✨ If your heart has been searching, you're not lost — you're being called.
You Were Never Meant to Heal Alone.
Modern life isolates us.
The traditional cultural lessons surrounding Ayahuasca reconnect us - not through ceremonies, but through people.
Through community, rhythm, responsibility, and walking together.
🌿 What This Actually Is (so you understand the path)
Before my story continues, you deserve clarity:
Ocóyái is not a retreat offer.
It is a community, a mentorship path, and a cultural education space rooted in the ancestral tradition that surrounds Ayahuasca.
This space is for three types of people:
1. You're preparing for a ceremony
Maybe it’s your first time.
Maybe you’ve participated before but want to do it the right way.
You want:
grounding
clarity
emotional preparation
cultural understanding
guidance from people who live this rhythm
You don’t want to walk in unprepared or overwhelmed.
You want real orientation — not Reddit threads.
2. You're integrating afterward
You may have already participated in ceremony somewhere else.
Now you’re realizing:
the insights faded
the glow disappeared
your environment doesn’t understand
you feel alone with what you experienced
You want structure, reflection, community, and a grounded way to bring this into your daily life.
This gives you the continuity and belonging most modern people lack.
3. You feel called - but you're not sure what to do yet.
Something is waking up in you.
You're curious, drawn, pulled toward a different way of living - but you don't know what it means yet.
You don't need to be preparing for anything.
You don't need to know your next step.
You just need a place to begin walking.
This gives you:
A path
A compass
A circle
A way to reconnect with yourself
A community to grow with
This is orientation before destination.
🪶 Please read this slowly.
This is not a sales page.
This is not a pitch.
This is a letter straight from my heart to yours.
You don't have to pay us to walk with us or receive access here (see the section on Sacred Reciprocity/Ayni.
A path revealed itself over years of walking with elders, ancestral medicine, community, and hardship.
You might want to bookmark this page. It will change how you see this entire world.
So What Is This?
It is:
A living community rooted in ancestral wisdom
A mentorship path that walks with you, step by step
An Indigenous-guided worldview to steady your heart and mind
Foundational teachings to help you prepare, integrate, and grow
Monthly online circles for reflection, clarity, and connection
A place to prepare, to integrate, or simply return home to yourself
A living community rooted in ancestral wisdom
A mentorship path that walks with you, step by step
An Indigenous-guided worldview to steady your heart and mind
Foundational teachings to help you prepare, integrate, and grow
Monthly online circles for reflection, clarity, and connection
A place to prepare, to integrate, or simply return home to yourself
And,
🌱 if life ever opens the door to deeper experiences down the line...
We will know that together - through relationship, not transaction.
My Story Begins...
I didn’t build Ocóyái from an idea.
I built it from a wound.
I grew up isolated on a small farm under a strict religious worldview where everything outside our belief system was forbidden.
West Point and the Army gave me discipline and structure…
but not the tools to feel, belong, or be fully human.
When my family publicly rejected me for how I thought about God, something in me shattered.
For 17 years I tried to outrun the pain — drifting, drinking, sabotaging relationships, building and burning businesses, nearly losing my life in Alaska.
Nothing worked.
When I arrived in Colombia, something in me whispered: “You’re home.”
That was when I first came into contact with the tradition of Ayahuasca - not as a trend, not as a “psychedelic experience,” but through the people who have carried it for generations.
My introduction wasn’t dramatic or mystical.
It was confronting.
I was invited into the worldview surrounding the medicine — the discipline, the prayers, the presence, the responsibility.
My growth didn’t come from dramatic inner experiences — it came from the people, the way they lived, and the relationships that formed around the fire.
Over time, through consistency, community, and responsibility, I softened and opened in ways I never had before.
I was shown the path by elders who didn't preach, but taught through the way they lived.
That was the first crack in the stone around my heart.
And it was enough to change everything.
I watched my friends Juan Pablo and Lina with their daughter and thought:
“I want that kind of family.”
So I started becoming the kind of man who could hold it.
That path led to my wife Aleja, to our family, to the maloka… and to Ocóyái - not as a retreat center, but as a living Indigenous community I’ve been adopted into and entrusted to protect.
We don’t promise magic.
We don’t sell “magic pills.”
We simply live a way anyone — from any background, belief, or culture — can walk beside.
If something in you recognizes this, we’ll walk with you.
Every step.
