Francesca Barone

5.006 reviews

About the Teacher

Why study with them?

Francesca is a naturopathic medical practitioner, holistic nutritionist, and plant medicine facilitator. Growing up in the Midwest, she sparked a desire at a young age to be of service to the world around her as she witnessed a health and spiritual epidemic. She left home at a young age and began traveling the world gaining knowledge in mind-body medicine and spiritual teachings. Her passion is rooted in guiding others through a variety of natural healing practices to help them restore their vitality and true essence. She is committed to helping others rediscover their empowerment through self-healing, compassion-based therapy, and connection to Spirit.

Since beginning her work with shamanic healing practices and plant medicine, Francesca has helped hundreds of clients release the imprints of trauma and emotional imbalances they carried with them for years. She supports her clients intimately as they move away from Western medical practices that solely treat disease symptoms and inspires them to find emotional liberation and embodied aliveness through treating the root-causes of their pain, often originating in childhood trauma. Francesca is a trauma-informed practitioner and long-term student of Gabor Maté’s work specializing in early-developmental trauma, somatic healing, and addiction therapy.

Francesca’s work is alive with passion and vitality. She believes wholeheartedly that every being on Earth is deserving and capable of emotional freedom and sustainable health, through integrating the parts of ourselves with unwavering compassion. She herself lived a life of addiction and disconnection for years before her first encounter with Ayahuasca, served by beautiful Shipibo maestros that have become her life-long teachers. Her love and reverence for the Shipibo lineage and healers she works besides is felt by her guests. A forever student and explorer of life, Francesca continues her ever-unfolding journey of deepening with plant medicine and working to bridge ancient indigenous practices with the Western world in need of deep collective healing.

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Like a warm hug
Francesca and Niels are incredibly devoted, compassionate and loving. And so skilled in creating a safe and high quality ayahuasca retreat.
Tremendous healing happened during my time at Anam Cara and great new relationships were also forged.

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A good hard dose of love and understanding
I can't thank Francesca enough for choosing her life path. I understand how important this work is, not just for me personally, but for all those that I come into contact with. Feels like I've been touched by magic and now I get to go forward and give that feeling to others

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Francesca is the best
The whole week was so well thought out, Francesca has created such a safe space for exploration and healing. The food was so clean, nourishing and delicious. I can’t say enough good things about Francesca she is amazing.

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My new Soul Sister!
Elegant, spiritual and spirited. Compassionate, caring, authentic, highly intelligent and inspiring, loving, and so so supportive. Her grace and devotion are simply contagious. Inspirational and filled with true harmony.

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Anam Cara Retreat owner
From the introduction call before the retreat to connecting in person at the retreat. I felt a great ease in talking and sharing with Francesca. She has a beautiful way of making you feel at ease. Her skills as a medical practitioner, holistic nutritionist & plant medicine facilitator & continued studies on how to support individuals in this sacred process is phenomenal. I appreciated Francesca's transparency with her own process with the medicine as it helped to create a more human connection. Grateful for this connection.