned after their retreats.

They were tossed back into the world with no map, no tools, no language to hold what had just happened. It’s like being dropped into a foreign country. No Facebook, no translator, no guide, and especially if the retreat was short or when language barriers between the shaman left people with unanswered questions, or when ceremonies were stacked back to back with no time to breathe and to process and to feel and to integrate.

Like trying to cram a semester of soul school into week intensive. Sure you taste something might taste great, but it doesn’t have the time to root, and then you go home. And if your home environment isn’t very supportive, if no one understands what just happened to you, then integration becomes [00:11:00] even harder.

Many people in this study shared that they struggle to find therapists and communities who truly understood ayahuasca. Now we probably understand why we created Aya Ayahuasca integration alliance. So not just intellectually, but who could hold the experience with reverence, with depth, and with spaciousness that it requires, and that can all feel incredibly isolating, like being dropped into uncharted territory with no compass, and you’re carrying this immense sacred experience and then no one around you knows how to hold it with you.

And this highlights something crucial. We need more resources. We need more spaces, we need more support systems that are tuned to the medicine path and to the deep, non-linear spiritual process that integration actually is. But despite the challenges, the study also reveal something really beautiful.

There were common threats strategies that help people move through their integration with more clarity and resilience. [00:12:00] Community was one of them. Having even one person who gets it can make the entire difference, but just as important was personal practices, meditation, yoga, journaling, spending time in nature, simple things.

They took a whole new meaning off through the ceremony for many. These weren’t just routines anymore. They became sacred anchors and Ayahuasca didn’t replace these tools. She just amplified them. Suddenly sitting in meditation wasn’t just about focus, it was communion connection to the divine. And journaling wasn’t just reflection, it was decoded messages from the soul.

And this speaks to something essential. Integration is holistic. It’s not just the mind. It’s not just emotional processing. It’s about the body. It’s about the spirit. It’s about the whole system waking up together. Every part of you waking up in the same bed. One participant described it so beautifully, they said their integration wasn’t a single [00:13:00] practice.

It was a tapestry woven from different threats, breath, movement, silence, tears, connection, all coming together to hold what the ceremony had opened. That image is so alive, and it reminds us that this is not a one size fits all process. What works for one person might not work for another. So integration is also very personal.

It’s a journey of discovering what you and your soul needs to feel safe and grounded and expressed after awakening, and interestingly. This challenges some of the traditional Western models of healing, where therapy is often positioned as the primary, sometimes only part to process deep experiences. The study also showed that people are creating their own frameworks, drawing on inner wisdom, experimenting, listening, trusting their intuition.

That doesn’t mean therapy isn’t valuable because it really, really, really is, especially in time of struggle. [00:14:00] But integration is really about choosing just one path. It’s about weaving together. What supports you? So me personally, I have a therapist and I have a coach. It’s all about weaving together what supports you.

And for many, that’s community. It’s about embodied practices. It’s about therapeutic space, when it’s needed. The key takeaway is this. Integration is personal. It’s a sacred process and no one can walk it for you, but you can be and should be supported and you can build a container that meets your needs in your language.

And that brings us to something else in the study that was so important of having a framework, a way to translate and make sense and name what happened to you. Because when you return from the jungle or from a retreat with visions and insights and wounds, reopened and love remembered, you need a language to hold it.

’cause if you’re not able to express it with your own words, you’re not able to make sense of it. [00:15:00] One of the most powerful themes that emerged from the study was the need of language, a way to articulate what had happened. People weren’t just looking to explain the experience to others. They were trying to explain it to themself.

They were searching for a framework, something that could hold the immensity of what I had seen and felt and remembered, and become. This was especially true for those who had never worked with psychedelics before. And for them, ayahuasca wasn’t just an experience, it was a complete rupture. In reality, we all been there a doorway to something that they didn’t even know existed.

