Peyote ceremonies in the Native American Church are communal and all-night: participants sit in a circle around a sacred fire, engaged in collective prayer, singing, and drumming. The whole night moves around that center. Ayahuasca ceremonies have a different architecture: participants lie down in near-darkness while the lineage holder guides through song, plant medicines, and healing work. The structure varies by tradition. Shipibo icaros move differently from a Colombian Taita ceremony, but the direction is consistently inward (Luna, 2011; ICEERS, n.d.).
