Ayahuasca

Our Dutch site on Ayahuasca, Peyote and Iboga: www.degewijdereis.nl

We regularly organize 2 day healingweekends with Ayahuasca. Most of the weekends are in Dutch, but we also have planned a few weekends especially for people from other countries (which will be teached in English).

The 2 day healingweekends include holotropic breathwork, Focussing/Voice Dialogue during sharing circles, bodywork voice expression and an ayahuascaceremony on the second day. The price for a whole weekend is 245 euros including light meals. Staying overnight costs 15 euros.

2012:

25-26 February (fully booked)

12-13 May

27-28 October

Sweatlodge/Ayahuasca weekends:

2012: 11-12 August, 22-23 September

On the first day is the sweatloge ceremony and on the second day the Ayahuasca ceremony.  Costs are 185 euros, staying overnight 15 euros per night.

Individual Ayahuasca or Iboga ceremonies:

It is possible to be facilitated individually in a Sacred Voyage. We have four loving teammembers with lots of experience in facilitating ceremonies. They all four have different backgrounds like in creative art, therapeutic settings, family constellations, meditation, shamanism and holistic healing.

An individual ceremony can be planned any time. Costs are 250 euros per person (Ayahuasca, 1 day) or 750 euros per person (Iboga, 2-3 days).

For information or registration please send us an email: info@degewijdereis.nl and we will normally reply within 3 days.

In our spiritual/therapeutic practice in the Netherlands called The Sacred Voyage we work with the sacred brew Ayahuasca. Below here you find the report of the researchproject 2009 with 70 participants:

This is what people wrote us who have made their Sacred Voyage on Ayahuasca with us (Copyright © The Sacred Voyage):

Charles: ‘As soon as my taxi drove into the small forest, i knew i was about to have a magical two days with Yvonne. Her forest cottage is a beautiful and safe place to relax, with many interesting art works and objects.My first voyage started wonderfully. During the chakra meditation i began to feel at one with nature and vibrational energy. However, during the process my body needed to purge, and purge it did, many times. I was very nauseous and moving around only made it worse. Yvonne helped me as much as i would allow. I decided not to continue with the second day.

The next morning my body with still very weak, but my inner strength had returned. I was still hesitant to continue but am very glad that i did. After experiencing such a different sensation during my second time, i was glad that I had decided to continue on. During both sessions I felt the inner workings of your subconscious  brought in front of you. Many memories played out again, sometimes given a chance to be resolved. It was like you could revisit those times, and add new dialogue to them.

Yvonne is an amazing caregiver. Her wonderful choice of music, created a magical event for me. I had a strong vision of a previous life, thanks to her guidance and attention. I had read a lot and had many expectations of what would happen during the ceremony. What I experienced was completely different, and I expect it is different for us all.’

Karin: ‘At first I was very nervous, i found it hard to open up and a felt panic when we were supposed to meet eachother in the first practice. My mind was spinning around and I sad to my self, you have to do this and it was totally fantastic!! So much feelings and love, I can´t describe it with words. FANTASTIC! The holotropic breath work was also fantastic, i had trouble at first to let out my feelings. I had a blocking with my voice and I couldn´t get any noise out, that was hard. The guidance from Erik, Rogier and Josè helped me to let everything out. I felt like a new person after this day, it was easy to breath and I felt so much love.

Eriks guidance was perfect in English, easy to understand. He made me feel calm and relaxed. When I had trouble getting the feelings out in the holotropic breath work he just touched my feet and that really helped me.

The Sacred Voyage was heavy for me, I was so nauseous all the time and when the other come back I still was ill, it felt like it never would stop. The guidance was great, it made me feel secured and not alone. I think the illness took over much of my experience but I also think that this was a cleaning for my body, it was meant to be like this for me the first time. I decided to come back to you and do this again in October and I`m really looking forward to it!

