Aanmelden ceremonie
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An Ayahuaca ceremony can be given in a variety of ways. It is important to undergo the ceremony in an environment where everyone feels safe and welcome guided by a specialized process facilitator.
This page presents several elements that are necessary and combine well with a western holistic and therapeutic approach. It outlines one of the methods of an ayahuasca ceremony
1- Registration
Through a written application and an introductory phone call, your personal and medical background will be carefully reviewed. After this the facilitator will make a decision and either confirm or decline your participation.
3 – Beginning ceremonial days
During the introductory meeting, personal intentions and themes are initially shared within the group. Important information about Ayahuasca and the program for the coming days will be provided, followed by a Q&A session.
2- Preparation
Note; In the weeks leading up to the Ayahuaca ceremony, it
It’s common for various processes related to the relevant themes to be set in motion. Physical, mental, and emotional preparation is therefore important. As a participant, you will receive detailed information several weeks before the ceremony.
4 – Ceremony & Aftercare
The ceremony takes place. The process facilitator guides the process and ensures a steady safe container. The following day group exercises and integration sessions occur.
A second ceremony is typically conducted on the second or third day. The days will be closed with integration sessions, followed with aftercare the weeks after ceremony.
A well-organized ceremony provides a sense of freedom within the explained boundaries. This establishes a standard that makes participants feel welcome, acknowledged and safe.
An experienced process facilitator recognizes the needs of participants during the journey and adapts their approach to ensure safety and foster trust.
During an Ayahuasca journey, participants may encounter challenging and confronting experiences, so it’s essential that facilitators can provide a safe set and setting and have the necessary experience
The Ayahuasca should not be consumed without guidance, nor simply with a “trip sitter.” The ritual must be led by a experienced process facilitator or process therapist. This individual should be an experienced Ayahuasca drinker who has regularly cleansed themselves and has a deep understanding of working with plants and people.
Rituals, ceremonies, or process journeys can vary significantly depending on the plant facilitator. Each facilitator / plant worker brings their own energy and perspective to the experience.
It’s important to remember that no one can dictate your truth—not a shaman, medicine person, plant worker, or process therapist. Stay true to yourself. If you feel uncomfortable with the preparatory process, trust your instincts and continue searching for the right process facilitator or plant worker.
Participants will receive a warm welcome, accommodation will be shown as well as the sleeping quarters. There will be time to settle in and to get to know the other participants.
As a group, participants share their intentions, which may be explored further by the plant facilitator for additional support.
The process facilitator will provide information about the plants and their approach to working with them.
The spiritual and therapeutic aspects of Ayahuasca may be discussed, although this varies depending on their approach.
Practical information is often shared, such as house rules and what is and isn’t allowed. Following this, participants have time to prepare for the Ayahuasca session, which takes place in a ceremony room*.
*A ceremony room is a calm, safe space where the inner work occurs.
In some Ayahuasca sessions, body work and/or group exercises may take place before or between the ceremonies.
These can vary from breathwork, birth exercises, and focus exercises to regression practices. These methods are often valuable and shed light on the themes where you may feel stuck, blocked, or have questions.
It often begins with a prayer and/or expression of gratitude, with each participant seated in the circle.
Occasionally, songs are sung to invoke safety, support, and trust. Afterward, the Ayahuasca is consumed.
Ayahuasca will start working after about 20 minutes.
During the ceremony, suitable music is played, ideally interspersed with live music, singing, moments of silence, and empowering prayers. The process is adapted to the energy, therefore is each ritual unique.
After 2.5 / 3 hours a second round of drinking follows. If necessary, a short “check-in” with the participants by the process facilitator takes place.
Typically, especially for those drinking Ayahuasca for the first time, further physical cleansing will occur from this point onward. This is a purification on emotional and physical level. This often occurs via vomiting or going to the toilet.
In most cases this is accompanied by a liberating feeling. Literally surrendering to oneself. After this, one usually gets deeper into his process.
Music and playing instruments continues to align with what is appropriate.
The ceremony ends after 6-7 hours. Participants will be informed in advance that the ceremony is coming to an end within a specified timeframe.