Why Modern People Are Sick
Most people don’t realize this:
you’re not broken — the environment is.
Modern life quietly erodes the things a human being needs in order to feel whole:
belonging, purpose, community, elders.
Space.
We need ritual, initiation, and a place to lay down the weight we’re carrying.
Instead, we get:
constant noise
pressure to perform
shallow relationships
speed over depth
no real community
So we learn to survive alone:
we armor up, numb, chase intensity, pretend we’re fine.
People are drowning in information and starving for belonging.
They’ve read the books, done the courses, even explored different spiritual practices… but no one showed them how to live afterward.
That “missing” piece isn’t a failure.
It’s a lack of community.
A lack of elders.
A lack of rhythm and guidance.
A lack of a circle where you’re allowed to be human.
You were never meant to navigate life alone.
Not emotionally.
Not spiritually.
Not as a modern person trying to reconnect with something deeper.
The problem isn’t you.
It’s that you were never given a community — or a way of life — that
could hold you.
Once you understand this, your entire story starts to make sense.
Why We Walk With People
(And why we don't commoditize this tradition)
When ancestral teachings left their original territories and entered the modern world, they collided with a culture that only knows one language:
transaction.
So it became:
Pay → attend → have an experience → go home.
No continuity.
No community.
No elders.
No long-term guidance.
No relational support.
With no elders, no continuity, and no community to hold the change.
People stepped into something sacred…
…and then stepped right back into the same environment that made them feel lost in the first place.
It’s not that modern retreat centers are “wrong.”
Most are doing the best they can inside a system that was never designed for depth, tradition, or long-term growth.
The issue is that the model is upside down.
In ancestral contexts:
learning is not an event
guidance is not a weekend
growth is not a transaction
relationship comes before experience
community carries the process, not a schedule
You don’t “book” this kind of path.
You grow inside it.
You’re held by the same people — before, during, and long after any milestone.
You learn through repetition, rhythm, reflection, and relationship.
That’s why we don’t operate like a retreat center.
That’s why we don’t rush you toward peak moments.
That’s why we don’t offer “one-time experiences” or “transformational packages.”
At Ocóyái…
We walk with people.
Slowly.
Humanly.
In community.
The way we were taught.
Because real growth happens:
through human connection
through being witnessed
through having a circle around you
through knowing you’re not alone
through steady companionship, not big events
We don’t want you chasing peak moments.
We want you building a different life.
A life with rhythm.
A life with belonging.
A life where you don’t have to pretend.
A life where you finally have people who walk beside you through the entire process — not just one night of it.
This is why we walk with people.
Not because it’s easier…
but because it’s the only way that honors the original spirit of the tradition.
What You Receive
This path isn’t built around hype, pressure, or promises.
It’s built around structure, rhythm, and human connection—the things modern life forgot.
When you join us, you’re not thrown into isolation or left to figure everything out alone.
You receive a living container that supports you at a real, human pace:
Foundations (Courses)
Teachings shaped by elders, community, and lived experience — distilled into clear, grounded lessons you can return to for years.
These courses give you:
orientation
rhythm
context
practical guidance
and a deeper understanding of the ancestral principles behind the path
They’re not about “information.”
They’re about remembering what you already know deep down.
Foundations (Courses)
Teachings shaped by elders, community, and lived experience — distilled into clear, grounded lessons you can return to for years.
These courses give you:
orientation
rhythm
context
practical guidance
a deeper understanding of the ancestral principles behind the path
They’re not about “information.”
They’re about remembering what you already know deep down.
Monthly Coaching Calls
Once a month (and often more), we gather online.
No pressure.
No performance.
Just a space to:
ask questions
receive reflection
get grounded when life gets loud
hear the wisdom of others on the path
and remember you’re not walking alone
This rhythm is what most modern people lack, and why one-time experiences don’t translate into lasting change.
Monthly Coaching Calls
Once a month (and often more), we gather online.
No pressure.
No performance.
Just a space to:
ask questions
receive reflection
get grounded when life gets loud
hear the wisdom of others on the path
remember you’re not walking alone
This rhythm is what most modern people lack, and why one-time experiences don’t translate into lasting change.
Monthly Coaching Calls
Once a month (and often more), we gather online.
No pressure.
No performance.
Just a space to:
ask questions
receive reflection
get grounded when life gets loud
hear the wisdom of others on the path
remember you’re not walking alone
This rhythm is what most modern people lack, and why one-time experiences don’t translate into lasting change.
