Meet Your Facilitator & Space Holder

I'm delighted that you've found your way here! My name is Sarai and I also go by Aya.

I'm passionately dedicated to guiding individuals toward transformative solutions & resolutions in the areas that I specialize in, which include anxiety, childhood trauma, sexual trauma, religious/cult/control dynamics trauma, perfectionism, codependency, emotional eating, addictive patterns, relationships issues, high performance, entrepreneurship, & reclaiming & integrating the true self within. I also specialize in psychedelic & plant medicine preparation & integration. I am most versed in Ayahuasca, but I also have training in Ketamine, Cannabis, MDMA, & Psilocybin.

I provide trauma-informed, evidenced-based approaches like Online Breathwork Journeys.

My approach combines multiple theories and approaches based on science as well as personal and professional experiences related to trauma healing, and re-claiming the true self, especially within the lens of psychedelic, plant medicine, & non-ordinary state of consciousness work.

At the forefront of all of these approaches is your personal authority, choice, & agency.

Some of my influences on my approach include Dr. Stan Grof, Jack Kornfield, Dr. Gabor Mate, Dr. Peter Levine, Sandra Ingerman, Michael Harner, Dr. Francine Shapiro, & Jon Kabat Zinn just to name a few.

I am deeply honored & humbled to be doing this work of healing, growth, & expansion. My initial opening into non-ordinary states of consciousness and working through my own past traumas was through Dr. Francine Shapiro's EMDR as well as Michael Harner's Shamanic Drum Journeying. I have been trained in these modalities and have very much been a participant in these modalities. I started to learn the world of plant medicines in 2016 when I experienced my first Ayahuasca experience, which was forever life-changing. Since then, I have participated in and have co-facilitated 80 + ceremonies and continue to deepen my understanding of the Ayahuasca path. I have been continuously fascinated by how these modalities have assisted me and countless others. Throughout my personal and professional journey, I have been drawn to continuing to deepen my understanding of trauma & memory work, ethics, integrity, set, setting, & dosage, the nervous system, preparation, integration, safety, & harm reduction. One of the most important things to me is someone's personal physical, emotional, mental, & spiritual safety in these expansive and vulnerable states.

I have been officially Certified in facilitating Breathwork through David Elliott's program (davidelliott.com) & I am currently a first-year student in Stan Grof's Holotropic Breathwork Training.

I continue to be dedicated to these topics and values as I receive ongoing training, right now I am in Dr. Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing training which I plan on continuing to learn from this community as well Dr. Stan Grof's Holotropic Training Model for Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness. I am a lifelong, devoted student of this work, and I am loving every minute of it!

In my free time, I love to work, be in nature, and work on music!

I am looking forward to seeing you in one of our community Online Transformational Breathwork Journeys!