As someone deeply intrigued by holistic healing modalities, I recently embarked on a guided shamanic journey facilitated by Sarah Hope. Guided shamanic journeys are immersive experiences that invite participants to explore the realms of consciousness and tap into the wisdom of the natural world. During the journey, participants are guided through various rituals and practices designed to facilitate healing, transformation, and spiritual growth. Led by Sarah’s expertise and intuitive guidance, the journey unfolds as a deeply transformative and illuminating experience, offering insights and reve ..read more

How can we be responsible with the amazing gift of psychedelics? What can we learn from the way of the mushroom about ethics? In recent psychedelic news of late there has been legitimate concern around ethical practice. Reports of abuse, inappropriate boundaries and neglect or abandonment are unfortunately common. Reports of misconduct not only occur in the psychedelic space but in other healing and spiritual organizations. Vulnerability and power dynamics can easily become contaminated. Does this mean we should hit the brakes on psychedelic assisted healing? Probably. The hubris of the 1960’s ..read more

The interactive project The Medicine Way  is guideship training  course I designed two and a half years ago. As an entheogenic guide and coach I would often see clients who felt that they were unable to share their desire to microdose with or have a psychedelic journey with their other health providers. At the same time an increasing number of therapists, nurses, body workers and other health providers were also reaching out to me, wanting to know more about entheogenic guidework. I was getting a lot of the same questions from so many healers, I decided to use my background in educa ..read more

One of the core values of my work with psilocybin mushrooms is nature connection and sacred earth traditions. Earth sacraments in the form of fungi and plants have the power to re-awaken us to our connection to the earth and the cosmos. Recognizing our integral part in the flow of life is deeply healing. Some theorists go as far as to say that the evolutionary strategy of the psilocybin mushroom may be to cure us of our illusion of separation so that we may awaken to our part in things and thus become better stewards of the earth. This summer after a long period of quarantine, I got to fully ..read more

I’m proud to announce that I recently graduated from a year and a half long Nature Connected Coaching program! After three years of coaching in the consciousness and psychedelic space, I really wanted to hone my coaching skills and help people to take their microdosing and psychedelic integration to a higher level, and working with nature is the best way I know to do this. I also knew that while I love working with psychedelics, ultimately my passion is the medicine inside of people, so I wanted to become the best coach I could possibly be in order to help my clients and students access the t ..read more

How I found psychedelic medicine and forged a career helping others discover their true selves Many people ask me how I came to work with psychedelics and plant medicine. This is the story of how, I, a mother and a teacher developed a most unusual and unconventional profession. I first learned about the healing potential of psychedelic plants when I graduated from college. Fresh out of school with a degree in psychology and a minor in Spanish. My two children were small then, and to make ends meet I began tutoring adult professionals in Spanish. One of my clients, a respected psychiatrist, rev ..read more

By now you’ve probably seen have seen the viral video of neurons forming. Lit up on a gray surface the excited neurons wiggle excitedly, and begin to connect with other cells and clusters in the area. We can begin to see how a stimulus in the environment has a response in the brain. Something happens, we get an idea or new knowledge, a few more things happen to reinforce that idea, perhaps an emotion gets associated with it and voila. There is a little cluster of cells that looks like a random basket but represents something in our lives and influences our behavior. We have formed a connectio ..read more

We all know our children may be exposed to psychedelic substances at some point in high school or college. Research around the heavily funded abstinence campaigns such as D.A.R.E clearly showed that these programs did not stop teens and young adults from using drugs – yet as parents we know that the ‘drug’ conversation still needs to be had. Most of us would rather have our children be able to talk with us about their experiences or curiosities so that we can help them to have a better experience or even choose to wait. In this presentation I will talk about many of the psychedelic substances ..read more

Have you ever heard of Bear Vasquez? I hadn’t either, until this week. Perhaps you’ve seen his viral video, “Double Rainbow” in which he is overcome with awe and wonder at the sight of a double rainbow. In this video, you can hear his voice, giddy with the sheer joy of this spectacular event in nature. At one point he sounds almost orgasmic, at another he sounds like he is weeping. “What does it mean?” He asks. Back in 2010, Jimmy Kimmel got ahold of the video and reposted it, resulting in a viral response with 50 million views. He was one of YouTube’s earliest viral sensations. The video was ..read more