Direction
Most people feel:
“I know something in me wants to heal… but I don’t know how.”
Walking with us gives you orientation — not through dogma or rules, but through companionship.
It’s never:
“Do this or else.”
It’s always:
“Walk beside us. We’ll show you a way that works.
If that doesn't resonate we'll find something that does.”
Direction
Most people feel:
“I know something in me wants to heal… but I don’t know how.”
Walking with us gives you orientation — not through dogma or rules, but through companionship.
It’s never:
“Do this or else.”
It’s always:
“Walk beside us. We’ll show you a way that works.
If that doesn't resonate we'll find something that does.”
A Community
You’re not joining a program.
You’re joining a people.
A circle of others who are:
sincere
open-hearted
learning, stumbling, integrating, growing
practicing truth, responsibility, humility
committed to walking the path without performance
This is your village — a place where you don’t have to pretend.
Belonging is the medicine behind the medicine.
A Community
You’re not joining a program.
You’re joining a people.
A circle of others who are:
sincere
open-hearted
learning, stumbling, integrating, growing
practicing truth, responsibility, humility
committed to walking the path without performance
This is your village — a place where you don’t have to pretend.
Belonging is the medicine behind the medicine.
And...
A Place to Return To — Over and Over Again
This is not a one-time experience.
It’s a home base.
A place to:
prepare
integrate
reconnect
remember
reset your direction
A community that’s here when life rises and falls.../ because that’s how traditional paths work:
you always have a place to return to.
Ayni — A Different Kind of Exchange
A doorway anyone can walk through.
Ayni is an Indigenous principle of reciprocity — a balanced offering that keeps the circle alive.
It’s not a fee.
It’s not a transaction.
It’s not “payment for healing.”
It’s something much older:
“I give what I can.
You give what you can.
We walk together.”
When we built this path, we knew three things had to stay true:
💛 1. No one should be blocked from belonging because of money.
Community, orientation, and human connection are basic needs, not luxuries.
If you’re sincere, you deserve a place to walk.
🔥 2. Transformation requires commitment — not a price tag.
People value what they participate in, not what they buy.
Reciprocity can be:
showing up
contributing energy
sharing your story
keeping the rhythm
or offering financially if possible
Ayni is about sincerity, not spending.
🌱 3. The exchange must stay clean — spiritually and practically.
Nothing forced.
Nothing pressured.
Nothing hidden.
Just an honest relationship.
So we built a structure that honors both the tradition and your reality:
🧡 PAY WHAT YOU CAN: $5, $10, $25, $50, or $100
A single contribution for lifetime access.
You choose what reflects your capacity and sincerity.
Your reciprocity supports:
the land
children and families
community structures
elders
teachings
the online spaces
and the ability to reach others in need
🕊️ And if you need a full scholarship… we give it.
The scholarship is for those who genuinely don’t have the means — students, single parents, veterans, people rebuilding their lives.
If you can contribute even a small amount, we ask that you honor that truth.
Reciprocity is about honesty, not money.
✨ Why This Works
This model:
removes financial barriers
keeps the work spiritually clean
aligns with Indigenous values
creates deep trust
builds long-term relationship, not short-term sales
sustains the community in an honorable way
This is not commerce.
This is community.
Ayni keeps the fire burning for everyone — including you.
🌱 Your Offering Isn’t Paying Us — It’s Joining Us
When you contribute, at any level, you’re not “buying a program.”
You’re saying:
“I’m here.
I’m committed.
I’m ready to walk.”
And in return, we say:
“We see you.
Welcome home.”
The Invitation: Walk With Us
If something in you softened, leaned in, or quietly whispered “this…”
Then you already know.
We’re not here to push you.
We’re here to walk with you.
You’re not signing up for a product.
You’re entering a circle — a Cabildo, a community, a living prayer.
When you’re ready:
Walk with us.
And through whatever sacred reciprocity you can honestly offer - you help keep this fire lit — for you, for us, and for the ones who will come after.
We would be honored to walk beside you.
Welcome to Ocóyái. 🌿
Hear some what some of our people say about us👇
Through the guidance and community here, I was able to understand parts of my family story that I had never faced. I felt supported, grounded, and held with so much care. It was one of the most meaningful experiences of my life.
I’ve worked with thousands of men and many facilitators over the years. What stood out here was the integrity of the space — the sincerity, the service, and the level of support. It felt safe to be honest, to be human, and to grow.
