Ancestral Tradition · Sincere Intention
The Right Medicine Church
A sacred container for ceremony, reflection, and spiritual renewal.
For those who feel a quiet call to slow down, listen inward, and begin again.
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A sacred container for ceremony, reflection, and spiritual renewal.
For those who feel a quiet call to slow down, listen inward, and begin again.
There is a moment when the soul grows quiet enough to listen. We hold the space for that moment.
The Right Medicine Church is a religious community dedicated to the sacramental practice of Ayahuasca and other sacred plant medicines. We gather in ceremony to pray, to reflect, and to seek spiritual growth within an ancestral tradition — always held in a container of reverence, safety, and sincere intention.
Ceremony is offered only to adults 21 years of age and older, and every participant is carefully prepared and personally guided so that what unfolds is met with respect and care.
From your first inquiry to your return home, you are accompanied at every step.
You reach out and share your intention. We begin a sincere conversation about whether ceremony is right for you and confirm that participation is limited to adults 21+.
A confidential safety review, the Dieta, and our ceremony agreements prepare your body, mind, and spirit for the work ahead.
In a sacred, protected adult-only space, you are guided through the medicine by experienced facilitators with clear consent and no-touch boundaries.
Afterward, we help you carry the teachings gently into daily life, so the experience takes root.
An ancestral medicine carried from the heart of the Amazon to the living green of Louisiana — held beneath ancient live oaks and trailing Spanish moss, beside slow bayou water and warm Gulf air, where ceremony, reflection, and renewal unfold in their own sacred time.
Some things are not hidden — only held with a little reverence. To meet the ones who tend this fire — Ralph and Justin — step closer with intention. Enter with the word that opens every door.
Ralph is the Ayahuascero and spiritual leader of The Right Medicine Church. He has walked the plant-medicine path with devotion, serving within an ancestral tradition, and he holds each ceremony — and each soul who enters it — with patience, humility, and care.
His gift is a steady kind of sight: the ability to meet people beneath fear, performance, and old protection, without rushing them or turning their story into a role.
Justin walks this path as a veteran — a man who has known service, and the weight it can leave on the soul. Today he turns that understanding into medicine, holding space with rare tenderness for fellow veterans as they meet what war left behind and find their way home to themselves.
Those who have sat in ceremony with him speak of something quiet and uncommon — a depth of understanding of this medicine that asks for no recognition. He works without ego, only love, in devoted service to every soul who comes seeking healing.
His gift is presence under the armor: he recognizes the person behind the defenses, especially when pain has taught someone to stay hidden.
Ritual matters because it gives the unseen parts of a person somewhere to arrive. But a ritual can be hollow if it is only form: songs, fire, medicine, silence, and structure without real human presence inside them. Authentic ceremony begins when the people holding the space can actually see the person in front of them.
Many come carrying fear, performance, imposter syndrome, grief, projection, or the old armor that helped them survive. The work is not to force those layers away. The work is to meet what is underneath with honesty, prayer, patience, and care. When a participant feels truly seen, the ceremony becomes more than something being done to them. It becomes a living relationship with truth.
This is the spirit of the work: not spectacle, not performance, but the quiet recognition of the soul beneath the mask.
The Dieta is a traditional period of physical, emotional, and spiritual preparation. Members are asked to prepare for at least 30 days before ceremony by eating cleanly, abstaining from intoxicants and recreational substances, reducing sexual activity, limiting overstimulating media, and arriving with a clear and honest intention.
Certain medications can interact dangerously with Ayahuasca. All prescription medications, over-the-counter medications, herbs, supplements, and recent medication changes must be disclosed during intake. We do not give medical advice or instruct members to stop prescribed medication abruptly. Any medication change must be discussed with the prescribing physician and reviewed with an intake counselor before ceremony.
Members are expected to arrive clean in body, mind, and spirit. For at least 30 days before ceremony, abstain from alcohol, recreational drugs, cannabis, stimulants, and unnecessary intoxicants or mind-altering substances.
Focus on simple, clean foods: fresh fruits & vegetables, leafy greens, rice, quinoa, buckwheat, lentils, peas, beans, plantains, yucca, and plenty of water. Keep meals light and minimally seasoned.
For the clearest container, reduce doom scrolling, chaotic news, violent or sexual media, and other mental noise during preparation. Sexual abstinence for up to 30 days is recommended for members who are able to observe it.
On ceremony day, fasting is recommended. If you eat, take your final meal no later than 1:00 PM. Arrive hydrated, rested, and with clear intention.
I arrived carrying years I could not put down. I left lighter, clearer, and more myself than I had felt in a long, long time.— A Ceremony Participant
Intake is the first place where we begin to meet you honestly. It is not a gate meant to make you perform readiness. It is a confidential conversation where your story, health, medications, intentions, fears, and questions can be seen with care before anyone enters ceremony.
Every participant must be 21 years of age or older and complete safety screening before ceremony. This protects your wellbeing, helps confirm whether the medicine is appropriate, and gives a facilitator time to personally review what you share. For this early phase, we send the packet privately, review it before ceremony, and complete a private arrival-day reaffirmation of identity, age, consent, no-touch boundaries, medication changes, and readiness.
Download Intake Packet opens the PDF packet so you can save, print, or complete it.
Questions before you begin? We welcome sincere inquiry.
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A registered non-profit religious organization in the State of Louisiana