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Katie LaRoe

Kathryn LaRoe, (Katie) is a licensed therapist, graduating from USC with her Masters in Social Work with a focus on military and mental health. She is a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional II, Certified NeuroPsychology Practitioner, Certified Mental Health Integrative Medicine Provider, and Psychedelic preparation/integration specialist. Katie unitizes integrative techniques to address the consciousness of trauma. 

She has worked with extensively with Veterans and specifically Special Operations men and woman since 2008 in the plant medicine space. She enjoys a heavy focus on preparation for states of expanded consciousness, utilizing modalities that address the needs of the mind, body, soul, and subtle energy. Katie works in depth with the shadow aspects of humanity, finding the grace and abundance in the lessons and teachings their internal wisdom. Katie has worked with states of expanded consciousness nearing three decades. She has witnessed and personally experienced the healing capacity of plant medicines, breathwork, meditation, and present moment focus for the mind, body, soul, and energetic field. 

Katie has a deep appreciation for her teachers who shared with her their wisdom and rites of passage of yogic, Native American, Shipibo, Wixarika, and Bwiti traditions. She is an initiated Mabundi woman of the Bwiti tradition and continues deep learning through her traditional teachers out of Gabon Africa. 

The wisdom she has experienced along through her own learning has empowered her own internal healer and aided in the wisdom of navigating the various realms of the psyche for trauma resolution.

Kathryn lives in Southern California with her husband, Michael (Punky), and mastiff, Hank. She enjoys hiking, singing, meditation, breathwork, and present moment focus.

Jessi Resser

I am an intuitive Alternative Medicine & Healing Practitioner with over a decade of experience guiding individuals through profound physical, emotional, and spiritual transformation. With a B.S. in Nutritional Science and certifications in personal training, NLP, trauma-informed breathwork, hypnosis, the Munay-Ki rites, and shamanic practitioner work, I am dedicated to supporting and offering my presence and sacred space to those feeling called. 

I am a passionate curious student and seeker of ancient traditions, sacred ways, and timeless wisdom and I love to infuse my sessions, retreats, and containers with this devotion. Rooted in the belief that true healing, awakening, and enlightenment is a sacred inward journey,one we each must choose and own. I offer myself as a sacred space holder for your journey. 

Through breathwork,  energy healing, Zero-Point Activation, plant medicine integration, and intuitive guidance, I support individuals in clearing energetic blockages, reconnecting with their divine essence, and aligning with their soul’s truth, mission, purpose. 

By deepening our relationship with Mother Earth, plant medicines, and the intelligence of the body, we unlock our innate ability to heal, awaken, and transform. I offer private coaching, activation sessions, integration work, and immersive retreats, and I’m honored to bring my retreat experience into other sacred containers when invited.

At the heart of my work is a deep commitment to creating safe, sacred spaces where individuals can heal from within, reclaim their inner wisdom, and embody their fullest potential.

Mateo Shumate

Mateo has been guided over the last decade to explore various healing modalities including sacred coaching, plant medicines, regression hypnosis, akashic records, vision quests, ancient initiations, and studying with wisdom keepers. He has worked extensively with the master plant teachers and also offers sessions in Soul Contact Hypnosis, Sacred Life Coaching and Plant Medicine Integration. Within that space, he helps guide others to release old programs, traumas, and limiting beliefs. To write a new story for themselves. To access their eternal / spiritual nature more deeply.  To live more authentically and in their power. 

Daniel Son

Daniel Son is the creator of the Wake & Take Microdose Protocol and a trusted dose coach, setting people up for complete success by helping them get really good at waking up and feeling really great! For the past decade, he’s been pioneering both micro and macro dosing as powerful alternatives to pharmaceuticals—supporting therapists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, retreat centers, and practitioners of all kinds in bringing transformational tools to their clients.

He’s also served as the co-leader of a Native American Church branch, touring the world to host San Pedro prayers, medicine music concerts, and healing sharing circles. Initiated into a sacred tobacco lineage in Bolivia, Daniel carries deep respect for ancestral wisdom and is helping to pioneer healthy, conscious relationships with both coca and tobacco.

