Doubts about medication, health, or timing? Check in first.
Most people think they need to arrive with a fixed intention. Or that it’s about tripping or trauma. To me, that often feels like noise, sometimes even like marketing language.
I see a ceremony as a snapshot of your life, a mirror you are about to look into for the first time. You’ve already tried many things, and somewhere the call has grown stronger than ever. Not because you have the perfect question, but because the regular path no longer takes you further. You want a deeper connection to the truth that lives within you. So you can see more clearly where your patterns, thoughts, and actions come from, consciously and unconsciously.
Intention begins with one decision: that you are willing to look. To feel. And that you don’t run when something comes up that you didn’t expect.
If you get stuck in your head, keep it simple. Write one sentence: “I open myself to receive what I need right now to come closer to myself.”
You feel disconnected from yourself and your direction
You feel stuck and don’t recognize yourself anymore
You no longer know what truly matters
You’ve lost your self-worth or emotional connection
You feel like you’re not really living, and you’re not looking for a quick fix
You see ayahuasca as the solution that will wash your problems away
You want to control or predict the outcome
You use it mainly as a trip or an experience
You are in an active addiction pattern or heavy substance use
You use medication such as antidepressants, or you have doubts about safety
Sometimes you feel the call, but you notice your system is still too restless. Anxiety, panic, dysregulation, or medication use can mean you first need more stability and capacity before we decide what is wise.
This pre-trajectory is for people who need extra grounding before participation. Not to push you faster toward a ceremony, but to honestly explore whether it fits right now.
What we do in this pre-trajectory
Map what’s happening in your capacity, nervous system, and daily functioning
Work with anxiety and restlessness through practical regulation and clear self-observation
Clarify conditions: support, boundaries, timing, recovery, and integration
Align around medication, always in collaboration with your doctor or prescriber
Important to know
I do not create tapering schedules and I do not advise stopping or changing medication. Never stop medication on your own. If tapering is relevant, it happens through your prescriber. I can support you in preparation, stabilization, and holding the process.
Food is not a test of whether you did it “right.” It’s a way to help your body participate more calmly and safely. Especially with an MAOI component, you want to avoid unnecessary strain and risk.
You do not have to be perfect. You do need to be honest. If you think something went wrong, always bring it up in your check-in.
Stimulants
Coffee and caffeine, including energy drinks and strong black tea
Guarana and pre-workout type products
Alcohol and substances
Alcohol
recreational drugs
other stimulating substances
Aged, fermented, and high-tyramine foods
Aged cheeses
Fermented soy products such as traditional soy sauce and some miso varieties
Sauerkraut and heavily fermented products
Yeast extracts such as Marmite
Processed or non-fresh animal products
Non-fresh deli meats and sausages, salami, pepperoni, liver, and similar
Smoked or salted fish and heavily processed fish products
Specific trigger foods
Avocado
Overripe fruit and some dried fruits
Chocolate
nuts such as peanuts
Certain legumes such as fava beans, and large amounts of soy or lima beans
The exact list, timelines, and exceptions are included in the full PDF.
Light and fresh food, simply prepared
Vegetables, rice, oats, potatoes, quinoa
Fresh fruit in normal amounts
Plenty of water
Simplicity and consistency
Can I still have coffee?
Preferably not, especially not in the final week. The goal is calm in your system. If you’re used to a lot of caffeine, taper gradually and discuss it in your check-in.
I’m not sure about something. What then?
Don’t guess. Send it to me or bring it up in your check-in. One extra alignment moment is better than regret afterward.
Why is this so specific?
Because preparation is part of safety. The less noise in your body, the clearer your process.
The diet is part of the groundwork. But preparation isn’t only about food. It’s about how you live.
What I want for you in the week before:
Become more aware of your thoughts, words, choices, and what you do or don’t say
Look honestly at your self-care, especially when life is busy
Practice cooperating with the medicine: less trying to understand, more learning to feel
The most common mistake is thinking it will happen automatically because it’s powerful medicine. It doesn’t. It asks for presence.
Reduce:
Too much social interactions
Scrolling and keeping yourself busy so you don’t have to feel
Building scenarios in your head about how it “should go”
Add:
Nature and walking
Journaling
Music that nourishes your soul, or more silence with what is
Early sleep, healthy food, gentle movement
Healthy nervousness is normal. These are often fears about what you think could happen. A red flag is something else, and we always discuss that in alignment.
If you feel fear: bring your focus back to your breath. Ask for support if it feels too intense to carry alone. You don’t need to be tough.
And about control: life isn’t predictable. Every journey is unique. Remember this: you never step into the same sea twice.
Arrive with space, not rush. Put away your phone, smartwatch, and stimulation. Come with an open mind.
Keep conversations short on the way. Take a moment of quiet. Doubts right before the start happen more often than people admit. That’s not weird. You are never fully prepared for what wants to reveal itself.
What won’t help that day: neglecting the diet, following negative inner voices, and worrying about everything that isn’t here yet.
Packing list, in short
Comfortable layers and something warm for the night
Water bottle
Toiletries and a towel
Journal and pen
Eye mask and earplugs
Optional: a small power object
You will also receive the full list by email after booking.
Do
Walk, rest, drink water
Journal and spend a little more time with yourself
If possible: eat lighter for a few more days
Don't
Jump back into everything as if nothing happened
Overload your schedule with appointments
Make big decisions in the first days
About 10 days after the ceremony, there is an online integration circle on Wednesday evening with the same group, to land and share what is still unfolding.
Non-negotiable: be honest and align with me.
Tapering antidepressants is not without risk. Sometimes a pre-trajectory helps to create a plan together and hold what comes up during tapering. If you want to taper, involve your doctor or prescriber so it’s done responsibly.
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
SunGaya is a place of stillness and strength where healing is allowed to deepen.
You are seen and supported as you integrate what you have experienced.
Here, everything is welcome, and you find the space to truly come home to yourself.
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