Ayahuasca is not something you take. She is something you meet. Preparation is not about restriction, but resonance. It is how you become the flute that spirit plays through.
This journey distills the essential frequencies of readiness, cleansing the body, anchoring the nervous system, opening the heart, stilling the mind, and aligning your spirit with the great vision.
When you prepare with reverence, the ceremony begins long before you enter the maloka. You carry the vibration of arrival in your bones. You become not just someone who drinks medicine, but someone who walks with it.
🧘 Support your nervous system with calm, embodied presence
💗 Release emotional and energetic clutter with grace
🌱 Clarify your intention and align with spiritual integrity
🔥 Cultivate the inner strength needed for surrender
💧 Empty gently to receive deeply
🌿 Begin the ceremony before it begins
1 • Prepare the Body
Empty with nourishment. Cleanse with grace. Simplify with love.
2 • Anchor the Nervous System
Breathe, regulate, and return to the sacred pace of stillness.
3 • Clarify the Heart
Open to emotion. Feel without fixing. Make space for truth.
4 • Clarify the Mind
Release expectations. Soften mental grasping. Return to presence.
5 • Call the Vision
Let dreams speak. Listen for symbols. Attune to spirit’s whisper.
Prepare the Body
1 • Choose Clean, High-Vibration Foods
1. Eat simple, clean, organic, plant-based food
🥗 Favor lightly cooked, nutrient-dense vegetables
🍚 Include whole grains like quinoa, brown rice, or amaranth
🍠 Eat legumes, root vegetables, and leafy greens
🍵 Incorporate bone broth if aligned with your body
2. Avoid animal products and heavy foods
🚫 Remove red meat, dairy, and processed foods
🧀 Eliminate excess oils, fried food, and rich sauces
🔥 Avoid heavily spiced or stimulating foods
3. Practice food as devotion
🙏 Say a prayer of receivership before eating to connect with the spirit of nourishment
〜 Eat slowly and with presence
🕊 Allow your body to signal when it is full
2 • Eliminate Harmful Substances
1. Avoid all recreational drugs and alcohol
🚫 Cease cannabis, psychedelics, or other plant medicines
🗓️ Begin this removal at least 2 weeks prior to ceremony
2. Remove synthetic stimulants and medications (if appropriate)
💊 With your doctor's support, taper antidepressants or medications that may conflict
☕ Remove caffeine, energy drinks, and stimulants
3. Be mindful of subtle addictions
📱 Reduce screen use, social scrolling, and stimulation cycles
🎮 Observe where distraction becomes disconnection
🧘♀️ Replace consumption with contemplation
3 • Support Hydration & Elimination
1. Hydrate deeply and consistently
💧 Drink 2–3 liters of water per day, room temperature or warm
🍋 Begin the day with warm lemon water for liver support
🫖 Sip herbal teas such as dandelion, chamomile, and ginger
2. Support digestive movement
🥬 Eat fiber-rich foods like leafy greens and chia seeds
🥣 Include easily digestible meals such as soups or warm quinoa porridge
🚶♀️ Walk gently for at least 100 steps after meals to aid digestion and elimination
3. Reduce cold and stagnant foods
🧊 Avoid icy drinks, raw salads, or cold dairy
🔥 Favor cooked, warm, moist foods that stoke digestive fire
🪵 Keep the belly soft and warm throughout the day
4 • Create Sacred Mealtime Rituals
1. Bless your food with intention
🕯 Speak gratitude to the spirit of nourishment
🌿 Recognize the earth and hands that made your food possible
🌬 Take three conscious breaths before your first bite
2. Minimize distraction during meals
📴 Turn off screens and create a quiet container
🪔 Eat with candlelight, in stillness or soft music
🍽 Allow meals to be a moment of ceremony
5 • Prepare Your Space + Schedule
1. Clean your living space
🧹 Declutter and sweep the physical areas you occupy most
🏠 Create an altar or a designated preparation space
🪷 Place sacred items that hold meaning for your journey
2. Align your schedule with your intention
📅 Cancel unnecessary plans or social obligations
🌘 Clear your evenings to support stillness and integration
🕰 Honor time alone as preparation time
Anchor the Nervous System
1 • Breathe Into the Body
1. Practice belly breathing
💨 Inhale slowly through the nose, deep into the diaphram allowing the belly to expand
🫁 Exhale even more slowly through the mouth making an audable noise or hum
🌬 Let the exhale be longer than the inhale to soothe the vagus nerve
2. Use the breath to ground
🤲 Place your hands on your belly and feet flat on the floor
🌿 Imagine each breath rooting you deeper into the earth
🔻 With each exhale, release tension from the jaw, shoulders, and gut
3. Pause throughout the day
⏸ Take 3 conscious breaths before transitions
📿 Use breath as your anchor before meals, after screens, or in moments of overwhelm
🌙 Let breath remind you: “I am safe. I am here.”
