Plant Medicine Ceremonies
Ayahuasca and San Pedro work to break down old programing and beliefs that are holding us back.
They are tools that shed light into our own process. Direct path to trauma integration.
Journey with these Sacred Plants to help…
facilitate Personal Growth & Self-discovery
overcome a Mental Health condition
Love yourself and others more
work with Difficult Issues
strengthen your Spiritual Path
let go of Addiction
dissolve Tension & Struggle in your life
Heal Yourself
HUACHUMA CEREMONY
AYAHUASCA CEREMONY
LONG DANCE CEREMONY
“My name is Sean West, and I have been working with these beautiful plant medicines for over 25 years.”
Outline of Ceremony Format
In a ceremony with me we arrive as equals to do this unique never done before, never to be repeated ceremony. When I say equals, I mean that I do not assume a hierarchal Master stance. I bring thousands of hours of Aya or San Pedro experience to the ceremony but your contribution of your life experience is equally as important.
In a ceremony with me you can communicate with me at any moment that you feel the need even if you have to interrupt me singing or making sound. You can also ask for light as you need. I find that creating a space where the person feels comfortable and safe is more important than creating challenges through requiring silence or special posture. A space based in communication, non-judgment, friendship and compassion is a safe container.
In ceremony I empty purge buckets and accompany people to the restroom standing near, outside the door and entering to help if necessary. Going to the restroom is sometimes a very intense part of the process and it is important to be accompanied. One of the strongest transmutations of trauma can occur while you’re sitting on the toilet!
What I have noticed with medicine is that good company is what the medicine likes for deeper work. We are a social being and when we adventure into intense places it’s nice to know there is someone there who cares.
I follow the Jungian rule of thumb in therapeutical spaces that if you’re going to be of help to help someone to help themselves it needs to be from a friendly stance.
A keystone of my ceremonial format is the decision to close the ceremony made together, I am a firm believer in that the ceremony is not over until it is over.
ABOUT MY CEREMONIES
I create a solid container for deep work, dedicated to empowerment and self-healing.
The path I follow is non-adversarial and whatever presents itself is to be loved, honored, respected and integrated.
I work with Chakapa, Icaro, Guitar, Quena, Drumwork, Voice and Silence to keep the space grounded but flowing. I use Mapacho and Featherwork when needed.
I use a hands-off approach, allowing you to work with yourself and the medicine and only stepping in when needed.
We use prayers of gratitude, grounding, offerings and intention to open, hold, and close sacred space.
Integration is included.
Trauma and Medicine
A word about trauma and medicine. In my years of working with personal trauma, ancestral trauma and the collective trauma. I have observed that these three kinds of trauma tend to become one in us. I have found that trauma just wants to have space to be felt. Not understood as much as just being felt and given space. The model I work with recognizes the necessity to integrate trauma through honoring and loving it. This helps the trauma to integrate as wisdom. The idea of getting it out does not really work. There is electrical charge associated with trauma that can be removed to help the integration process but in the end the information remains and needs to be integrated. Ayahuasca and San Pedro can in the correct format bring us to this feeling the trauma place very quickly. I call it the Intense Zone. It is a place that is beyond visions and information. A place where the medicine delivers you to feeling the trauma without a lot of mental contents happening. From what I have observed, intense emotion and trauma tend to loop and intensify when we try to explain the why and how of it in our minds. Plant medicine is for feeling things more clearly, not for big downloads and visions from outside of you. These have a place in ceremony but the deeper work is the clarity of feeling. One on one ceremonies are the easiest way to access trauma held in you. When there are more participants in ceremony the work tends to blend together and the work becomes a group work. I work this way also but I find the one-on-one approach is more direct. One of my beliefs is that one person doing a deep work with plant medicine will help the collective of humanity more than a quantity of people not going as deep. Group ceremonies can be useful especially if the group of people understand each other and have ties of friendship. This is why I do not do open public ceremonies, for me this is a flawed format.
The Ayahuasca Ceremony
ABOUT AYAHUASCA
Ayahuasca is there to hold you with unconditional love and acceptance. Aya is very practical, and heals through making you face into the issues. Aya is a fast worker and can be very challenging but very rewarding as it triggers healing and deprograms with high-frequency compassion.
Ayahuasca medicine is a mix of two plants from the jungle that work together. Ayahuasca vine is the MAO inhibitor. Chacruna is the DMT carrying bushy plant.
THE CEREMONY
The ceremony takes place in the maloca (temple) beside our family home and gardens. The energy of the maloca is soft, gentle and super grounded.
There will be a comfortable area for you to sit or lie down. You are welcome to go outside in the gardens and area around the maloca during the ceremony. Bathrooms are close by. More Details…
Location: Taray, Peru
“My wife and I worked with Sean this week and it was the most incredible experience.
I couldn’t recommend him more.”