Oh Lord. I remember the first time I met Ayahuasca and I understood spirits are real complete rupture in reality. And that is the moment when the spirit world kicks in the door and says, surprise. And you’re just laying there in survey like, wait, Jesus, you’re here. What grandmother? You’re still alive or You are a spirit who are all of you?

And [00:16:00] suddenly there’s a full on spiritual family reunion, ancestors, jungle, spirit beings with 12 faces and Sarah, chill. Everyone just popped in to say hi. And you’re left wondering. How do I make sense of all of this? Spoiler alert, you probably won’t. Not at all. Well, not all at once anyway. And without a way to frame it, to hold it.

This kind of experience can be deeply disoriented, even. Disintegrating, and it can be very terrifying. Imagine that you grow up with a religion your entire life or without a religion, and suddenly true spirituality knocks on the door and you’re like, oops, I have to throw a lot of these books now out the window.

So the need for context and spiritual and psychological and symbolic frameworks becomes a grounding force. And for some that framework can be a religion. All teachings that are now glowing with new meaning. And for others, it can become a way to explore new traditions like Buddhism and mysticism.

Shamanism, Sufism. [00:17:00] I’m into Kabbalah right now. Some turn to psychology that work. Call Yung Somatic Theory. Alan Watts and others look to science system theory, consciousness studies, ancestral healing, quantum physics. It’s not really about finding the right answer, it’s about finding your map and instead of symbols, a myth, a lens that can help you translate sometimes the untranslatable, because the search for meaning is not just intellectual.

It is deeply spiritual, and it’s a core part of our integration, and without meaning, the ayahuasca experience can just become this beautiful chaos. Very awe inspiring, very. Unfettered. But when we begin to shape those raw, unfiltered downloads into something we can live by, that’s when real transformation gets a language and gets to be rooted.

For me, integration is the language of transmission because this is not about just collecting visions, it’s about living them, turning them into truth. [00:18:00] Turning into practice is about turning love into action. So the study revealed that there for so many participants, integration became about alignment, not just.

Thinking differently, but living differently. They made changes to their diets, to their careers, to their relationships, to how they consume their screen time, their use of language, their very sense of their own purpose. Ayahuasca had planted a seed or maybe opened a door to a deeper truth, and it was up to them to water it, into lend it.

Ayahuasca had planted a seed and it was up to them to water it, to tend to it, and to give it space to grow. That growth wasn’t always smooth. It meant facing fears, confronting old wounds, and challenging very deep beliefs, leaving comfort zone, and sometimes leaving entire lives behind because real change rarely comes without discomfort.

But over and over again, people describe the process as worth it. Of 1600 people, so many would say that they weren’t building just a better version [00:19:00] of their whole life. It was something entirely more authentic, more meaningful, more in harmony with who they were becoming. And again and again, participants spoke of ayahuasca not as a quick fix, but as a catalyst for deep personal growth.

So this is not about chasing the peak experiences. It’s not about having a cool story to tell your friends or your spiritual community. It’s about letting the medicine teach you how to live, letting it show you what you need to change, and having the courage to actually follow through. ’cause Ayahuasca will give you homework.

She will never do the homework for you. And this really gets the heart of what integration is about. It’s not just about making sense of a wild experience, it’s about letting that experience change and shape you. It becomes a springboard for your transformation. And that transformation is always involves a shift in consciousness, a new way of seeing, a new way of being.

Not just who am I now, but what is this world really, and how do I walk in it differently? The. Authors of this study actually proposed a new [00:20:00] definition of integration that really captured this expanded understanding. They called it a psychosocial spiritual process involving working with the learnings and challenges arising from a psychedelic experience, translating those learnings into behaviors and adjusting to change catalyzed.

By the experienced. Yeah, it’s a mouthful, but it’s also one of the most accurate, complete definition we have seen so far. ’cause integration is not just psychological, it’s emotional, it’s spiritual, it’s all of it. It’s a process. It’s not a destination. It’s not something you compete or complete. It’s something you live day by day.

