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Overnight Ayahuasca Ceremony- July 25th
July 25 @ 5:00 pm - July 26 @ 9:00 am
R3100
Venue: Axminster House, Muizenberg
Date: 25th July 2026
Exchange: R3,100 per participant (all inclusive)
Bookings: bookings@wakecircle.com
Capacity: Limited to 16 participants
THE CEREMONY
Something has been growing in the dark.
You may not have noticed it yet – the slow, quiet gathering of something new in the deeper layers of you. But winter does not only strip and silence. It also prepares. Beneath the cold ground, beneath the bare branches and the grey skies, roots are deepening. Something is being made ready.
We gather on July 25th – deep in the body of Cape Town’s winter, but climbing now, however slowly, back toward light. The days are lengthening. Barely. But the turn has happened. The direction has shifted. And the medicine on this night carries that energy: not the raw confrontation of the descent, not the sharp pivot of the solstice – but the first, tentative reaching of a thing that has done its work in the dark and is beginning to trust the light again.
This is one of the most tender and powerful moments to do this work.
Because what the medicine reveals on a night like this is not what you need to face – it is what you have become. What survived the winter. What is trying to emerge. The question it asks is not “what are you running from?” but “what are you ready to grow into?”
This ceremony is for those who have done the inner work – or are willing to begin it. For those who sense that something in them is ready to shift, to open, to step into a fuller expression of who they are. For those who have been patient with themselves through a long season and are beginning to feel the first warmth of something new.
The emergence has already begun in you. Come and meet it consciously.
Winter is not the end of the story. It is where the story goes deep enough to matter.
Spaces are limited. Early booking is essential.
WHAT TO BRING
- Comfortable camping mattress (for overnight sleep)
- Warm bedding and pillow (still deep winter – layer well)
- Bucket
- Eye mask (for breathwork)
- Journal and pen
- Water bottle and tissues
- Earplugs
- Warm, comfortable clothing
Preparation and dieta guidance is provided upon booking.
First-time participants receive a complimentary preparation session to support readiness and understanding before the ceremony night.
Lead Facilitators
Hymn Jay is the founder of Wake Circle — a spiritual teacher, shamanic facilitator, and medicine singer known for his evocative healing voice. His unique style of medicine music has emerged through years of guiding shamanic ceremonies and holding sacred space for deep inner work.
He embodies and teaches the healing power of the divine masculine, holding a grounded presence as a father, facilitator, and guide. Earlier in life, he walked the path of an award-winning theatre director, and that devotion to storytelling now weaves through his work in the form of story-healing, ritual, and ceremony.
His path is rooted in transformation — helping people reconnect with the sacred, remember their own medicine, and return to a life aligned with higher purpose and presence.
Simone Beckerling (Moni) is a seasoned medicine woman and an devoted voyager of sacred plants. 
She has recently joined Wake Circle, bringing with her a profound history of facilitation, ritual, and deep ceremonial experience. Her path began in 2002, climbing the mountains of Peru with a shaman, and later traveling to Mapia — the heartland of Ayahuasca in Brazil. Since then, she has walked an extraordinary road within the Santo Daime community, learning the language of prayer, discipline, and devotion through the plants.
Moni carries a rich tapestry of ceremonial traditions — including sweat lodge, vision quest, and the teachings of master plants. She has a rare ability to co-create the kind of holding that allows true healing to unfold — where the light can enter, soften, and mend.
Her prayer is clear and urgent:
Aha Mitakuyasin — to all our relations. May we heal, so compassion may arise everywhere — for the sake of this planet, and for the sake of all sentient beings.