After closing the ceremony there will be food.
After this, people go to sleep. The integration and sharing sessions in group setting will take place the next morning after breakfast.
There must always be a detailed questionnaire completed with background information, medical information, intentions and themes / blockages you are dealing with.
Subsequently, the participant must sign an intention/health declaration. Note; the responsibility for participation always lies with the participant.
If you don’t have to fill out anything for participation in a ceremony, the strong advice: do not participate.
When a participant is accepted during the registration process, it is common to have a phone call, followed by a confirmation email and the necessary preparatory and practical information.
Don’t judge, learn to listen, especially to the silence within yourself. This foundation holds all the answers.
The right moment to take off your mask is now. Learn to be open to yourself and others.
Take responsibility, also known as personal leadership. Only then can change occur.
We are all the same. However, everyone learns at their own pace with their own lessons to be learned.
The day after the Ayahuasca ritual, a joint integration session is held where participants share their inner journeys. Ayahuasca has the ability to bring experiences back to life on emotional, visual, and physical levels. Participants re-experience situations, however this time with awareness. Ayahuasca excels at influencing different themes and situations, which might not be immediately clear.
With their specific knowledge, experience and therapeutic background, the process facilitator support the participants in finding answers. During these integration sessions participants gain deeper insights. Therefore these integration sessions are incredibly valuable.
Participants often resonate with each other’s stories which helps their own process.
During the closing sessions, advice is given on how to spend the coming period, how to keep focus and how to create space for integration.
It’s customary that participants receive an aftercare email containing valuable recommendations and discussed information.
This is often followed by a phone call for more personal aftercare, where additional steps can be addressed.
Note! In the aftercare information, a competent facilitator will emphasize that the real work takes place in the day to day life. Here we face ourselves and awareness unfolds.
Integrating means applying what you’ve learned both physically and mentally in your life. Changing old behavior, believes and ways of thinking.
Ayahuasca can help you see, feel, and experience your lessons and needs with great clarity. This can lead to a positive life-changing transformation in a very short time.
However, the ultimate change lies with the participant, the desire and willingness to integrate it into daily life. This is a practice that requires attention, time, and space.
The birth process plays a crucial role in shaping our personality, often leading to the development of false beliefs and a poor self-image as we grow older. A rebirth experience is common in a Ayahuasca ceremony.
As human beings, we all share two profound experiences: birth and death. Both are intense events that require us to let go of our bodies, loved ones, and identities, surrendering to the unknown. Birth, in particular, is often filled with fear. It’s marked by the chaotic energy of mother and/or baby plus the complications that can occur. As such, the birth experience is one of the most common traumas we all carry.
While there are many other traumatic events, such as (sexual) abuse etc. that can profoundly impact us, not everyone encounters these situations.
However, birth is a universal experience that touches us all.
The body has a memory, also called cellular memory. All subconscious experiences are stored here. Experiences that can go back to our conception and before our existence.
Because birth is an intense (traumatic) experience and therefor occurs very frequently in a Ayahuasca ceremony. The experience (stored in our body) wants to be processed.
Note; Because you have no images of this, this experience comes back into our consciousness from our emotion and physical memories; the body. It can be confusing when you are in a rebirth during the Ayahuasca and the plant worker or process therapist hasn’t mentioned this information during the intake or sharing session.
There is no such thing as a bad trip.
If a dark/anxious experience come to the surface, realize that it’s an experience and it has something to say.
Ask yourself ‘where am I in?’ or ‘what does this look like?’.
Stay in contact with your body, feel what’s happening without judgment.
To fully go through this challenging experience, it requires to be open with a focus.
Because of the open approach, you come to an answer and new insights.
Fearful / traumatic memories are experiences kept in our subconscious that we would rather not confront again. There is often dissociation because it was an intense matter accompanied by feelings of shame, guilt, fear, anger, disgust and sadness.
However this experience which comes back into our consciousness can be experienced as a bad trip, but it’s not. It’s facing the shadow side of us where a lot of memories are stored.
Read more in this blog; does a bad trip exist?
Not everyone purge immediately. It comes when it comes.
