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Beyond the Ceremony
We know that ayahuasca can be challenging – and often, the real work starts at home. Transforming abstract insights into embodied actions in your everyday life takes dedication, time, and patience. At Paojilhuasca, we pride ourselves on comprehensive and complementary integration support resources accessible to all guests upon departure, so we can be there whenever you need us most.
For individual support, the Integration Compass offers journalling prompts, grounding practices, and somatic exercises to reconnect and reflect on your experiences in the jungle. Our app is constantly being improved and updated to reflect what guests like you find most useful.
Scroll down for more informationOur Integration Coach hosts biweekly talking circles for past guests via our WhatsApp Group, which provides a non-judgemental space to share what’s on your mind. These video calls open with a brief guided meditation to reconnect to your times in the maloca before shifting into an open talking circle – a place to listen to others and be truly heard.
Scroll down for more informationOur experienced Breathwork Coach hosts monthly virtual Conscious Connected Breathing sessions, just like you did at the retreat. These sessions facilitate access to the same powerful energy you’ve felt at Paojilhuasca – and create a space to remember, reconnect, support one another as we dip our toes back into our consciousness.
Scroll down for more informationBetween the app’s reflective practices, the talking circle’s community support, and the breathwork’s deep connection, we offer you a multi-faceted approach to integration no matter where your journey leads you. And, if you need more personal support, you can message our team of skilled facilitators directly, any time.
Learn more about each of these communities below.
🌿 Free Companion App
For what comes after the ceremony
You came back from the experience. Something shifted. Now you're in the hardest part — bringing it into your actual life. Integration Compass is a daily companion for the weeks and months that follow a plant medicine or psychedelic ceremony.
Built by the facilitators at Paojilhuasca, who have sat with over five hundred ceremonies and know exactly where people lose the thread.
Every day the app offers one prompt — a question worth sitting with, drawn from six dimensions of integration: body, emotion, mind, spirit, relationships, environment.
It also watches quietly. If your engagement drops, if the weeks are getting heavier than you can hold — it notices, recalibrates, and points you back to the humans who can actually help.
As you practice, a plant grows. Nothing loud. Just a quiet reflection of your consistency over time.
Daily prompts
One question per day, timed to your ceremony date
6 dimensions
Body, emotion, mind, spirit, relationships, environment
Adaptive tracking
Detects when you need more support and recalibrates
Plant growth
A living reflection of your integration practice over time
Human thread
Routes you back to your facilitators when it matters
Dream journal
Capture and track post-ceremony dream material
This is not a wellness app. It is not a replacement for human support. It is an intelligent daily companion that keeps you oriented, keeps you practicing, and keeps a thread back to the people who know this territory.
For Community
Online video calls hosted by Kate Arpin (Integration Coach)
Biweekly · Around the full and new moons
Join our community of past guests to connect with others, hear Paojilhuasca announcements, and engage with our group-based integration resources. Every two weeks, around the full and new moons, Kate surveys the group for a time to host our virtual integration calls, allowing the scheduling to be tailored to your availability.
The video calls open with a brief guided meditation to ground you into your body, revisit your times in the maloca, and reflect on what’s changed since you left. We then begin an open-hearted talking circle which provides a non-judgemental space to listen and be heard. The talking circle runs under four main guidelines: speak spontaneously from the heart, speak from your own experience, listen actively from the heart, and be relatively brief (especially in larger groups). We open the session by lighting a candle and close by blowing it out, symbolizing the entry and exit from this shared experience.
Reflections, suggested activities, and journal prompts are often provided to the community around the quarter moons in theme with relevant topics that emerged during calls.
For guests that wish to dive deeper into their own journey, Kate also offers one-on-one Psychedelic Integration Coaching sessions. Scroll down below for more details.
Conscious Connected Breathing Community
Online sessions via Google Meet by Dr. Caterina Conti
Monthly · Conscious Connected Breathing
This group is created to organize monthly online Conscious Connected Breathing sessions for everyone who has practiced it while staying at Pao.
We have noticed that both the breathing practice and the support of the community are essential parts of integrating and embodying the changes that emerge through psychedelic experiences. After holding this group for more than a year, I’ve witnessed the genuine growth, deepening, and continuity in the journeys of those who keep returning session after session. Together, we remember, reconnect, support one another, laugh, and sometimes cry, thanks to a safe, comprehensive and compassionate space.
Participation is always your choice and does not need to be continuous since every phase of life brings different needs. All of them and all of you are welcome here at any time.
Your presence is already a valuable contribution. For those who feel called to support the continuation of these gatherings, voluntary donations are warmly appreciated.
🧠 Psychological Integration
Psychologist · Psychedelic Integration Practitioner
National Coordinator, PsychedeliCare Italy
Italian psychologist and counselor with over twenty years in transformational processes, relational support, and personal development. Her work bridges psychology, mindfulness, experiential learning, and psychedelic integration.
