I Worked at an Ayahuasca Retreat: What I WISH Someone Told Me... 

Hi friends! I hope you find this video helpful. I did have a bit of a mishap with editing and wasn't able to change it after uploading, so you may notice that the video is sped up a little. If it feels too fast for you, changing the speed to .75 should help 😊 Thank for so much for understanding as this was one of my first videos 😅 Sending you lots of love and definitely let me know if you have more questions about ayahuasca💜

"Show me what I need to know" is like spot on. How could you go wrong.

I don't ever comment, but this video is perfect and amazing in every way! Danielle, thank you so much for sharing. I have been working with this medicine for over 5 years now and I do spend a lot of time talking and guiding new comers about it. But this video REALLY covers all the aspects in 30 minutes in a very specific and beautiful way! I will be sharing it around for sure, thank you again for this amazing video! 💚🙏🌿🌠

What a wonderful description and guide. I wasn't conscious of what you pointed out - that aya starts working as soon as you commit. But so many people I met on my way there, on seeing me remarked that they felt strongly that they saw "something important happening," "something big coming up." So, wise words in this clip - thank you

Well done Daniela. I appreciate and celebrate your clarity and your authentic and real screen presence - I hope you continue to share in this medium.

One thing that my ayahuasca experience taught me is to totally let go of any expectations. I had watched so many youtube videos of other people's experiences that I expected mine to be the same, but I'm one of those people who did not have a visual experience but a more sensory/emotional one and it was nothing like anything I heard from other people's experiences (but, it was magical and transformative nonetheless). I'm going to another ceremony this weekend (3 years later) and I have no expectations whatsoever, I'm just nervous and excited at the same time. Thanks for the tips, they were a great reminder!

I did five ceremonies in the Andes nearly ten years ago. You are spot on One thing that you mentioned and I would not have understood until I experienced it is that as soon as you commit to the ceremonies ayahuasca goes to work with you. I started receiving feelings and dreams about things such as who I would meet in Peru They were accurate. This is supernatural and anyone that does not treat it with respect will learn respect. It may not be an enjoyable lesson!!! But it is for your own good!!

this was so incredibly helpful and informative.Can't wait.

Great video and overview of the experience of sitting in the medicine. Best overview I’ve seen yet. Thank you! Aho

Great video. I have had five Ayahuasca journeys and you really did a good job at explaining from beginning to end the process.

This video and all your insight/ knowledge is truly amazing!!!!!!! Thank you so much!!

Wow great video! So much useful information presented in a clear and concise way ! Thanks for creating it, I'm sure it will help a lot of people.

I have felt small calls to ayuascha previously but never felt like I'd be okay if I did it. Your share was thorough, loving and transparent. Thank you so so much for your story❤

Thank you so much for this video, very useful and coherent with other balanced feedback I've found. It's very helpful especially on how to set the right intention as to why we want to do it. May blessings continued coming your way!

Wow! This is very detailed and informative. Really good video! Thank you.