Often, especially when one drinks the plant medicine later on, the purge will occur.
However, you can experience wonderful deep processes without purging.
One person vomits, another has a few toilet visits, yawns, trembles or effortlessly takes a “deep dive” into his/her inner world with stillness and concentration.
Physical surrender, through whatever form, is a way of surrender to yourself. You allow and create space to have a deeper inner process journey.
Change in daily life usually happens after drinking Ayahuasca for several times. This frequency varies from person to person. From once or twice a year to multiple sessions within a certain period of time.
Some people will drink it once and others see it as a valuable yearly event for self-exploration and spiritual growth.
It is an individual process where the process facilitator / therapist can give advice.
Realize; drinking Ayahuasca multiple times a year will not help without wanting to integrate the new insights and learned lessons in day to day life and taking responsibility of yourself.
Usually, especially when you are drinking Ayahuasca for the first time, during the first round, not much will happen.
It is new and often there is some resistance where the mind wants to keep control it. This blocks the Ayahuasca.
A second round of drinking is for most of the participants a breakthrough. The mind gives up eventually. Ayahuasca is doing her work and you’re making a connection with body, feelings and soul again.
Please note; it is a normal occurrence that resistance comes up before drinking the second drink. Know that this is the mind wanting to stay in control. Resistance is not wanting to accept it.
Stay curious, follow your breath and relax.
However; realize that it can be the case that the Ayahuasca brew is strong and that you are a very sensitive person. Then there is no need for a second cup and the process facilitator should respect this.
Note; in the South America tribes it’s very common that you have to drink 4 cups or more. This depends on different standards and the use of different plants as well.
This is the familiar resistance that many man experiences, often when a second round of drinking Ayahuasca is announced. Especially if it is your first connection to Ayahuasca.
Realize that a lot of shame, guilt, lack of self-confidence and victimization resides within us. Especially when there have been impactful / traumatic experiences which we have tucked away deeply (pain body). It requires coming out of the role of victimhood, only then change can occur.
This requires curiosity about yourself. You have a right to know what happened to you or why you created blockages. Regardless of the intensity of an event. If it is blocking you, then this is a problem that needs your attention. Go beyond the resistance.
Note; If you are fully connected to Ayahuasca and she is strong enough, the facilitator should notice this and respect your choice not to drink the second time.
However, 9 out of 10 it’s the resistance of not wanting to know, where the mind takes over; controlling.
First; let go of your expectations.
During the experience you will experience that time and space fade away. Your senses become more sensitive and sharper. You’re invited to make contact with your inner world through your body, the emotions and sensations.
You will receive insights and answers about your own conditioned or deep rooted patterns, (false) beliefs.
Traumatic, shocking or intens events can be processed and there is an opportunity for discovering your own potential, life path, profound insights and discover talents.
Sometimes the experience is very visual, through geometric figures, cartoonish or realistic images. And sometimes it unfolds itself through emotions and sensations, which can be equally insightful.
This inner journey is often accompanied by physical cleansing; vomiting, going to the toilet, shaking, yawning, crying.
These are all natural expressions of letting go. Allowing this process can be a beautiful, vulnerable symbol of the surrender to yourself.
Note; this kind of purging has a different experience than when you have with for example the flu.Vomiting while drinking Ayahuasca often comes full force ‘out of your toes’, which is usually experienced as a huge relief and liberation.
This can occur during the first round of the Ayahuasca ceremony. You may be nervous, unsure of what to expect, and possibly a bit anxious. This often manifests as a mechanism to control or hold on.
This is normal and happens very often; the unknown can be pretty exciting and resistance often takes over.
Your “monkey mind” kicks in, and you realize that your thinking mind is distracting yourself.
You might literally come up with the craziest thoughts, way down to the grocery lists on your kitchen table.
Often, you’re also sabotaging yourself: “See, it’s not working, it’s not meant for me, I’m not good enough, I’m stupid, I can’t do it” etc.
It requires relaxation and connecting with your body. Relax, breath slowly and be curious about yourself.
Note: It is also common for people to experience beautiful insights and revelations once they are home after the ceremony.
