Podcast
Long-form dialogues with teachers, therapists, ceremony elders, and practitioners from around the world. New episodes regularly.
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About the podcast
The Ayahuasca Integration Podcast is a long-running series of unhurried conversations with facilitators, elders, coaches, therapists, and people who have walked with the medicine for years. Each episode is one topic held for the length of a real conversation — no editing tricks, no ten-second wisdom clips, no ranking of teachers.
The guests are people we would trust with someone we love. Some are well-known in the psychedelic world; most are quietly working out of view. Together the episodes make up an oral map of integration — what tends to happen after ceremony, what tends to help, and where the field is still learning.
If you are new, start with the early episodes on preparation and the first weeks after ceremony. If you are deep in integration, browse by topic — grief, relationships, dark nights, community, service — and pick what matches your season. Each episode page includes the full show notes, links to the guest's work, and any free resources or workbooks that came out of the conversation.
You can listen here on the site or on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you already listen. New episodes drop roughly every two weeks. If an episode changes something for you, tell us — we read every message and it shapes the questions we ask next.
There is no shortage of psychedelic podcasts. Most of them do one of two things: they hype the medicine, or they treat it as an interesting curiosity for a mostly-clinical audience. We try to do neither. These are conversations for people who are actually walking with the medicine — who have sat, or are about to sit, or are years into integration and looking for company. The guests are chosen because they have real practice behind their words.
The pacing is slower on purpose. Nothing is edited down to a viral clip. If you want a highlight reel, this is not your podcast. If you want an hour of an experienced practitioner thinking out loud with someone who knows what to ask, this is the one.
Every episode is cross-tagged into the Integration Journey stages and the topic hubs, so when you find something useful you can follow the thread — related questions, articles, other episodes on the same subject, and the practitioners who work in that territory. If a guest changes something for you, most of them have a profile on the site with contact details, and many run integration circles or offer sessions.
About the podcast
The Ayahuasca Integration Podcast is a long-form conversation series with facilitators, therapists, sitters, researchers, and community members about what actually happens after ceremony. It's not a highlight reel. Episodes are unhurried, occasionally uncomfortable, and always grounded in lived practice.
We publish roughly one episode a fortnight. Each conversation is transcribed, cross-linked to the topics and stages it touches, and available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and wherever else you already listen.
You can start anywhere. Most listeners find their way in through an episode that speaks to their specific moment — a conversation about the first ceremony, or grief, or coming back to daily life after a retreat. Follow the topic tags on each episode to find related conversations and written material.
Every episode page on this site includes the embedded audio and video player, the full show notes, a transcript excerpt for the sections most people search for, and the links to whichever platform you prefer. If you'd rather subscribe once and be done with it, the show is on every major directory.
If you're new to integration entirely, the earliest episodes on preparation and the first thirty days after ceremony are the natural place to begin. If you've been on the path for years, the more recent conversations on ethics, service, relationships, and long-term practice tend to be more useful.
If you're a facilitator or clinician, the episodes tagged for professionals — on ethics, screening, difficult experiences, and working with medications — are collected on the professionals page.
About the Alliance
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.
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.
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.
