Values and Guidance

We maintain direct relationships with tribal artisans, a rare approach that grants them the autonomy to shape their own destinies and bypass any imposed hierarchy. This direct connection ensures transparency and authenticity in what we offer, as there are no middlemen to obscure the true origin and quality of the medicines.

Fair Trade:

We honor the prices set by the tribal artisans and do not negotiate. This ensures that they receive fair compensation, contributing to sustainable livelihoods. Our partnership respects their autonomy and avoids exploitative practices, fostering a long-standing, mutually beneficial relationship that embodies the spirit of fair trade.

Advance Payments:

We pay the artisans ahead of time for their sacraments, ensuring zero risk for them and their families.

Expert Production:

Our medicines are made directly by Pajés or under their supervision. The Pajé (or shaman) is a person who has undergone long spiritual training, under the guidance of plants.

Generational Seeds:

Many of the artisans we collaborate with grow their own 'Tabaco Mói' (Nicotiana tabacum) from seeds that have been passed down through generations. We recommend choosing rapés made with traditionally grown tobacco rather than industrial tobacco, for example hybridized Sabiá tobacco (Nicotiana rustica), which results in less sustainable practices that do not align with traditional values. By supporting small-batch rapés made with locally grown tobacco, you support the traditionalists within the tribal economies.

Respect for Tradition:

We seek out and work with medicine makers who respect the 'old ways.' Their work often begins with cultivating stands of medicinal plants, which they harvest and hand-process to create their medicines.

Energetically Fresh:

Our sacraments are made to order and are therefore energetically fresh, carrying the strong prayers and healing energies of the medicine maker

Sacred Instruments of Healing: 

We view the rapé, kambo, and sananga we offer as sacred instruments of healing. When approached with care and proper guidance, these sacraments unlock profound transformation in those called to work with them.

Respectful Approach: 

Set the stage for optimal growth by greeting these allies respectfully as teachers, not treatments. Listen without judgment, establishing trust rooted in patience and acceptance. Surrender to each medicine’s unique wisdom, on its schedule, not yours.

Humble Courage:

True plant spirit medicines ask us to walk their paths with humble courage. The healing manifests gently and organically, in alignment with each seeker’s readiness to receive the gifts waiting within. Our role is to steward this sacred transition in service to human awakening.

Quiet Listening:

A true plant medicine offers guidance if you quiet the mind to listen. In gentle ways, it reveals how one may walk in step with its healing rhythms. Do not rush its blossoming or your own.

Patient Integration:

Stay open to direction from the medicine itself—where it wishes to take you, what it asks you to consider, and when integration is right. Move through each passage at the pace it sets for you. This careful, attendant patience allows the medicine’s authentic voice to come forward.

Understanding and Intuition:

In stillness, understanding will grow of proper use, dosage, and duration. More so, deeper intuition develops, sensing when a period of working together is complete for now. There comes a knowing when to incorporate lessons before saying thankful farewell. For now. True plant allies depart only to circle back when the student stands ready once more to receive their gifts.

In the shamanic view, your journey of healing is a process of aligning your physical, emotional, and spiritual energies to support personal liberation and empowerment.

When you work with plant medicines, guidance often emerges by listening closely to the medicine. With sincere repetition, this practice can lead you through a transformational experience. This journey focuses on reconnecting you to your inherent ability to heal. As the medicine imparts clarity, it gradually frees you from past traumas and limiting beliefs. What unfolds is a renewed sense of purpose and a deeper understanding of your divine nature.

As healers, we walk beside you on this path with deep respect and humility. We recognize that the medicines we steward are part of Creation’s mysterious support for human awakening. Our mission is to serve as humble conduits for this ancient, sacred process of alignment, realization, and actualization. Ultimately, the goal is for you to fully embody your gifts and medicine power. When you are ready, the teacher appears to confirm what lies within: 

You have always been the healer you searched for outside yourself.