Integration is about weaving. It’s about how you stitch these deep soul level revelations into the rare fabric of your life into a relationship, your choices, your community. It creates this huge ripple effect. Ayahuasca touches something deep, and the waves expand outward from your inner world to your outer world, from insights to impact, and that’s the true potential of this work.

It’s not just [00:21:00] about personal healing, it’s about contributing to a more conscious, connected, and compassionate world. That’s the true potential of this work because insights alone is not enough here. It’s not about just having profound downloads during ceremony and then returning to life as usual. It’s about embodiment and walking the walk, not just talking the talk.

The study showed something clear. People who put their insights into practice, who actually change things, they had a much smoother integration. They didn’t just reflect on what wasn’t serving them. They acted, they shifted careers, they ended a relationship, they changed the way they ate, moved, rested and related.

They showed up differently in their communities. They used the medicine experience as a roadmap to more, a more fulfilling aligned life. And that’s really what this work is about. Not just having a big experience, but becoming the person the experienced ask you to become. It’s almost like building a toolbox, a toolbox for the soul.

Not one filled with screw dryers and hammers, but with [00:22:00] practices and people and pathways that support your healing and expansion. And here’s the thing, everyone’s toolbox is going to be different. There is no one size fits all integration template. What nourishes one person might not work for another.

It’s all about tuning in, feeling what actually resonates with you. So that’s what real and true and Sacred integration is about creating a personalized support system that meets your unique needs. And for some that toolbox might include therapists or counselors, ideally the ones that are trained in psychedelic integration, and can hold the complexity of these experiences with skills and understanding

But ultimately, the integration path is yours. It’s your soul’s journey, and while others can walk beside you for a time, you have to take the steps and you have to trust your own inner compass and that inner trust, it starts before the ceremony even begins. So let’s talk about that. What can you actually do to prepare for the integration before you even drink ayahuasca First, always set the intention.[00:23:00] 

Go in with clarity. What are you hoping to learn? What are you ready to heal and let go of? What are you offering up? What are you calling in? Or maybe deeper, what is it that your soul is praying for right now? So not from a place of control, because ayahuasca will surprise you, but from a place of presence because intention opens the door and it lets the medicine know I’m listening.

Second, do your research. It isn’t the time to just jump at the first retreat you see on an ad on Instagram. Talk to people, ask questions, read reviews, feel into the energy of the space. Make sure you feel safe and seen by the facilitators. This is not just about comfort, it’s about protection, because let’s be honest, you’re entering a very powerful, vulnerable state.

So safety is not optional. Maybe it’ll be safe. No, it’s foundational in every single shaping form Safety. Is critical. Third, start cultivating your personal practices [00:24:00] before the ceremony, meditation, breath, before journaling, time and nature. Whatever grounds you centers, you clear your mind, build that muscle.

Right now, these practices becomes your roots. So when the vision shake your branches, you want to fall, you’ll bend and you’ll integrate. Think of it all as spiritual strength training, preparing your nervous system and your soul for the journey ahead. And finally, don’t underestimate the integration during the retreat as well.

Slow down. Make space to reflect. Write down all the homework from Ayahuasca and your reflections and your insights. Cry, talk. Share the things that you’re scared of sharing, and don’t rush back into your life. Like nothing happened, something did happen, and it deserves time to settle, to breed, and to become a part of you.

So it’s about creating space for integration, not just off the retreat, but during it as well. Hopefully at the retreat you have incredible integration facilitators that are leading integration circles, because that’s one of the most powerful experiences you can have at an Ayahuasca [00:25:00] retreat during the day.

And no matter what your experience is, be patient with yourself, trust the process, and let the wisdom unfold in its own time because Ayahuasca is not going to give you all the answers once she is gonna give you seeds. Questions that might take decades to answer. Trust me, I’ve had many of them. And those seats, you know, and those questions, they need time to grow with you.

