Overall it was a very positive experience. I drank it three times in total. The ritual aspect of it, IMO, makes the experience unlike any other psychedelic. The settings, the Shaman, the whole deal. DMT, for me, was the ultimate psychedelic. The purging (yawning, puking, shitting, breathing) was a very cathartic aspect of the experience. And I definitely felt a presence, the spirit of Ayahuasca if you will... it was felt, seen and tangible. I wrote a lot about my experience and how it related to stuttering, but I can't seem to locate the word document. However, the gist of it was learning to love myself and **keeping the energy moving forward.** With stuttering we have the tendency to pull back when we feel a block coming, being afraid to express ourselves and to stutter openly. Aya seemed to drill the idea that stuttering is a learned thing that we are doing to ourselves with our thoughts and beliefs. By taking the plunge and allowing yourself to stutter openly, by facing those avoided situations with courage, by breathing through the experiences and coming out of them with better beliefs about what we are capable of - we can learn to stutter less and communicate better.