What if transforming your karma is not about suffering your way through it?
What if it happens when you step fully into your dharma, into the life that makes you happiest, most purposeful, and most alive?
Today, we have the honor of meeting Yerumael, whose path with Ayahuasca began through a sequence of events she could never have planned.
After leaving a successful career in Swiss banking, she moved to London and entered the worlds of music, yoga, nutrition, and spiritual practice before eventually encountering Ayahuasca. Then, a stranger contacted her through Facebook and told her that he had seen her during a ceremony and believed she was meant to study with him.
Six months later, she was in the Peruvian jungle.
What followed were years of traditional dietas, apprenticeship, intense personal initiation, and eventually guiding others and serving the medicine. Yerumael spent 17 years working with Ayahuasca. Yet after almost two decades, the medicine’s deepest teaching was not that she needed another ceremony.
It was that she needed to stop.
For Yerumael, this was not a rejection of Ayahuasca. It was the recognition that Ayahuasca was never meant to become the final destination. At some point, the search for healing can become another identity. Another ceremony can become a way of postponing the changes that the previous ceremony already asked us to make.
The visions may be extraordinary, but the real test begins when you return home. Can you remain present with your child? Can you communicate differently with your partner? Can you translate what you were shown into choices that genuinely change the way you live?
This conversation explores what happens when Ayahuasca stops being the center of the path and life itself becomes the ceremony.
In this episode, we explore:
• How an unexpected Facebook message led Yerumael from London to an apprenticeship in Peru
• What 17 years of ceremonies, dietas, and service taught her about the real purpose of Ayahuasca
• Why being “chosen” by the medicine is an initiation, not a guarantee of transformation
• Why seeking ceremony after ceremony can become another form of avoidance
• Why Yerumael considers integration to be 90% of the work
• How to translate visions and revelations into one clear change you can actually live
• Why trying to integrate 50 insights at once can prevent any of them from taking root
• Why facilitators carry a responsibility to support participants after the ceremony ends
• How karma and dharma relate to purpose, pleasure, responsibility, and service
• Why living your dharma may transform your relationship with suffering
• When healing stops being the purpose of your life and living finally begins
Learn more about Yerumael and her work:
www.yerumael.com
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https://www.instagram.com/yerumael/
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