2 • Touch the Earth
1. Connect with bare earth
👣 Walk barefoot on grass, sand, or soil daily
🪵 Sit with your back against a tree or lie on the ground
🌾 Let your skin absorb the stillness of the land
2. Ground your energy field
🌀 Visualize red roots from the soles of your feet extending into the earth
🌍 Say aloud: “I give what I no longer need to the Earth. She can hold it.”
🍂 Leave an offering of water, a stone, or a breath at the base of a tree
3 • Move with Intention
1. Practice gentle, intuitive movement
🧘♀️ Engage in 10–15 minutes of slow yoga, tai chi, or stretching
💃 Move freely to music in slow, organic, circular movements
🫀 Let movement emerge from sensation, not structure
2. Touch into somatic still points
👐 Place your hands on your chest, belly, or hips
🌊 Breathe into areas that feel numb, tight, or disconnected
🪶 Move slowly and without judgment as you are not performing, you are listening
4 • Create Sensory Stillness
1. Reduce overstimulation
📴 Limit screen time, especially 2 hours before bed
🕯 Dim lights in the evening and use candles if possible
🎧 Replace loud media with silence or healing frequencies
2. Establish an evening wind-down ritual
🛁 Take a warm bath with lavender or magnesium salts
📖 Read something slow and beautiful, not informational
🌘 Say: “I offer this day back to Source. I receive nourishing rest in the quiet of the soul.”
5 • Tend the Heartspace
1. Journal as emotional release
📝 Set a timer for 10 minutes and write without editing
💧 Let tears, frustration, or joy be welcomed equally
🕊 End with a simple question: “What part of me needs gentleness today?”
2. Place hand to heart
🤲 Feel the warmth of your palm
🌹 Breathe into your chest and soften
📿 Whisper: “I’m with you. I’ve got you. You are safe.”
Clarify the Heart
1 • Name What Is Arising
1. Journal your emotional landscape
📝 Write without censorship about your fears, hopes, confusion, anger
💧 Let the pen become the voice of your inner child or unseen self
🌒 Start with: “What is alive in me right now?”
2. Track emotional themes
🎭 Notice patterns of grief, fear, joy, guilt, or love
🔍 Ask: “Where have I been hiding from feeling fully?”
🌿 Be gentle. You are witnessing, not fixing
2 • Practice Emotional Release
1. Use sound to clear emotion
🎶 Toning, sighing, or soft moaning to release what is stuck
🗣 Try saying “AH” on the exhale to soften the heart
🌬 Let breath carry grief or frustration outward
2. Touch the emotion
🤲 Place hands on your heart, womb, or belly
🪶 Speak aloud: “You’re allowed to feel this. I’m listening.”
💓 Let tears be holy. Let silence be full
3 • Clear with Water
1. Ritual bath or shower
🛁 Light a candle and set an intention to release
🚿 As water moves over you, name what is being washed away
🌙 Visualize light entering as heaviness leaves
2. Offer your emotions to nature
🌊 Cry beside a water element such as the ocean, a stream, or even a bowl
🕊 Whisper your pain into water and pour it to the Earth
🪷 Say: “I give this back with love, I receive your elemental support with gratitude and grace.”
4 • Open the Heart with Intention
1. Offer forgiveness
💔 Write a letter to someone you need to release (burn it after if needed)
🌹 Include yourself in this forgiveness
🌞 Say: “I release you. I free myself.”
2. Create a heart altar
🪞 Place items that symbolize love, healing, or softness
🌸 Light a candle daily and sit in front of it in silence
💗 Ask your heart: “What do you need from me right now?”
5 • Practice Emotional Coherence
1. Breathe into the heart
🫁 Inhale for 5 counts, exhale for 5 counts, slowly and evenly
❤️ Focus awareness on the center of your chest
💫 Imagine breathing in safety, breathing out gratitude
2. Name 3 emotions you feel now
💬 “I feel nervous. I feel curious. I feel hopeful.”
🧘♀️ Acknowledge them without judgment or story
🌈 Return attention to breath and sensation
Clarify the Mind
1 • Empty the Mental Cup
1. Write down your current thoughts about the ceremony
🧠 “What do I think will happen?”
🖋 List them all, without judgment or editing
🪶 Then cross them out as these are not truths, just stories
2. Let go of needing answers
💭 Replace “Why is this happening?” with “What can I learn here?”
