Preparation & Integration

Get personal guidance before and after your sacred ceremony experience or join our monthly integration circle online.

Preparation & post-ceremony integration are an important aspect of the sacred ceremony experience. We offer options to connect by phone or video.

Monthly Integration Circle

A monthly online gathering to support your healing, medicine integration, and path.

Every first Sunday of each month, we hold a virtual community circle where you can come to listen and be listened to. This is an opportunity to connect with like minds and like hearts to share, learn, and deepen your engagement from your work with psychedelics and plant medicine. You can also ask any questions about my service offerings, retreats, your personal healing needs, and more.

Next Meeting: TBD

Community Circle is and always will be free for everyone. If you do feel like it is helping you, any donations are greatly appreciated.

$15 - Suggested Donation

$30 - Cinco Medicos Scholarship Donation

Venmo @Jeremy-Martin-1 with the message “Circle”

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Preparation

If we are now in the midst of the psychedelic renaissance, the better you prepare for your own rebirth, the more you’ll get out of the experience, and the better you will be able to integrate the lessons into your life afterwards.

A sacred plant medicine ceremony can be quite the ride. Without adequate preparation beforehand, much of the transformative power of the insights gained from such experiences may be lost.

During the preparation phase, we will discuss why you wish to work with plant medicine, address any questions or concerns you may have, and set your intentions so that you have an anchor during ceremony and way to interpret your experience in the days, weeks, and months to follow.

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Integration

Integration is the guidance and support one receives after a sacred ceremony or profound experience. Making sense, finding meaning, changing habits, healing our bodies, tending to our emotions, feeling whole again, returning to everyday “ordinary” reality — all of this work takes time, energy, patience, trust, and can vary a lot from person to person.

For this reason, adequate time for integration should always be allotted after profound experiences. If before, you were a certain kind of person, and now, you are open to new ways of seeing and being, how will you apply the insights from your experience to become someone new? Which parts of yourself will you keep? Which will you do away with? How will you put your healing to good use?

Integration is the process of putting the pieces of ourselves we want together, and doing away with what no longer serves us. Doing this work makes us feel whole, and brings us closer to a state of health. But make no mistake: integration is the true work. Life is the real ceremony. Without integration, a sacred ceremony becomes a peak experience whose power and insights we are bound to forget.

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Scheduling

If you would like to schedule a counseling session with me, please get in touch. Make sure you enter the correct email address, as this is the one I will reply to. More information like the date and time for the session as well as payment instructions will be provided in that response. 

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Rates & Payment

A sliding scale from $60 to $100 is used for preparation and integration sessions. Each session is one hour long using Zoom, Skype, Messenger, or Whatsapp. It doesn’t matter where you are. All you need is a reliable internet connection. Sessions are in English. Payment must be made at least 24 hours prior to each session.

After you book a date for your ceremony or session, please make the required deposit or full payment via PayPal, Venmo transfer (@Jeremy-Martin-1), or cash.

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Recommended Resources

Below is a list of resources to consider before or after your retreat. Read what resonates, rid the rest.

  • A New Earth — Eckhart Tolle

  • A Course in Miracles — Helen Schucman

  • A Field Guide to Medicinal and Useful Plants of the Upper Amazon — James L. Castner

  • A History of Western Philosophy — Bertrand Russell

  • Andean Awakening — Jorge Luis Delgado, MaryAnn Male

  • Art Heals: How Creativity Cures the Soul — Shaun McNif

  • Biology of Belief — Bruce Lipton

  • Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art — James Nestor

  • Brotherhood of the Screaming Abyss — Dennis McKenna

  • Cactus of Sanity: Huachuma in a Time of Chaos — Sergey Baranov

  • Conversations with God — Neale Donald Walsh

  • DMT: The Spirit Molecule — Dr. Rick Strassman

  • Everyday Mindfulness for OCD: Tips, Tricks, and Skills for Living Joyfully — Jon Hershfield, Shala Nicely

  • Fellowship of the River — Dr. Joe Tafur

  • Food of the Gods — Terrence McKenna

  • Four-Season Harvest: How to Harvest Fresh Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long — Eliot Coleman

  • Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship — Laurence Heller Ph.D., Aline LaPierre Psy.D.

