Breathwork and plant medicines seem to be what all the hype in the worlds of healing and spirituality is currently about. Whilst breathwork has been described as “the new yoga”, the healing powers of psychedelic substances are receiving increasing interest from the scientific community, with leading trauma experts, such as Dr Gabor Maté, openly advocating the use of ayahuasca in trauma therapy. The following piece is my personal sharing of having worked with both over the past 5 years and what I am learning in the process. I do not claim to “know” anything about the mysterious ways of this work and if anything I write here sounds as if I do it is due to my limited linguistic expression of something that I truly do not have adequate words for.