Psychedelic or plant medicine Integration refers to extracting psychological insights, recovered emotions, and somatic release, and integrating them in to chosen areas of life. Integration as a general definition means “bringing parts together to make a whole.” Psychedelic integration helps you to achieve a greater and more complete sense of “wholeness”, which elements have been identified through the preparation process of intention setting and through the insights gained working from the point of view of the inner healer during the plant medicine journey itself.

Examples of intentions may involve taking ownership of one’s past choices, speaking one’s truth, or reclaiming fragmented aspects of the self that may have been repressed, suppressed, denied, or projected onto others. This process is referred to as shadow work, which is intimately related to integration. It is this recovered sense of wholeness that creates a sense of strength, sovereignty, and peace that can be built upon for a more fulfilling life moving forward.

Integration is the process that turns your intentions into reality. It is the bedrock that makes your experience tangible. It is an on-going process that takes months, sometimes even years to complete, depending on the level of willingness to heal that the participant brings. Integration looks different for everyone.

INTEGRATION PRACTICES

Integration begins with practice. Just like when you were a child, you learned to ride a bike first with training wheels. Over time, through repetition and practice, you gained the body intelligence and the courage to ride the bike without them. The first few times you tried this, you likely crashed. This is part of the learning process and not to be confused with failure. Practicing patience with yourself and the process of integration is therefore the one practice that is common to every person going through the process of integration. Commitment is the next practice to be implemented, and before long this becomes discipline. Through disciplined practices you begin to recover fragmented parts of yourself to become more of “you”.

Common integration practice include (but are NOT limited to):

• Journaling

• Attending group integration circles either online or in-person

• Working 1:1 with a preparation and integration guide who possesses wisdom and can help you connect the dots in your life so that you can be free of the patterns that may have held you back in your inner development

• Reconnecting with nature on a regular basis

• Art

• Meditation

• Yoga

• Breathwork

• Massage/body work

• Sexual healing

• Contrast therapy (cold plunge+sauna)

• Therapy if needed

• Learning healing techniques

• Implementing a non-inflammatory diet

• Developing your own personalized exercise plan

• Learning about regenerative medicine

• Visiting with a functional medicine provider to help identify deficits that are limiting your health

• IV vitamin infusions

• AND SO MANY MORE!!!

CHOOSING AN INTEGRATION GUIDE

It’s important to have an integration coach who has many years of experience in working through their own integration process and through their own personal work and professional development, possesses the understanding that each person is unique and there is no cookie cutter, one-size-fits-all approach to integration. Your coach should possess the wisdom of having completed several layers of their own healing, before they choose to lead others on this path. This involves more than being a therapist, or having gone through a coaching certification. It involves having more than knowledge- it involves having developed wisdom. And wisdom can only be gained through experience. Therefore choose you guide wisely.

DISCLAIMER- WE DO NOT PROVIDE PSYCHEDELIC THERAPY AT CALIGO, WE PROVIDE PREPARATION AND INTEGRATION ONLY. WE DO HOWEVER PROVIDE KAMBÖ, WHICH IS LEGAL IN THE UNITED STATES. WE SUPPORT AND PARTNER WITH PSYCHEDELIC HEALING CENTERS OUTSIDE OF THE US IN COUNTRIES WHERE IT IS LEGAL TO POSSESS SACRED PLANT MEDICINES.