While our overall approach is timelessly modern, the way we hold Ayahuasca ceremonies remains rooted in a traditional Peruvian lineage. We were trained directly by Shipibo, Quechua, and Asháninka teachers during long-term dietas in isolation, each lineage carrying distinct yet complementary ways of opening this sacred space.

Whereas Brazilian ceremonies can feel like vibrant celebrations and Colombian circles may carry a more masculine, drum-driven force, the Peruvian tradition we honor is quiet, inward, and spacious — a container for deep inner seeing.

A ceremony with us begins in stillness and takes place in near-complete darkness. Participants lie on comfortable mattresses, eyes closed, turning their gaze inward. There is no fixed seating plan except when we sense that certain participants would benefit from distance or closeness for their healing to unfold.

Throughout the night, master plants speak through various tools. Sacred jungle tobacco grounds and opens each person, clarifying intention. Perfumes made from wild herbs and flowers help clear and align the subtle field. Sananga clears inner and outer vision and grounds what has been shaken loose during the night.

And at the heart of it all, there are the Ikaros — songs that are not just sung but received. Each Ikaro carries the frequency of particular master plants, woven with the singer’s own medicine.

They act like invisible threads: guiding, connecting, confronting. One may feel held. Another may feel challenged. And so, the Icaros become living, moving bridges between the plant world and each participant’s unique inner landscape.

Our role is to set up the safe container and then get out of the way that the plants can do the work directly through us. Ayahuasca opens the space. Tobacco gives it shape. Icaros hold the weave.

Everything else is held in silence and trust. The ceremony is the place where it all comes together. Integration happens in the daylight, but it is here, in the night, that the seeds are planted.

One of our favorite moments in ceremony is when the energy runs so deep that, despite occasional background noise, it feels like the surface of a still lake — each participant gently sinking beneath, into a space of profound inner learning and clarity.