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Integration is the process of bringing the insights and lessons learned during the Ayahuasca or Ancestral Medicine experience into your everyday life, essentially, to 'make it real'. It's about...

Plant and Earth medicines are on the rise. In the United States only, a growing number of states have voted to move forward with decriminalising psychedelics and legalising adult-use. In other...

The San Pedro Master Teacher Huachuma — also known as the San Pedro cactus — is a brew made from a variety of cacti mostly found in the Peruvian and Andeans highlands. A thick layer of the skin is...

With plant medicine becoming more accessible and supported in our culture, we’re seeing an emergence of new substances. Only they aren’t new — just new to us. Rapé is one of these psychotropic...

What is a Cacao Ceremony ? What many of us in the west have come to know and love as chocolate, is worlds apart from the plant medicine it’s made from; and the ancient history rooted in Central and...

Mexico has understood the benefits of a temazcal ceremony for centuries. Part-sweat lodge/part-sacred ritual, participants have reported feeling physically, emotionally and mentally healthier. What...

What is Ayahuasca? Ayahuasca — also known as the tea, the vine, and la purga — is a brew made from the leaves of the Psychotria viridis shrub along with the stalks of the Banisteriopsis caapi vine,...

What is Kambo Medicine? Kambo is a secretion from the back of a large green jungle frog, given the name Phyllomedusa bicolor for classification, but more commonly known as the giant waxy monkey tree...

What is Bufo Alvarius or 5-MeO-DMT? Commonly known as toad venom, the secretion of the Bufo Alvarius toad — also known as the Sonoran Desert toad — contains 5-MeO-DMT and 5-HO-DMT (Bufotenine), two...

What is San Pedro cactus or Huachuma? Huachuma — also known as the San Pedro cactus — is a brew made from a variety of cacti mostly found in the Peruvian and Andeans highlands. The three most...

What is Yopo Yopo or Anadenanthera Peregrina, is a tree native to South America and the Caribbean. The seeds of the tree have been used in healing rituals for thousands of years. They contain DMT,...