We aim to create a safe container where the full spectrum of emotional expression can be felt and potentially shared. Being in a space where one can be real, tender and transparent, has the potential to radically shift inner repressive shame patterns. We seek to normalize vulnerability and celebrate these acts of authentic expression through sharing, being seen, heard, and witnessing each other.

Through remembering community, we hear the call to be a part of creating new ways of organizing in a way that sustains life. Facing the harsh reality of a society that is based on individualism, competition and separation, Kiyumí sees itself as an incubator that nurtures a compassionate community of individuals. We openly aspire to innovate and learn, as well as collaborate with other intentional communities, exploring different group dynamics as to refine the tools that could help us sculpt brighter futures.

We recognize that certain communities have been historically underrepresented in the psychedelic field. Since our very beginning as an organization, we take active steps to have a diverse team and participant composition. We welcome members of the LGBTQi+ and other marginalized communities. Our Equity Program is aimed to serve people from these communities who would otherwise not be able to afford participating in a Kiyumí

Many of our staff and participants identify as queer or move beyond societal conventions; challenging norms in how we live, love, and express ourselves. We honour fluidity and self-defined identity, welcoming those who carve their own paths. At Kiyumi, authenticity is an act of resistance and imagination. We embrace difference, celebrate uniqueness, and create space for magic, tenderness, and transformation to unfold.

We believe care and responsibility are inherent to human nature. Alongside personal growth, we invite participants to embrace care for the planet. Many Kiyumí facilitators are students of indigenous traditions like Huni Kuin, Yawanawa, Shipibo, and Lakota, guardians of plant medicine wisdom. With respect for these cultures, we are developing collaborative projects to build sustainable, fair relationships with their communities.

Kiyumí recognizes joy as a resource for uplifting, vitalising and re-awakening life force in us. Our approach recognizes the recreational as a valid and valuable field when safely practiced from which we can be nourished by in the psychedelic experience and in life. Sharing spaces of celebration where pleasure is allowed, enhances bonding and synchronization between members of our groups and creates a sustainable context to deepen our healing work.


Alongside the depth and care we invest in each Kiyumí experience, we also want to make sure not to take ourselves too seriously. We love to be spontaneous, connect to our inner child and, while in reverence, still be able to hear the cosmic giggle. Moments of play allow us to soften and suspend fixed judgments and categories of identity. A state of play helps alleviate our amassed heaviness, becoming more flexible and rewiring our creative and relational pathways.

When exploring psychedelic and other non-ordinary states of being, we are being asked to open our hearts and minds to the mystery and to dare to explore the unknown. Rather than treating what is different as foreign or threatening, Kiyumí welcomes the unfamiliar with compassion. We promote an environment where we can cultivate a beginner’s mind, see the world with a fresh open gaze and agree to not know. 

We believe that every human is naturally an artist, our lives a work of art. Creativity is an essential quality as we process and integrate a non-ordinary experience, find means to express our visions, reach the deeper symbolism and the keys to understand our dreams and the delicate language of our soul.

Healing is becoming whole again. Rather than ‘fixing a problem’, Kiyumí views healing as an ongoing process of opening our hearts and integrating different parts within and outside of us. Healing can be an opportunity for growth and expansion and for opening the path for reconciliation with our ancestors and with the collective consciousness of our time.

We strive to live beyond healing and survival, embracing empowerment, authenticity, and possibility. By rekindling childlike wonder while staying adaptable, we aim to be agents of change, unlocking transformation and growth in ourselves and the world. As the Buddha said, “There is a universal potential in all of us.”