The key is to recognize the experiences that come to your consciousness.
When you recognize the experience, you can go “through the process,” which is where the Ayahuasca is meant for: processing.
This is called healing—being consciously present with it without any judgment.
How do I stay in the experience? Curiosity!
Stay open, get out of your mind and feel what happens in your body.
A safe and trusted environment is created with support from experienced specialized process facilitators. They will be present throughout the entire process
There are different methods proces workers and therapists apply during ceremony.
I prefer a hands-off method. The intention is for you to feel and experience all your emotions bij yourself and to trust this process. In this way, you learn that the inner work is up to you; you make the decisions and choices. This will enhance your self-confidence.
Process facilitators will sense ( intuition) and see when support and a hands-on method is appropriate to ensure your safety to continue your process.
What’s important is;
Having some self-inquiry: What is my intention, what do I long for, what is my actual problem? What am I curious about?
Am I in a physically and mentally healthy state to drink Ayahuasca? (Read contraindications)
With whom do you want to undergo a Ayahuasca ceremony? Nothing is as vulnerable as a Ayahuasca ceremony. This requires a field (set and setting) where you feel comfortable, which starts with the process facilitator/ therapist / guide.
Once you have decided to drink and know where/with whom, you will start preparing yourself.
Mentally: by taking it easy 2 weeks beforehand. Give yourself more space and try to avoid a busy schedule.
Physically: by eating a plant-based diet and avoiding certain medications, meat, diary, sugar, spiced food, alcohol and coffee for 2 weeks before the ceremony. (Read more here).
A proper organization or process worker will provide you with the right preparations.
Since October 2019, Ayahuasca has been banned for consumption in the Netherlands. Although only the ‘DMT’ component is banned, the MAO inhibitor is legal. The MAO inhibitor (Banisteriopsis Caapi ‘vine of the soul’, Peganum Harmala (Syrian Rue)) or Bobinsana are legal in the Netherlands.
Ayahuasca in its complete form contains DMT. Despite various scientific studies into its healing advantages and increasing recognition of its (therapeutic) benefits, it is still illegal to drink Ayahuasca included the DMT in the Netherlands..
Ayahuasca is legal in the countries of Peru, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Brazil.
However, there are places, organizations, and very experienced plant facilitators / therapist in the Netherlands where Ayahuasca is provided in a safe form.
Note; Participation in a ceremony is always at your own risk and responsibility. At most places, you’re required to sign an intention declaration for this.
An intention (an honest question to yourself) is important and meaningful. It gives direction and focus. Ayahuasca can sometimes be overwhelming and make you experience a lot. Therefore, an intention serves as an anchor.
It is also important to involve yourself in self-inquiry – as indicated on this site – and to make the problem or question as clear as possible for yourself.
Note! An intention is not an expectation. It is a question that broadens your field, bringing healing, peace, and acceptance.
If an intention is not clear for you yet, don’t worry. A plant worker/process therapist can support you in finding your right intention beforehand.
The birth process plays a crucial role in shaping our personality, often leading to the development of false beliefs and a poor self-image as we grow older. A rebirth experience is common in a Ayahuasca ceremony.
As human beings, we all share two profound experiences: birth and death. Both are intense events that require us to let go of our bodies, loved ones, and identities, surrendering to the unknown. Birth, in particular, is often filled with fear. It’s marked by the chaotic energy of mother and/or baby plus the complications that can occur. As such, the birth experience is one of the most common traumas we all carry.
While there are many other traumatic events, such as (sexual) abuse etc. that can profoundly impact us, not everyone encounters these situations.
However, birth is a universal experience that touches us all.
The body has a memory, also called cellular memory. All subconscious experiences are stored here. Experiences that can go back to our conception and before our existence.
Because birth is an intense (traumatic) experience and therefor occurs very frequently in a Ayahuasca ceremony. The experience (stored in our body) wants to be processed.
Note; Because you have no images of this, this experience comes back into our consciousness from our emotion and physical memories; the body. It can be confusing when you are in a rebirth during the Ayahuasca and the plant worker or process therapist hasn’t mentioned this information during the intake or sharing session.