Thank you so much. Exactly what I’ve needed 🥂

You give great advice for anyone who is considering ayahuasca for the first time. I read a lot of scientific research abstracts, some books and articles from personal and shamanic points of view, and watched quite a few personal-experience videos before I took it, but none of them addressed what you discuss here, all of which applied or apply to me: -The first time I took ayahuasca, I had a massive panic attack followed by some unintelligibly odd (sleeping) dreams, but had no visions and no real conscious or concrete experiences similar to those I'd heard about. I did feel like something was wrong with me, or else that I probably had done something wrong. -It wasn't until my fifth ayahuasca experience that I had opened-eyed visuals, and that *terrified* me. I had become accustomed to the types of experiences that I typically had and so I had been lulled into expectations that were not realistic. Ironically, I think had I had those visions when I first took it, I may have been less alarmed because that's what I expected to happen the first time. -For me, purging always has kicked off the process, but the purging never involved vomiting. Everyone I've discussed ayahuasca with focuses heavily on the vomiting aspect, and I always explain that 1) I've never had that; 2) I've had sudden, explosive diarrhea instead, but it comes and goes quickly, and as physically uncomfortable as it can be, the rest of the ayahuasca experience is so profound and prolonged that I really never even think of that aspect of purging. I have, however, also purged physically through tears, a runny nose, and extreme hot and cold flashes (and of course psychologically and emotionally in various ways), and I wish that people who talk about ayahuasca purging would be more holistic/comprehensive about this. Your whole body and psyche is put through the ringer in the interest of your whole body-mind-and-spirit's health. -Most of my experiences have manifested with similar phases (nauseousness, physical purging, a feeling of my body being 'inspected' physically by some kind of sentient entity, a visionary experience of some kind, experience of the warm white light, a telepathic Q&A period, revisiting past traumas and sometimes out-of-body 'shapeshifting,' and being brought gently back to this version of reality), but all have been different enough from one another, too, that it really is unwise to have expectations about what might occur. Something *always* surprised me in ways that required quite a lot of time to process afterward. And everything I've read and heard from others leads me to think that everyone who takes ayahuasca is bound to see giant fluorescent snakes and jaguars, and I've never seen experienced those specific entities. I love your advice about focusing on witnessing and not explaining or labeling, as well. I found for myself one time, the fifth and last time I took ayahuasca, that it's most challenging not to reactively freak out and begin to devise terrified 'what if' scenarios at times, and as soon as you do that, things can go very downhill very quickly. I've never quite related to the notion of religious faiths as are commonly practiced in the U.S., but in this case, I think a person really has to have strong faith that the ayahuasca's spirit or intention or however one wants to think about it is acting in the best interest of the person who takes the ayahuasca. To cast doubt is to invite a paradigm-shattering challenge from the curative aspects of it, and those are perhaps among the most important lessons but also always are the hardest-won lessons. You really find out how open or closed minded you are when you experience ayahuasca. But you always end up more open minded afterward, regardless of how rough the road was to get there.

This was so lovely and helpful in preparation for my upcoming retreat, thank you!

appreciate the video. what a great overview of information

That is an amazing video. You really answered soo many questions that i had about an Ayahuasca Retreat. You really know how to put this kind of experience in words. 😁Am so grateful, thank you !!!!🤩🥰🥰

Thank you and your insights are useful. I appreciate the effort saying the information.

An excellent summary with very good advice. Nothing here to disagree with, nothing to add. Thank you.

The best video on Ayahuasca - exactly what I was looking for. Thank You for uploading!

Thank you so much for these Aya videos. Really appreciate the book recommendations too!

Fantastic summary of the entire experience from start to finish. Articulated soooo well. Will be sending this video to anyone who is curious about working with the medicine in the future.

Resonated alot with this video! Thank you, Im about to finally work with her this summer in peru with my shaman there. Recently sat with Kambo again and Bufo for my 1st time, now aya has been calling

Great video! Just about to go to my first ceremony! So helpful! Thanks a lot

This is the best video in regards to Ayahuaska … thank you very much ❤

Phenomenal advice. Thank you.

OMG IT IS SO NICE TO SEE YOU! alk about the medicine making me find you before going to ceremony this weekend

Beautifully done! Thank you so much for providing such helpful insights. "Show me what I need to know" will be my mantra going forward- to Peru and beyond, to every future learning experience.

Beautiful overview video. Thank you 🙏

Keep updating videos they help people especially if you have come from good retreat 😊

I love love your content, presence, looks, energy, humor and the timing of your video. I comment rarely but this was necessary, super helpful 🫶🏾 ❤

This was amazing, thank you

Really helpful video. I'm sure it will be helpful for my experience!

I love this video. I went to a retreat about 3 months ago and it has changed my life for the better so much. But its been difficult to process everything fully and put things in order. This video really helps to put things in perspective and its like a guide to process the feelings thoughts and emotions that come with it. This girl knows exactly what she is talking about. Thank You ❤

Wow, I really wish I had seen this video before my recent journey. I did go to an retreat. It is exactly as you described. My journey was like no other and I definitely struggled with feeling blocked and with connecting to the medicine. In the end, my intention for going there, even though I never realized that it was that came to fruition. the Medicine knew exactly what I needed. I did not have the same experiences as most people, and truly did feel like I was missing some thing. In the big picture, I was given so many gifts. It’s been a month and I’m still receiving gifts, seeing the messages that help me stay connected. More than anything I feel true happiness and joy, something I have never felt before, but never knew that. I continue on this journey with breathwork, yoga, and some meditation., Journaling and a gratitude journal. I worry that this feeling and trajectory will change, but also making a very conscientious effort to not go back into old patterns. I do see myself going back to the resort, in perhaps nine months to a year, if I feel so inclined to, to find more of the connection, find a better understanding of purpose, and continue to heal trauma. I do have a question after my long soliloquy, sorry. I had marked difficulty with connecting with the Medicine. It was not until the third ceremony and the help of a kind shaman to clear some blockages that allowed me to connect with the medicine. I worry that I will have the same issue should I return. How do I open myself up to receive, not just from the medicine, but currently from the universe? How do I let go? Thank you again for doing such a wonderful video. I have shared this with everybody that has been interested in my journey and considering trying the same. I appreciate you.

