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 tradition, healing is not merely a destination but a sacred unfolding—an invitation to harmonize your body, heart, and spirit with the living pulse of the natural world. Each plant ally arrives bearing its own song, and by attuning to its subtle voice, you embark on a pilgrimage back to your true self.

When you sit in ceremony, you become both witness and participant in an ancient dance. With every breath, the medicine whispers reminders of your innate wisdom. As you lean into its guidance—again and again—you’re gently unshackled from old wounds and obscured beliefs. In that space of deep listening, clarity dawns, and you awaken to the freedom that has always been yours.

We walk this path alongside you with reverence and humility, honoring the scroll of earth, sky, and water that wrote these medicines into being. Our role is simple: to tend the fire, hold the space, and let Creation’s own intelligence flow through. When you stand fully in your power, the teacher you seek will already be at your side, reflecting the truth that your greatest healer lives within.