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Plant Spirit Medicine Ceremonialist Apprenticeship

Foundational training to be of sacred service

with the Master Teacher Plants

Year 1:  September 21st, 2023 to September 2nd, 2024

A Three Year Online & In Person Apprenticeship

“Do you feel deep within you, an undeniable call to Serve profound healing in others?”

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“Do you love the beauty and wisdom of the sacred plant teachers, but don’t feel ready, confident or equipped to create a personal ceremony?”

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“Do you long to learn in an authentic, loving, supported, and lineage-sanctioned container so you can serve in a larger community of care?

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This Program Is For....

Pachakuti Mesa Carriers

WHO FEEL AN UNDENIABLE CALL TO SERVE PROFOUND HEALING IN OTHERS THROUGH PLANT SPIRIT MEDICINE CEREMONY

 

Learn how to become a Pachakuti Mesa Carrier

The Plant Spirit Medicine Ceremonialist Apprenticeship is a holistic and comprehensive immersion program designed to develop successive levels of practice, skillful means, lineage empowerment, and initiation to learn the art of healing ceremony with the master teacher plant spirits. Each year of training is a level of direct initiatory training to foster the development of specific shamanic core competencies through focused mentorship. Each core competency is an absolute requirement to enter the complex spirit realms of shamanic healing, and to successfully be of service to others with the plants. This is an absolutely unique and rare opportunity to receive in-depth and personal mentorship to learn the ceremonial way of Plant Spirit Medicine. Outside of traditional apprenticeship (which usually takes anywhere between 5-15 years) there is no other program offering this holistic and integral of a practitioner level training and mentorship opportunity. 

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CORE COMPETENCY DEVELOPMENT

TO BECOME A PLANT SPIRIT MEDICINE CEREMONIALIST

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This 3 year journey will support each apprentice to develop the following core competencies that are absolute requirements for successful practice as a shamanic practitioner:

 

  • Have  received sanction from the Plant Spirit Medicine, ancestors, lineage, Pachamama, and Great Spirit to offer in this way & never takes this sanction for granted. It is received anew, each ceremony and each step of the journey.

  • Have developed clear consistent direct communication with Master Teacher Plant and Spirit Guides, so as to be their assistant.

  • Know/Experience deep relationship rooted in love, devotion, and Ayni with Plant Spirit and Benevolent Guides.

  • See each client as already whole and that they bring an essential medicine and gift to Earth.

  • Have the ability to meet, discern, harmonize, and transform hucha, susto, and dano (dense energy, trauma, shock, and harm) for oneself and clients.

  • Embody understanding of true healing, the role of the PSMC, and is able to consistently create the energetic and 3-D conditions in which true healing occurs.

  • Practice and develop the rare ability to remain the “Eye of the Storm”, centered, grounded, and clear amidst the chaos and mess of another’s healing process.

  • Have  a clear Vista (shamanic sight) and honed tools and self assessment to discern truth, distortion, illusion, and fantasy.

  • Hold “Vista en Virtud” for all who sincerely seek healing.

  • Achieve a practiced ability to remain coherent, clear, grounded, and calm within expanded states of consciousness.

  • Have a strong healthy mind, body, and fortified stable resilient bio-field.  Only practices offering ceremony for others when personally well. Has the tools and support of the community to return to wellness through life’s curveballs.

  • Hold everyone they encounter with unconditional positive regard, discriminative wisdom, and compassion.

  • Embody absolute devotion to living a daily life of service to All of Life.

  • Absolute devotion to mature self-care, personal practice, personal shadow work.

  • 100% commitment to Truth, impeccable with words and actions, and repair of personal error or unintentional harm.

  • Be Resourced in an embodied gnosis of Love and Truth, empowered in personal Sovereignty and Wisdom.

  • Has the skillful means to meet clients with compassion, discernment, confidence, humility, and loving kindness.

  • Is trauma-informed and committed to transparent explicit ethics of informed consent. Has an experientially based understanding of the dangers of projection, transference, and how to create relationships with clients that resource and empower their spiritual sovereignty and body autonomy.

  • Connected and collaborates with a network of interdisciplinary practitioners to help best support clients

  • Is held within a circle and community of active mature mentorship and has an oversight counsel.

  • Deeply understands the risks and benefits of the master teacher plant that is being served. Can readily assess if a potential client would actually benefit from ceremonial work, the preparation, the appropriate dosing, and supported integration.

  • Is very well practiced in the Art of Ceremony, including appropriate prayers, songs, practices, and energetic tending of the container. 

The Plant Spirit Medicine Ceremonial Apprenticeship is an advanced practitioner training for Pachakuti Mesa Practitioners, which is offered as 3 Levels of training over 3 Years to grow and gain the tools to build these core competencies.  Learn more about the requisite Pachakuti Mesa Tradition 5 Part Apprenticeship.