  • Healing Gaia — James Lovelock

  • Healing Your Lost Inner Child: How to Stop Impulsive Reactions, Set Healthy Boundaries and Embrace an Authentic Life — Robert Jackman

  • How to Be Free — Epictetus

  • How to Change Your Mind — Michael Pollan

  • How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self — Nicole LePera

  • Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual: Trauma-Informed Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, PTSD & Substance Abuse — Frank Anderson, Richard Schwartz

  • Listening to Ayahuasca: New Hope for Depression, Addiction, PTSD, and Anxiety — Rachel Harris, PhD

  • Living in the Light of Death — Larry Rosenberg

  • Masters of the Living Energy: The Mystical World of the Q’ero of Peru — Joan Wilcox

  • Microdosing with Amanita Muscaria — Baba Masha M.D.

  • Nature's Garden: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants — Sam Thayer

  • Peruvian Shamanism: The Pachakuti Mesa — Matthew Magee

  • Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story — Ann Shulgin, Alexander Shulgin

  • Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection: 50 Client-Centered Practices — Deb Dana

  • Polyvagal Safety: Attachment, Communication, Self-Regulation — Stephen W. Porges

  • Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm: Beyond the Doors of Perception into the Dreaming of Earth — Stephen Harrod Buhner

  • Plant Teachers: Ayahuasca, Tobacco, and the Pursuit of Knowledge — Jeremy Narby

  • Proof of Heaven — Eben Alexander

  • Sacred Plant Medicine — Stephen Harrod Buhner

  • Secret Teachings of Plants — Stephen Harrod Buhner

  • Sound Medicine: How to Use the Ancient Science of Sound to Heal the Body and Mind — Dr. Kulreet Chaudhary

  • Shaman, Healer, Sage — Alberto Villoldo

  • Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise — Thich Nhat Hanh

  • Supernatural — Graham Hancock

  • The Andean Codex: Adventures and Initiations among the Peruvian Shamans — Dr. J.E. Williams

  • The Art of Emotional Healing — Lucia Capacchione

  • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma — Dr. Bessel van der Kolk

  • The Complex PTSD Treatment Manual: An Integrative, Mind-Body Approach to Trauma Treatment — Dr. Arielle Shwartz

  • The Complete Book of Health Plants — Francesco Bianchini

  • The Cosmic Serpent — Jeremy Narby

  • The Doors of Perception — Aldous Huxley

  • The Emotionally Absent Mother — Jasmin Lee Cori MS LPC

  • The Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants — Andrew Chevalier

  • The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications — Christian Ratsch

  • The Ethics of Caring — Kylea Taylor

  • The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children — Ross W. Greene, Ph.D

  • The Four Agreements — Don Miguel Ruiz

  • The Healing Power of Meditation — Andy Fraser

  • The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs — Leslie Taylor, N.D.

  • The Hummingbird's Journey to God: Perspectives on San Pedro; the Cactus of Vision — Ross Heaven

  • The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name — Brian Muraresko

  • The Language of Plants — Julia Graves

  • The Law of One — Carla Rueckert, James Allen McCarty, Don Elkins

  • The Mindful Path to Addiction Recovery — Lawrence Peltz

  • The Power of Now — Eckhart Tolle

  • The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys — James Fadiman, Ph.D

  • The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries — R. Gordon Wasson

  • The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries — Albert Hofmann, Carl A.P. Ruck, R. Gordon Wasson

  • The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying Book — Sogyal Rinpoche

  • The Way of Life — Lao Tzu

  • The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for An Age of Anxiety — Alan Watts

  • The World is as You Dream It — John Perkins

  • Thus Spoke the Plant — Monica Gagliano

  • True Hallucinations — Terrence McKenna

  • When the Body Says No — Gabor Mate

  • Wizard of the Upper Amazon — F. Lamb and Manuel Córdova-Rios

  • Yoga to Ease Anxiety — Amy Vaughn

  • You Are the Placebo — Dr. Joe Dispenza

  • Vine of the Soul — Richard Evans Shultes