Photos: More scenes from Hummingbird Church
Lorenzo Gonzales, center, and other retreat participants reach their hands to the sky during a breathwork ceremony on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022, in Hildale, Utah. The session was a part of a three-night ayahuasca ceremony hosted by Hummingbird Church. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Hummingbird Church hosts an ayahuasca retreat in the small town of Hildale, Utah, just south of Zion National Park, on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022. The town was previously known as the stronghold for The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a polygamist offshoot of the Mormon church. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Talia Gross, a retreat participant, plays a sound bowl while waiting for the ayahuasca ceremony to begin at a Hummingbird Church retreat in Hildale, Utah, on Friday, Oct. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Talia Goss, a retreat participant, shows a drawing of a vision she had during an ayahuasca ceremony in Hildale, Utah, hosted by the Hummingbird Church on Monday, Oct. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
A Hummingbird Church retreat participant lays in a hammock while an integration circle takes place on the grass behind him, discussing the previous night's ayahuasca ceremony, in Hildale, Utah, on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Maeleene Jessop lies face down on the grass during an integration circle at an ayahuasca retreat in Hildale, Utah, on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022. Following each of the three ayahuasca ceremonies, Hummingbird Church asks their participants to partake in integration, or a group reflection and discussion, to help interpret messages they received from the ayahuasca. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Eloy Delgadillo, musician and facilitator for Hummingbird Church, practices songs for an upcoming ayahuasca ceremony, on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022, in Hildale, Utah. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
A pitcher of ayahuasca, right, sits on an altar covered by a bundle of leaves called a “wayra” used in a spiritual ceremony hosted by Hummingbird Church in Hildale, Utah, on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022. Ayahuasca is a psychoactive brew containing an Amazon shrub that is known to cause visions lasting several hours. A rising demand for the plant medicine has spurred the formation of hundreds of groups like Hummingbird across the U.S. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
Growing numbers of people are flocking to churches in the U.S. that center their practice around giving parishioners a psychedelic brew known as ayahuasca.