You are not meant to hold back the tide. Ayahuasca often brings unresolved emotion to the surface such as grief, joy, rage, awe. These are not regressions. They are revelations.
This pathway helps you move from emotional overwhelm to emotional intimacy, where you can feel fully and still stay rooted.
It is here, in the honest honoring of feeling, that the soul integrates.
🌊 Allow emotion to flow without fear of drowning
🔥 Transmute grief, rage, or sadness into embodied truth
💗 Cultivate safety in vulnerability and expression
🎭 Release shame around “big” or “dark” feelings
🧘♀️ Learn tools to express emotion without re-traumatizing
🕊 Reclaim emotional depth as spiritual power
1 • Name the Emotional Landscape
Begin by identifying and witnessing the full range of what you're feeling without judgment.
2 • Ritualize Emotional Expression
Use voice, movement, art, and sound to let emotion move through as energy.
3 • Tend the Grief Portal
Create space for mourning and honoring what has been lost, changed, or left behind.
4 • Befriend the Inner Child
Invite the younger self forward for reparenting, softness, and presence.
5 • Rewire the Shame Loop
Transform the inner narrative that says feeling is weakness or too much.
Name the Emotional Landscape
1 • Make Space to Feel
1.Create a quiet container
🕯 Light a candle or sit near your altar
🌿 Choose a time when you won’t be interrupted
🌬 Take 3 grounding breaths into your lower belly
2. Ask yourself gently
💭 “What am I feeling right now?”
🖋 Let the answer arise without force or analysis
🕊 Affirm: “Whatever I find is welcome here”
2 • Speak the Emotion Aloud
1. Name it clearly
🗣 Say: “I feel…” followed by the truest word you can find
💧 Sad. Numb. Tender. Angry. Grateful. Confused.
📓 If needed, write out the sensations without needing a why
2. Speak without story
🪶 Focus on the emotion, not its narrative
🫁 Describe how it feels in your body: hot, heavy, light, tight
🌌 Say: “I feel this in my…” (name the part of the body)
3 • Witness Without Fixing
1. Sit in presence with the feeling
🧘♀️ No need to shift, solve, or spiritualize
🌊 Let the emotion be exactly as it is
🌬 Whisper: “I trust what is arising”
2. Acknowledge its purpose
🗺 Every emotion carries a message
💞 Ask: “What are you here to show me?”
🕯 Receive without expectation
Ritualize Emotional Expression
1 • Choose a Mode of Expression
1. Feel into how emotion wants to move
🌊 Ask: “Do I need to move, sound, write, cry, or create?”
🧭 Trust the body’s impulse over the mind’s logic
🖋 Prepare your chosen medium: journal, music, paint, space to move
2. Create a ritual container
🕯 Light a candle or burn herbs (copal, palo santo, sage)
🎶 Play music that matches or holds your current emotion
🌬 Take 3 deep breaths to open the portal of release
2 • Express Without Censorship
1. Move with raw emotion
💃 Shake, stomp, dance, crawl, whatever the body asks
🔥 Let sound accompany the movement (cry, growl, hum, sing)
🌪 Give full permission to feel fully without needing to look “spiritual”
2. Speak to the emotion directly
🗣 Say: “Grief, I welcome you.” or “Anger, I see you now.”
💭 Let your words be messy, primal, unscripted
🕊 Let the body lead, not the mind
3 • Close the Expression with Reverence
1. Ground the energy
🧎♀️ Sit or lie down in stillness
🫀 Place your hands on your body where the energy moved most
🌬 Inhale gratitude. Exhale release.
2. Offer a closing phrase
💬 Say aloud: “I honor this emotion and release it with love”
🕯 Blow out the candle or ring a bell to signal completion
🌸 Close with touch, stillness, or a sip of tea
Tend the Grief Portal
1 • Name What Has Been Lost
1. Create sacred space for mourning
🕯 Light a candle, place a photo or object on your altar
🌑 Sit in silence and whisper: “I am ready to honor what I’ve lost”
🫁 Let the breath become deep and slow, softening the chest
2. Speak the grief aloud
💬 “I grieve…” (complete the sentence as many times as needed)
💧 Let tears fall without apology
🪶 Allow the truth to rise without needing to explain it
2 • Offer the Grief to Something Greater
1. Give the grief a place to go
🔥 Burn a written note, bury an item, or release a stone into water
🌬 Whisper: “I release this to the Earth, to Spirit, to Love”
🌊 Let the element hold what is too heavy to carry
2. Use movement to shift the energy
💃 Sway, kneel, rock, or bow, let the body grieve
🌪 Breathe sound into the exhale: sighs, sobs, or soft humming
🕊 End with stillness, letting the body settle
3 • Integrate with Beauty + Grace
1. Close with ritual beauty
🌹 Place flowers on your altar or anoint your heart with oil
🌤 Light incense or sing a soft song of remembrance
🙏 Whisper: “This grief is holy. This love is real.”