Thanks Danielle for this great video. I'm going to an Ayahuasca retreat in Spain in two months. So your tips are really helpful to me.

Hey Danielle, Just wanted to say thank you so much for your previous guidance and advice. I did get the book that you recommended. Oh my goodness, I have never connected with a book so well. It makes perfect sense to me. I don’t know if it’s partially because , I had no understanding or insight previous to my journey with the medicine, but it certainly makes sense. Still trying to figure out how exactly the letting go occurs. But I’m sure after a few reads, it will make much more sense. I think the universe and great spirit for leading me to your video and you. It was all meant to happen exactly as it is happening. Thank you so so much.

What a fantastic Video. You're a beautiful soul and such a great communicator! Thank you so much for this absolutely priceless information. Truly one of the most informative videos I came accros. I have received a calling and I've been binge watching Videos about Ayahuasca since Saturday. I've always been spiritual and highly intuitive. I only found out my mother is an alcoholic and what co-dependency is 10 years ago and only recently realized or could name I'm the family scapegoat. The past year has been difficult, the grief has been horrendous. I have been doing inner child work and trauma related work which has enabled me to understand the effects of family dysfunction and CPTSD. I know my spiritual guides are guiding me in this journey of self awareness, self knowledge and healing as I feel their presence and wake up remembering the guidance they've given me in my dreams. I need help releasing all the pain, grief and all the energy I have accumulated in being in such a demoniac position. Scapegoating is one the worst forms of psycho emotional abuse. I can't wait for my Ayahuasca journey.

I’ve also had incredible experiences with it, as well as the others… meditating on any of them is absolutely incredible, and the vivid visions as well as information that comes in… No words can explain!

Very good, excellent explanation! Thank you!

Thank you so much for sharing your ayahuasca journey with us. I wish I watched this recording before my journey! I had it four, times and yes... I (my conscious mind)said to myself I did not have any expectations... then, as you can predict, yes, I had! but because my mind referred to the past experiences with the plant medicine, my last journey sort of disappointed me until I realised (this is something I now really appreciate from the medicine) that actually I received the answers I wanted to ask in the ceremony. It is almost always to me that my intension and questions are all heard and I am shown all the profound reflection / answers to them. When that gentle whispers of ayahuasca sink into my heart, I get so touched and teary. Ayahuasca ceremony is not all about mystical visions and vomiting. It is a very gentle but so powerful realisation that take a hold over time after the ceremony just like you said and that is why I revisit to see my higher self. It is just like attitude we need to have to live life. It is all there for me but we don't see. Gracias

Watch in .75x speed

Great video. Thank you!

Your research, expert knowledge, this was a very comprehensive overview, as a novice on the subject, I landed on the perfect video, thank you for putting the details in.

I’ve been wanting to fly to a retreat center in Costa Rica to do ayahuasca but just been putting it off saying that it is not a priority or important. Also l don’t know anyone else who wants to do this. But when ‘she’ it almost brought tears to my eyes and my heart felt something like you deserve this and all the wonderful things this life has to offer through your experience with this plant medicine. I hope l will manifest this.

Informative clip, well articulated, thanks for the insight, i have sat cerimony over 50 times with many books read and many hours studying psychology and spirituality, still an alcoholic to this day, seems the answer to my alcoholism is not in those realms, my life is exponentially better after those journeys without a doubt even concidering my current struggles, answering the phone when its not ringing will only result in madness in my opinion, also in my opinion, seeking a medical doctors opinion is frivolous, Great upload very well presented and thought out.

Great advice! Thanks so much 🙏🏻🧡❤️

Hi Danielle! Great job!

What a beautiful soul, thank you for sharing :) Greets from Brazil!

Show me what I need to know is absolutely perfect!! Thank you!

Thank you. The ceremony is in my future. I have connected with a place. Sooooon. Thanks for your tips.

Excellent tips!

thanks for all the tips,,bless you!!

