“Preparing for your Ayahuasca retreat is not simply a checklist; it is an invitation into self-awareness, self-love, and a deepening presence with yourself.”
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Christina Klassen is a facilitator with more than two decades of experience rooted in the Shipibo tradition and earth-centered ceremonial medicine. Her work weaves intuitive guidance, somatic awareness, and contemporary insight with ancient wisdom, supporting deep healing and embodied integration.
Grounded in myth, mysticism, psychology, indigenous sciences, alchemy, trauma studies, and poetry, Christina brings both skill and sensitivity to the art of integration—guiding fellow travellers to meet the spectrums of their life experiences with honesty, coherence, and inquisitiveness, and compassion.
-to live healing as an ongoing, creative practice.
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Preparing for your ayahuasca retreat is not simply a checklist; it is an invitation into self-awareness, self-love, and a deepening presence with yourself. It is a practice of leaning in gently and, of learning to hold space for your own inner world with curiosity, openess, and care.
We will explore nourishment, rest, emotional readiness, mental clarity, and spiritual alignment—not as rigid rules, but as supportive ways to cultivate the foundations of healing across body, heart, mind, and spirit. As pillars and gestures of respect toward yourself, the medicine and, – the journey ahead.
We will also speak about intention-not as a demand placed upon the medicine, but as a quiet compass and anchor into presence. Intention can help you orient, soften, and trust the landscapes that may (and often do) open, supporting your capacity to see and feel what is ready to shift, release, or transform.
After your retreat, the extended invitation to weave takeaways into the ceremony of life, opens. This time is precious, sacred, and immensely valuable. In our integration sessions, we will create a space to gently process what you experienced, what moved, what opened, and what asked for change. We will explore ways to become sensitive to continued invitations/reflections within the ceremony of life, as well as ways to infuse the wisdom of your journey into daily rhythms, relationships, and choices -to support your relationship with the medicine as an ongoing, living, breathing part of your unique expression of evolution and aliveness. With reverence & respect.