I have participated in 3 ceremony weekends with this group. The first two were led by Jessica and were very nice, but after the last, the only one at which Shaba was there, I will never join them again.

During the second ceremony that last weekend, I was changing clothes, and Shaba snuck up on me while I was nude, and told me to dance and be free and go into the woods (by myself, naked, on ayahuasca?!). Luckily I had the presence of mind not to listen to him. He pressed me on it for awhile, trying to convince me, but when I kept saying no, he then suggested I instead roll around in the dirt nude and pretend to swim. I told him no and to go away at least several more times, but finally I had to basically run away back to the group to get away from him. It was so weird, creepy, inappropriate, and perhaps dangerous, judging by these other posts.

Afterwards I notified Jessica in writing, and rather than addressing the situation internally, she/they just removed me from their email lists. This was surprising and hurtful, bc I had experienced positive healing and gotten close to members of the group. But it also showed me that the group as a whole works together to cover up any bad behavior by Shaba or the other men.

There were also many other red flags throughout the weekend with Shaba (mainly him being dominating and controlling, physically forcing someone to take hape that didn’t want to for example), so sadly I will not be joining this group again and would not recommend it to others.