Danielle sang in my ceremony - voice of an angel. I kept wondering where they hid the $10,000 speakers.....great video Danielle !

I'm about to go on my first retreat. There has been excellent support and preparation with the group I'm with, but this video has been so helpful in filling in gaps with specific tips and insights. Very grateful I ran across this as I'm getting ready to take the journey.

Excellent..thank you

Really interesting information thank you for sharing

I go to take the medicine next week. I’m so scared but reassured by this video ❤️

Thanks, I am definitely interested in doing ceremonies some day. I'm not able to right now but the time is getting closer to when I will be able to find an ayahuasca retreat to attend.

Well done very informative !

You are so right: in whatever you focus, grows. Speed of 0.75 is perfex, thank you!!!

Great information. I see nothing wrong with your video. You are passionate, and it is authentic. Thank you for sharing. The majority of people today are very negative. I guess surfing youtube for things to criticize makes them feel superior. I found your video informative and interesting.

Good work. Very informative

Really great guide

Thank you for the amazing video. I have been watching a lot of videos on Ayahuasca and yours was one of the best ones without being biased to a Centre. It was a super informative. Please please make a video on the dieta

Omggg Danielle, its Iris!! I just saw your video randomly popped up on my feed…I clicked right away when I realized it was you. I’m glad to see you’re doing well, and so happy to see you on RU-vid now…You have soo much knowledge and experience with Aya, so your videos will definitely be helpful to anyone thinking about working with this sacred plant medicine. I subscribed, and look forward to seeing more of your videos. Lots of love!! 🙂🫶

Hi Im from Lima Peru , i have tried ayahuasca 3 or 4 times at iquitos treats, I dont like the way the shamans use it, i use it to meditate usually 2 hours but only with one teaspoon of good ayahuasca, wow is a wonderful experience, but not more than a teaspoon , helps to release dmt, thats the point, where humans can heal.

Great video

Thank you so much for your time and dedication to making this video. I feel so informed! I want to do much more research. Can you recommend reputable centers?

I will never forget when I transcended during my first ayahuasca ceremony from hearing you sing the grandmother song. Thank you for that amazing memory 💚

Very helpful. Thanks.❤

I didn't use to know at all what psychedelics or ayahuasca was, or was about. I more or less accidentally got on to the subject... and very interested in it after viewing a video by Jordan B Peterson called: "The Psychology of Psychedelics" in 2021. I had avoided the video for a while. Expected some kind of story with a nasty touch of irony.... But was totally surprised as to how important this topic was. I also have purchased a few books by Graham Hancock and read books by Dennis McKenna and Brian C. Muraresku. Very interesting books all. But videos about getting high is not what I'm looking for. Your video is more to the point of what to expect or not necessarily expect from ayahuasca or other psychedelics. Great video and I see that you have made a bunch more videos. Looking forward to seeing them all.

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5. Ask for HELP if it gets too much or you're being plagued by entities. Thats been the case for me each time. Massive interference and dark energy attacks I needed a shaman to do healing on me for. Ask for help if you need it ❤ the ceremony is for you and you need to be safe

Speed was perfect...just had a gallon of coffee

The best advice I received before my retreat and I would like to share with futures participants is this : You can prepare yourself as best you can, in the end you will never be prepared for this....

Hi, Danielle. I have lived for over three years with a family of indigenous yachakkuna (shamans) in the Andes who facilitate safe ayahuasca ceremonies. I live with them mostly to learn the Kichwa Otavalo language and culture, and I personally have no interest in doing plant medicine ceremonies. However, I have spent enough time with these yachakkuna to know they are kind people of high integrity filled with authentic ancestral wisdom. Their ceremonial songs are so beautiful!

I would recommend going through the easier plants before reaching your hands to ayahuasca. For example, start with cannabis, if you have ptsd you will feel paranoid and start thinking of yourself in a different point of perspective maybe even worse but it’s part of the healing where you separate your self from your emotion and realize that you aren’t your thought nor emotions. Meditation even help with that point of view but plant are here to help us get there faster and in a straight forward process. I found psilocybin helped me with understanding that we are a collective of spirit, soul or matter if you want to call it that. Psilocybin made me pass through looking at my self from an inner vision to being conscious of what is valuable of my surroundings. I have been dealing with long term depression that I didn’t know when it started how how to end it cuz I have never seen the other side. I was programmed to be looking at everything that way. And I think these plant are here to prove that you are not limited to your current perspective. I can’t wait for my ayahuasca retreat so I can complete the pieces of the puzzle and become a whole with what I am and where I am. Thank you for the video🙏🏻❤️

fascinating! xx

Thank you for sharing I have found a really great center I have drunk a few times of the beautiful ayahuasca and will be going back next mouth