Aditi Nightingale

Aditi is an ancestral herbalist and sacred ritual weaver who immerses herself in alternative wellness practices, nature based rituals, yogic philosophy and psychedelic journeying for healing of the body, mind and Spirit through the expansion of human consciousness. Aditi has been in communion with sacred ancestral medicines for over a decade. Her path includes deep dive studies, master plant dietas and experiences with different traditions in the Amazon Rainforest. Her offerings are informed by both the Andean and Amazonian cosmovision and the guidance of original wisdom keepers. Aditi walks the path of the Wise Woman, embodying the spirit of Master Plant teacher Ayahuasca, communing with nature, ancient earth wisdom and the subtler realms. Her passion is rooting individuals into their own unique wisdom so that all may connect to their souls life path.

Rachael Popky

Rachael Popky is a Sacred Empowerment Coach, Retreat Leader, and Director of The Center at Kahuna Falls in Hawai’i. Her work in empowerment and the healing arts is deeply rooted in her degree in Activism and Social Change. She believes that when we heal ourselves, we heal the world. As we navigate these times of rapid transformation, she is committed to helping others birth new paradigms, do the inner work, and embrace the abundance that surrounds us. Her mission is to revolutionize the way we do business by fostering soul-driven, purpose-led, and ethically grounded practices that empower the collective. Rachael is dedicated to reminding us of the unity that connects us all and inspiring everyone to walk in beauty.

Melonie Kolton

Melonie Kolton is the creator of Ancient Arts Academy and an expert in Plant Medicine Integration, trauma, and somatic healing. Deeply passionate about honoring the sacredness of ceremony, she upholds the integrity of traditional practices while ensuring a safe, trauma-informed container for transformation. Through her work, Melonie facilitates profound healing journeys that help individuals release trauma, connect with ancestral wisdom, and integrate their experiences with care. Rooted in her dedication to decolonization and the Divine Feminine, she creates a space where participants can fully honor their path to wholeness.

David Rosenthal

David Rosenthal is the visionary and Founder of Plant Medicine Portal. His journey with the medicine started in 2015. Having been witness to unethical practices in the medicine space, he has made it his mission to create a Portal, Community and Virtual Village that honors these medicines and hold those accountable to their facilitation and Integration.

Jason Moon

Jason Moon is a coach and entrepreneur driven by a curious and adventurous spirit, dedicated to living in harmony with the natural world. His professional background spans environmental sciences, business, and finance, while his entrepreneurial pursuits are rooted in an innate connection to nature. This connection is reflected in his consulting work and real estate projects, as he remains deeply committed to learning and sharing ways of living sovereignly and in community—both with one another and with the divine natural world.

Ryan Albury

Like many who walk this path, Ryan has faced his own trip through the graveyard—battling extreme depression, anxiety, unruly anger, crippling grief, immense shame, and the weight of long-term loneliness, longing, and spiritual disconnection.

Through many medicines, dedicated mind-body-spirit practices, and the generous support of teachers who helped prevent the final drowning, he was given a way through—transforming wounds into wisdom and suffering into service.

Now, he holds a unique role within the Plant Medicine Portal, called to be both a guardian and a guide.

Ryan challenges facilitators to uphold the highest standards, ensuring that those who seek The Portal’s Seal of Integrity meet the integrity, accountability, and depth of experience required.

He works closely with individuals before, during, and after their ceremonies—preparing them for true transformation and guiding them to actually integrate their experiences into the formation of their next level of well-being and purpose. His approach is rooted in discipline, reverence, and an unwavering commitment to real, lasting results.

With training in Hatha Yoga, Shamanic Reiki, Transformational Breathwork, Men’s Work Facilitation, and the AlphaWave Parts Work system—a fusion of yoga, energy work, Christianity, Buddhist teachings, functional anatomy, and fusion psychology—Ryan offers a grounded, holistic approach to self-awareness and healing.

His work is not about providing easy answers or half-baked, short-term "solutions."

His work is about helping people meet themselves fully—beyond the programming, beyond the lower emotions, beyond the past and the future.

Beyond the false identities.

For those willing to do the work, Ryan stands in service to the generations to come—building their world now.

