Sacred Medicine Retreat Integration Guide

Integration is the quiet alchemy after the storm, the part of the journey where the universe stops whispering and begins rearranging the furniture of your inner world.

Ceremony cracked open the places that were ready to be seen, held, and liberated; now the work becomes softer, slower, and far more intimate. Integration is where the vision becomes a life, where insight becomes embodiment, where healing becomes habit. It is the sacred stitching-together of the new self you met in medicine and the human self who must now carry that truth into ordinary days.

You are not returning to who you were. You are learning how to walk as who you are becoming. This guide is here to hold you through that becoming, to remind you that nothing you felt, released, remembered, or realized was random. Everything opened for a reason. Everything unfolded with precision. And the days and weeks ahead are just as sacred as the ceremony itself.

Here, you will learn how to move gently with your new clarity, how to honor what still feels tender, and how to let the medicine continue its work through your breath, your body, and your choices. Integration is the ceremony after the ceremony; and you are held in every step of it..

What Integration Actually Means

Integration is the process of bringing your inner truth and your outer life into alignment. It is not simply “processing” a ceremony; it is choosing to walk in deeper integrity with yourself. During medicine, you met parts of your soul that have been waiting for your attention; the wounds, the wisdom, the longings, the truths you have outgrown, and the truths you are finally ready to claim. Integration is the conscious act of honoring what you saw. It is the moment-by-moment decision to not abandon yourself again. It is choosing to let your new awareness guide how you move, speak, breathe, set boundaries, and nourish your body. Integration is integrity in motion. It is the merging of who you were, who you discovered, and who you are becoming.

At its core, integration is an act of profound self-love. It asks you to hold yourself gently as old emotional imprints rise to be cleared, and to trust that your system is reorganizing itself in real time. It invites you to soften into compassion for the parts of you that feel tender or uncertain, and to celebrate the parts that feel newly awakened. Integration isn’t about perfection or “getting it right.” It is about consistent devotion to your inner world, choosing again and again to support the truth that medicine illuminated within you. When you approach yourself with patience, care, and honest self-regard, you allow the healing to root not just in your mind, but in your nervous system, your relationships, your choices, and your daily rhythm. Integration is how you become the living embodiment of the medicine you received.

Integration Support

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Recommended Books for Integration

Below is a collection of books that support the full spectrum of integration; from nervous system healing to spiritual expansion, from emotional unwinding to relational integrity, from psychedelic understanding to embodied transformation. These titles were selected with care, knowing the depth of work this group moved through.

Psychedelic Integration & Expanded Consciousness

  • The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide by James Fadiman

  • How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan

  • Consciousness Medicine by Françoise Bourzat

  • LSD and the Mind of the Universe by Christopher M. Bache

  • The Intelligence of the Cosmos by Ervin Laszlo

  • The Cosmic Serpent by Jeremy Narby

  • Cave and Cosmos by Michael Harner

Healing, Awakening & Self-Liberation

  • A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

  • Bringers of the Dawn by Barbara Marciniak

  • The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer

  • The Surrender Experiment by Michael A. Singer

  • Becoming Supernatural by Dr. Joe Dispenza

  • The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

  • The Places That Scare You by Pema Chödrön

  • Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach

Trauma Release, Nervous System Support & Integration Through the Body

  • The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk

  • In an Unspoken Voice by Peter A. Levine

  • Waking the Tiger by Peter A. Levine

  • Anchored by Deb Dana (polyvagal-informed integration)

  • Patriarchy Stress Disorder by Dr. Valerie Rein (identity + trauma work)

Relational Healing, Boundaries & Embodied Love

  • Conscious Loving by Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks

  • The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks

  • Attached by Amir Levine & Rachel Heller

  • The Mountain Is You by Brianna Wiest (shadow patterns + self-sabotage)

  • The Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz

Nature, Energy & Earth-Based Wisdom

  • The Secret Language of Trees by Marie Skrobak

  • Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

  • The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

  • Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm by Stephen Harrod Buhner

Spirituality, Soul Work & Inner Navigation

  • Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

  • The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav

  • The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

  • The Sophia Code by Kaia Ra

  • The Great Work of Your Life by Stephen Cope

  • Journey of Souls by Michael Newton

Integration-Specific Guides & Journals

  • The Integration Workbook by The Psychedelic Society

  • Psychedelic Integration Handbook by Ryan Westrum & Daniel Shankin

  • You Are the Medicine by Asha Frost (for gentle daily grounding and ritual)

  • The Sacred Path Cards by Jamie Sams (ceremony-friendly wisdom tool)

A reminder

To Give it all to the waters, take bathes, get into living waters if you can. Water carries away what we no longer wish to hold.