There is no such thing as a bad trip.
If a dark/anxious experience come to the surface, realize that it’s an experience and it has something to say.
Ask yourself ‘where am I in?’ or ‘what does this look like?’.
Stay in contact with your body, feel what’s happening without judgment.
To fully go through this challenging experience, it requires to be open with a focus.
Because of the open approach, you come to an answer and new insights.
Fearful / traumatic memories are experiences kept in our subconscious that we would rather not confront again. There is often dissociation because it was an intense matter accompanied by feelings of shame, guilt, fear, anger, disgust and sadness.
However this experience which comes back into our consciousness can be experienced as a bad trip, but it’s not. It’s facing the shadow side of us where a lot of memories are stored.
Read more in this blog; does a bad trip exist?
Not everyone purge immediately. It comes when it comes.
Often, especially when one drinks the plant medicine later on, the purge will occur.
However, you can experience wonderful deep processes without purging.
One person vomits, another has a few toilet visits, yawns, trembles or effortlessly takes a “deep dive” into his/her inner world with stillness and concentration.
Physical surrender, through whatever form, is a way of surrender to yourself. You allow and create space to have a deeper inner process journey.
Change in daily life usually happens after drinking Ayahuasca for several times. This frequency varies from person to person. From once or twice a year to multiple sessions within a certain period of time.
Some people will drink it once and others see it as a valuable yearly event for self-exploration and spiritual growth.
It is an individual process where the process facilitator / therapist can give advice.
Realize; drinking Ayahuasca multiple times a year will not help without wanting to integrate the new insights and learned lessons in day to day life and taking responsibility of yourself.
Usually, especially when you are drinking Ayahuasca for the first time, during the first round, not much will happen.
It is new and often there is some resistance where the mind wants to keep control it. This blocks the Ayahuasca.
A second round of drinking is for most of the participants a breakthrough. The mind gives up eventually. Ayahuasca is doing her work and you’re making a connection with body, feelings and soul again.
Please note; it is a normal occurrence that resistance comes up before drinking the second drink. Know that this is the mind wanting to stay in control. Resistance is not wanting to accept it.
Stay curious, follow your breath and relax.
However; realize that it can be the case that the Ayahuasca brew is strong and that you are a very sensitive person. Then there is no need for a second cup and the process facilitator should respect this.
Note; in the South America tribes it’s very common that you have to drink 4 cups or more. This depends on different standards and the use of different plants as well.
This is the familiar resistance that many man experiences, often when a second round of drinking Ayahuasca is announced. Especially if it is your first connection to Ayahuasca.
Realize that a lot of shame, guilt, lack of self-confidence and victimization resides within us. Especially when there have been impactful / traumatic experiences which we have tucked away deeply (pain body). It requires coming out of the role of victimhood, only then change can occur.
This requires curiosity about yourself. You have a right to know what happened to you or why you created blockages. Regardless of the intensity of an event. If it is blocking you, then this is a problem that needs your attention. Go beyond the resistance.
Note; If you are fully connected to Ayahuasca and she is strong enough, the facilitator should notice this and respect your choice not to drink the second time.
However, 9 out of 10 it’s the resistance of not wanting to know, where the mind takes over; controlling.
First; let go of your expectations.
During the experience you will experience that time and space fade away. Your senses become more sensitive and sharper. You’re invited to make contact with your inner world through your body, the emotions and sensations.
You will receive insights and answers about your own conditioned or deep rooted patterns, (false) beliefs.
Traumatic, shocking or intens events can be processed and there is an opportunity for discovering your own potential, life path, profound insights and discover talents.
Sometimes the experience is very visual, through geometric figures, cartoonish or realistic images. And sometimes it unfolds itself through emotions and sensations, which can be equally insightful.
This inner journey is often accompanied by physical cleansing; vomiting, going to the toilet, shaking, yawning, crying.
These are all natural expressions of letting go. Allowing this process can be a beautiful, vulnerable symbol of the surrender to yourself.
Note; this kind of purging has a different experience than when you have with for example the flu.Vomiting while drinking Ayahuasca often comes full force ‘out of your toes’, which is usually experienced as a huge relief and liberation.
