The core practice of shamanistic cultures across all regions and timelines is the shamanic journey, in which the shaman enters an altered state of consciousness through the use of repetitive sounds using a rattle or drum, movement, voice, meditation, plant medicines, or any combination of the above. While in this altered state, the shaman has direct access to the spirit world, where they may retrieve helpful information, meet spirit guides, power animals and other allies, perform healings, and move energy in a way that supports health and wellbeing. In this way the shaman is a conduit, dancing between dimensions, acting as a bridge between our physical human experience and the subtle world of spirit.

Journeying is a powerful tool and a special gift which I am honored to be able to share with you.

After years of practice, I’m able to safely enter these spaces and connect anyone who feels the call to guides, information and healings that may be available to them. This work can be done remotely or in person, as everything takes place in the quantum field, outside of our perceptions of space and time.

The beautiful thing about the shamanic arts is that it’s available to all of us, and it’s all about self-empowerment. If you feel the call to learn these practices and healing techniques, I teach workshops and trainings, in person and online.

Plants are incredible allies, and their power goes beyond our basic understanding. We drink chamomile tea when our stomach hurts, but most of us don’t connect with the flowers while brewing the infusion. We don’t speak to the spirit of the plant, pray with it, and honor its essence, before asking it for help. In the shamanic world it is understood that everything has a spirit, and we learn to interact with those spirits in order to navigate our way through this world.

There are specific plants that are especially powerful in healing because they can help us to change or alter our state of consciousness. Some of these power plants include ayahuasca, psilocybin, peyote and wachuma. There are power plants that alter our state to a much more subtle degree, such as tobacco and cacao. These plants are not psychedelics, but they do allow us to open up, connect, clear blockages, or receive messages.

I believe it to be extremely important to engage with these medicines in an intentional and ritualized way with an initiated medicine carrier before beginning a personal practice. The medicine carrier has a close personal relationship with the medicine and has received the proper training and initiations from someone of lineage from the culture whose practices are being followed. These are ancestral medicines, and it’s essential for us to stay in right relationship with the plant and with the ancestors who have carried and cared for the medicine so that its wisdom may reach us in a good way.

Cacao, or cacahuatl, is a fruit native to prehispanic mesoamerica. Legend says it was a gift from Quetzalcoatl, the great feathered serpent and benevolent god of the middle world, given to the Mayans for its heart-opening powers, with which they built strong, long-lasting relationships and an open and connected community.

This medicine is prepared by drying the beans, grinding them, and creating an elixir with other powerful herbs and spices. It is consumed in ceremony, in order to open-up and amplify its emotional, energetic and spiritual gifts, with your partner to make space for more authentic connection in your relationship, or in your own personal practice to deepen your connection to self and your own heart.

Humans have been using our hands to heal for thousands of years, if not since the very beginning. Our hands are powerful portals from which we can channel and share energy that has the potential to work miracles on any one or all of our bodies––physical, emotional, mental, astral and luminous. Reiki is a specific technique for channeling “universal life energy” (the meaning of the Japanese words rei ki) that was brought back to us by Mikao Usui, a Japanese zen monk who was gifted this knowledge along with certain powerful symbols while meditating on a vision quest in the forest in the early 1900’s. Since then, it has been passed on from teacher to disciple in the form of energetic attunements, which activate and open channels for receiving and directing this life force energy.

Reiki is versatile, and depending on the practitioner’s relationship to the energy, it can be used to relieve pain, calm anxiety, balance chakras, heal wounds (emotional, physical, spiritual), channel information, and rejuvenate and replenish energy. Using certain symbols, a practitioner with the proper attunements can channel reiki through space and time, sending this healing energy from a distance and to the past or the future.

My relationship with Reiki began in 2019 as I was coming out of a Dark Night of the Soul, and Spirit brought me to meet who would then become my teacher in a way that couldn’t be anything other than divinely orchestrated. I received the Reiki attunements in the Usui lineage of Reiki Master from her in Southern Spain, and since then have deepened my relationship to the energy. Now, all of my shamanic practices are infused with Reiki, and my Reiki sessions are guided by shamanic principles.

“Humo” means smoke and to sahumar is to cleanse hucha, or dense energy, with the smoke of sacred plants and resins. It is an ancestral shamanic practice which has many expressions, and is carried out in ritual with the help of plant medicines such as sage, yerba santa, sweetgrass and cedar.

In the ancestral practices of Meshica, prehispanic Mexico, copal and palo santo are placed on the hot embers held inside the copalera, a clay goblet, and their fragrant smoke is guided around the being or space meant to receive the medicine. Copal is a resin that comes from the trees whose wood is used to carve traditional alebrijes from Oaxaca. It’s a powerful medicine that can cleanse and purify, clear blockages, and release heavy and stagnant energy and emotions. Copal is also a sacred gift given as an offering to the ancestors, opening communication to our spiritual and genetic lineages. Palo santo, or holy wood, is burned to call in light energies after or during a cleansing. It purifies the aura or space, bringing in high vibrational frequencies, and allowing the spaces that were occupied by dense energy to be filled with light, subtle energy.

My training in sahumación began with fire, building a relationship with it, and learning to dance with my own inner fire. We were then guided to cultivate a personal connection with copal and palo santo, praying with them and experiencing their medicines, before becoming initiated as Sahumadoras. I wield the potent smoke medicine of these two spirits with deep respect for their power and wisdom.