— Christopher McDonald (San Pedro Ceremony)
“Good to see someone like Sean with his years of experience and high work ethic is offering these powerful plants! ”
— Jasmin Phoenyx Petersen
The Huachuma (San Pedro) Ceremony
ABOUT HUACHUMA
Huachuma (also called San Pedro) is a beautiful, strong, heart-opening medicine. It is also a great obstacle-clearer, and the journey can be stern and/or joyful as you are called to re-examine your stance. Known as a heart-strengthener, this medicine shows you how to accept and love yourself more.
San Pedro is a cactus that grows in the Andes mountains of South America. It’s use dates back to pre-Incan times. A main active component is mescaline, like the North American Peyote. This plant is also an adaptogen and has anti-parasitic properties.
I have been working with Huachuma since 1990, and it is the most stable of the psycho-active master plants in my opinion.
I learned in Ecuador and Bolivia how to harvest, brew and serve this medicine. I make a unique medicine that is strong but gentle on the stomach.
Your Huachuma Ceremony can be OUTSIDE in nature, OR held in the MALOCA (temple space)
The Huachuma Day Walk and Camping.
The Huachuma Walk is a full day excursion into the mountains at one of my specially selected spots… with gorgeous views and privacy.
Being outdoors in nature is a beautiful, therapeutic way to work with Huachuma.
“I am an expert at traveling in the mountains, and I bring everything for the safest and most comfortable trip possible.”
The Maloca or Temple Ceremony
This ceremony is based out of the maloca or temple beside our family home. The energy of the maloca is soft, gentle and super grounded.
There will be a comfortable area for you to sit or lie down. You are welcome to go outside in the gardens and area around the maloca during the ceremony. Bathrooms are close by.
LOCATION: Taray, Peru read more
“ Brother, thousand thanks from my heart and spirit! It was spectacular time to share your beautiful maloka space. I honour your work, care and guidance with this medicine…
…Your presence, music and trust was felt and appreciated throughout the night.
I would highly recommend for anyone who is interested to go deeper within a safe container to discover and release in a space of your own energies. ”
-- Nene Kurronen
The Long Dance Ceremony
This is a San Pedro ceremony where we set up a corral, altars, and a large center fire. We hang our intention flags on the ropes of the corral.
We move in a circle around grandfather fire for 10 hours under the stars, creating a great healing vortex for ourselves, Pachamama, and All Our Relations.
The night is filled with ritual, music, a water blessing, prayers, meditation, songs, toning, medicine experience, and of course, dancing!
Earth Altar
About the Long Dance.
To find out much more about our Long Dance, visit our Facebook Page.
Host a Long Dance.
Maybe you want to bless your land or unite your community with this empowering ceremony.
If you would like to host a Long Dance, we can travel to you and facilitate. All you need is a suitable location with plenty of outdoor space, and willing participants.
For inquiries, please CONTACT SEAN
Maloca Ceremony Details
The ceremony begins in the early evening.
You arrive an hour before the start time to get acquainted and settled.
We talk about your intentions, and what to expect.
We call in the directions and open sacred space.
Then we drink and sit in silence for a while.
I work with Icaros, music, sound healing, and silence while you journey with the medicine.
When you are done, we close the space and ceremony ends.
You can chill/sleep in the temple, or go home to your bed.
If you stay the night, we integrate in the morning. If you go home to sleep, we meet at another time.
Huachuma Walk Details
Walk in the mountains and nature… somewhere within a 40-minute drive from Pisac
Early morning taxi to trail-head (included in price)
We open sacred space and drink medicine in nature
About 5 total hours of hiking
Time & place to chill out, walk around and explore, or lie down and experience the medicine
We are down the mountain before dark
Chill around fire with music and food
Integration is around fire or at a later time
San Pedro Camping.
One of my favorite ways to work with San Pedro is to go camping for one or two nights in the high mountains.
The one night looks like this
5-6amTransport to trail head.
6 30-8am A prayer then drinking the San Pedro at trailhead.
10-12 arriving at campsite. Where you will be in a very safe high valley with a small lake that you can wander around in while I set up camp. In this valley I can keep track of you fairly easily. This is a time to connect deeply with the nature and yourself.
When you are ready, we can eat dinner and be near the campsite with sleeping bags outside or inside the tent. There is an option to wander around in the dark with moon or flashlights accompanied.
In the morning by 10 or earlier we take a smaller dose of San Pedro and take the rest of the day to walk down to our transport via another trail completing a loop.
The two day is different only in that we walk up to the campsite make camp then take the main dose of San Pedro the next morning staying all day in the magical valley, then staying the night and going down the next day on a lower dose of San Pedro as in the one-night trip.
Contact Sean about a ceremony
The Location
Indoor ceremonies are held in the maloca beside our family home.
Our grounds are located a 10-minute walk up the mountain, above the town of Taray.
Taray is a small town in The Sacred Valley of the Incas…
only 5 minutes from Pisac and 50 minutes from Cusco
Taray, Peru
