You will receive online instruction from the Plant Spirit School facilitation team, who will guide you on the nuances of cross-cultural bridgekeeping and space-holding for ceremony participants that come from the industrialized countries of the Global North. Psychedelic harm-reduction, trauma-informed care, informed consent, peer-led integration, medical intake and screening are the wisdom of the Eagle people.

You will receive in-person training from ancestral wisdom keepers from two unbroken shamanic lineages, who will share with us ways of working with sacred plants, shamanic tools and visionary states of consciousness that are as applicable for healing now as they were in the times of their ancestors. This is the wisdom of the Condor People.

The Yawanawá is an indigenous nation that belongs to the Pano linguistic family, which includes the Masses, Katakana, Poyanawa, Huni Kuin, and Shipibo peoples, to name a few. Yawanawá refers to "the people of the wild boar", specifically the white-lipped peccary, which symbolically represents their people, as they are always together in a group, like a sounder of boars.

While Yawanawá territory includes a demarcation of nearly half a million acres of the Amazonian rainforest, most of the population (roughly 1000 people) live in 9 tribal villages situated along the Gregório River, in the state of Acre, Brazil.

Together with the support of their allies, the Yawanawá continue to work tirelessly to further a model of sustainability that allows them to protect their ancestral territories, strengthen their cultural and spiritual identity, and engage with the outside world on their own terms.

Also referred to as the Kaxinawá, the Huni Kuin people (or “true people,” as they call themselves) are the largest indigenous population in the Brazilian state of Acre. They currently inhabit twelve indigenous lands along seven different rivers: Purus, Envira, Murú, Humaitá, Tarauacá, Breu and Jordão. A smaller population inhabit the remote expanse of rainforest that extends west to the foot of the Andes in eastern Peru.

The traditional medicines of the Huni Kuin people are of immense importance to their worldview. Hapé (powdered tobacco snuff), along with the communal use of ayahuasca (“Nixi Pae”) hold prominence in their spiritual practice.

In spite of decades of persecution, due to the remoteness of their communities in Western Acre, the Huni Kuin were able to preserve their traditions better than many other tribes in Brazil. Huni Kuin culture and spirituality, especially their sacred chants, are expanding in popularity round the world through the globalization of ayahuasca.