The
Ancestor
messenger
8 week sacred space-holding
Program & Retreat
The
ANCESTOR
MESSENGER
8 WEEK SACRED SPACE-HOLDING
Program & Retreat
ITAIPAVA, BRAZIL
With Lorna Liana & Friends
AN 8-WEEK VIRTUAL PROGRAM
& TRIBAL CULTURAL IMMERSION
ISKU KUA YAWANAWA
MARCH 5-12, 2024
SAMIA BIRUANY HUNI KUIN
NOVEMBER 2-9 2024
The
Ancestor
Messenger
8 WEEK SACRED SPACE-HOLDING
Program & Retreat
ITAIPAVA, BRAZIL
With Lorna Liana & Friends
ISKU KUA YAWANAWA
MARCH 5-12, 2024
SAMIA BIRUANY HUNI KUIN
NOVEMBER 2-9 2024
The Ancestor Messenger Sacred Space-Holding Program is an 8-week hybrid virtual and live, in-person program specifically designed for emerging Leaders of the Renaissance to cultivate the essential skills of a plant medicine integration provider and ceremonial space-holder.
Learn directly from indigenous wisdom keepers who are ancestral custodians of sacred plant medicine traditions and…
Claim Your Purpose in the Psychedelic Renaissance!
BECOME A THRIVING PLANT MEDICINE INTEGRATION COACH & SEASONED CEREMONIAL SPACE-HOLDER
LEARN HOW AN 8-WEEK SACRED SPACE-HOLDING PROGRAM & CULTURALLY IMMERSIVE RETREAT CAN PREPARE YOU FOR A UNIQUE VOCATION IN THE PSYCHEDELIC RENAISSANCE
As more people seek out psychedelics for healing and transformation than ever before in the history of humanity, ancient ancestral wisdom on safely navigating expanded states of consciousness is both relevant and essential in times of accelerated change.
The Ancestor Messenger Program includes 7 weeks of virtual training, along with a live, 8-day sacred space-holding retreat in Brazil, in partnership with indigenous wisdom keepers, to learn and embody ayahuasca ceremony guardianship skills.
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PLUS, discover how our cross-cultural team of ancestral wisdom keepers, international facilitators, and coaches are prepared to support you in accelerating your thriving vocation in the Psychedelic Renaissance!
What if you could join a sacred space-holding retreat for aspiring integration specialists, taught by ancestral wisdom keepers from two unbroken indigenous lineages and an international team of facilitators...
...so that you can cultivate the practical skills needed to be a ceremonial space-holder and integration provider that's safe, qualified, and culturally-informed?
THE PSYCHEDELIC RENAISSANCE NEEDS MORE CULTURALLY-INFORMED INTEGRATION SPECIALISTS...
Are you ready to heed the call?
Gazing into the sacred fire as ancient and powerful indigenous chants fill the maloca, your consciousness pierces the veil between worlds, journeying to that eternal place beyond time and space, so that you might connect with your spiritual guides and receive their sacred message...
In the full force of the medicine, you receive a personal healing from an indigenous lineage holder who has gone through countless dietas, purifications and apprenticeship with the last living elders of the tribe. This is the real deal.
As if waking from a profound dream, you remember your divine purpose in the world - the sacred work you incarnated on this planet to do and the unique gifts you have to fulfill this mission becomes crystal clear.
You know exactly what the next steps are that you must take to activate your Soul Purpose and create a thriving vocation that is the abundant manifestation of your destiny... and you are on the right path!
A feeling of purposeful confidence radiates from deep inside your heart, transmuting any lingering uncertainty, lack of confidence and fear around claiming your soul-aligned vocation...into power.
You are filled with the feeling of homecoming - you have found your people, you have claimed your purpose, and you have a clear vision on how to grow a thriving vocation in the Psychedelic Renaissance.
"I think the people that would benefit most from a Plant Spirit Journeys retreat are people who are looking to deepen their practice with spirituality and specifically with plant medicine.
People who have a deep desire to connect with indigenous people and be a bridge between our Western world and indigenous practices.
This is an opportunity to learn more deeply about yourself and about the medicine and traditions that have been keeping this world rotating for thousands of years.”
ARE YOU CONSIDERING A CAREER VOCATION AS A
GUIDE, FACILITATOR, THERAPIST, SITTER, OR
INTEGRATION SPECIALIST?