So now we’ve spent a lot of time exploring the challenges from this survey, the disconnection, the lack of support, the heart roots that emerged, but it’s just as important to speak about all the gifts that they found from this survey. Because this study also reveals some extraordinary positive outcomes, and this part, this is what keeps many of us walking this path.

One of the most common transformation people shared was a profound sense of personal growth. They felt more connected to themselves, to others, to the earth, and to something greater than them. They spoke about increased self-awareness of compassion. It wasn’t just a feeling, but a way of life, [00:26:00] of meaning and purpose that reawakened and as if something ancient and sacred had finally been remembered inside of them.

For many, it felt like they were coming home to who they truly were and to their full potential and to the person they always knew they could be beneath the pain, beneath the programming. These were just spiritual awakenings. People reported significant improvements in their mental and emotional wellbeing.

Anxiety lifted, depression softened, stress transformed, and many were able to break out of all loops, negative thought patterns and self-sabotage habits, and replacing them with healthier, more life affirming ways of coping. Yes, some even experienced physical healing, chronicle pain, digestive issues improved the body like the soul began to breathe again.

And it’s truly fascinating how the sacred plant working through vision and emotion and the spiritual energy field can ripple out an impact the [00:27:00] entire being. Your body, your mind, your spirit, your heart. And we still need to do more research to fully understand the mechanism behind it. Because these stories, these lived and body transformation, they offer a powerful glimpse into what’s possible.

Because this work is not just mystical visions. It’s about practical transformation as well, about feeling better. It’s about healing from wounds we carried for years, sometimes generations. And it’s learning how to live in a way that’s more aligned, more present, and more real. And that’s what makes the study of integration so powerful.

We’re not just mapping altered states of consciousness, we’re exploring how to bring those states into our lives, into our relationship and our systems and into our service. And speaking of service, one of the most beautiful things to study uncovered with this. Ayahuasca often sparks a deep connection to nature.

People came back with a reverence for the Earth they haven’t felt before. Like me, having felt in childhood and a sense of kinship with the trees and the [00:28:00] rivers, the animals, and the air. It wasn’t just environmental awareness, it was environmental belonging. People spoke of feeling profound sense of awe and reverence for the natural world.

Not just appreciation, but a real relationship with Mother Earth. They felt connected to the plants, to the animals, to the elements, as if they were remembering something ancient and essential inside of them. And from that connection, something beautiful was born. A desire to live more sustainably, to protect what is sacred, to walk with more care, to live and be more in nature.

Ayahuasca opened their eyes to the truth of interconnectedness. We are not separate from nature. We are nature. And that realization awakens something powerful, not just as a shift in habits. As a shift in consciousness for many, that connection extended beyond the natural world, and it began to include all beings.

They spoke about feeling deep empathy, even for people [00:29:00] they once saw very different from them, even the ones they had judged and feared the circle of compassion had whined and they didn’t stop at just theory. It became a way of seeing a way of being. This is what makes the study of Ayahuasca so relevant to the challenges we face today.

Because this work isn’t just about personal healing, it’s about planetary healing. It’s about shifting from separation to connection. It’s ancestral healing, all of the conflicts that we’re having. It’s moving from fear to care, from survival to sacred grandiosity. So this conversation reminds us that ayahuasca isn’t just a psychedelic experience, it’s a journey and a sacred unfolding.

It might actually be the medicine that this world really needs to heal. And it’s also a part of healing, growth, and transformation that touches every layer of life. Also, the planet. And perhaps the most beautiful truth is this. The most profound change often begins within quietly, very tenderly, very courageously and true.

The process of integration. We begin to live the [00:30:00] lessons. We begin to embody the wisdom, and through all of that, we create not only a better life for ourself, but a better world for all of us. That’s the beautiful ripple pool of this. You might not have a return of investment, but you will have a return of impact when you drink Ayahuasca.

And now hearing all of these positive transformation, you know, it’s very inspiring, but it also raises a natural question. Were there any common themes in the changes people made? Or was it all internal or did it ripple into the external world too? And the answer is both. The study highlights some clear patterns.