Ryan is a Coach, Facilitator, Mentor, Teacher, Guide, Rebel, and Fighter for the Future.

Angela Kunz

Angela has dedicated her adult life to traveling the world, exploring many spiritual traditions, and integrating into her daily life practices that help her embody her experiences learned. She is a kambo practitioner, certified Kundalini Yoga instructor, artist, LMT, detox specialist, naturopathy student, and owner of the small business My Medicine Bag. She has been in the ancestral medicine world for nearly a decade and continues to dedicate her life to it. 

She has studied many of the medicines and their modalities from the origins and traditions of which they come from. She has spent extended time in India, Peru, Guatemala, Thailand, Mexico, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and more. Her travels have helped her align with amazing teachers and mentors that have helped her heal so she can lead her life in a more centered, authentic, and sovereign way. She has worked alongside a large variety of ancestral medicines and continues to work with her teachers on this path to advance her work, healing, and teachings. 

She is very passionate about plant medicines, spirituality, natural medicine, integration work, and self-healing study. She believes that the best teacher is our own personal dives, healings, and experiences. How can we know something if we have not experienced it and gone through the appropriate initiations to get there? She upholds strong values pertaining to integrity and humility in the plant medicine community. She believes that integration work is even more important than the ceremony itself and prays to see more proper integration taking place outside of ceremonies so we as a collective can walk in an embodied way alongside these ancestral medicine allies. 

For this reason she has dedicated her most recent years to self-studying how proper integration works and how we can actualize our ceremonial experiences through diet, movement, meditation, communication, and self awareness practices. She has a strong passion for the body and understanding how to optimize and bring it into balance, harmony, and health alongside the work with ancestral medicines.

Julie Kramer

Ms. Kramer is an INDUSTRY expert in advanced quantum protocols and advanced quantum technologies for breakthrough
individualized health and performance optimization. As a healed two-time rape survivor, her own set of challenges inspired
her to develop a collection of science-backed tools for corrective rebalancing, health restoration, and physical optimization.
Ms. Kramer's career has been in various management roles in global pharmaceuticals, healthcare, government projects,
emergency and disaster management, electromagnetic pulse mitigation, and advanced health and security technologies.
As an entrepreneur, futurist, researcher, product developer, Certified Bioenergetic Practitioner, Master Reiki Practitioner, as
well as an Ordained Melchizedek Priestess, she is on a mission to create a groundbreaking advancement of the most
effective Energy Science health solutions available worldwide.

Padme Ricci

Padme Ricci, RHP, CDS, MBTP

Integration Coach | Regenerative Health Practitioner | Clinical Detox Specialist

Plant medicine opens the door to profound growth—but true regeneration happens in how those insights are integrated into everyday life. Padme Ricci guides people through preparation, implementation, and embodiment, ensuring that their experiences lead to meaningful, lasting change.

Combining science-backed methods with emotional support, she ensures clients feel held, grounded, and empowered. Her approach combines trauma-informed application and regenerative health specialization, facilitating confident incorporation of insights into everyday life.

Drawing from Mind-physical self Transformational Psychology, Padme weaves together somatic restoration, neuroplasticity, and functional nutrition to create a comprehensive and personalized approach to application. Her knowledge bridges altered states of consciousness and daily embodiment, ensuring people apply and sustain the benefits of their experiences with insight.

Successful integration requires both intention and support. Padme’s method includes nutritional and dieta guidance to prepare the whole being, somatic therapy and breathwork to regulate the nervous system, and coherence techniques to cultivate emotional resilience. She also incorporates non-synthetic detox approaches to restore balance post-ceremony and subconscious reprogramming to reinforce long-term evolution. Every step is designed to nurture the whole person—body, mind, and spirit.

Padme integrates HeartMath techniques, trauma-informed principles, and BioTransformational methods. She blends scientific methodology with holistic wisdom, cultivating a space where people can embody their growth with confidence and understanding. Her work is rooted in the belief that true renewal is not just an event—it is a supported, intentional process. She walks beside each client with warmth, structure, and expertise—helping them integrate with insight, resilience, and deep self-trust.