2. Return to yourself with care
🫖 Sip warm tea or wrap yourself in a soft blanket
💗 Touch your heart and say: “I carry what matters. I let go of what no longer does.”
🕯 Let the portal of grief become a doorway to tenderness
Befriend the Inner Child
1 • Invite the Inner Child Forward
1. Create a space of safety
🕯 Light a candle or hold a soft object from childhood
🧸 Sit in stillness and whisper: “I am here to listen”
🌬 Breathe slowly into your belly, softening your body’s edges
2. Visualize your younger self
👁 Close your eyes and imagine them standing before you
💭 What age are they? What are they wearing? How do they feel?
💗 Say gently: “I see you. I’m here now.”
2 • Listen to Their Needs
1. Ask open-hearted questions
🗣 “What are you feeling?” “What do you need from me today?”
📓 Write down whatever comes, even if it surprises you
🪶 Don’t correct, just witness
2. Respond with care
👐 “I’m here for you.” “You’re safe now.” “You didn’t do anything wrong.”
💞 Place your hand on your heart or on your belly as you speak
🕊 Let your nervous system become their sanctuary
3 • Reparent Through Ritual
1. Create a nurturing ritual
🫖 Drink hot cocoa or tea as if with your younger self
🎵 Listen to music they loved, or draw with crayons, or dance freely
🌸 Say: “I bring joy back to you. I bring softness to what was hard.”
2. Make it consistent
📆 Return to this space weekly or as needed
🧘 Whisper before sleep: “Little one, I haven’t forgotten you.”
🕯 Let the light you carry now reach the parts of you that once felt lost
Rewire the Shame Loop
1 • Name the Shame Story
1. Bring the narrative into light
🕯 Sit in stillness with hand on heart and womb (or belly)
💬 Ask: “What part of me still feels unworthy, wrong, or too much?”
🖋 Write down the exact sentence the inner critic repeats
2. Feel where it lives in the body
🧠 Is it a tightness in the throat, a sinking in the gut, a tension in the jaw?
🌫 Breathe into that place with compassion
🪶 Say: “I feel this. I do not become it.”
2 • Separate the Voice of Truth from the Voice of Shame
1. Call forward your Higher Self
🧘♀️ Visualize a loving version of you: wise, grounded, luminous
🌟 Ask: “Is this voice mine, or something I inherited or absorbed?”
🎤 Speak aloud as the Higher Self: “That story is not your truth.”
2. Rewrite the internal message
📖 Take the shame sentence and gently reframe it
💬 “I am not too much. I am powerful and tender.”
🕊 “My feelings are not a flaw. They are sacred signals.”
3 • Anchor the New Narrative in the Body
1. Speak the reframe as a blessing
📿 Repeat it as a mantra while holding your heart
💗 Let the voice be soft but certain
🌬 Inhale belief. Exhale release.
2. Seal the shift with embodied action
💃 Move your body in a way that reflects freedom
🎶 Sing, stretch, or dance the new story into your cells
🕯 Close the ritual with this phrase: “Shame dissolves in the presence of love”
"I am a river, not a wall.
I feel in fullness, not in fear.
Every tear is a thread. Every rise is release.
I am whole in my waves and sovereign in my storms."
✨ What feeling have I judged as “wrong” or “too much”?
✨ When did I first learn that it wasn’t safe to feel this way?
✨ Can I let my emotions be a sacred return, not a sign of regression?
Emotion is not weakness. It is the breath of spirit moving through form.
You were never meant to numb, shrink, or silence your sacred waters.
Let yourself feel without needing to explain. Let the ache be an opening.
You are not broken, you are becoming.
And through the honoring of your feeling, you return to the living pulse of who you truly are.