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How to Prepare for an Ayahuasca Ceremony

A complete, compassionate guide to preparing for an ayahuasca ceremony — the dieta, diet and recipes, medical safety, and a month-by-month countdown covering mental, spiritual, physical, and emotional preparation.

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Featured · March 26, 2026

The Four Dimensions of Ayahuasca Integration: Transforming Ceremony Into Lasting Change

You came home from ceremony changed — but the life that was waiting for you didn’t know that yet. In this episode, we walk through the four essential dimensions of integration: the physical, the emotional, the mental, and the spiritual. In…

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March 26, 2026 · David Vox

Humanity Dying — Or Birthing Something New? An Interview With Ayahuasca Shaman Tina “Kat” Courtney

Is humanity healing — or is it falling apart? Right now the world feels like it’s burning. And maybe it is. But what if that’s not the tragedy we think it is?…

March 26, 2026 · David Vox

Animal Allies and Trauma Healing: What Ayahuasca Can’t Heal Alone

What happens when the most profound healing in your life doesn’t come from a therapist, a spiritual teacher, or even ayahuasca — but from an animal? Did you…

March 26, 2026 · David Vox

Death as Sacred Medicine: Ayahuasca Integration with Tina “Kat” Courtney from Plant Medicine People

Do you feel broken beyond repair? Have you come home from an ayahuasca ceremony carrying something so profound you have no idea how to integrate it into your…

March 26, 2026 · David Vox

Ayahuasca and the Collapse of the False Self: Five Ways Your Identity “Breaks” Free

You drink ayahuasca and suddenly you feel a collapse of your own self. The life you have built — studies, work, relationships, identity — cannot hold the…

March 26, 2026 · David Vox

When Ayahuasca Reveals Pain That Is Not Yours: The Ancestral Healing Vortex

What if the pain you are trying to heal is not yours to carry? Imagine drinking ayahuasca for your own healing and suddenly finding yourself face to face with…

January 12, 2026 · David Vox

Your Service After Ayahuasca: From Healing to Holding Space

Feeling the call to be of service? This episode is for you. If you have done a few ayahuasca retreats, you know the shift. You entered the medicine path for…

January 12, 2026 · David Vox

Too Much Light: Integration Through the Lens of Kabbalah

What happens when you drink and touch real light, but you don’t integrate it? The vessel cracks. The current keeps coming, and what could have become wisdom…

January 12, 2026 · David Vox

Where Are You Losing Your Feathers? Inner Child Integration and Restoring Inner Power

Inner child integration is a practical return to inner power, self-trust, and coherence. In this episode, I share a medicine dream from my fiancé during the…

January 12, 2026 · David Vox

Integrating Your True Gifts After Ayahuasca: The Golden Shadow

Most people don’t fail at transformation. They stall at expression. In this episode, we go straight to where integration becomes real: your gifts. Not your…

January 12, 2026 · David Vox

What Happens After Ayahuasca? When Healing Turns Into Service

Many people come to ayahuasca to receive medicine for their own healing. Fewer are prepared for being called to serve. Because what happens when the medicine…

January 12, 2026 · David Vox

Your First Home Was the Heart: A Guided Meditation for Ayahuasca Healing & Integration

Your first home was the heart. Before language. Before identity. Before effort. This guided meditation takes you inward, through the layers of the heart, into…

December 18, 2025 · David Vox

The Games We Play After Ayahuasca: 10 Common Integration Patterns

Did you know that we all play games in healing and transformative work? And the ones who say they don’t are often playing some of the most dangerous games that…

December 18, 2025 · David Vox

Integration After Ayahuasca: Why Your Truth Is the Real Medicine (Episode 10)

Ayahuasca can show you the truth. But it cannot live it for you. In this episode, I speak about the part of integration that’s rarely named and often avoided:…

December 5, 2025 · David Vox

The Hidden Key to Ayahuasca Healing and Integration No One Talks About

If you’re navigating the complexities of Ayahuasca healing and you find yourself moving too fast on your path — pushing, improving, “doing the work,” yet still…

November 29, 2025 · David Vox

Ayahuasca Healing: Discovering the Gifts You Never Knew Were Yours

Most people talk about ayahuasca healing in terms of trauma, darkness, and purging.This episode is about what happens after that: when the medicine stops…

November 18, 2025 · David Vox

AI vs Ayahuasca: The Hidden Dangers of Using ChatGPT in Your Healing & Integration Work

The Real Dangers of Using AI During Ayahuasca Integration In the past decade, Ayahuasca has moved from the deep forests of the Amazon into the global psyche.…

November 18, 2025 · David Vox

Ten Years Healing with Ayahuasca: Lessons from a Decade of Healing Part 1

Ten Years with Ayahuasca: What Really Happens After the Ceremony Ends Ten Years with Ayahuasca: The Night My Heart Came Back What actually happens when you…

November 18, 2025 · David Vox

Integration After Ayahuasca: When Your Life No Longer Fits You

Do you ever look around your life and feel like you’ve outgrown the whole thing? That’s the territory this episode lives in. The stretch between who you were…

November 18, 2025 · David Vox

Honor Your Ancestors: An Ancestral Medicine Meditation for Day of the Dead

If your ancestors were sitting in a cinema right now, watching the movie of your life, what would they be screaming toward the screen? What would they be…

October 9, 2025 · David Vox

Global Integration Summit in Barcelona Addresses Plant Medicine’s Missing Link

International Gathering on March 10th to Tackle the Most Critical and Overlooked Phase of Psychedelic Healing Barcelona, Spain — On March 10th, 2025, Barcelona…

October 3, 2025 · David Vox

My First Ayahuasca Experience: Rage, the Dark Sweat Lodge, and the Power of Integration

In this episode, I share the full story of my very first Ayahuasca ceremony — not just the visions or the purge, but the deeper work of integration and the…

September 25, 2025 · David Vox

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…

September 23, 2025 · David Vox

Ayahuasca Integration: The Sacred Work That Begins Before Ceremony

The Ayahuasca Integration Journey: From Ceremony to Daily Life In this episode of the Ayahuasca Integration Podcast, David Vox introduces the concept of…

August 5, 2025 · David Vox

Beyond the Spiritual Buffet: On Depth, Respect, and Sacred Reciprocity With Ayahuasca

I once asked an Indigenous Ayahuasca shaman: “Have you ever worked with any other plant medicines?” He looked at me for a long time, then said: “I’ve only…

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