Healing on the Spectrum — Circle

An integration circle for autistic people working with ayahuasca

A sensory-aware, slower-paced circle for those on the autism spectrum integrating plant medicine. Predictable structure, low stimulation, an

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Upcoming circles

Sat, August 29, 2026
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Sat, September 26, 2026
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Sat, October 24, 2026
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Sat, November 21, 2026
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Sat, December 19, 2026
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Spots are limited to honour intimacy and depth.

Who this is for

Those seeking deeper connection through community and integration.

Those who have worked with ayahuasca and want support grounding the experience.

People ready for authentic circle work — not just another retreat.

Anyone committed to personal growth, healing, and showing up fully.

This space is inclusive, trauma-informed, and held with care. All bodies, all identities, all backgrounds are welcome.

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An integration circle for neurodivergent practitioners

Healing on the Spectrum is a monthly integration circle for autistic, ADHD, and otherwise neurodivergent people who work with plant medicine. It's held by facilitators who are themselves on the spectrum and have spent years thinking carefully about what integration looks like when the standard advice — sit with your feelings, be with community, don't over-plan — doesn't map onto how your nervous system actually works.

Most integration guidance is written for neurotypical bodies and minds. This circle is a corrective — a room where sensory needs, executive function, alexithymia, masking, and the specific ways plant medicine interacts with a neurodivergent nervous system are the ground everyone starts from, not the exception the room has to be told about.

Why this circle exists

The Alliance has been holding space for neurodivergent practitioners for years, and we kept hearing the same thing: the medicine work landed powerfully, and then integration got stuck on the collision between what the ceremony asked for and what a neurodivergent life could actually hold. Sensory overwhelm at retreats. Difficulty translating body-based insight into words. Aftercare structures that assumed a level of executive function that wasn't there.

This circle is where those specific problems are worked with directly — with practical accommodations, honest language, and facilitators who don't need the terrain explained to them.

Who it's for

Anyone who identifies as neurodivergent — self-diagnosed or professionally diagnosed, formally identified or still figuring it out — is welcome. You do not need to have sat with medicine to attend; a substantial part of the room is often in the curious or preparing stage and finds the circle useful precisely because it's honest about what the medicine work costs a neurodivergent nervous system as well as what it offers.

The container is designed for sensory ease: video optional, chat available, cameras off welcome, breaks built into longer sessions, and no expectation that anyone speaks who doesn't want to.

What a session looks like

Sessions open with a low-demand check-in — you can share by voice, in the chat, with a single word, or not at all. From there, facilitators guide a themed conversation drawn from what the room is carrying. Themes rotate: sensory integration after ceremony, the difference between meltdown and release, working with alexithymia in integration, finding facilitators who understand accommodations, and the recurring questions about medications and screening.

Sessions close with a grounding practice adapted for a neurodivergent nervous system. Prep notes and the Zoom link are inside the circle room once you've joined.

About the Alliance

How the Ayahuasca Integration Alliance thinks about this work

The Alliance is a member-led community of facilitators, integration coaches, therapists, and long-time practitioners built around one plain idea: the ceremony is not the work. The work is what you do with the ceremony afterwards — over the weeks, months, and years in which insight either becomes a lived life or slowly evaporates. Everything we publish, every circle we hold, and every training we run is designed with that continuity in mind.

We started the Alliance because too much of the public conversation about ayahuasca stops at the door of the maloka. There are thousands of accounts of what happens inside ceremony and very little honest, sustained writing about what happens in the weeks after — the difficult passages, the ordinary aftermath, the way old patterns reassert themselves and how the people we know who actually change stay close to the material until it holds.

That's the gap this whole site tries to fill: a living map of the integration journey written by people who have walked it, reviewed by peers with clinical and lived experience, and organized so you can find the exact answer to the exact question you're carrying at whatever stage of the path you're currently on.

What integration actually looks like in practice

For most people, integration is unglamorous. It's a short morning practice — sitting, breathing, journaling — repeated on days you don't feel like it. It's one honest conversation a week with a person who can hear you without needing to fix you. It's noticing a body sensation before it becomes a mood, a mood before it becomes a story, a story before it becomes an action you'll regret. It's slow, and it's ordinary, and it works.

The people we see integrate ceremony most deeply are almost never the ones who had the most spectacular visions. They are the ones who stayed in relationship with the material during the ninety-day window when neuroplasticity is still open and old patterns haven't yet fully reasserted themselves — usually inside a community, usually with at least one trained third party, usually with practices small enough that a bad week doesn't derail them.

Everything we build — the circles, the guide, the Q&A library, the podcast, the professional directory — is designed to give you that combination of community, structure, and practice without gatekeeping or hype. You can use as much or as little of it as fits the life you're actually living.

How to use the rest of this site

If you're new here, the Integration Guide is the natural entry point. It's organized by the five stages we see most often — curious, preparing, in ceremony, integrating, and long-term practice — and each stage links out to the topic hubs, articles, Q&A answers, and podcast episodes that engage with the questions people usually bring us at that moment.

If you already know what you're looking for, the topic library and the Q&A living index are the fastest way in. Both are cross-linked to the journey stages, so you can follow a single theme — mental health, trauma, difficult experiences, relationships, ethics — sideways across every part of the map. And if you'd rather sit in a room with other people who understand the terrain, the Integration Circles page collects every recurring gathering we host, most of them free and drop-in.

For structured one-on-one support, our directory of vetted integration specialists is a good next step. For ongoing membership in the community — including access to members-only resources, private circles, and direct conversation with facilitators — the Alliance itself is where that lives. Whatever you use, please treat what you read here as context and framing, not as a substitute for personal support.

About the Alliance — common questions

Who is the Ayahuasca Integration Alliance?: A member-led community of facilitators, integration coaches, licensed therapists, and long-time practitioners. Everyone who publishes, hosts a circle, or supports members here has direct lived and professional experience of the terrain they're writing about, and every published piece is reviewed by at least one peer.
Is anything on this site medical or psychiatric advice?: No. Everything published is educational context and lived experience meant to help you make your own next best decision. If you're in crisis, working with medication interactions, or navigating serious mental-health considerations, please talk to a qualified clinician alongside anything you read here.
How can I get personal support?: Start with our free open integration circle if you'd like a low-friction way to meet the community. For structured one-on-one work, browse the directory of integration specialists. For deeper ongoing support, joining the Alliance membership gives you access to private circles, resources, and direct conversation with facilitators.

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