I always remind my clients, "You are more capable of healing

than anyone has taught you to believe"

Shanti Rae

Shanti is a dedicated Ceremonialist, Plant Medicine Integration Coach, and Yoga Teacher. From an early age, she developed a profound connection to Eastern spirituality and the medicine path, committing herself to a life of devotion to both.

In October 2020, Shanti experienced her first Ayahuasca ceremony, a life-altering moment that initiated a deep devotion to sacred plant medicine work. A year later, she found herself immersed in the jungles of Costa Rica, studying and working full-time at an international Ayahuasca retreat center. After three plus years of apprenticeship and over 100 ceremonies later, Shanti has cultivated a deep understanding of how to guide and support individuals before, during, and after their Ayahuasca journeys.

Shanti is a certified Life Coach, specializing in Integration Coaching for those working with Ayahuasca and other plant medicines. Her coaching style is grounded, practical and compassionate, meeting each individual where they are, offering support in pre-ceremony preparation, post-ceremony integration, navigating life changes, and integrating the teachings of the medicine. Whether you are seeking clarity, direction, or assistance in integrating the “homework” given by Ayahuasca, Shanti’s experience and compassionate guidance will help you on your path to transformation.

Amber Kerby, LMFT & Stephan "Kerby" Kerby

Bridging the Worlds of Therapy & Psychedelic Facilitation

Amber Kerby, LMFT, and Stephan "Kerby" Kerby are pioneers in the intersection of therapy and psychedelic facilitation, bringing a trauma-informed, integrative approach to the plant medicine space. With Amber’s expertise in clinical psychotherapy and trauma healing and Kerby’s extensive experience in psychedelic facilitation and non-dual awareness, they create a bridge between traditional therapy and the transformative potential of non-ordinary states of consciousness.

Together, they emphasize safety, ethical facilitation, and long-term integration, guiding individuals through deeply healing experiences while ensuring psychological and emotional well-being. Their work explores how therapeutic frameworks enhance psychedelic experiences, equipping facilitators with the skills needed to support participants beyond the peak experience into sustained transformation.

At the forefront of psychedelic-assisted therapy education, Amber and Kerby teach and mentor practitioners on best practices for holding space, understanding trauma responses, and integrating mystical experiences into everyday life. Their collaboration is shaping the future of consciousness exploration, therapy, and ethical facilitation in the expanding field of plant medicine.

K'hiel Anker

"K'hiel Anker is a Masculine Evolution Guide that specializes in the facilitation of psychedelic and plant medicine assisted rites of passage for males who seek to individuate into whole, mature, Men. He was raised in Rhode Island, went to college at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, traveled much of the world finding himself thereafter, and presently resides upon Mt. Chirripo in Costa Rica. He is a traditionally apprenticed medicine man, certified psychospiritual integration coach, Internal Family Systems guide, master reiki channel, student of the mythopoetic school of men's work, and walker of the Path of Righteous Integrity."

Jeffrey Powers

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I know why it is that I incarnated as a White male.  I know why it is that I incarnated in America.  I know why it is that I didn’t consciously begin my awakening and healing journey until my late Thirties.  I know exactly why I had the experiences I did in this life up to this point.  I know what I came here to do, and that is to remember who I AM.  

Through the journey of remembering who I AM, I’ve picked up a lot of tools, knowledge, wisdom, and soul level remembrance.  Through the acquisition of the aforementioned, I’ve gained priceless experience.  Through that experience I have awakened deep soul remembering of my long forgotten gifts and intuition.  Through that experience, I’ve built one heck of a toolbox that enables me to navigate this world differently than I ever knew, or believed, was possible.  Through this Journey, I’ve re-established my connection to The Divine Mother and The Divine Father,  my Highest self and GOD.  I am guided and protected  by Universal consciousness at all times.  Through this journey, I’ve remembered that I AM and WE are ONE.

I am a life long learner.  I will be growing until the day this incarnation is complete.  The most recent and current lessons of growth I am experiencing are how to communicate and share all the aforementioned in a way that all can receive. How to share my energy and navigate differing energies effectively.  How to keep my center, in ALL situations, no matter what is presented to me.   I came here to learn so deeply about myself, my skills, my gifts, my wisdom and connect with Universal Consciousness so I can help others do the same with the upmost respect and discernment for the highest good. 

