Seminar May 9 -12 -2025
Apprentice tasks
Day 1 - Friday
Arrive around 3:30 pm
Help unload the car, some in the house, some in the downstairs room
Downstairs room
Take out the mattresses and chairs for setting up Place the cloth on the door behind the shaman Remove the bottle with tea bags
Remove Shiva, leave Ganesh
Set up the shop
Set up chairs near the entrance for those who want to be inside Welcome participants, give out forms to fill out
Prepare for the purge around 7 pm:
fill the hot water bottles.
Place buckets and pitchers for each person
After the purge: wash and put away the pitchers Gather the bottles, empty the ones that contain water
Day 2 - Saturday
Open the house at 9 am.
Prepare lavender tea. Explain that this is the tea to drink, and that it will be used during the ceremonies.
Help serve lunch at 12:00 PM Help clean up after lunch
5:30 PM, tidy the room:
Remove everything, put hydrosol on the floor, not too much, spread it with a mop or blanket Set up chairs, cloths
Burn Palo Santo
6:30 PM,
nasal tobacco wash followed by a meeting about the ayahuasca ceremony
Help the shaman bring the bags back
Be ready in the room by 7:45 PM (coordinate with Géraldine)
End of ceremony: help the shaman carry the bags. Do not occupy the bathroom for too long.
Day 3: Sunday
Breakfast 8:30 AM: lavender tea in thermoses, oats, put out fruit, bread
Sharing session 9:00 AM.
Be downstairs on time! And warn people so they can come down. Take Aya's cups to wash them
Lunch 1 p.m., help serve
Clean the dining room at 5:30 p.m. (see Day 2 for details) Before bed, take the onion salad out of the fridge
Day 4, Monday
Breakfast 8:30 a.m.: lavender tea in the thermos, bread, onion salad Sharing session 9 a.m.
End of debriefing, tidy the dining room
Load the car
Tidy the kitchen, take the trash to the large bin outside
Tidy the storeroom