There was so much love in the atmosphere. The hole experience was so different from my real life, I have never felt so much love and when I think about it now I really miss the feeling of your place!! I`ll be back:)’

Michael: ‘I had a feeling of heaviness and fear deep in my belly. At the beginning I was a little bit scared because the voyage before I had a very deep and powerful experience. I „only“ had the first glass but this was absolutely enough for me and even with this I had visions and intense feelings. My mind together with my ego was jumping around like a monkey and I was a little bit disappointed only drinking one glass. Afterwards I learned and experienced it was the right way this time.’

Recently we guided a lovely Turkish couple, Lev & Cey. Here you can read their experience with the Motherplant Ayahuasca (guided bt dutch Ayahuasquero Erik Spaans)

Below here you can download an article written by the dutch Ayahuascaguide Lars Faber with the challenging title: the Secret of Life. Find out what Ayahuasca has to do with that...:

Vidir: ‘Before I did the Sacred Voyage I had taken various psychedelics, I had experienced completely falling into my self and to get stuck in my own pain various of times, I had experienced it working therapeutically, I had experienced age regression into something before my birth. So I was really expecting a fire-show expessially since a lot of the experiences I had read about involved really mystical things, even meeting god. How ever when it came down to it the holotropic breath-work was the weirdest part of the experience, there I lost control of my hands so they where spastic and I became an infant and more experiences in that nature, but I can actually recall this part of the Voyage less than the ayahuasca part of it. I needed some time to recover after this since I was feeling very light headed and strange in the body. After a walk and some time we started the ceremony. After the second glass I was feeling very mellow. I had some tingling sensation in my body and had some very minor visual changes, just a little color extra here and there. I started to get in connection with my feeling gradually but never intensely and it would come and go. From very early on I a had a little nausea but I could not puke I even tried to force me but that did not work. I think after over two hours I got a extra dosage of the ayahuasca since I was going through such a soft journey and then after a few minutes I finally puked, José came and helped me she stroked my back and gave me love and caring. Afterwards I felt so good, something had gone and I started to really get in touch with my emotions and cry from time to time and José would con-fort me witch was so good and so much what I needed. I never had any visions or hallucinations that I can remember. I was a bit disappointed with that for some time but then I have realized that this is exactly what I needed as José said. Really what I find the most interesting with this whole experience is not the voyage it self but the aftermath. I feel so free, I have never felt so free in my life. I feel like something that has been bothering me for as long as I can remember has finally left me. I'm at ease, I feel ecstatic for most of the day and if I feel bad or stressed I usually just have to take a moment to look inside and I find that peace that came over me in the Voyage. So far I always calm down in the night and I have started to fall a sleep earlier and waking up sooner in the morning witch is great. I'll admit that I'm always a little afraid that this great feeling might disappear one day but I have realized that even if it will these dimensions never leave I just loose connection with them so I just have to get in touch with them again and of corse try to do things to keep in touch with them. Thank you all so much for this life transferring experience. I will most definitely do it again, I would not mind doing one straight a way but I'm going to get used to this new way of being first before I go even deeper.

I thought José's guidance was perfect, she was always spot on with what I needed from her even if I did not know my self. That helped a lot in releasing old pain. She was very loving and caring and she just allowed me to talk when I did and so with out responding most of the time, just listening and I think that was extremely good because I think I just needed to express my self with out any kind of reflection. I really love her after this experience with her she gave me so much so when ever I think of her my heart fill's up with love.’

Here you can read the thrilling report of Michael's first Sacred Voyage.

Michael writes: 'I came wanting to experience the Ayahuasca journey in order to resolve a difficult childhood, teenage years, my life as a young man and the questions I still asked. [...] So what has changed? My body is more flexible (it feels younger) and “old pains” have gone, even my posture has changed.  My body tells me what it wants to eat and not, I feel what should or should not eat, I have no desire to drink alcohol, essentially I am still fasting. My mind thinks less (sometimes it just does not think), is less judgemental about the world (!), I have become more aware of the world as it is (and not just as I once saw it).

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