Some Labels that I don’t resonate with are the labels of Shaman or Healer.  

Just as I am my own healer, I believe everyone is their own healer, however, we all need a little help sometimes, so I’d rather refer to myself as a coach or guide.

Shamans have the ability to remove energies, entities and Spirits from people, which I can do, but this is only temporary if the person is not committed to healing and change.  Without change, the energies removed will only come back, as you are continuing to operate at the frequency that created or attracted them to begin with.  In this sense, everyone is also their own Shaman, able to heal and make change for themselves, thereby releasing stored energies and attachments due to a shift in frequency, and by doing it themselves, it can be permanent. 

I am Me, Jeffrey Powers.

Spirit Led, Heart Centered, Transformational Coach and Shamanic Guide.

Justin Lapree

Justin LaPree is the visionary founder of The Illuminating Co. (TICo), a pioneering nonprofit helping individuals heal, transform, and find purpose through community, connection, and sacred medicine ceremonies - in America.

A decorated Marine and a former Austin firefighter, Justin has forged a path shaped by service, sacrifice, and resilience. His tenure on Wall Street and entrepreneurial ventures further honed his leadership, and his quest to turn his trauma into transformation inspired The Illuminating Co’s two sanctuaries: Illuminating Heroes, created for veterans and first responders, and Illuminating Hearts, geared towards civilians seeking to unlock their true potential.

As a facilitator and respected medicine carrier, Justin merges ancient wisdom with modern science to offer transformative paths for healing and human optimization in a legal, secure and sacred environment – in America. His belief in the power of spiritual practices to navigate life’s challenges underpins his mission, making TICo a beacon of hope and renewal for those on their journey towards self-discovery and personal growth.

Selina Delangre

Selina Delangre proudly continues the extraordinary legacy of Jacques Delangre, in her positon as the CEO of Celtic Ocean International, Inc., which is the parent company of Selina Naturally® and the Celtic Sea Salt® Brand.

At an early age, Selina acquired Jacques and Yvette Delangre’s love of healthy living with natural sea salt as a vital part of it, and she has been a student of health and wellbeing her entire adult life. Selina’s personal mission statement is “To see the fullest potential in everyone she meets and to reflect back her appreciation of each person.”

Anna-Claire Lotti

Anna Claire Lotti is a clinically-trained herbalist, integrative wellness enthusiast, and facilitator of plant medicine connection. Residing in the ancient Appalachian mountains of North Carolina, Anna Claire’s deep connection to the natural world began in childhood, exploring the Carolina coastal waters and developing a profound reverence for nature’s cycles and rhythms. Her early studies in Marine Biology led to a growing curiosity about the human body’s relationship with its environment, eventually guiding her toward graduate work in nutrition and, ultimately, the healing wisdom of plants.

A graduate of the Holistic Herbalism and Advanced Clinical Herbalism programs at the Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine in Asheville, NC, Anna Claire weaves together traditions from Western herbalism, Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and plant spirit medicine. Her work focuses on empowering individuals to connect with their inner resilience, achieve balance, and cultivate vitality through a grounded relationship with nature and themselves.

Since her first visit to Peru in 2016, Anna Claire has been a devoted student of Andean wisdom, studying under P’aqo Victor Chura Quispe of the Q’ero nation. She works with the Peruvian medicine bundle (quipu) and offers sacred mapacho tobacco ceremonies and energetic clearings in the tradition of Peru’s northern coast. Peru has become her "soul home," a sacred place of transformation and healing, and she considers it part of her life’s mission to guide others in connecting with its ancient teachings, landscapes, and spiritual practices.

Anna Claire also facilitates retreats and workshops designed to integrate ancestral plant medicine practices with modern healing frameworks. As a certified Level 2 Shamanic Reiki practitioner, she bridges the worlds of energy medicine and herbal healing, offering pathways for individuals to align with their natural rhythms and cultivate wholeness. Ever a devoted student of the sentient natural world, Anna Claire is passionate about creating spaces for transformation, where grounding, reflection, and integration are honored as essential parts of the healing journey.

