Anyone can have an experience. What you build in the weeks after it, when the glow settles and your life is still your life, is what makes it count. That is the part I work on with people, and it is slower and quieter than the ceremony.
Online video, one to one
Preparation and integration
Time inside these traditions
One session or a long arc
Integration is what you do with what you saw. Another way to say it is that you take a state and turn it into a trait. There is no single process that fits everyone. This is one to one work at its core, and it can involve talking, breathing, movement and creative practice, in whatever mix serves you.
Here is the pattern I watch for. Something enormous happens. You come home lit up. You tell a few people, and within a month it has compressed into an anecdote. My job is to be there for the part that comes after, so the thing you saw becomes something you live.
I ask better questions than your friends will, I have heard enough of these to know what is common and what is rare, and I stay steady enough with your experience that you can keep examining it.
I have spent time with most of these, in the places they come from. Each asks something different of you and each leaves different work behind. Bring me whichever one you have been sitting with.
You are welcome here whether or not you have taken anything. A dark retreat, a long fast, a breathwork session that went somewhere unexpected, or a spontaneous opening with no substance at all can leave you with exactly the same questions.
Most of what shapes a ceremony is decided weeks earlier. Preparation is practical. It is logistics, honesty, and a body with something in the tank.
Why you are going, and what you hope it will change. Those are often two answers, and the space between them is worth knowing before you sit down.
Medications, heart conditions, and personal or family history of psychosis or bipolar illness all matter here. Your physician and your pharmacist are the right people for those conversations, and I will tell you plainly when it is time to have them.
Sleep, food, hydration, minerals, and easing off whatever has been propping you up. A well supplied body has more to work with, and the dieta most traditions ask for exists for reasons worth understanding.
What I bring to this is the questions. I help you ask a facilitator the right ones before you hand them your nervous system for eight hours. Where you go and who you sit with stays your call, and we can think it through together.
The window matters. The first month after a large experience is unusually open. Coming in early gets you the most out of it, and later still works well.
Landing. Sleep runs strange and emotions sit close to the surface. We sort what happened from the story you have already started telling about it.
Where the real work is. An insight that stays an insight is a souvenir. We find the small changes it implies, including the inconvenient ones, and we get specific about them.
Months later, once the story has settled. This is when people notice what actually changed, which is rarely the thing they came home talking about. Some of my most useful sessions are a year out.
Between sessions you can write to me. Integration keeps its own calendar, and the thing that surfaces on a Tuesday afternoon should get said out loud that week.
I look at your physiology, because a great deal of what people call a hard integration looks like a nervous system with nothing left in the tank.
Ceremony is physiologically expensive. Fasting, sleeplessness, heat, hours of sustained emotional intensity. That draws down magnesium and the electrolytes, and it does it fast. People come home wrung out and read their exhaustion as a spiritual problem when the body is asking to be restocked.
Restoring the physical baseline gives the rest of the work something to stand on. It is often the quickest win available in the first month.
Nobody has run a trial on mineral status and integration outcomes, so I make no claim of one. What I can tell you is that magnesium and the electrolytes are foundational to how a nervous system handles stress, that ceremony is a large stress, and that in years of this work I have watched people get back something they thought was gone by feeding the body first.
I offer it as support. If you want to see the actual numbers, the testing pages are here. If you would rather work without a lab, we can do that too.
Sessions are online video, one to one, and recorded if you want the recording. Everything below is in US dollars.
You tell me what happened or what is coming. We find the shortest useful next step, and I tell you straight whether I am the right person to walk it with you.
Preparation or integration. Room enough for one experience that needs somewhere to go. Book more whenever you want them.
A run of sessions across the arc of a journey, with email between them. Built around what you are actually doing, so we shape it on the call.
If the fee is what stands between you and the call, email me and ask for it to be waived. My Calendly page says the same thing, and I mean it.
If you are in crisis right now, the fastest help is a mental health professional or your local emergency service. Reach for that first. I will be here for the work afterward.
I hold Huachuma ceremony in the Sacred Valley of Peru, alongside my teacher and friend Miguel, with the mountains that tradition belongs to. If you came here looking for the experience itself, that is where to look.
I write and podcast about this work often. It is a fair way to see how I think before you book time with me.
Yes. Dark retreat, fasting, breathwork and spontaneous openings bring people here with the same questions.
Within the first two to four weeks if you can manage it. Later still works, and I have had valuable sessions with people a decade out, and the early window is unusually workable.
Yes. What you tell me stays with me. I am a coach rather than a licensed clinician, so legal privilege does not apply, and you should know that going in.
Often that is the better arrangement. I am glad when there is a therapist, and I work well beside one.
You talk and I listen, then I ask about the parts you moved past quickly. We usually end with one or two specific things to do.
You do. I will tell you what is common, what I have seen before, and where a tradition would place it. The meaning stays yours.
Arizona, on Mountain Standard Time year round, and I work with people across time zones. Calendly shows what is genuinely available.
Give me a day of notice and we move it at no charge. Once we have met, the session stands.
Tell me where you have been, or where you are thinking of going, and I will tell you honestly whether this is worth your money. If something is still sitting in you months later, that is a sign it is still working, and that it wants company.
Preparation and integration support offered here is educational and supportive in nature. It is coaching, and it works alongside care from a licensed physician or mental health professional rather than in place of it. Nothing on this page is medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Any nutritional or mineral guidance is educational. Talk to your healthcare provider before changing your diet, your supplements or your medication. If you are in crisis, contact a qualified professional or your local emergency service. Full terms are on the legal page.
