Tamara, a hair and makeup artist from St. Louis, describes her experience at the women-only Aluna Rose ayahuasca retreat as one of the three most profound experiences of her life. After decades of spiritual exploration, a series of synchronicities ultimately led her to the retreat, where two nights of ceremony took her through an intense journey of surrender, healing, and self-discovery. Her first night was largely physical, involving powerful energetic releases and encounters with familiar spirit guides. On the second night, she revisited past-life experiences that revealed a deeply rooted pattern of hiding from life out of fear of pain. Faced with a symbolic choice to remain hidden or step fully into her power, Tamara chose to move forward, passing through a vivid dragon-eye portal and experiencing an overwhelming release that transformed into a feeling of strength, freedom, and empowerment.

Her journey then expanded into what she experienced as healing along her maternal ancestral line. She witnessed generations of feminine spiritual power becoming suppressed through trauma and abuse, while recognizing her own mother as the person who stopped much of that pain from continuing forward. In a final vision, Tamara received an experience of healthy, powerful maternal love that brought both grief and profound healing. Since returning home, she says the experience has continued to unfold through stronger intuition, automatic writing, spiritual practices, and unexpected realizations in everyday life. Her husband describes her as “the same but more”—more open, loving, and fully herself. Tamara hopes to return to Aluna and is considering facilitator training, while encouraging anyone who genuinely feels called toward ayahuasca to approach the experience with openness and understand that the journey of integration continues long after the ceremony ends.

This episode marks the final installment of Season 1 of the Aluna Experience podcast, with host Bri formally passing the role to Justin, who has served as the podcast's editor and producer since its inception.

Bri shares how she has relocated to Copenhagen and is entering a new life chapter. She shares about acclamation to her new environment, finding more community and new exciting creative endeavors she's currently pursuing. 

On this episode of The Aluna Experience Podcast, I talk to Katie Mae, who shares how fleeing from California wildfires and Florida hurricanes—events that could be be perceived as tragedy—were actually Divine guidance that led her to exactly where she was supposed to be.

She shares how music, specifically dancing at Grateful Dead concerts, marked the beginning of her spiritual connection through music and dance, and how chronic medical issues and reaching a dead end in the medical system led her to a homeopathic healer who opened the doorway to the Bhagavad Gita, yoga, meditation, and a deepened spiritual practice.

Through her journeys with Ayahuasca, Katie Mae came to embody a deeper understanding of her Jewish heritage and organized religion as a whole, finding compassion and empathy for all beings—especially herself. She recognized the illusion of separation, her unbreakable connection to Mother Earth, and a deeply felt truth of belonging within herself regardless of where she was physically in the world.

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On this episode of the Aluna experience podcast I talk to Dylan who shares how at 23 years old he was faced with a medical illness which brought him close to death and bed ridden for 2 years, what he now calls a soul initiation. 

Dylan shares his exploration of alternative healing modalities and finding ayahuasca where he experienced two very different nights with the medicine. 

Night one was a stripping of identities, wounds, and any foundation of self that was built on false beliefs. A painful but necessary clearing to create space for what was to come the second night. 

Dylan passionately shares how night 2 illuminated the many layers of self for Dylan— from his physical, to mental to spiritual to everything in between, above and beyond. The medicine brought him into perfect alignment with the life that he desired and supported the physical body and mental capacity to be able to hold such a life. 

He talks about how ayahuasca has been present everyday since communing with her at Aluna and how this experience was a call to rise to the infinite wave of everlasting love that ayahuasca showed him is what and who he is.  

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On this episode of The Aluna Experience Podcast, I talk to Alejandro who shares his synchronistic meeting with Attila at his first ever mens retreat which opened the door to his life’s path of supporting men on their healing journey.

He shares how ayahuasca showed him how to not only feel love but how to BE love and how the frequency of love is a vibration that is always accessible. 

Alejandro shares about his soul calling to mens work and what that means to him as well as why men could be resistant to doing healing work. 

He talks about the importance of connecting masculine power to the heart, feeling safe with your facilitator and his experience unknowingly signing up for the Entheoguide training which unfolded to him becoming a a trained Entheoguide.

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On this episode of The Aluna Experience Podcast, I talk to Brent who shares his call to plant medicine in order to change his unhealthy patterns and stop himself from “burning his life down”

He shares how his journeys with Aluna helped him to reconnect with his sensitivity and his ability to feel at all. 

He shares receiving a clear message to release control and to allow himself to feel his sadness and in doing so was able to connect to the universe from a quantum level, recognizing a feminine omnipresent presence.  

Brent shares how he came to recognize fundamental beliefs from his childhood where he thought something was wrong with him and he was not worthy of love. Through plant medicine and the work to integrate his experience, Brent has reconnected to his loved ones and is moving toward a healthier, self loving and more aligned way of being. 

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On this episode of The Aluna Experience Podcast, I talk to Jason, who communes with Ayahusca for the first time only days before joining me on the podcast. 

Jason shares his desire to get to the root of some of his core wounds and better understand himself after spending years exploring healing through Western modalities ranging from talk therapy, meditation, antidepressants, and self help books— leading him to The Immortality Key by Brian C. Muraresku which planted the seed of natural medicines as used and celebrated through human history.

Jason’s intention was to open and receive what the medicine wanted to show him and he shares how at times he was overwhelmed by the striking beauty of this human experience which includes life, death and every little moment in between.

He shares his experience reconnecting with a childhood fear that was reenacted in a unique way at Aluna after the second night. This led him to finally being able to process, release and find peace in the dark.

Jason walked away with a deeper sense of self awareness, an appreciation for the space in between peak experiences that make up this life, and a softness to what he would normally find rigidity in. 

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On this episode of The Aluna Experience Podcast, I talk to Chad who shares the call to Ayahuasca being one not that you hear with an ear but one that you know and feel in the heart. 

Chad shares his experience growing up religious and how an inner curiosity invited him to explore other paths of understanding where he found yoga to be a doorway into a deeper connection to self. 

We discuss how fear of doing something— like stepping into a yoga class for the first time or sitting in ceremony, can often be more intimidating than the lived experience and how to recognize our individual power to manifest all aspects of our lives. 

He shares his intention to connect to his masculine in order to initiate his creative endeavors and how Ayahuasca supported him to recognize his ability to take aligned action and come into balance with his definition of his feminine and his masculine. 

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On this episode of The Aluna Experience Podcast, I talk to Lily, Aluna Entheoguide who shares her heart and wisdom in regards to her medicine path, supporting others on theirs, authenticity, and walking the medicine path with a partner. 

Lily shares the mindset needed to keep returning after difficult journeys and her devotion to her evolutionary path which means embracing the uncomfortable and stretching herself to continuously grow. 

She shares the immense benefits of expressing one’s truth, having difficult conversations and finding ones authentic self. We explore her work as a medicine guide working with clients one on one, seeing the Divine in all people and her call to Goddess work. 

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On this episode of The Aluna Experience Podcast, I talk to William who shares his first time journeying with both Ayahuasca and San Pedro

William is a curious soul who answered the call to commune with plant medicine to better understand himself after a called off engagement and a career turn. He shares his experience tapering off of anti depressants and what it was like being able to feel again.

He shares the impact of breathwork—uncovering pent-up anger, resentment, and sadness. His experience with ayahuasca— a gentle journey that revealed who he was beyond his conditioned identities and stories, and San Pedro— a harrowing journey of surrender that taught him to allow himself to be cared for.

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