Integration Alchemy - by Deva Arani (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

The plants spoke-- are you listening? In Integration Alchemy, Deva Arani weaves practical guidance, intimate storytelling, and ancient wisdom to help readers alchemize their psychedelic experiences and lead more joyful and meaningful lives.

How do we return to our daily lives after massive transformation? How can we integrate an awakening experience without chasing high after high? Deva Arani grapples with these questions and more in Integration Alchemy: The Real Ceremony Is Your Life, weaving practical guidance, intimate storytelling, and ancient wisdom into a net of support.

Integration Alchemy is a book designed to help seekers who have experienced sacred plant medicines integrate their journeys so that the healing and understandings received can take root in their day to day lives. Many seekers can find themselves adrift after these healing experiences, wondering how they can reconnect to a sense of Oneness, or even feeling unmoored from their normal lives. In light of the "psychedelic renaissance," and with plant medicine journeys becoming more accessible to Westerners, it's imperative that seekers have tools to integrate their experiences.

This book offers a map that guides the seeker inward, understanding the journey from the perspective of first anchoring in the body, then exploring the mind and emotions. The reader is invited to understand and continue to heal the layers that were revealed during their ceremonies. Combining teachings from the ancient lineages of South American and Eastern spiritual wisdom keepers alongside modern Western teachers, this book offers a unique perspective that goes beyond the "psychology" of integration. Here lies an invitation to embark on an inner journey toward wholeness that is rooted in the body and its innate wisdom.

In so doing, readers will learn that in integration is itself an act of reciprocity with the teacher plants, wisdom keepers, Mother Earth, and existence itself. Your life is a sacred ceremony and this book is a guide to help you alchemize your healing so that you can fully participate in this life's beauty.

Review Quotes

In Integration Alchemy, Deva Arani gently guides the reader with a steady, loving hand through the inner and outer journey of integration. Her lived experience, embodied practices and accumulated?wisdom are a valuable resource for anyone, both before and after plant medicine ceremony.--Sat Dharam Kaur ND

Psychedelic experiences open doors, but integration is what allows us to truly live in the new rooms. In Integration Alchemy, Deva Arani offers a heartfelt and sophisticated roadmap for this essential part of the journey. Bridging the scientific and the sacred, she reminds us that the real ceremony begins when the medicine fades and consciousness becomes daily practice.--Rick Doblin, PhD "Founder and President, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)

About the Author

Deva Arani is a healer, yoga and meditation teacher, and Compassionate Inquiry facilitator. She has a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and a Juris Doctorate in Law.

For the last 15 years, Deva Arani has specialized in helping seekers integrate sacred plant medicine experiences. She uses various healing modalities, compassionate inquiry, breathwork, movement, yoga, and meditation to help clients seeking integration to tune in to themselves to understand and alchemize their journey so that the healing and wisdom received supports their lives, here, now.

She resides in the foothills above Boulder, Colorado with her partner Samir and yellow lab Ben. A seeker, she has been blessed to explore and experience personal growth and meditation practices from around the world. She has spent considerable time in India and South America working with teachers and wisdom keepers in various modalities to heal and for personal understanding.

Her books are offered in reciprocity for the healing and self-understanding she has received, an offering in support of her sisters and brothers on the path.