This can occur during the first round of the Ayahuasca ceremony. You may be nervous, unsure of what to expect, and possibly a bit anxious. This often manifests as a mechanism to control or hold on.
This is normal and happens very often; the unknown can be pretty exciting and resistance often takes over.
Your “monkey mind” kicks in, and you realize that your thinking mind is distracting yourself.
You might literally come up with the craziest thoughts, way down to the grocery lists on your kitchen table.
Often, you’re also sabotaging yourself: “See, it’s not working, it’s not meant for me, I’m not good enough, I’m stupid, I can’t do it” etc.
It requires relaxation and connecting with your body. Relax, breath slowly and be curious about yourself.
Note: It is also common for people to experience beautiful insights and revelations once they are home after the ceremony.
The key is to recognize the experiences that come to your consciousness.
When you recognize the experience, you can go “through the process,” which is where the Ayahuasca is meant for: processing.
This is called healing—being consciously present with it without any judgment.
How do I stay in the experience? Curiosity!
Stay open, get out of your mind and feel what happens in your body.
A safe and trusted environment is created with support from experienced specialized process facilitators. They will be present throughout the entire process
There are different methods proces workers and therapists apply during ceremony.
I prefer a hands-off method. The intention is for you to feel and experience all your emotions bij yourself and to trust this process. In this way, you learn that the inner work is up to you; you make the decisions and choices. This will enhance your self-confidence.
Process facilitators will sense ( intuition) and see when support and a hands-on method is appropriate to ensure your safety to continue your process.
What’s important is;
Having some self-inquiry: What is my intention, what do I long for, what is my actual problem? What am I curious about?
Am I in a physically and mentally healthy state to drink Ayahuasca? (Read contraindications)
With whom do you want to undergo a Ayahuasca ceremony? Nothing is as vulnerable as a Ayahuasca ceremony. This requires a field (set and setting) where you feel comfortable, which starts with the process facilitator/ therapist / guide.
Once you have decided to drink and know where/with whom, you will start preparing yourself.
Mentally: by taking it easy 2 weeks beforehand. Give yourself more space and try to avoid a busy schedule.
Physically: by eating a plant-based diet and avoiding certain medications, meat, diary, sugar, spiced food, alcohol and coffee for 2 weeks before the ceremony. (Read more here).
A proper organization or process worker will provide you with the right preparations.
Since October 2019, Ayahuasca has been banned for consumption in the Netherlands. Although only the ‘DMT’ component is banned, the MAO inhibitor is legal. The MAO inhibitor (Banisteriopsis Caapi ‘vine of the soul’, Peganum Harmala (Syrian Rue)) or Bobinsana are legal in the Netherlands.
Ayahuasca in its complete form contains DMT. Despite various scientific studies into its healing advantages and increasing recognition of its (therapeutic) benefits, it is still illegal to drink Ayahuasca included the DMT in the Netherlands..
Ayahuasca is legal in the countries of Peru, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Brazil.
However, there are places, organizations, and very experienced plant facilitators / therapist in the Netherlands where Ayahuasca is provided in a safe form.
Note; Participation in a ceremony is always at your own risk and responsibility. At most places, you’re required to sign an intention declaration for this.
An intention (an honest question to yourself) is important and meaningful. It gives direction and focus. Ayahuasca can sometimes be overwhelming and make you experience a lot. Therefore, an intention serves as an anchor.
It is also important to involve yourself in self-inquiry – as indicated on this site – and to make the problem or question as clear as possible for yourself.
Note! An intention is not an expectation. It is a question that broadens your field, bringing healing, peace, and acceptance.
If an intention is not clear for you yet, don’t worry. A plant worker/process therapist can support you in finding your right intention beforehand.
Ayahusca is a powerful and healing instrument for both body and mind, but it’s not suitable for everyone. Careful consideration and preparation ensure a safe ceremony.
Visit this page below ( Ayahuasca and safety) for more information and / or book a free call for more information.
Vul hier je gegevens in voor deelname aan een plant spirit proces of psilocybine dan zal ik zo spoedig mogelijk contact met je opnemen.