Summer Solstice Feitio: Ayah Community Cooking Immersion
With Alanna, David and Truth is One Interfaith Church
June 17 - 22, 2026
FEITIO: BREWING AYAH– The process of harvesting, preparing, and brewing ayahuasca is known as “feitio” in Brazil. This is a sacred process done in a variety of ways depending on the lineage, location, and traditions. We invite you to participate with Truth is One as we embark as a community on this sacred journey of holding our very own feitio for the first time on our land here in the USA.
TRUTH IS ONE: COMMUNITY AYAH FEITIO- 4 DAY IMMERSION
Something is being born. Something that has been quietly forming — through refining, tending, learning, and listening — is now ready to open.
We are inviting a small circle of those who know this medicine and know our community to join us in brewing our own sacred divine tea together for the very first time on our homeland. During the Summer Solstice, as the sun is at its strongest point on the medicine wheel, light pours into everything it touches including the tea we will brew.
It is a peak time of action, intensity, focus, power, and light. Cooking during this time brings great auspiciousness as we call in the forces of light to pour into this sacred tea for the healing of our world.
The raw plant material we will use comes directly from Hawai’i, and over the course of four days and five nights, we will infuse it with our prayers, our songs, our intentions, and our devotion — the way communities have cooked sacred medicine together since ancient times. You will witness and participate in every step of the process, deepening your relationship with this plant in ways that cannot be taught, only lived.
We will spend our time in prayer, song, meditation, chanting, ceremony, sadhana, and with uninterrupted connection to the 4 elements and each other. This will be a continuous immersive weaving of devotion, focus, concentration, and discipline.
The real irony is, thinking that WE are cooking ayahuasca, but really, SHE is cooking us. This is the process we enter together when we go into any feitio. We do not yet fully know what changes this cooking process will bring about for each of us but we do know — with great certainty — that many aspects of our lives will shift into deeper alignment.
The act of cooking our own medicine together is the closest we have come to the ancient way, to the living tradition of communities who grew, prepared, brewed, and prayed together as one body. Now, in 2026, on this mountain in western North Carolina, we are being given that same opportunity.
Join us as we co-create together what is being born.
This gathering is open only to those with prior experience with the medicine and with our community because the group energy field we create in this process requires a shared foundation. If you are new to our circle, we welcome you to future offerings and invite you to come get to know us.
This program is CAMPING ONLY. Please bring all camping gear especially hammocks for sloped areas. Participants limited to 15 max.
What Is Included: 5 nights, 4 full day programs, all meals, all medicines, all ceremonies
arrival: Wednesday June 17th between 5p-7p for campsite setups & introductions (for dawn start on Thursday June 18th)
departure: Monday June 22nd AM
About the Facilitators
Alanna
Alanna is a facilitator of plant medicine ceremonies and has undergone training and initiation from an Umbandaime community where she lived and studied in the Amazon of Acre, Brazil. She has also studied with Davi de Paula, a world renown 'caboclo' from the Umbandaime Tradition in Brazil, the Yawanawa tribe in the Brazilian Amazon, and […]
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David
David has had a lifelong affinity to connect with mother nature in an intimate way and is passionate about helping others do the same; to understand Her essence, and learn to live harmoniously with Her. He is currently enrolled in a vigorous training program learning to facilitate vision quest fasts and rites of passage. Vision […]
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