Carla Lee Johnston

Truthbearer. Wayshower. Visionary. Heart Alchemist.
Carla is a visionary, filmmaker, author, and worldbridger on a
mission to guide our family of humanity in the co-creation of
benevolent living biotope models for life and enterprise, within
unity. A successful entrepreneur, achieving what many call “The
American Dream,” her life was transformed after receiving a
profound message for humanity that redefined The Truth of who
we are and why we are here. In that moment, she shifted her focus
from self to service. Now, she dedicates her life to sharing the
living wisdom of The Truth, focusing on empowering
Carefrontations as a direct path to peace, serving NVC—The Language of Compassion, as a
bridge to end our shared Separation Story, from within, helping our collective family awaken to
walk The Truth of our shared Being, as together, we script our epic love story in this Golden Age
upon us.

Amy Sawyer

Amy Sawyer is a plant medicine guide and integration coach, certified by the Center for Medicinal Mindfulness in advanced guiding practices. Her passion lies in working with cannabis and sacred mushrooms to help facilitate transformative healing experiences. She guides from a place of compassion and curiosity, not only during the journey but throughout the integration process.

She is also a certified yoga therapist (C-IAYT), Reiki master teacher, writer, and music lover with a passion for helping others live into their highest potential. With well over 1000 hours of training and experience in teaching a wide range of students over the last 10 years, she offers customized one-on-one sessions with a trauma-informed, therapeutic approach to meet your specific needs. She guides from the heart, empowering you to remember your wholeness through physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being.

Steeped in yoga philosophy, mindfulness, presence, and compassion, she provides a nurturing space where you can safely explore your inner landscape and remember your wholeness. Yoga therapy serves as the foundation, with ancient tools that assist in regulating the nervous system and restoring balance of body, mind, and spirit. Sacred plant medicines assist with breaking down walls, stripping away distractions, and connecting you with your innate healing wisdom. Amy works with these devotional tools with deep reverence and intention to assist you in walking the path home to yourself.

Matthew Brake

Matt's path of working with natural healing began in 2009 on his first trip to Ecuador when he was introduced to Ayahuasca and had a life changing experience. After several years of deep, intense work and shamanic training with this medicine, he began helping facilitate ceremonies in different locations around the world, which later led to leading his own circles. Having the experience of several hundred Ayahuasca journeys, as well as deep work with other Master Plants, and extensive psychedelic experience since 1994, Matt truly understands what holding space means and how to provide a safe environment that elicits optimal healing and integration for each individual who works with him. He later was introduced to Kambo in 2018 and began a path as a Kambo Practitioner with Kambo International in 2019. He is currently a Master Level Practitioner certified through Kambo International.

Besides his extensive experience with Master Plants, he has been a student of metaphysics for over 25 years. Helping facilitate and lead several meditation and metaphysical workshops. Matt also has over 20 years of experience with yoga, including 300 hours of Iyengar teacher training and 500 hours of Kundalini yoga teacher training with additional training in trauma informed yoga. He is certified by The Holos Institute for Health in Energy Medicine and Transcutaneous Acupuncture. Having been a musician for over 25 years, he also discovered the art of sound healing in 2010 and has been performing sound healing meditations since 2012 and couples different elements of sound healing along with traditional practices into his medicine circles.

