GaianRhythm

10/10/2026

Ever wonder what an ayahuasca ceremony sounds like?

It begins in silence. Then the icaros open the night, the traditional Shipibo songs that guide everything that follows. Those songs are sung live in circle and will never be recorded or shared. They belong to the medicine, not the market.

But what comes after the icaros? That we can share.

Sounds of Ceremony is a studio album made to reflect the music that fills our ceremonies once the icaros have opened the space. It isn’t a recording of a ceremony. It’s a sound world built with care, for anyone preparing for a retreat, integrating after one, or simply curious about what happens in that room.

If you’ve sat with us, we hope it brings you back for a little while. If you haven’t yet, consider this an introduction.

Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/album/3Ijz9U04TI6WVq5zLDcrKT?si=mY-j6CKCRNqRNC5w-rVjOw

09/04/2026

Thank you so much to everyone who joined our mid-summer Lammas and womens retreats! We appreciated all of the laughter and community, and we wish you all a peaceful integration process.

09/02/2026

We are very much looking forward to welcoming the autumn season in Southern Utah. Just a few weeks away, if you're feeling called we still have space available. Details below:

Shipibo-rooted ayahuasca retreats in Southern Utah near Zion. Two weekends Sept 18-20 and 25-27, 2026, with an optional 5-day deepening between.

07/05/2026

To everyone who came out and honored summer with us across both weekends and the deepening in between, thank you.

You showed up. You sat in the circle. You did the work that doesn't photograph, the quiet interior kind that no one else sees. And somewhere in there, this became a real community, not just a group of people who happened to book the same dates.

We watched strangers become the kind of people who hold each other's hardest moments without flinching. We watched the land do what the land does. We watched summer move through all of us.

These photos hold a fraction of it. The rest lives in you now, and it comes home with you.

With so much love and gratitude. Until the next turn of the Wheel.

06/25/2026

Registration is open for our Autumn Equinox Ayahuasca Retreats in Southern Utah, near Zion.

Two ceremonial weekends in red rock country as the year turns toward its darker half. The equinox is the balance point, light and dark held even before the tilt into winter. It is a natural time to take stock of what the year grew, release what has finished, and sit with the medicine in the quiet that autumn opens.

Sept 18-20 and Sept 25-27, 2026. You are welcome to join either weekend on its own.

For those registered for the second weekend, there is also the option to arrive early for a 5-day Deepening between the two. It draws on traditional Shipibo cleansing practices, where those seeking healing spend several days clearing and grounding the body before entering the medicine space. Purgatives, vomitivos, v***r baths, alongside shadow work, daily sound baths, and quiet preparation. A slower way in, for those who feel called to arrive before the first cup is ever poured.

Three ceremonies. Fresh meals cooked on site. Integration support before and long after. Limited space to keep the circle intimate.

Full details: https://www.gaianrhythm.com/blog/autumn-equinox-ayahuasca-retreats-in-southern-utah-near-zion-two-weekends-plus-a-5-day-deepening

06/21/2026

The summer solstice is the longest day of the year. Most traditions did not stop there.

In Hellenistic astrology it is a threshold of sect. The Sun reaches its height and, entering Cancer, hands rulership to the Moon. In Neoplatonist cosmology, Cancer is the Gate of Men, where the Milky Way meets the zodiac and souls descend into matter. Porphyry and Macrobius mapped that descent through the seven planetary spheres. The Hermetica names the Sun the visible Logos, and sets its peak at the very moment the inner work begins.

This is what summer actually carries. Swipe through the full frame.

If ceremony is part of your path, we hold ayahuasca retreats at the solstice each year in Michigan

06/11/2026

Summer is just beginning and we already have three ceremonial containers on the horizon in Michigan.

Summer Solstice — June 19-21 and June 26-28 (with an optional 5-day deepening before the second weekend)
Women's Retreat — July 31-August 2
Lammas — August 7-9

Each retreat includes three ceremonies, fresh meals, integration support, and seasonal workshops. Starting at $900 with a tiered contribution structure.

Registration is open for all three.

https://www.gaianrhythm.com/ayahuascaretreats

06/08/2026

Before you sit, the medication question comes first. It is the number one cause of medical emergencies in ceremony, and the most preventable.

Ayahuasca is an MAOI, so anything acting on the same system needs a clear window before ceremony. Here is the general map, from SSRIs and Prozac to St. John's Wort, stimulants, and cannabis.

Every taper is set with your prescribing doctor, well before your retreat date.

Full guide at gaianrhythm.com.

Educational, not medical advice.

05/21/2026

We speak often of the four seasons. But if you have been to one of our seasonal alignment workshops, you know that each of those four seasons contains three distinct chapters. We are entering one of those chapters now: Gemini season, the mutable spring, the hinge between the fullness of spring and the arrival of summer.

It doesn't get enough credit.

Gemini gets called scattered, restless, too-many-tabs-open energy. And sure, that's part of it. But Ptolemy wasn't describing a personality flaw when he called Gemini bicorporeal. He was describing a structural position on the wheel. A sign cosmologically designed to hold two weathers at once, because the moment it occupies requires exactly that.

Mercury rules both thresholds where the sun turns toward darkness. Gemini and Virgo. The mind stands at both doorways. The ancient world understood the threshold as the most sacred location there is. You didn't cross one without bringing your full attention.

We went deep on this one. The full essay is on the Spiral Journal, link in bio.

The season is open. The mind is awake.