Thank you so much for this very helpful video and you’re such a sweet and great speaker - great energy!:) could you please also make a video about Aya dieta? And which center did you work for? Can we exchange on that? Perhaps in private? I’m considering it too. All the best for you Danielle!:)

i have only taken a low dose and what aya showed is to look everything from the lens of love, to love and forgive, i want to ease myself into it but right now im not ready for diving deeper, i like though that even at low doses you meet the medicine it can be very comforting and guiding, i used to think only high doses are useful with aya

Just finished a 5 day Ayahuasca retreat. I am so glad I did. Truly life changing!

Thanks for the video Danielle. Ayahuasca has resonated with me as a person who has suffered from anxiety in the past. This anxiety passed but after using way too much xtc the anxiety has returned in a combination with some depersonalization. Almost a year now and it feels like my soul wants me to deal with certain stuff from the past but am lowkey scared to try this because xtc has caused these symptoms to come to the surface in this way. Im trying other trauma therapies soon but ayahuasca is def one of the other options im considering. Matt

Thank you 👏👏🥰🥰

Thanks!

plse can you do a vid on the diet before and after AHAhUASCA. that would be great. and yes i'd love to here about your personal journey, before and after, that would be wonderful too. thank you 🥰

Thank you for sharing this. Please share the dieta for before and after.

Thank you this has been really helpful. I have been very interested in having this experience for about a year or so now. I have found many different natural and alternative healing methods so much more helpful when used for my mental and physical healing I seem to be more responsive and in tune with alternatives to western medicine. Being a nurse I am more and more convinced that our body and mind have everything it needs to heal itself. I feel western medicine is doing a more damage to our wellbeing in the long run than it is beneficial. The problem I have is that it scares me, having had some pretty horrible experiences on hallucinogenics in the past lol. However it is all about the experience❤ if it’s meant to be it will be. This was very helpful thanks so very much ❤

Nice video. You talk fast, but probably effective for this informative type of video. I'm uncomfortably balanced on the reasons to do/not to do list. I'm terrified of who I am. Sort of feels like I'm not ready. Thanks for your wisdom here, I trust you

I watched this as a critical watchdog. But she covered all the important bases. Good job Danielle. I have two elaborations that emphasize aspects of what you went over. 1) If you are suicidal, and have no support structure at home, skip aya. Aya changed my life. A woman in my group committed suicide afterwords because she wasn’t able or willing to open and surrender. 2) ICAROS. If you are attending ceremony, if there are no icaros, whether being sung through the mouth of a person, or even a speaker, I recommend not attending. The icaros are the songs of the intelligence of nature, passed to the shamans. Ideally, only attend where a bonafide shaman is facilitating. If only medicine people, verify icaros are a part of the experience. They are the spirit science that have come through the mouths of antiquity.

i started with ayahuasca about 8 years ago and i have being serving it for the past 4/5 years - i believe is the elixir of life, DMT5 is the content and it's induce in your brain to promote the amount you normally release at birth and death ... many path of ancestral healing exist in earth .. light and love! ** la ofrenda (the offering) and the days prior and days after, the integration and acceptance of the message received during the ceremony ❤🌱

Amazing how this video sounds sped up.

Traditionally, in ceremony the Shaman is the only one who drinks la Medicina. That way the shaman has a higher sense of what is needed for the patient. The patient doesn't have to drink aya at all, nor do they have to taper off or stop medication if they simply dont take the drink but still surrender to the environment and the medicine songs.

Totally lost my brother after he did ayahuasca. It’s been 3 years now and I’m not sure he’ll ever be okay. It’s a pain I can’t explain…nor can my family. Listen to what this lady is saying. There are serious risks of doing this.

I just booked my ceremony! I'm many things, but mostly I'm scared to death about seeing/feeling the very negative visions.

Being someone who's finding it hard to completely ' Let go ' my question is.. do You have experience dealing with that yourself or with other People and what are your thoughts on how to override this (irrationel as it is) Problem..? Thanks for the video, great to have someone with your background giving some extra Info..🙏