Annarita integrates Gestalt Therapy, archetypal psychology, mindfulness, autobiographical work, and creative practices, always adapting to the uniqueness of each person.
She has participated in pioneering international conferences including Albert Hofmann's centenary celebration in Basel and the first edition of Breaking Convention in Canterbury.
Since 2011 she has offered preparation and integration support in international settings and volunteered in psychedelic harm reduction at Boom Festival, Ozora Festival, and Sol Festival.
To support accessibility while sustaining her work, Annarita offers two fee options based on individual financial circumstances.
🧠 Psychological Integration
Facilitator · Psychedelic Integration Coach · Kambo Practitioner
A compassionate coach and facilitator who knows just what it’s like to journey into the darkness and come out the other side — inspired, grounded, and smiling. Her 1:1 coaching sessions can support you in finding meaning in your experiences, identifying actions or practices that embody your insights, and transforming abstract concepts into meaningful, lasting change in everyday life.
With an academic background in Biology, Kate struggled to reconcile her first ayahuasca experiences with her scientific worldview. An unexpected emergence of Kundalini energy upended her reality further and led to two difficult years of integration. Through self-led research, grounding practices, and volunteering to help create Paojilhuasca’s first integration talking circles, she found her way through — and discovered her calling in supporting others facing similar struggles.
After gaining experience as a retreat facilitator, Kate recently completed a certification in Psychedelic Integration Coaching. Her one-to-one sessions are offered to clients worldwide, completely independently of Paojilhuasca. Drawing on her relevant personal experiences, Kate is particularly knowledgeable about spiritual emergence, ontological shock, and transpersonal experiences.
Through her sessions, Kate strives to help you make sense of your experience, find an interpretation that brings your everyday life into balance, and build a holistic plan of goals, actions, or practices to turn abstract insights into lasting change. Each session is paced and structured around your individual needs. Her warm, compassionate approach helps empower you to discover your own meaning and reconnect with your own agency.
Your first 30-minute introductory session is free, giving you the opportunity to learn what to expect and share where you are and where you would like to go. Further sessions cost $25 per hour, or $60 for a package of three sessions. Please note that integration coaching is not therapy or medical care and does not replace professional mental health support. If you are struggling, Kate may encourage you to seek help from a qualified practitioner alongside coaching.
🌬️ Breathwork
Founder, Breathwork Evolution
Creator of Bio Optimized Breathing & MD-Breathwork
A systems-based breathwork educator focused on optimizing human physiology through functional breathing, CO₂ adaptation training, and somatic regulation. His approach blends modern breathing science with experiential methods for performance and wellbeing.
Over years of study with leading international breathing specialists, Tomi has developed an integrated method combining physiology, nervous system regulation, and conscious breath practices.
His work supports athletes, clinicians, therapists, and high-performance professionals in improving resilience, recovery, cognitive clarity, and sleep quality through targeted breathing protocols.
By combining structured breath training with sound-based immersion techniques, his sessions aim to restore natural breathing patterns and long-term physiological balance.
🌬️ Breathwork
Medical Doctor · GRIT Breathwork Mentor
Kambo Practitioner · Retreat Facilitator
A compassionate medical doctor integrating emergency medicine with holistic healing approaches. Certified breathwork mentor, Caterina combines Western clinical knowledge with Amazonian traditions, yoga, meditation, and conscious breathing practices to create safe spaces for deep transformation.
Guided by curiosity and a phenomenological approach, Caterina believes true healing arises from trust, presence, and personal growth. Through her breathwork sessions, workshops, and retreats, she supports individuals in reconnecting with their inner strength and balance.
She works across physical, emotional, mental, relational, and spiritual dimensions of health, offering an integrative approach that bridges modern medicine and traditional healing systems.
Her practice includes conscious connected breathing and exploration of expanded states of awareness in safe, structured environments focused on integration and embodiment.
✨ Tarot & Spiritual Integration
Facilitator · Kambo Practitioner
Tarot Reader · Yin Yoga Guide
An intuitive guide working with tarot, yoga and spiritual practice to support emotional release and inner clarity. His approach is centred on compassion and presence, and on helping people reconnect with their own inner healing intelligence. He offers complimentary Marseille tarot readings to help guests process ongoing insights and support integration work.
"The medicine shows you. Integration is the work of becoming what you were shown."
Paojilhuasca Amazonian Medicine Center · Iquitos, Peru
A week on the Itaya River, in a small group, with time to slow down and listen. Diverse somatic practices to reconnect to your body, immerse yourself in nature’s beauty, and rediscover the medicine of authentic community. The whole time, be supported by our caring team – before, during, and after your stay. If you feel called, drop us a message and secure your place today.
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