Ceremony Readiness Guide
A Sacred Companion for Your Psilocybin Journey
Continuously Updated | Rooted in Reverence | Free to Download
“I wasn’t part of the ceremony itself, but the guide helped me support my friend with more intention and care. I knew how to show up, what to ask, and how to hold space without trying to fix anything. It made a real difference for both of us.”
Free Psilocybin Ceremony Readiness Guide
Begin with grounded safety, sacred intention, and skillful support
Thinking about a psilocybin journey, or supporting someone who is?
Before you step across the threshold, begin here.
This FREE, comprehensive guide is for both seekers and supporters, friends, therapists, sitters, partners, and guides, who want to walk the path of sacred psilocybin work with integrity, clarity, and care.
Whether this is your first experience or your eleventh, the guide offers a structured, trauma-informed framework to help you prepare with discernment, move through the unknown with trust, and integrate what arises into lasting transformation.
Version 3 (updated June 2025) spans 37 pages and continues to evolve with community insight, legal changes, and lived ceremonial experience.
Why this Guide?
Too often, seekers enter altered states without the safety, context, or preparation they need.
This guide was created to change that.
It provides not just insight, but structure.
Not just theory, but tools.
It is meant to be lived with, returned to, and shared.
Over the years, I’ve seen how those surrounding the journeyer, friends, family, and even clinicians, often feel unsure how to help, or are left out entirely. This disconnect can create tension, limit trust, and leave the journeyer unsupported in the moments that matter most. At times, clients feel they must hide their truth at home, or withhold insights for fear they won’t be understood. This guide exists to bridge those gaps, so that preparation and integration are not private burdens, but shared, informed, and relational acts of care.
What’s Inside
1. Preparing the Ground
How to know if you're ready, physically, emotionally, and spiritually
Assessing safety with respect to medications, trauma history, and life stability
Building intentional rhythms of preparation through diet, nature time, prayer, and space clearing
2. The Five S’s of Safe Ceremony
Set, Setting, Substance, Sitter, and Safety Plan, all unpacked in detail
Creating agreements and boundaries with facilitators or companions
What consent and sovereignty look like in altered states
How to stretch into transformation without overwhelming the nervous system
3. Ceremony Day Guidance
Practical checklists for altar setup, environmental design, and pacing
The importance of stillness, breath, and presence during the peak
Using eye masks, music, silence, and ritual to deepen your experience
What to expect over a 6–10 hour arc, including booster timing and recovery
4. Music and Playlist Design
A complete guide to curating a journey-aligned playlist
Suggested arc: opening, expansion, peak, descent, grounding
How sound shapes the emotional and spiritual landscape
5. Dosing and Journey Styles
Clear guidance for microdose, mini-dose, moderate, heroic, and transcendent doses
How to align dose with intention and choose the right setting
Ingestion methods (tea, whole, lemon-tek) and the importance of pacing
When progressive dosing is appropriate and how to do it safely
6. Integration: Embodying What You Touch
Integration as a life practice, not just a phase
How to metabolize insight into relationships, choices, and rhythms
Supportive practices: journaling, ritual, creative expression, movement
The importance of slowing down, resting, and re-entering gently
7. Microdosing as Devotional Practice
Protocols (Fadiman, Stamets, and hybrid models)
Using microdosing before and after a macrodose journey
Attuning to subtle shifts in emotion, presence, and clarity
How to avoid overstimulation and cultivate spiritual relationship
8. Support for Therapists, Sitters, and Loved Ones
How to hold space without imposing, interpreting, or intruding
The role of a Threshold Witness and how to prepare for it
Aftercare, re-entry support, and managing projection or transference
9. Cultural Awareness and Legal Insight
Honoring Indigenous lineages and principles of reciprocity
How to give back, name your teachers, and source with care
Overview of RFRA, decriminalization movements, and current U.S. legal terrain
Updated 2025 information on Maine’s LD 1034 and other evolving policies
10. Shared Reflection Prompts
Dozens of questions woven throughout to support discernment, integration, and relational depth
Can be used alone, with a guide, or in community settings
Who this is for
Individuals preparing for a solo or facilitated psilocybin journey
Loved ones supporting a partner, friend, or family member
Therapists, coaches, and spiritual companions seeking to understand the ceremonial arc
Communities creating safer spaces for sacred psychedelic work
This guide meets you wherever you are on the path, with no dogma, and no expectation of working together. It’s a public resource, freely offered, so that more people can walk with wisdom, not haste.
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A note from the author
This guide is one way I honor the teachers, mentors, and sacred experiences that have shaped my path.
It’s offered in the spirit of stewardship, freely, sincerely, and in service.
May it support you and those you love with grounded courage, ethical clarity, and spiritual depth.
“I’ve worked with guides before, but this was the first time I felt like I truly understood the whole arc of the journey. The reflection prompts helped me slow down, include my support system, and see this ceremony as part of a bigger chapter in my life, not just another peak experience. It helped me feel more grounded, more connected, and less alone.”
“Being present for the beginning and end of my partner’s journey was unexpectedly powerful. The guide helped me understand what they were walking through and how to hold space with respect. I felt more prepared, more peaceful, and more connected to the beauty of their process.”
“This guide gave me a clear, thoughtful framework to support my client’s process. It bridged psychological safety with spiritual depth. Collaborating with Yeshua created continuity that allowed the work to deepen. I’ve seen lasting, embodied change in my client’s life since.”