Dietary Guidelines for Integration

Food becomes part of your integration. After working with sacred medicine, your system is more sensitive, more receptive, and more honest about what it needs. Your body is reorganizing itself on physical, emotional, and energetic levels, and the way you nourish yourself can either support that process or make it harder. Think of this time as feeding the clarity you gained in ceremony.

Avoid overly processed or chemically heavy foods.

Your system is open right now, and synthetic ingredients, preservatives, artificial sugars, dyes, and chemical additives create static in the field. Choose foods that feel alive, close to the earth, and easily recognized by your body.

Keep salt and sugar intake modest.

Salt and sugar are not inherently “bad,” but they can dysregulate the nervous system when overconsumed; especially during integration. This is a time for balance, stability, and gentle nourishment.

Minimize caffeine.

Caffeine can spike anxiety, disrupt sleep patterns, quicken the mind, and pull you out of your body. If you do use it, be mindful and intentional, and notice how your system responds.

Prioritize nutrient-rich, nutrient-dense whole foods.

Think fruits, vegetables, pastured eggs, organic proteins, whole grains, beans, leafy greens, and colorful produce. The more vibrant the food, the more vibrational support it offers. Your body will use these nutrients to rebuild what ceremony opened.

Stay hydrated: truly hydrated.

Water is a ceremony of its own during integration. Drink plenty of clean, mineral-rich water throughout the day. Hydration helps flush emotional debris, stabilize energy, support cognition, and keep your nervous system regulated.

Incorporate plenty of good fats.

Healthy fats feed your brain, stabilize your mood, support hormone balance, and help you feel grounded. Avocado, nuts, seeds, olive oil, coconut oil, grass-fed butter, and omega-rich foods are especially supportive.

Most importantly: deeply listen to your body’s cues.

Your intuition around food may feel stronger than usual. You may crave lighter meals, more grounding meals, more protein, or more plants. You may want warmth instead of cold, or simplicity instead of complexity. Trust this. Your body is communicating with clarity right now. Let it lead. These dietary practices are not rules. They are invitations to support your integration with nourishment that aligns your body and energy field with the clarity you experienced in ceremony.

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Oracle Closing Prayer

May the medicine that touched you continue to move with gentleness through your body, your mind, and your heart. May every insight you received settle into the deepest layers of your being, rooting itself with clarity, humility, and grace. May the parts of you that opened be held in safety. May the parts of you that released be honored as sacred offerings. May the parts of you that awakened be guided into wholeness.

As you walk forward from this place, may you remember that integration is not a destination, but a living relationship with your truth. May you meet yourself with devotion. May you greet each day with presence. May you let your breath be the bridge between who you have been and who you are becoming. May your choices reflect your inner knowing, and may your inner knowing grow louder than any old pattern that once claimed your power. May you be surrounded by the unseen hands that supported you in ceremony. May your path be illuminated by the clarity you touched. May your nervous system stay soft, your heart stay open, your boundaries stay sovereign, and your spirit stay grounded in the medicine of your own becoming.

And as you move back into your life, may you remember this truth:

You are not alone. You are guided. You are held. You are changing in all the right ways.

The ceremony continues to unfold within you with every breath, every choice, every moment of honesty, every act of self-love.

May this guidebook serve as a lantern on your path. May it remind you of what you already know. May it bless your steps as you integrate, embody, and rise.

And may you walk forward in beauty, with clarity in your mind, with peace in your heart, with truth in your bones, and with the medicine still singing in your soul.

It is sealed with love. It is sealed with light. It is sealed with the wisdom you carry.

AND SO IT IS AND SO IT BE