Brandon Laughinghouse

Brandon Laughinghouse – Psychedelic Coach, Biofeedback Practitioner & Plant Medicine
Mentor/Educator
Brandon Laughinghouse is a psychedelic coach, facilitator, and biofeedback practitioner
dedicated to supporting mental and behavioral health, self-discovery, and cognitive optimization
through the intentional use of sacred medicines. As a graduate of Third Wave and the
Psychedelic Coaching Institute; The High Performance Institute and the Co-founder of A Wave
of Hope, and Zenkai - The Good Change he specializes in psilocybin and LSD microdosing
coaching, integration, Genius Biofeedback healing, and grow-your-own medicine education,
providing safe and structured guidance for those seeking personal growth, emotional healing,
and energetic balance.
With over a decade of experience in high-performance coaching and the therapeutic use of
psychedelics for personal transformation, Brandon intertwines psychedelic science, energy
healing, and metaphysical tools to create a holistic path to healing and self-mastery. His work
integrates Genius Biofeedback scans, allowing clients to track their energetic field, identify
emotional imbalances related to core beliefs, ancestral patterns, and fundamental fears in order
to fine-tune their microdosing journey and integration practices.
Brandon specializes in personalized psilocybin and LSD microdosing protocols, helping
individuals harness the power of these medicines for:
● Neuroplasticity & enhanced focus
● Emotional healing & trauma integration
● Anxiety, Depression, and Addiction recovery
● Increased resilience & motivation
● Spiritual growth & consciousness expansion
He also incorporates crystal energy work, teaching how the metaphysical properties of crystals
can enhance psychedelic experiences, emotional processing, and personal transformation. His
work is deeply rooted in indigenous wisdom, harm reduction, and conscious medicine practices,
ensuring that each journey is approached with integrity, respect, and a deep connection to the
sacred medicines and traditions that came before us.
Brandon is also an organizer for the Psychedelic Society of Asheville, leading community
discussions and educational events focused on psychedelic healing, music, and integration.

Leslie Smith

"Leslie Smith is a Certified Psychedelic Integration Coach and founder of The Mindful Living Movement, dedicated to helping individuals prepare for and integrate profound plant medicine experiences. With over 7 years of experience in mindfulness, somatics, shadow work, plant medicine work and the recent addition of transformational coaching, she provides a safe, grounded space for deep self-exploration and lasting transformation, helping individuals translate their psychedelic experiences into meaningful, lasting change.

Leslie specializes in preparation & integration coaching, guiding clients to set clear intentions, cultivate emotional resilience, and navigate their mindset before a psychedelic journey. Afterward, she supports integration, helping individuals process insights, regulate their nervous system, and embody their experiences into everyday life. She understands that true healing isn’t about chasing peak experiences—it’s about embracing the full spectrum of our being. She offers compassionate, trauma-informed support, ensuring clients feel empowered and resourced throughout their journeys and into the ceremony of life. Leslie can also be found hosting and co-hosting conscious living retreats and events that center around all things Holistic living & health.

She specializes in supporting individuals who are navigating:

• Workplace Stress & Burnout

• Parenting Challenges

• Social Anxiety & Isolation

• Midlife or Existential Crisis

• Abandonment Issues

• Complicated Grief

• Postpartum Depression & Anxiety

• Perfectionism & Fear of Failure

• Guilt & Shame from Past Actions

• Emotional Dysregulation & Anger Issues

• Hyper-Independence & Fear of Vulnerability

• Emotional & Relational Intimacy

• Women's Empowerment & Liberation

• Self Discovery & Authenticity

• Authentic Connection & Communication

• Personal Transformation

• Mind Body Integration - Embodiment

Certifications & Training

• Certified Psychedelic Integration Coach – Being True to You (2024)

• Shadow Work Practitioner – Shadow Tribe (2022)

• Certified Sound Healer – YogaRenew (2024)

• Mindfulness  – Mindful Schools (2019) 

• E-RYT200, Yoga – Yoga Alliance (2018)

• Somatics & Embodiment – Being True to You (2024)"

Alieona Riley

Alieona Riley is a dual Certified Hypnotherapist and spiritual guide who helps clients reconnect with the Divine intelligence of their body, mind, and soul. With a deep passion for plant medicine integration, she holds space for individuals navigating the afterglow of altered states—whether from sacred plant journeys, dreams, or mystical awakenings—using the powerful tool of Quantum Hypnosis.

Her path began at age 9, living on the campus of a world-renowned holistic rehab center where she witnessed profound transformation through meditation, sauna detox, and mind-body healing. This early immersion ignited her life’s devotion to the healing arts.

Alieona brings 9 years of experience in personal development, functional wellness, and somatic awareness. She’s certified in Quantum Hypnosis, Regression Therapy, Heart rate variability training, Biofeedback, and trained at the bulletproof Human Potential Institute. She’s currently pursuing a PhD in Natural Medicine with a focus on Consciousness as Medicine.

