I have attended three ceremonies with Taita Hector over the past year and will attend a fourth soon. While I have never attended any ayahuasca/yahe’ ceremonies held by others, I have no hesitancy recommending this ceremony to anyone who is called to participate. The reason I haven’t been to others is I have felt zero need to and extremely lucky to have found a ceremony I can trust (having heard plenty of bad stories elsewhere). The medicine is extraordinary and will take you where you need to/are ready to go. But it requires patience and will not be an easy journey. For me, it has been a complete awakening of my spririt. It’s been a homecoming to a part of me that had been asleep for a very long time. Now I go back to realign and connect with myself, with others, with earth, and with spirit. And most importantly, to bring that connection back into the world, to my family, my friends. I can say with absolute confidence that it can support anyone to do this. Maybe not all at once for everyone, but this is the potential and that is an extremely valuable (sacred) medicine that can do that.
Many will wonder about the accomadations and social aspects. It’s the opposite of fancy. This is a a small group of people getting together is an old house to do powerful sacred work. What you are getting is authentic amazonian medicine in the US. And you are getting a small group setting that is family/tribal like. It’s local, so you can connect with a community here in the northeast or whereever you sit with Taita. Yeah, its a little funky and you might not get a lot of sleep, but what it lacks in physical comfort it makes up for in human connection and authenticity. I imagine this is as close as you can get to what the Santo Daime was a hundred years ago (minus the jungle). This is a beautiful magical thing and I am so thankful to Taita, his co-faciliators, his elder Taitas in Punto Mayo, to the medicine/earth, and to god for providing this sacred connection and sacrament.