🎈 Trust that Ayahuasca may not speak in logic, but in symbol and silence
🌑 Surrender the mind’s need to know
2 • Shift from Expectation to Intention
1. Identify unconscious expectations
🔍 Do you expect a breakthrough? A vision? A purge?
🧾 List them, then ask: “What am I attaching my healing to?”
📉 Release the belief that healing must look a certain way
2. Clarify your intentions as frequencies
🕊 Instead of: “I want to heal this trauma”
🌼 Try: “I open to peace. I welcome truth.”
🙏 Let your intention be a prayer, not a demand
3 • Cultivate Beginner’s Mind
1. Reconnect to humility
🌱 Say: “I don’t know. And that’s sacred.”
🪵 Sit in silence for 10 minutes, letting the unknown be your teacher
💬 Whisper: “Teach me how to listen again.”
2. Release comparison
🧍♀️ Your path is not your friend's path
📖 Avoid reading too many “Ayahuasca stories” that shape expectations
🧘 Return to your own readiness, your own soul
4 • Practice Mindfulness Throughout the Day
1. Notice where your attention goes
👁 Be aware of mental loops, projections, or fantasies
🔁 Gently return to sensation, breath, sound
💡 The mind is a tool not the master
2. Make space for silence
📵 Remove mental input for a few hours a day (no podcasts, books, or media)
🕯 Sit or walk without an agenda, letting thoughts rise and dissolve
🌌 Let insight arise from spaciousness, not effort
5 • Anchor with Breath and Visualization
1. Practice 4–7–8 breath
🫁 Inhale for 4, hold for 7, exhale for 8
🌬 Repeat 4–5 times to dissolve tension and anxiety
🧘 Use before bed or when racing thoughts arise
2. Visualize a still lake
🌊 Imagine your mind as water and your thoughts as ripples
🌙 With each breath, let the water calm, becoming glass-like
💎 Sit inside that stillness, receiving rather than reaching
Call the Vision
1 • Listen for the Call
1. Recognize the sacred invitation
🎴 Notice repeated dreams, animals, or sensations that feel like messengers
🌀 Ask: “What is life trying to show me?”
🌙 Trust that synchronicity is language
2. Create space to hear
🕯 Sit in silence without an agenda
🌳 Be in nature and ask for guidance
📿 Journal: “What does the medicine want me to know before I arrive?”
2 • Prepare the Inner Altar
1. Tend the spiritual body
💨 Cleanse with smoke (palo santo, copal, sage) before prayer or dreamwork
🗣️ Fast from gossip, complaint, and judgment
🔔 Speak only what you wish to echo through the cosmos
2. Offer devotion, not demand
💗 Say: “I come in humility, not entitlement.”
🌹 Offer flowers, song, water, or silence at your altar
🪷 Ask: “How may I serve the healing I am asking for?”
3 • Work With Dreamspace
1. Set a dream intention before sleep
🌙 Say: “Show me what I need to see. I am open.”
📓 Keep a journal at your bedside
👁 Write down symbols, images, and emotions upon waking
2. Invite the spirit in dream
🪶 Place a leaf or sacred object under your pillow
🌀 Sleep on your left side (linked to the lunar and receptive channel)
✨ Let your dreams become part of your preparation
4 • Cultivate Symbolic Vision
1. Engage in intentional divination
🃏 Pull a card from tarot or oracle with this question:
🌈 “What part of me is preparing to transform?”
📜 Journal the symbols without trying to “figure them out”
2. Create or find your own symbols
🎨 Draw or collage what comes up in meditation
🍀 Collect natural objects that represent your current process
🖼 Let these items live on your altar as physical anchors
5 • Surrender to Mystery
1. Let go of needing vision
🌌 Say: “I am open to not knowing.”
🕯 Light a candle and sit in darkness with no question, no request
👁 Trust that revelation is not always visual, it can be cellular, felt, known
2. Rest in the frequency of readiness
🧘♀️ Meditate on the phrase: “I am already in ceremony.”
🫀 Let every act of devotion, release, or listening ripple forward
🌺 Become a clear space where the medicine can arrive without obstruction
"I do not wait for ceremony to begin.
I begin it now, with each breath, each choice, each clearing.
I open the temple of my being.
I am ready to meet the medicine,
because I am already meeting myself."
✨ What part of me still wants to control how healing looks?
✨ Where am I rushing instead of reverently arriving?
✨ Can I trust that devotion is enough?
You are not unprepared.
Every moment you’ve chosen awareness has brought you here.
Let go of rushing. Let go of needing to "get it right."
The vine does not ask for perfection, she asks for presence.
You are not coming to her empty-handed.
You bring your willingness. That is the offering.