Ironically, Ayahuasca in itself is a huge cause of anxiety for many people. The journey with these powerful plants can seem daunting and foreboding.

Like going on a scary roller coaster, you’re often afraid beforehand but feel exhilarated and a sense of accomplishment afterwards.

Ayahuasca is a healer of trauma and illuminates the path to closing our trauma loops. It heals the mind and reorganises the neurological pathways allowing for more healthy connections. Sometimes reshuffling and reorganising our thoughts altogether.

The plants are our connection to the sensations and musing of the land upon which we live. For those living in the Northern hemisphere there is no better plant than Mugwort to connect us deeply to the land and heal the parts of us modernity may have harmed.

We are constantly surrounded by plants and trees of all kinds here in the jungle and so we’re blessed to have their wisdom and magic with us daily. That magic is everywhere in the world, even the densest of human environments has plant life. From roses to dandelions their physical presence, scents and artwork are everywhere carrying an energetic vibration.

I love the complex and nuanced energetic fields of Ayahuasca with awestruck enthusiasm. I’m not surprised people are intrigued by this work and pulled in to discover more about the hidden parts of themselves. 

I am however surprised by how much people pass up on the basic fundamentals of nature as a medicine for their well being. Sunlight, fresh air, movement and the sights, smells and frequency of the forest carry such a regulating medicine attuned to our biology. The power of this feels too often overlooked.

Working with plants is on the whole socially acceptable to people, borderline, but just about acceptable.

On the other hand, being open about plants speaking to me and having a voice can be very divisive.  People either get it, because they’ve also experienced it. Or they think I’m absolutely insane.

Our connection with nature in the UK may not be on the same level as the tribes of the Amazon, but the plants are ready and waiting with the same vigour and healing power of their rainforest counter parts. And they have so much to say!

A real point of contention that will often raise red flags on both sides for more experienced drinkers is the practice of drinking Ayahuasca in your own home Vs drinking in a group with a curandero/facilitator/shaman at a retreat centre.

This analogue version of Ayahuasca is not Ayahuasca, it's a disservice to advertise these plants as such and misinforms retreat participants. That's not to say these plants don't have healing properties and. In many European retreat centres I see that an Analogue version of Ayahuasca is being served. This analogue version of Ayahuasca is...