Every time I participate in the community, it feels like brotherhood — open-hearted, grounded, and full of purpose. Scottie’s commitment to serving others inspires everyone around him to rise and become better humans.
This was a before-and-after moment for me. After years of searching for help, I finally gained clarity about my story, my lineage, and my direction. I didn’t just feel supported — I felt welcomed into a family.
I never felt alone here. Even in my difficult moments, I felt something larger than my fears. If you want a different life and don’t know where to begin, this community gives you a place to start with honesty and support.
The space felt strong enough to hold every part of me — the messy, the confused, and the hopeful. When I arrived, it was like the noise of the world fell away. Being here gave me perspective, grounding, and a place to return to myself.
The difference in this place is that everything happens with family energy. From the first moment, you’re received with warmth and sincerity. It’s not something you can describe — it’s something you have to feel for yourself.
Frequently Asked Questions
I've never been part of something like this before. Is this for beginners?
Yes.
Most people who join us are beginning their journey into ancestral teachings, community practice, or personal transformation. You don’t need prior knowledge, background, or experience — just sincerity.
This path meets you exactly where you are.
Is this only for people who have sat with Ayahuasca before?
Not at all.
Some in our circle have participated in traditional contexts before.
Others haven’t — they simply feel called to deepen their understanding of the culture, principles, and worldview that surround these teachings.
Nothing here requires or encourages any specific ceremony activity.
This is about community, orientation, rhythm, and human support.
What if I have sat before... but nothing changed afterward?
You’re not alone.
Most people say the difficult part wasn’t their experience — it was going home afterward.
This mentorship focuses on the relational side of the path:
grounding
orientation
community
rhythm
belonging
accountability
understanding the worldview behind the tradition
For many people, this is the missing piece.
Do I need to follow a specific diet?
No.
Nothing we offer requires restrictive diets or protocols.
We do teach why traditional cultures emphasize things like:
slowing down
simplifying
grounding
reducing overstimulation
respecting your body
But these are invitations, not requirements.
How long does this take to go through?
This is not a course you finish.
It’s a circle you walk inside of.
But most people:
watch the foundational lessons within 1–2 weeks
join their first monthly circle within 30 days
begin feeling the rhythm of community soon after
You move at your own pace — we’re here long-term.
What makes this different from other prep, coaching, or online programs?
Three things:
1. Community over content
Most programs give information.
We give relationship, rhythm, and continuity.
2. An Indigenous-guided worldview
This is not repackaged self-help.
It is rooted in values passed down through elders and community practices.
3. A path, not an event
This is not a quick transformation.
It’s a slow, steady reorientation to a different way of living.
What if I don't have a ceremony planned?
Perfect.
You don’t need one.
Nothing here depends on any specific event or timing.
People join us simply because they feel called to:
reconnect
learn
understand the worldview
find community
work through life transitions
reorient their inner life
This space is designed to support you before, during, and regardless of any future path you take.
Do I need to believe anything specific?
No beliefs are required.
You do not need to subscribe to any religion, tradition, or spiritual framework.
We don’t ask you to adopt our worldview — we simply share the principles that guide us.
Curiosity is enough.
What’s your refund policy?
Because this is a contribution-based membership rooted in Ayni (reciprocity), the exchange is considered a donation to support the community.
If you made an honest mistake or clicked the wrong option, we will absolutely support you — just write to us.
No one is ever trapped here.
Will this guarantee a ‘good’ experience?
We do not make any promises about outcomes of any kind — emotional, spiritual, or otherwise.
What we can offer is:
clarity
grounding
companionship
structure
reflection
traditional teachings
a community you can lean on
These are the things that have supported humans for thousands of years.
Do I have to participate socially? I'm shy
Many people feel this way.
There is zero pressure to be loud, extroverted, or constantly present.
You can:
watch quietly
join calls with your camera off
participate only when it feels right
move slowly, at your own pace
Belonging doesn’t require performance.
Is this affiliated with any specific ceremony location?
No.
This preparation works regardless of where you attend ceremony.
The principles of surrender, trust, and integration apply universally.
© The Ocóyái Indigenous Cabildo
San Rafael, Colombia
Important Note:
This educational program is for cultural, historical, and harm-reduction purposes only.
It does not promote, sell, or facilitate the use of Ayahuasca or any psychoactive substances.