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WAS YOUR AYAHUASCA EXPERIENCE SPIRITUAL DELUSION OR DIVINE GUIDANCE?
Grounding Part 1
Our minds play an important role in discerning what is delusional and what is actually guidance when working with plant medicines. It is a fine line between taming our egos only to gain a spiritual ego, as we experience the vastness that these plants offer our consciousness. Grounding back into this reality is fundamental to any energetically opening work.
WHY DO WE HAVE A SCREENING PROCESS BEFORE DRINKING AYAHUASCA?
Screening participants before and ayahuasca ceremony is an essential part of our practice.
WHAT HAPPENS DURING AN AYAHUASCA CEREMONY?
What happens during an ayahuasca ceremony? Knowing the general structure of how a ceremony works goes a long way to creating a sense safety for your first ayahuasca ceremony.
WHO OR WHAT IS AYAHUASCA?
The what is easy, who is Ayahausca is a much harder question to answer. Many refer to her as feminine or mother like whilst others disagree
SHOULD I DRINK AYAHUASCA?
Should I drink Ayahuasca? What do we need to consider when asking this question?
SOWA SOMA AYAHUASCA RETREATS IN COSTA RICA
Sowa Soma was co-created by husband and wife team, Neil and Fiona Kirwan when they moved to the Caribbean coats of Costa Rica in 2021. They wanted to create a safe environment for people to connect with Ayahuasca, with facilitators who fully respect working with Ayahuasca and other healing plants. The foundation of Sowa Soma is built around four pillars - ritual, respect, relationship and reciprocity, and guides all aspects of their work.
NON PSYCHEDELIC PLANTS FOR HEALING
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!
RECIPROCITY: WHY GIVING BACK TO AYAHUASCA IS IMPORTANT
Our culture can be extractive in its nature, however working with these plants with integrity requires the act of reciprocity. With my initial teaching in mind, it is clear to me that the western world is not happening to Ayahuasca. Ayahuasca is happening to the western world. It is the spirit here that has the guiding hand.
HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT PLACE TO DRINK AYAHUASCA
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.
WHAT IS IT LIKE TO DRINK AYAHUASCA?
After many journeys to the darkness, the abyss, the void I decided to write an article about my experience, What started out as an article turned into a poem, twisting and turning, moving and flowing.
WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN AYAHUASCA & ANAHUASCA?
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.