The psychedelic sector is one of the fastest-growing professional sectors in the world. As an emergent field in therapy and personal transformation, the opportunities for highly-
skilled, experienced coaches are endless.
There is a tremendous need for experienced integration specialists who are safe, qualified, and culturally-informed to support people through the profoundly transformational process.
While intellectual learning around trauma and psychedelic harm reduction is vital, the ability to navigate entheogenic states, as well as support others in integrating their entheogenic experience is also essential.
The Ancestor Messenger Sacred Space-Holding Program is a unique, embodied learning
experience for emerging integration providers that offers a life-changing opportunity to learn directly from indigenous wisdom keepers, as well as international facilitators who uphold an unwavering commitment to sacred reciprocity.
If you've been wondering what a vocation as a culturally-informed integration provider might be like, this 8-week program offers a valuable glimpse into one of the fastest-growing fields in the Psychedelic Renaissance.
"Plant Spirit Journeys retreats provide you with an opportunity to come back home, come back to spirit, come back to essence.
An opportunity to be in a community with like-minded individuals and humans that share a passion for healing through plant medicine.
To be in a sacred place, to learn from the medicine, to learn from elders, to learn from indigenous wisdom keepers, to learn from the land and the keepers of the land, and those that carry on wisdom."
LIVE THE CONDOR EAGLE PROPHECY &
IGNITE YOUR SOUL PURPOSE in 8 unforgettable weeks
LIVE THE CONDOR EAGLE PROPHECY & IGNITE YOUR SOUL PURPOSE in 8 unforgettable weeks
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.
Spring Retreat: Meet The Yawanawá
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.
MEET ISKU KUA YAWANAWÁ
For many years, Isku Kua has been supporting his father chief Nixiwaka in the administration of tribal affairs. Today he is chief of Nova Esperança (“New Hope”) village, with a population of 300 people.
Isku’s knowledge of his culture gets deeper every day as a result of his commitment to the studies and his conduct of the Uní ceremony impresses even Yawanawá elders.
He is also a talented musician and guitar player, who adapted many traditional songs to the guitar.
"You should join a Plant Spirit Journeys retreat if you are interested in learning more about sacred plant medicines from an indigenous perspective, if you are interested in learning about trauma-informed care and helping those to integrate their experiences with sacred plant medicines and psychedelics.
I think that anyone can come to a Plant Spirit Journeys retreat and really benefit and grow and learn so much. It's a transformational container, and it is a great place to align with your sacred purpose here on this earth.
On the third ayahuasca ceremony, it was an absolutely beautiful ceremony, and I felt so held and seen and loved. The way the indigenous came around and tended to everyone and guided them and healed them. I've never felt more cared for and held in my life."
WINTER Retreat: MEET THE HUNI KUIN
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.
MEET SAMIA BIRUANY HUNI KUIN
Leader of the Mawa Isa Group, a collective of women from Aldeia Pinuya Village, Samia Biruany is a pioneer in the studies and in conducting spiritual ceremonies.
Messenger of the feminine strength, she conquered her space in a territory previously dominated by men, uniting and strengthening the women of her village and inspiring young people from other regions.
In recent years, she has traveled throughout Brazil and several countries in Europe, taking with her the strength of all indigenous women.
DEEPEN YOUR MEDICINE SKILLS
We will be working with two ancestral plant medicines that have been used for healing and spiritual guidance for at least a millenia. You will learn how to open and close sacred medicine space, support others in their entheogenic navigation, healing and purification, along with the appropriate use and administration of hapé.
Ayahuasca
Ayahuasca is a psychoactive brew and ancestral plant medicine made from the Banisteriopsis caapi vine and the leaves of the Psychotria viridis shrub.
The name "ayahuasca" comes from the Quechuan language and means “Vine of the Spirits"; it is used interchangeably to refer to the vine itself, as well as the brew. However, ayahuasca holds an important place in many South American cultures and may be referred to by different names depending on who is using it, including yagé, daime, hoasca and uní.
Mapacho
Mapacho, (Nicotiana rustica) is a very potent variety of tobacco that contains high levels of beta-carbolines and 9 times more nicotine than common varieties. It has been used medicinally by the indigenous peoples of the Americas for at least a millennia.