One of the most common one was relationships. Participants spoke of major shifts in how they related to others, not just letting go of toxic dynamics, though that happened too. But something deeper. They develop greater empathy, more compassion. They find themselves reevaluating, the way they connected with people, and even those they ones had clashed with.

And for many, this led to conscious changes. Some reached out to estranged family members. [00:31:00] I remember doing this myself to a biological mom I hadn’t spoke to for years. Others work to men broken bonds, not from obligation, but from a renewed sense of connection. A desire to create more loving, honest, a supportive relationship, and to show up differently and to be the bridge is also incredible.

What happens with your relationship, especially with parents that couldn’t fulfill your needs, when you stop judging them for that and also stop leaving that you know why they came into this world and what they came here to learn, but to just come from a space of presence and non-judgment and still, of course, honoring yourself and your own needs.

But what really happens is that when you are opening up your heart. Everything changes and Ayahuasca is the medicine for the heart, and she helps us with this ongoing process of integration because we all know that this is not a quick fix, and it’s really to have a commitment to personal transformation, and a lot of that shows up in our relationship.

So it’s not just gonna be in the highest, but in the mess, in the silence, in the spaces [00:32:00] in between, both for your relationship to yourself and to your relationship to others. And one of the most important things to remember when it comes to all of this is again, there’s not a one size fits all approach.

And for many, this led to conscious changes. Some reached out to family members, haven’t spoken to years. I remember when I was a ceremony and I just understood that I have to start talking to my mom again that I hadn’t talked to for many years. Seeing that if I blocked out my biological mom from my heart, I was also blocking a part of my own heart myself, and it is unbelievable how many have similar experiences.

Some they work to men broken bonds, not from obligation, but from a un renewed sense of connection. And also a lot of us who are doing this work. And especially also in this study, you see this desire to create a more loving, honest, and supportive relationships to show up differently and to be the bridge.

Because when a heart opens and truly ayahuasca is the medicine of the heart, she is the queen now of helping us [00:33:00] opening our hearts. Everything changes. Integration becomes this ongoing process, not something you do once or check off the list, but it truly is a lifelong journey of learning and on learning and growing and evolving and remembering who you really are.

So this is not a quick fix, it’s a commitment to personal transformation. Two, showing up again and again and again. Even if we fail, even if we’re not just in the highest, but in the mess and in the silence and in the spaces in between. And one of the most important things to remember, there’s not a one size fits all approach.

What works for me might not work as well for you. That’s not a problem. It’s just a path. It’s about finding your path in all of this because your path is sacred. Ayahuasca as a medicine will remind you and reveal to you how sacred you are so that you can find that path for yourself. So integration, it becomes not just about listening deeply to your own inner wisdom, it’s about building the support system that actually fits [00:34:00] you.

And it’s about honoring your unique rhythm, your unique questions, and your unique becoming. So trust your intuition, my friend. Stay curious and be gentle with yourself. And please know that this podcast am d Iwas Integration Alliance have been born from a real urgent need. This study only confirmed what we already knew in our bones.

People need real ongoing support for integration, and that’s why we created the first ever Ayahuasca Integration Alliance, the only and first organization to solely focus on Ayahuasca integration. And that’s where we’re inviting you to join us. If you’re walking this path and craving connection, if you’re holding big questions, spiritual, emotional, physical, or even the ones you can’t even name, we’re here to walk with you.

We’re warmly invited into our sacred integration community, a private rounded space where you can find coaches and facilitators each with a unique lens and each with their own sacred practice of integration. And if you feel the cold hold space waters, if you know in your soul [00:35:00] that this path is for yours to share.

Our six month Sacred integration facilitator training opens twice a year. And this is not just a course, it’s an initiation and a sacred journey that deepens your own healing while preparing you to guide others. Feel free to join us today and come closer and join our inner circle@ayahuascaintegration.org.