Ayahuasca Integration Course

Explore the afterglow phase, a two-week to two-month period during which ayahuasca fosters mindfulness and a regulated nervous system, creating a calm emotional, mental, and spiritual state.

Rest and slow down during the ayahuasca afterglow to support integration, emotional processing, and clarity, and avoid making major life decisions for about two weeks.

Capture and solidify afterglow insights using writing, voice recording, or video recording, while somatically noting felt senses to anchor memories and support Ayahuasca integration.

Continue your integration by nourishing the seeds planted during the dieta, slowing down, keeping a clean diet, avoiding caffeine and sugar, and seeking support through integration circles or coaching.

Explore tools for healing after a stressful ayahuasca experience, including eMDR and somatic experiencing, while prioritizing trauma-informed support and prevention strategies.

Reflect on your ayahuasca ceremony intentions and what emerged emotionally, somatically, and visually. Translate these insights into integration goals, honoring shifts that may differ from your original aims.

Stay connected to the spirit of Ayahuasca after ceremony through guided meditation, recalling peak experiences, listening to ceremonial songs, letter writing, and expressing gratitude.

Set your integration intentions after the afterglow to nourish daily meditation, journaling, inner child work, and following through across life areas like wellness, parenting, finances, and entrepreneurship.

Ayahuasca integration demands patience, time, and consistency to process complex insights and emotions and translate them into lasting behavioral changes, with mindfulness and somatic experiencing supporting ongoing self discovery.

Explore the diverse nervous system states—from green light parasympathetic to fight or flight and freeze—and learn to track, befriend, and integrate them through parts work and mindfulness for Ayahuasca integration.

Explore the default mode network and its role in ayahuasca integration, including afterglow, altered sense of self, and managing challenging emotions through mindfulness and parts work.

Explore mindfulness as a foundational tool for ayahuasca integration, learning present moment awareness, nonjudgmental observation of thoughts, emotions, and sensations, and practices to ground and deepen self-awareness.

Set up a daily mindfulness practice in an aesthetically pleasing integration space to invite awareness, and commit to short, consistent sessions with journaling to track insights and ayahuasca integration.

Turn to breath awareness meditation as the anchor to the breath, and observe thoughts and sensations with compassionate, nonjudgmental mindful presence for ayahuasca integration.

Practice a body scan mindfulness meditation to heighten awareness of bodily sensations, promote relaxation, release tension, and cultivate a compassionate, nonjudgmental relationship with your body and nervous systems.

Practice ayahuasca integration walking meditation anywhere, walking slowly as breath aligns with each step and you perform a mindful body scan, reflecting on ceremony insights.

Explore the calm app as a mindfulness toolkit for ayahuasca integration, featuring mood and gratitude check-ins, daily reflections, sleep tracking, bonus breathwork, guided meditations, and Jeff Warren’s 30-day program.

Explore daily and nightly journaling options for ayahuasca integration, including future self journaling, the five minute journal, calm app check-ins, and free writing to support integration and nervous system balance.

Explore breathwork as a practical tool for ayahuasca integration, learning calming and energizing breathing techniques to regulate the nervous system, access non-ordinary states, and deepen personal integration.

Learn nasal, diaphragmatic breathing with long exhales and guided five rounds of four-eight and vu breaths to calm the nervous system via the vagus nerve for ayahuasca integration.

Engage in energizing functional breathwork for ayahuasca integration, including the A42 and Wim Hof breaths, to upregulate the nervous system with shorter exhales and active grounding.

Explore breathwork journey practices to support ayahuasca integration, using fast, active breathing to access non-ordinary states of consciousness, guided by Holotropic breathwork and inner guiding intelligence.

Explore somatic experiencing as a body-centered approach to ayahuasca integration, improving nervous system self-regulation and releasing stored trauma. Build grounding skills and seek expert support to deepen embodiment and resilience.

Apply the basic befriend, attend, shape, integrate, and connect framework to regulate the nervous system for ayahuasca integration, using mindfulness and breathwork to build resilience and safe connection.

Learn a somatic orientation for ayahuasca integration by guiding the eyes to pleasurable sensations, grounding the nervous system, and hanging out with bodily cues to build rest, resilience, and presence.

Use a somatic anchoring process by placing hands over the heart and breathing 4 seconds in, 8 seconds out to anchor peak ayahuasca experiences in the nervous system.

Highlight three somatic experiencing books — polyvagal exercises for safety and connection, return to rhythm, and the somatic psychotherapy toolbox — revealing practical nervous system exercises for ayahuasca integration.

Explore parts work and internal family systems as a compassionate, non-judgmental framework for reparenting and integrating ayahuasca insights, aligning inner parts toward a unified, resilient self.

Explore the nesting doll analogy to understand parts work, revealing the outer self, inner exiles, and protectors, and grow through mindful breathwork, gentle self-discovery, and integration for unity.

Learn parts work for ayahuasca integration using the internal family systems framework, identifying exiles, managers, and firefighters while cultivating the eight Cs of self leadership.

Explore daily reparenting and parts work to cultivate a healthy inner parent and nurture the inner child, guided by Self Parenting and inner-child affirmations for ayahuasca integration.

Explore additional books and resources to strengthen your parts work and reparenting for ayahuasca integration, including IFS guides, the loving parent guidebook, and the inner child workbook.

Explore the bilateral freedom technique, an at-home form of eMDR for Ayahuasca integration, using bilateral stimulation or tapping to process memories, trauma, addiction patterns, and unity consciousness experiences.

Discover the simple bilateral tapping technique of the bilateral Freedom Technique and how to set up your session with grounding and journaling between ten two-minute sets.

Learn protocol 1 for installing a calm safe place or positive ceremony experience using bilateral tapping. Capture image, emotions, sensations, and sensory details to reinforce grounding and integrate peak insights.

Complete a memory that came up using protocol 2 by desensitizing activation with bilateral freedom technique, reframing core beliefs, and performing a full body scan for integration.

Practice the bilateral freedom technique to work with uncomfortable thoughts, emotions, and behaviors in ayahuasca integration, using ten rounds of two minutes to shift urges and integrate protector parts.

Express deep gratitude for your commitment to Ayahuasca integration, recognize your transformation, and continue personal growth through ongoing afterglow reflection, nervous system practices, and community support.

Explore microdosing the ayahuasca vine at home with a one-week protocol, safety guidelines, and integration practices through mindfulness, journaling, and a clean diet.