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. I received formal training and initiations in Spain in the Paqo Kuna tradition of the high Andes of Peru, and was later initiated by Nicolas Pauccar, nature mystic of the Q’ero Nation, as Sacerdotisa, or shamanic priestess. I spent time journeying for myself with the medicine drum to explore and become comfortable in the spirit world before journeying for anyone else. Now, 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 bloackages, or receive messages from other planes.

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 today.

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.

My journey with cacao began in Spain when I attended a ceremony held in traditional ritual brought directly from Mexico. From the moment I committed to going to the ceremony, cacao began working with me and in me. The ceremony connected me to her spirit and cracked me wide open, showing me how my heart was aching for connection and how my essence longed to love myself, my surroundings, and life itself. Along with this purging of tears, I heard cacao tell me she wanted us to work together, she wanted me to learn to carry her medicine and share it with others.

I received formal training in traditional cacao preparation from a Meshica elder and was initiated as cacao medicine carrier and sahumadora. My relationship with cacao continued to deepen as I studied in the Mayan Wisdom Academy where I learned from and shared ceremony with Maya Quiché Day Keepers, or Aj Q’ij, from Guatemala. I carry cacao medicine with reverence for these teachers and their ancestors, and all those who have passed down the wisdom of the indigenous peoples so that we, as 21st century Westerners, may return to the old ways of healing, and to ancestral tradition and ritual, to help us find our way back to ourselves.

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. When working with Reiki energy, I also invoke the lineage of the Hampe, the great healers of the ancient Americas, who I was connected with upon receiving the Munay Ki Rites and becoming a Guardian of the Earth.

I am available for 1:1 Reiki healing sessions, as well as trainings and workshops for Reiki levels one and two.

Munay Ki is the series of nine great rites of initiation from the tradition of energetic medicine of the Americas. The completion of these rites transforms us into beings of wisdom and power, protectors of all of creation. The word Munay-ki comes from the Quechua language and means “I love you” or “I know who you are'' and represents the nine portals that heal and transform our luminous energy field into that of Homo Luminous. The ancient prophecies of the Americas speak of the appearance of a new human being on the planet––one who lives free of fear and who exists in their transcendental nature. Munay Ki contains the codes for this new human and its rites are given in the form of energetic transmissions. These transmissions are common throughout shamanic traditions and have been expressed in different styles by different cultures over the years and across the world. The Munay Ki comes from the high Andes mountains of Peru and were shared with us by the nature mystics of the Paqo Kuna tradition.

The rites find their origin in the great rites of initiation of the Indo Valley and were brought to the Americas by the first medicine men and women to cross the Bering Sea during the ice age about 30,000 years ago. These brave travelers are known as the Laika: Guardians of the Earth of past, present and future. The Laika always knew that people would seek out the Munay Ki when they were ready to receive it. Many of us have felt the call from Spirit and have desired to make a difference in the world we live in.

The rites were first received directly from angelic beings, but in the early 2000’s the elders received a message from Spirit asking them to make these rites available to all of us, so that the world could begin to heal. They can now be passed from teacher to student, Guardian of the Earth to any individual who decides to answer the call. Once received, the rites work within our luminous bodies and we become Guardians of the Earth, now able to transmit them as we desire.

As Guardians of the Earth, our bodies fill with light, our seven chakras are activated and we undergo a great transformation. A deeper and more complete connection with Pachamama, the Universe, and all living beings become available. Munay brings us towards the living awareness that just by breathing we are a part of everything. Receiving Munay Ki allows us to live in constant communication with our hearts, always connected to a Greater All, the source of all life: Love. Munay.

I hold Munay Ki transmission ceremonies for groups, usually separating the rites into three groups of three. If this energetic healing initiation is in alignment with your retreat or wellness gathering, please reach out.

“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 hucha energy to be filled with subtle sami 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 yield the potent smoke medicine of these two spirits with deep respect for their power and wisdom.