The earliest recorded medicinal use of tobacco involves the insufflation of powdered tobacco snuff (hapé) through a blowpipe. This ritualistic practice continues to be widespread throughout the Amazon, and increasingly popular around the world, due to the globalization of ancestral shamanic plant medicines.
PRAISE FROM OUR RETREAT PARTICIPANTS
Here's what past participants of Plant Spirit Journeys had to say about their experience During the soul purpose vision quest retreat in peru:
❝My biggest takeaway from this experience is to trust in myself, to learn to love myself again in a way that I haven't before. I feel like I'm walking away, literally buzzing with the electricity of possibility.❞
❝The biggest takeaway for me through the training is what we've learned about trauma informed care, how our energy comes forth before our words do, and how to hold space for others.❞
PLANT SPIRIT SCHOOL
Students
PSS CERTIFICATION
STUDENTS PAY IN FULL BY:
spring - PIF BY NOV 2, 2023
WINTER - PIF BY JUL 2, 2024 & SAVE $1175
$3800
TRIPLE Occupancy
or add
$500
for DOUBLE occupancy
($4300)
Early Bird
PAY BY:
Spring - BEFORE JAN 2, 2024
WINTER - before SEPT 2, 2024
$4975
DOUBLE Occupancy
or add
$2600
for SINGLE occupancy
($7575)
Standard
PAY BY:
Spring - after JAN 2, 2024
WINTER - after SEPT 2, 2024
OR LATER
$5975
DOUBLE Occupancy
or add
$2600
for SINGLE occupancy
($8575)
Lorna Liana is the CEO of EntheoNation, a media company covering psychedelics, modern shamanism, and visionary culture. She is also the Founder of The Plant Spirit School, an online school offering workshops, programs, and 1-to-1 mentoring to individuals and professionals in the psychedelic and plant medicine sector.
With over 25+ years of psychedelic exploration and 100s of ceremonies, Lorna is an advocate for the safe, intentional use of entheogens as a tool of self-mastery, as well as the practice of sacred reciprocity.
Having personally experienced the pervasive lack of post-ceremony integration support in plant medicine culture, Lorna was inspired to launch the Plant Spirit School Integration Coach Certification Program, which is designed to provide plant medicine practitioners essential psychedelic harm reduction training and support them in becoming thriving integration coaches in the Psychedelic Renaissance.
Lorna Liana is the CEO of EntheoNation, a media company covering psychedelics, modern shamanism, and visionary culture. She is also the Founder of The Plant Spirit School, an online school offering workshops, programs, and 1-to-1 mentoring to individuals and professionals in the psychedelic and plant medicine sector.
With over 25+ years of psychedelic exploration and 100s of ceremonies, Lorna is an advocate for the safe, intentional use of entheogens as a tool of self-mastery, as well as the practice of sacred reciprocity.
Having personally experienced the pervasive lack of post-ceremony integration support in plant medicine culture, Lorna was inspired to launch the Plant Spirit School Integration Coach Certification Program, which is designed to provide plant medicine practitioners essential psychedelic harm reduction training and support them in becoming thriving integration coaches in the Psychedelic Renaissance.
MEET THE CO-FACILITATORS
You will receive the loving support of our international team of teachers, facilitators, and coaches to support you in practicing and embodying the skills needed to confidently offer integration support to others.
Marc-John Brown
Shamanic Coach, Native Wisdom Hub
Marc-John Brown is a shamanic teacher, coach, and mentor. Among his many callings are ceremony and retreat facilitation, plant medicine integration and coaching, writing and public speaking, indigenous advocacy, capacitation, and liaison.
He has been a practitioner of modern shamanism since 2008, and these studies have taken him to work with tribal shamans of Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Korea, and Malaysia. His work seeks to build and model a psychedelic landscape that is equitable and inclusive for the world's indigenous populations
Marc-John Brown is a shamanic teacher, coach, and mentor. Among his many callings are ceremony and retreat facilitation, plant medicine integration and coaching, writing and public speaking, indigenous advocacy, capacitation, and liaison.
