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Overnight Ayahuasca Ceremony- June 27th
June 27 @ 5:00 pm - June 28 @ 9:00 am
R3100
Venue: Axminster House, Muizenberg
Date: 27th June 2026
Exchange: R3,100 per participant (all inclusive)
Bookings: bookings@wakecircle.com
Capacity: Limited to 16 participants
THE CEREMONY
Six days before this night, the Southern part of Earth reaches its darkest point.
The Winter Solstice passed quietly, as it always does – unmarked by most, felt by all. The longest night. The shortest day. The moment the planet holds its breath before turning back toward the light.
We gather on June 27th in the wake of that turning. Not at the bottom of the descent, but just past it – at the place where the darkness begins, almost imperceptibly, to yield. This is one of the most sacred thresholds in the calendar of the natural world. And it is the perfect night to drink medicine.
Because this is what Ayahuasca does at a turning point: it shows you what you carried down into the dark, and asks you what you are willing to leave there.
The work of descent is necessary. But it is not the destination. We do not go into the underworld to stay. We go to retrieve something – a lost piece of ourselves, a forgotten truth, a grief that has been waiting for its moment of release. The medicine meets us at the threshold between the worlds and walks with us into what we have been avoiding.
And then, when the night completes and the first light comes – we rise.
This ceremony is for those who have felt the weight of winter. Who have sat with something heavy and unnamed. Who are ready not just to face it, but to finally put it down.
The turning has already begun. Come meet it.
The darkest night is behind you. The question is what you do with the light.
Spaces are limited. Early booking is essential.
WHAT TO BRING
- Comfortable camping mattress (for overnight sleep)
- Warm bedding and pillow (Cape Town mid-winter – come prepared for the cold)
- 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.
