Integration in Action: On Respect, Relationality, and Ceremonial Ayahuasca

What does it mean to engage with integrity across ayahuasca traditions? A live conversation and Q&A with Simon Ruffell & WaiFung Tsang.

Discerning how to engage with Indigenous communities with respect is why Onaya exists. This event offers a rare chance to witness that discernment in action as Dr Simon Ruffell and Dr WaiFung Tsang reflect on the relationality of different ayahuasca traditions, and what it can be like to sit in ceremony with a new tradition when you are already deeply trained in another.

**Sitting in ceremony with a new tradition deserves the same preparation and respect as approaching ayahuasca for the first time. ** Entering into a living mix of traditions can be challenging and life-changing, very hard to navigate internally at times, and an awe-some experience to process.

For those trained with discipline and perseverance in a specific lineage, in Simon and WaiFung's personal cases, 10 years of training in Shipibo curanderismo, the question of how to engage with another tradition with integrity is an ongoing one.

This is a conversation about deepening relational processes, and Onaya is excited to invite you into it.

We've been increasingly leaning into questions emerging from this relational field, and now we are ready to share some of them in discussion.

This ** 90-minute live conversation and Q&A** is integration in action and a chance to meet us, especially if you are considering our Psychedelic Mentorship Training programme (next intake, April 2026), where we will be your Lead Instructors if you choose to join us on this journey.

Areas we're excited to explore in 'Integration in Action' include:

Sitting With Other Traditions : What does it mean to build true, sustainable ** bridges between different paradigms** , rather than simply borrowing across them? And how does this thinking feed into mentoring clients preparing for or choosing among ceremonial pathways?

How We're Shaped by What We Notice (And Vice Versa): We train in the same lineage, but we're very different people who experience things in different ways. We're excited to reflect on this together, and on how such reflections can help us ** identify our predispositions and blind spots**.

The Widening of Contextual Frameworks : In what ways does our appreciation for differing ayahuasca traditions deepen when it becomes possible to consider them together? And what responsibilities come with that wider view?

Similarities and Differences : How does noticing these nuance our wider understanding of what it means to engage respectfully with ceremonial ayahuasca?

**Communitas Across Lifetimes: ** How are different communities structured to support members across the lifespan, from elders to children to pregnant women , and how does this care show up across traditions?

Cosmologies in Conversation : What happens at the intersections of Indigenous and Western science, of different cosmologies, of collaborative research, and how can these meetings point us towards new pathways of cosmic diplomacy?

Building true, sustainable bridges between paradigms is at the heart of Onaya's work. This event is an early celebration of how our learning is growing and our thinking is changing in 2026, and we hope you'll join us.