For Alieona, sacred plant medicines have been teachers, allies, and in many ways, soul-level parental figures. In the absence of support from her own parents as a teen, both of whom struggled with addiction, these plant spirits offered her the guidance, healing, and nurturing she longed for. Over the past 12 years, they’ve helped her not only heal, and awaken spiritually but also reclaim parts of herself that were never fully seen or held—reminding her that she is never alone on the path.

Though she doesn’t claim to be a psychedelic specialist, or Shaman, her lived experience, and the plants allow her to support others with deep presence and reverence. She offers a grounded, trauma-informed approach to plant medicine integration, helping clients alchemize their experiences into real, embodied transformation.

Quantum Hypnosis is at the heart of Alieona’s work—a transformational modality that guides clients into deeply relaxed, expanded states of consciousness. In this receptive theta brainwave state, the subconscious mind opens, allowing access to root causes of dis-ease, emotional imprints, past-life memories, and soul-level insight. It’s also a space where clients often connect with plant spirits, ancestors, and spiritual guides—receiving guidance, healing, and energetic upgrades from beyond the veil. Whether integrating psychedelic journeys, dreamwork, or spiritual breakthroughs, Quantum Hypnosis offers a sacred bridge between the mystical and practical—supporting you in reprogramming your mind to align with your heart, soul, and innate wholeness.

Her Vedic Astrology reveals why this work is encoded in her soul's blueprint:
Pisces Sun, Saturn, and Mars in the 12th House – A natural guide of altered states, dream realms, and spiritual initiation. She channels wisdom from other lifetimes and leads others through deep transformation.
Scorpio Moon in the 8th House – Emotional depth and psychic sensitivity allow her to hold space for shadow alchemy, not afraid of the dark, and willing to go in the depth of the murky subconscious and clear mass consciousness spells.
Aries Rising – A catalyst for clarity and courageous action, helping clients burn through false identities and step into their truth.
Rahu in Virgo, Ketu in Pisces – Her karmic path weaves mysticism with grounded service—Ketu here is bringing in the more past life wisdom she has achieved in the realms of spirituality- destining her to be a channel for spiritual truths in this life. 

Whether you’re integrating sacred plant medicine experiences, navigating a spiritual awakening or looking to reconnect with the Divine within, Alieona helps you anchor spiritual truth, and wisdom into your everyday life to live in alignment with your heart and soul”

Naga Natasha Figueira

Naga Natasha Figueira is a Medicine Woman, Mother, and Spiritual Guide devoted to the awakening of humanity through Earth-based wisdom and sacred ceremony. As the founder of Nova Terra Shamanic School of Awareness in Riverview, Florida, she holds a grounded yet expansive container for those called to reconnect with their essence. Her work is rooted in the understanding that healing is not merely a process of release, but a return to truth—a remembering of the wholeness we’ve always carried.

Her path began in childhood through mystical encounters with the unseen world and blossomed into a life of service. More than a decade ago, she became a Reiki Master and deepened her studies in Chinese Reflexology, Medicinal Aromatherapy, Sound Healing, Khonda ceremony, and Tantra Trauma-Informed Therapy. She later trained extensively in Europe, Mexico, and the Amazon Rainforest with Plant Medicine, teachings to become a certified Kambo Practitioner and Facilitator of other Sacred Medicines, culminating this training with 10 months of intensive deep Shamanic School and Traditions.

These initiations aligned her with her soul’s calling: to walk beside others as they shed illusion, embody their light, and rise into their own medicine and self-empowerment.

Now as a mother of two teenagers and a devoted steward of sacred space, Naga offers monthly access to Spiritual Life Coach Guidance, Kambo Ceremonies, Community Integration Gathering Events , Private Shamanic Journeys and Immersive three-day Retreats. As Nova Terra expands into a Retreat Sanctuary in Ocala, Florida, the vision becomes clear: to cultivate a new generation of Facilitators who walk the path with sovereignty, integration, and deep awareness. The Shamanic School of Awareness exists to carry these teachings forward—offering the wisdom, presence, and spiritual tools necessary to guide others with integrity and devotion. Through every circle she opens, Naga carries the frequency of awakening and the quiet strength of a woman who has walked the path with unwavering faith and devotion.