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90min Online Preparation and Guidance for Ceremony: Shamanic Protocols and Grounding for your Psychedelic Experience
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About this Retreat
Your Guides
Nicole Redmountain is a mother, herbalist, integral therapist, anthropologist, mentor, facilitator and conductor of ceremonies with sacred plants, as well as nature's elements.
Nicole has worked with ayahuasca for the last 20 years - of these, 12 years alongside indigenous peoples from the amazon (Huni Kuin and Yawanawá), as well as learned from other tratidions from the Brazilian coast (Tupinambá, Guarani).
Learning from midwives, herbalists, curandeiros and curandeiras from diverse indigenous traditions in North, Central and South America, Nicole focused her healing particularly with the medicines of elements, sacred circles for women, offering cacau ceremonies, and other ecotherapies and tools focused on ancestral practices and wisdom.
She is co-founder of Munay Vale Encantado (Heart Medicine Enchanted Valley), in Juquitiba, Brasil - amid the atlatntic rainforest - where she and her husband work offering spiritual retreats, living experiences, volunteering, workshops and individual healing. The center joins traditions from earth centered people, with herbalism, sustainability, natural building, permaculture and deep ecology.
She also has a small hand-crafted herbal business called Raiz do Meu Ser, offering shamanic crafts and nature's medicines.
She loves supporting people in their self-discovery and healing journeys, helping them reconnect to the greater community of life, to the sacred aspects of living, and to finding their inner medicine, purpose, and bliss.
Details of this retreat
Preparation for ceremony is often overlooked by many westerners and I cannot stress enough how essential it is, and how it can directly affect the outcome of your experience. It is key to how you will enter sacred space and will dictate where you might land in ceremony. It can either bring you space for personal and spiritual growth and healing or foster confusion and traumatic experiences.
In the paradigm of speed and disconnection of our contemporary world, many people come into ceremony space with sacred plants approaching this work in a consumption mindset - not understanding what must be cultivated to guarantee a profound, safe and respectful journey. We work from a place of understanding that we need to create partnership with, and reverence to these sacred plants, as well as the ancestors and guides that accompany us.
We will focus on a range of preparations to allow you to ground and dive deeply into your experience, have more guided clarity during ceremony, as well as safety practices for your physical and spiritual integrity.
I will work with you on your personal intention, commitments, and help guide you in making balanced choices, aligning your needs with your choice of ceremony space. We will look at context (group, facilitator, shaman, place, music, timing, structure of ceremony), and how each element plays a central role in your process.
I will bring specific dieting and shamanic protocols and practices that should be in place during the week coming up to your session, preparing body and mind, and helping you identify some of the processes that might come up during your experience (physical, emotional and spiritual). This includes a range of things from body postures to movement, breathing, thought processes, working with the elements of nature, among others.
We will also spend time in understanding more deeply what are “bad trips” and how to best navigate them, explaining some of the common subterfuges of the mind. We will identify when you are listening to the ego or spirit voice, how to work with your fears, learning to release control and have less resistance, to allow the plants to guide you. Difficult and challenging trips can be some of the most beneficial and healing experiences if you are able to understand and identify the language and paradigm of this spiritual, ancestral space. There is healing in every part of the experience.
As I take the preparation to any non-ordinary state of consciousness to be a place of sacred space and ceremony, the session cannot be superficial and quick. Therefore these sessions take 90 minutes.
The source of my guidance and preparation is founded on Brazilian and Andean ayahuascan indigenous traditions, Umbanda (African Brazilian spiritual tradition) and Spiritismo (spirit-based faiths from Brazil), as well as directly from the teachings with these plants and my spirit guides. I have worked with ayahuasca for the past 20 years, of which 12 have been alongside indigenous groups from the Amazon (Huni Kuin and Yawanawá).
In the paradigm of speed and disconnection of our contemporary world, many people come into ceremony space with sacred plants approaching this work in a consumption mindset - not understanding what must be cultivated to guarantee a profound, safe and respectful journey. We work from a place of understanding that we need to create partnership with, and reverence to these sacred plants, as well as the ancestors and guides that accompany us.
We will focus on a range of preparations to allow you to ground and dive deeply into your experience, have more guided clarity during ceremony, as well as safety practices for your physical and spiritual integrity.
I will work with you on your personal intention, commitments, and help guide you in making balanced choices, aligning your needs with your choice of ceremony space. We will look at context (group, facilitator, shaman, place, music, timing, structure of ceremony), and how each element plays a central role in your process.
I will bring specific dieting and shamanic protocols and practices that should be in place during the week coming up to your session, preparing body and mind, and helping you identify some of the processes that might come up during your experience (physical, emotional and spiritual). This includes a range of things from body postures to movement, breathing, thought processes, working with the elements of nature, among others.
We will also spend time in understanding more deeply what are “bad trips” and how to best navigate them, explaining some of the common subterfuges of the mind. We will identify when you are listening to the ego or spirit voice, how to work with your fears, learning to release control and have less resistance, to allow the plants to guide you. Difficult and challenging trips can be some of the most beneficial and healing experiences if you are able to understand and identify the language and paradigm of this spiritual, ancestral space. There is healing in every part of the experience.
As I take the preparation to any non-ordinary state of consciousness to be a place of sacred space and ceremony, the session cannot be superficial and quick. Therefore these sessions take 90 minutes.
The source of my guidance and preparation is founded on Brazilian and Andean ayahuascan indigenous traditions, Umbanda (African Brazilian spiritual tradition) and Spiritismo (spirit-based faiths from Brazil), as well as directly from the teachings with these plants and my spirit guides. I have worked with ayahuasca for the past 20 years, of which 12 have been alongside indigenous groups from the Amazon (Huni Kuin and Yawanawá).
What's Included
- 1-on-1 Online Ceremony Preparation and guidance
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