Hello. My name is Angela, and I am 47 and a mother of two teenagers. I have a professional career, and unlike the former version of myself, I write this review to help inform individuals such as yourself - you who are reading this and researching. I just completed a carefully supported 8-day Ayahuasca retreat with APL Shamanic Journeys in Spain. My life will never be the same and I am forever grateful. Today, I have a genuine abundance of joy ….and love for life. I owe this plant medicine from the Amazon jungle, the professional and caring APL Journey team, and the incredible Shaman healer, Alberto, my life. After a decade of debilitating health issues from lifelong stress, pain, trauma, grief, sadness, loss, holistic therapies, yoga and meditation, and traditional therapies and medications to treat my auto-immune disease, Ankylosing Spondalytis, Uveitis, and other health and inflammatory issues, I came to a rock bottom crossroads. I am the classic picture of looking healthy and put together on the outside, while broken, sick and wounded on the inside. After researching psychedelics as a healing alternative (I turned into a bonafide investigator reading everything), I decided to try to heal through Ayahausca, and APL Journey carried the best (and most) 5-star reviews. Nothing prepared me for the profound physical, mental and spiritual healing experience, for my Ayahausca journey was often a treacherous path to walk. Under the professional, safe, loving, and supportive guidance of expert facilitators, Boris and Sasha; true Amazonian Shaman healer, Alberto; experienced integrative psychedelics counselor and therapist, Amanda; and the wisdom from trauma and psychedelics specialist and psychotherapist, Ross; I was able to and radically unfold, heal and transform. Ayahuasca is a medicine that deserves respect for it is a spiritial and whole body alignment and unravelling of all things, patterns, toxins that need to be removed in order to begin whole again. It is anything but easy, and I am a different person than I was 10 days ago. With the deepest respect and gratitide, I whole-heartedly recommend APL Journey to anyone at a crossroads or rock-bottom, and looking for a new chance at life through Ayahuasca medicine, and looking for professionalism and safety. If you are seeking plant medicine or any kind of psychedelic treatment for healing, you also carry a great deal of self responsibility with your diet, full disclosure and eliminations of drugs, alcohol, and many other medicines. Therefore, if you are seriously considering Ayahausca, please be safe and responsible and speak with their team if you have any questions. If you follow their guidance, you will be in safe and loving hands with the APL Shamanic Journeys team. All the best to you and your next step to freedom. As for myself, my life is just beginning and Ayahausca will have an integrated role in it. With love, Angela Ryden