Preparing for Your Ceremony

Ceremonies have been used for centuries for healing, divination, and spiritual exploration. This is a guided experience that can bring deep emotional insight, healing, and a profound connection to self and the natural world. Preparation is key to creating a safe, meaningful, and transformative journey.

Setting Your Intention

Intention shapes the entire experience. Ask yourself why you feel called to this journey. Some common intentions include:

• Emotional healing or release
• Deepening spiritual connection
• Gaining clarity or direction
• Exploring consciousness and self-discovery

Journal or meditate on your intention. 

My favorite question before ceremony is; 

When we meet three years from today, and you were to look back over those three years, what has to have happened, both personally and professionally, for you to feel happy about your progress?

What kind of person do you need to be for that progress to take place? 

And that is your intention. 

Physical Preparation

Cleansing the body supports a clearer experience. 

• Avoid alcohol, caffeine, and processed foods
• Hydrate well, but avoid overeating on the day of the ceremony
• Recommend fasting after lunch. 

Mental and Emotional Preparation

• Practice mindfulness or breathwork to foster presence and inner stillness
• Reduce screen time and external stimulation to quiet the mind
• Face your emotions with compassion—whatever is unresolved may surface in the experience
• Surrender control: trust that the medicine will guide you to what you need

The Right Facilitators and Setting

The setting and the person guiding your journey matter deeply.

• Kim and I have facilitated and guided 100s of ceremonies. Our focus is on safety, presence, and progress. 

The Ceremony Experience

Arrival

• Greetings: patterns, colors, and light changes
• Select a Mat: This will be your home base for the ceremony
• Smude: Smoke from white sage is used to cleanse, purify, or bless a person 
• Hape & Intentions: a facilitator will meet with you one on one at your mat and review your intentions and serve you hape
• Group Instruction: Discussion on rules, logistics and the experience. 

Consumption and Onset

A tea will be served with 5-8g of mediciine, honey and cacao. Effects begin within 10–20 minutes, peaking around 1.5–3 hours, with a total duration of 4–6 hours.

Possible Effects

• Visuals and sensory shifts: patterns, colors, and light changes
• Emotional waves: from joy and awe to grief or release
• Ego dissolution: a loss of sense of self or time
• Spiritual insights: connection with nature, ancestors, or universal love
• Physical sensations: tingling, warmth, or body heaviness/lightness

Whatever arises, remember: relax, breathe and stay present

The Role of the Facilitator

Every ceremony has a unique curated playlist specifically for that ceremony. We use music, singing, smoke, hape and energy work to guide and hold space.  If challenges arise, we are here to support your navigation.