He has been a practitioner of modern shamanism since 2008, and these studies have taken him to work with tribal shamans of Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Korea, and Malaysia. His work seeks to build and model a psychedelic landscape that is equitable and inclusive for the world's indigenous populations
Aluna Lua
Entheogenic Guide, Ascension Arts
Co-founder and CMO of the multimedia production company Ascension Arts With a diverse skill set as a performing artist, creative director, business mentor and plant medicine integration coach, Lua is specialized in the medicines of Tobacco, Cannabis, and Kambo. Lua is a trip sitter, harm reduction educator and creative director of the Zendo Project, the Psychedelic Peer Support of Burning Man.
Lua provides guardianship trainings and business mentorship for artists and healers with the mission to build a legacy of ceremony angels, peaceful warriors and techno-shamans that are creating a positive impact in the world.
Co-founder and CMO of the multimedia production company Ascension Arts With a diverse skill set as a performing artist, creative director, business mentor and plant medicine integration coach, Lua is specialized in the medicines of Tobacco, Cannabis, and Kambo.
Lua is a trip sitter, harm reduction educator and creative director of the Zendo Project, the Psychedelic Peer Support of Burning Man.
Lua provides guardianship trainings and business mentorship for artists and healers with the mission to build a legacy of ceremony angels, peaceful warriors and techno-shamans that are creating a positive impact in the world.
As the Program Manager at The Plant Spirit School, she oversees the Psychedelic Integration Coach Certification Program and supports students along their transformational journey towards becoming safe and competent integration providers. She is an avid writer, a compassionate spaceholder, and an eternal learner.
PRAISE FROM OUR INTEGRATION STUDENTS
Here's what students of our Integration Coach Certification Program have to say about the quality of their experience in the Plant Spirit School:
❝My experience in the Plant Spirit School has been amazing. The 3 things that have been most transformational to me are trauma-informed care, the knowledge of the different traditions,
and the community.❞
❝This program came to me so synchronistically. It was divine alignment. When I was reading about the program, my body was ringing because I felt like “yes,” this is exactly what I'm looking for. It was so beyond what I had even expected.❞
WHEN THE EAGLE OF THE NORTH AND THE CONDOR OF THE SOUTH FLY TOGETHER
The Earth Will Awaken
The Eagle and the Condor is an ancient Amazonian prophecy that speaks of a time when humanity splits into two distinct evolutionary paths—that of the Eagle, and that of the Condor. The path of the Condor is the path of the heart, a feminine way of being that values intuition and living in harmony with the earth. The path of the Eagle is the path of the mind, a masculine way of being that values logic and industrial progress.
According to the Eagle and Condor prophecy, starting from the 1490s, the world would experience a 500-year period during which the Eagle people would become so powerful, that they would conquer lands far and wide, and almost drive the Condor people out of existence. During this period in world history, Western imperial powers did conquer, kill and oppress the indigenous peoples of many regions and cultures… a phenomenon that continues in a myriad of forms to this day.
The prophecy also says that during the next 500-year period, starting in the 1990s, the potential would arise for the Eagle and the Condor to come together, and “fly in the same sky”. This reunion would then create a new level of consciousness awakening for humanity. The prophecy speaks of this potential but does not predict how this will happen. It’s up to us to activate that potential!
As the Psychedelic Renaissance expands, we can see the prophecy of the Condor and Eagle playing out. The Condor People, the indigenous peoples, shared their sacred ancestral medicines with humanity, and continue to share their culture and ceremonies around the world, as interest in psychedelic medicines grows.
The Eagle People have made tremendous progress in understanding the therapeutic potential of these medicines, from a scientific perspective.
HOW TO JOIN THE SACRED SPACE-HOLDING RETREAT
ANCESTOR MESSENGER TAKES PLACE IN ITAIPAVA, BRAZIL
YAWANAWA IMMERSION
MARCH 5 - 12, 2024
OR
HUNI KUIN IMMERSION
NOVEMBER 2 - 9, 2024
Here's how to sign up for the Ancestor Messenger 8-Week Sacred Space-Holding Program.
MORE PRAISE FROM OUR RETREAT PARTICIPANTS
❝The people who would benefit hold integration circles, are interested in psychedelics, are interested in the culture of the psychedelics and are facilitators or co-facilitators❞
❝The community has been an absolutely beautiful gift, everyone that I've met here has so many gifts to give, and they are here openly sharing with each other. I've never felt more cared for and held in my life.❞
Ancestor Messenger is an 8-week program that includes an 8-day culturally immersive retreat.
