Setting Intentions

Working with sacred medicine is a bit like arriving at a bustling travel depot. You know you're going somewhere, but you don't get to choose how you'll get there. Will it be a high-speed train through emotional landscapes? A flight above the clouds of your own consciousness? A winding footpath through old memories and forgotten terrain?

That part is up to the medicine.

But setting an intention is how you choose your destination. It's the inner compass that helps orient the experience. It's your way of saying, "This is where I’d like to go. This is what I’m ready to meet."

Your intention might be a feeling you long to reclaim… peace, joy, presence, softness. Or it might be a part of yourself you're ready to hold with more love: a wound from childhood, a story you’ve outgrown, a truth you’ve been afraid to speak. There is no right way to name your intention. What matters is that it feels honest.

Intentions are not demands. They are invitations. The medicine may not take you in a straight line, but it will listen. It may offer detours, surprises, or challenges, but it is listening.

Here are a few questions to guide you as you prepare:

• What am I longing to understand or release?

• What part of me needs to be witnessed?

• If I could return from this journey with one gift, what would it be?

And remember: this is a round trip ticket. You will return to yourself. Only now, you’ll be more well-traveled. More open. More attuned to the beauty of the inner terrain. The intention you set helps you arrive there with clarity, with care, and with wonder.

Let the medicine guide the journey. Let your intention choose the place you wish to arrive.