Temple-Abzu

Integration

Tending the Seeds of Ceremony

Integration is the process of tending to the garden of your transformation. The insights and lessons received in ceremony are like seeds—full of potential, but requiring patience, care, and commitment to truly take root. The real work begins when you return to daily life, nurturing these seeds so they grow into lasting change. Integration isn’t just about remembering what was revealed; it’s about embodying it, allowing your life to bear the fruits of your experience in a way that nourishes you long after the ceremony ends. This work of tending your inner garden is your lifelong work.

Anchoring the Sacred in Daily Life

Integration of the ceremonial experience is as important as the ceremony itself. The days and weeks after ceremony are where the real work begins. This work which can entail making changes (inner and outer), working through the resistance and limiting beliefs that intervene and discovering what they may teach us about ourselves so that we may continue to grow.

Navigating the New Landscape

Plant medicines can dramatically change the way we see and experience ourselves, our lives and our world, and our very existence. They often call into question many commonly held belief structures, as well as our own identity, and this can be a profound experience. The work can be transformative on all levels; physical, mental/psychological, emotional, and spiritual. Plant medicines can open things up and break things down.
Tending the Seeds of Ceremony
The days and weeks following your work with the sacraments hold their own significance. You may sense an internal shift, a subtle realignment of perception. Perhaps the world appears sharper, imbued with new layers of meaning. Relationships, patterns, and old wounds may reveal themselves in unexpected ways. Or, it may feel as though nothing has changed at all. You may feel a shift, notice you react differently to things, but not be completely sure what has happened.
Yet whether you perceive it or not, the medicine continues to work. The time after ceremony is a window where the veils remain thin, where the soul is still speaking, sharing what can either take root or fade into the background of the daily grind. What you do with this space determines the depth of your transformation.

Invitations from the Mystery

Some shifts may feel like revelations—expansive, enlightening, filled with a sense of clarity and purpose. Others may be unsettling, unraveling old identities, dissolving familiar illusions, leaving you raw, unanchored, searching for solid ground. Both are invitations. The sacrament does not exist to give easy answers but to initiate a dialogue between your conscious self and the deeper aspects of your being. The work is not in clinging to comfort but in learning to sit with what arises, in allowing the experience to shape you rather than controlling how it unfolds.
The days and weeks

Let the Experience Breathe

The language of the soul is not linear; it does not speak in logic, but in image, emotion, and metaphor. The mind will seek to analyze, to dissect the experience into words, but the deeper truths revealed in ceremony are best approached like a dream—felt, witnessed, and allowed to unfold over time. Let the lessons breathe. Let them settle into your bones. Let them guide you not as rigid doctrines but as gentle currents shaping the river of your becoming.

Walking Between Worlds

Remember, the world you return to has not changed, though you have. Old patterns may reemerge, relationships may pull you back into familiar roles, and the structures of your daily life will demand your participation. These moments are not obstacles; they are the proving grounds of your transformation. It is in the small choices of each day that the medicine takes root.
Integration is not about escaping into an experience—it is about embodying it. It is not about leaving behind the old self but stepping into the new one with presence and awareness. It is the bridge between revelation and reality, between vision and action.

The Spiral Path of Becoming

This path requires patience. Healing is not linear, and integration does not happen all at once. It moves in spirals, revealing new layers over time. Honor this process. Walk with it gently. The seeds have been planted, and with care, devotion, and trust, your garden will flourish in ways beyond what you can yet imagine.
The language of the soul is not linear

Integration Services

Group Integration Sessions

Group Integration Sessions

Our group integration sessions, included with every retreat, offer a safe and supportive space to process your experience alongside others on a similar journey. Held online, these sessions provide an opportunity to share insights, reflect on challenges, and receive compassionate guidance from your facilitator. An integration handbook will also be provided to all participants.

1-1 Integration Coachings

1-1 Integration Coaching

This personalized coaching supports you in making sense of your experience and translating the lessons learned into actionable steps in your daily life. After ceremony, the brain is in a state of neuroplasticity, making it an optimal time for change. Through a combination of shamanic and spiritual coaching, you’ll receive compassionate guidance to process emotions, integrate insights, and align with your personal and spiritual goals. This approach helps to solidify the transformation, build resilience, and ensure lasting change, empowering you to thrive and move forward with clarity and purpose.

1-1 Shamanic Energy Medicine

1-1 Shamanic Energy Medicine

Shamanic Energy Medicine can be a powerful way to deepen your integration, helping you clear energetic blocks and restore balance to your mind, body, heart, and soul. Through individual healing sessions, I combine energy work, intuitive guidance, and shamanic practices to channel the wisdom of the plant spirits, and other guides, to support you in releasing what no longer serves you. Shamanic Energy Medicine helps you to open and heal your energy centers, clear lingering imbalances, and align with your true self.

Body Regeneration and Microdose Group Programs

Several times per year, group temples are opened to journey through a full body and energetic detox and a group microdosing journey. Engaging in either of these before or after ceremony can help to get the most out of the experience and to deepen fully into integration afterwards.
The Heart of Our Work

Group Microdose Group Journey

This 8-week journey is designed to deepen your relationship with the sacred plants, creating a transformative space for personal growth and integration. Through intentional microdosing, group process sessions, and embodied practices, you will connect to the wisdom of the plants as both teachers and healers. With trauma-informed guidance, we help you dissolve unhealthy patterns and cultivate self-awareness.
The Heart of Our Work

Body Regeneration Group Journey

This 3-week detox journey combines shamanic energy medicine, plant-based detox strategies, and healing foods to activate your body’s innate ability to repair and regenerate. It serves as a powerful gateway to spiritual progression by creating balance in your physical system, enhancing emotional clarity, and promoting deep healing. Through cleansing and nourishment, you’ll create the foundation for sustained health, helping you step into your fullest potential, grounded in both body and spirit. Optional in-person Kambo ceremonies deepen this process, offering an extra layer of detoxification and spiritual alignment.
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