We have 2 options:
SPRING YAWANAWA IMMERSION
WINTER HUNI KUIN IMMERSION
Regular plant medicine retreats are usually focused on personal healing and spiritual growth. However, if you are an existing or aspiring psychedelic therapist or integration coach, cultivating hands-on skills and experience so that you can safely work with entheogenic clients is a must.
Unfortunately, with psychedelics and entheogenic plant medicines being illegal in most locales, it's very difficult to gain this experience above ground. Indeed, many people hone their skills in underground plant medicines circles and entheogenic churches, but often these environments lack any formal training.
With the expansion of the Psychedelic Renaissance, more people are seeking psychedelic experiences, so the need for qualified and experienced integration specialists is real and rising.
This 8-week program offers a unique opportunity to cultivate sacred space-holding and integration skills in an online learning envirtonment that incluldes an unforgettable, once-in-a-lifetime, cultural experience with indigenous wisdomkeepers in Brazil.
In addition to the 8-days in Brazil, we will have seven (7) x 90-minute Zoom calls to support your retreat preparation, integration and vocational training, that take place on:
Calls include training on topics related to ceremony guardianship, space-holding, and allyship, along with space for group integration.
Please download the brochure for the precise dates and topics of the live calls.
We have different pricing tiers depending on the time you sign up for the retreat.
Single Occupancy Rooms can be booked for an additional $2,600 USD.
Please download the brochure for exact dates as to when Early Bird pricing expires.
Ancestor Messenger is not just a retreat. It is an 8-week hybrid virtual and in-person training program that includes an 8-day practicum retreat for aspiring integration practitioners.
The in-person retreat in Brazil is supported by a cross-cultural facilitation team that includes 3 core Plant Spirit School faculty, 5 or more indigenous wisdom keepers, 5 or more Guardians of Rio de Janeiro serving as translators and ceremony space-holders, along with a 10-person retreat management crew.
As a small, privately-owned, for-profit social enterprise, EntheoNation upholds the principles of Sacred Commerce, whereby the Company serves as an engine of wealth distribution throughout the community, whereby everyone receives fair and meaningful compensation.
Plant Spirit Journeys offers hybrid practicum training retreats that include online education.
Plant Spirit Journey retreats are specifically designed for plant medicine facilitators, ceremony space-holders, entheogenic church leaders and integration specialists who wish to grow the practical skills necessary to establish a thriving career in the Psychedelic Renaissance.
This program is intended for those who have or wish to grow professional careers in the Psychedelic Renaissance. The retreat experience is designed to support psychedelic therapists, facilitators and integration providers in cultivating the skills to work with entheogenic clients.
We prioritize applicants who have attended entheogenic ceremonies on a regular basis for at least one year. This is because we feel that it is essential that psychedelic facilitators and integration providers are familiar with psychedelic states of consciousness before working with others in this capacity.
While it is possible to attain altered states of consciousness achieved through other modalities we find that the ayahuasca experience is a distinct entheogenic experience and we do not have the capacity to support newcomers to psychedelics in a retreat designed for experienced professionals.
Step 1 - Apply for a complementary call with one of our Catalyst Coaches, to explore alignment.
Step 2 - If your application is accepted, you will receive an online calendar link to book your Career Catalyst Session.
Step 3 - During the call, the Catalyst Coach will answer any questions and conduct a preliminary health screening.
Step 4 - If participation is a fit, you will be invited to submit payment to secure your spot.
Step 5 - You must pass the full medical assessment in order to attend the retreat in Brazil.
Payment to EntheoNation is refundable until 90 days prior to your retreat start date, minus a $750 processing fee PLUS any non-refundable hotel booking fees.
Please download the brochure for detailed information about the cancellation and refund policy.
Nobody is being pressured or forced to service this retreat against their will, or as an indentured servant.
All wisdom keepers and co-facilitators are being paid the compensation that they have requested, an amount that is both fair, and above local market rates.
Our wisdom keepers willingly participate in this retreat with love, joy, and gratitude to share their culture with people from so far away.
Different from other retreat centers, the indigenous wisdom keepers are the highest paid members of the team, not the lowest. This is because Plant Spirit Journeys and Aldeia Akasha maintain a life-long, unwavering commitment to Sacred Reciprocity.