 

This apprenticeship immersion is an authentic, initiatory, lineage guided, and radically supported journey of personal evolution with the sacred ceremonial arts of the Master Teacher Plants.

 

Commitment and sacred reciprocity is made one year at a time. (The 3 year journey will conclude with a pilgrimage to Peru with Robin and Darcy to receive direct sanction from the medicine, apus and ancestors of the lineage at the sacred site Chavin de Huantar.) 

 

Each year-long initiatory level of apprenticeship offers mentorship and tools to cultivate the required core competencies, energetic resource, personal power, and direct spiritual connection to be able to become a heart centered and integral plant spirit medicine ceremonialist. First for oneself, secondly for dear friends, and thirdly for larger community service.

 

We recognize that the 5 Part Pachakuti Mesa Tradition apprenticeship is the essential foundation for what the plant spirits, Guardians of Ayni, and benevolent guides need in as a base for each practitioner. What we teach will be founded on the principals, cosmovision, and spiritual connection provided in 5 Level PMT apprenticeship. Therefore, this program is only open to people who have completed the 5 Part Pachakuti Mesa Tradition apprenticeship or are currently toward the end of completing this process (have already completed level 4 and personal Paqowachu.) 

 

This is an intense, beautiful, and rigorous journey requiring new levels of personal healing, emotional maturity, devotion, veracity, and self-reflective wisdom. To be called to be in successful service with the plants, we must be fully committed to our ongoing personal healing, impeccable integrity, and shadow work. FOR WE CANNOT GIVE WHAT WE DON’T HAVE.  After Year One of this process, it will be clear to you if this calling to be of service as a Plant Spirit Medicine Ceremonialist, is part of your sacred path of Service.

 

Becoming a Plant Spirit Medicine Ceremonialist is an exceptionally challenging and beautiful path of service that is a sacred calling and that requires 100% commitment and devotion. It is not a weekend endeavor, it is a 24/7 lifestyle. We, as mentors, aim to walk with you side by side, so that you can be resourced and empowered to know if this is your Soul Calling. 

 

It is clear that we need as many heart-centered skilled practitioners as possible for planetary transformation and healing that is taking place. There will only be greater and greater need for the return to Evolutionary Earth Medicine, reverence, and the wisdom of Gaia in the years to come. 

 

This is what we will teach over these 3 years through guiding each initiative in a personal and absolutely unique path of study. We have our overview of each year, and we also recognize that the plant spirits themselves are guiding this process and we will be following their lead.

 

We will not provide participants with plant medicines or sources for plants. We will guide each apprentice through the ceremonial and spiritual tools to create a relationship with a master teacher plant and receive sanction from the master teacher plant to deepen the relationship.

 

Each initiate will be required to be responsible for sourcing their own plant medicines. This apprenticeship is only focused on working with the medicinal power of plant spirit medicines, and will have no content or teachings regarding the use of isolated synthesized psychedelic designer molecules for healing.

 

We do have an application process for all who wish to embark on this level of mentorship and training with us. If you, as a Mesa carrier, did not complete the Basic Pachakuti Mesa Apprenticeship with us, we ask for a letter of reference from your PMT mentor and/or members of your Ayllu. 

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Year One - The Way of Reverence

“Khuyay Tusoq Hampi ” 

Begins September 21st, 2023 to September 2nd, 2024

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CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TH APPRENTICESHIP OUTLINE

 

Three Virtues:

Devotion - Honour - Clarity

(Clear Hearing, Clear Seeing, Clear Knowing)

 

 

Three Core Competencies:

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  • Build direct and deep connection with plant spirit medicine ceremony as a personal healing practice

  • Learn how to accurately perceive the guidance of PSM and how to construct a ceremonial container of “resource and empowerment” for yourself

  • Learn how to accurately hear, perceive and know that the guidance you are receiving is of the greatest benevolence for sanctioned practice with Master Teacher plants

 

 

More of What You Will Be Learning in Year 1 - The Way of Reverence

 

“Khuyay Tusoq Hampiq ” - Learning to be a Loving Apprentice to Sacred Medicines 

 

Deepening relationship with the Shamanic Universe and Sacred Plant Teachers through devoted personal practice. 

 

This year of apprenticeship will be a deep dive learning container to:

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  • Learn how to cultivate direct communication with Plant Spirits.

  • Develop a deep, loving relationship with Plant Spirits and Guides. 

  • Receive guidance directly from Plant Spirits as to the ceremonial path and personal approach to healing with the plants.

  • Learn how to receive true, good, and clear sanction from Plant Spirit medicines, Guardians of Ayni, Benevolent Guides, Pachamama, and Great Spirit.

  • Learn how to align your life and ceremonial work to the power of Nature, the cycles of Earth, Sun, and Moon, as well as the unique medicine power of the land.

  • With a fully activated heart, body, and mind, learn how to distinguish Truth, distortion, and meet adversarial energies within you (we have to learn this within ourselves first, before we can help support others in this way.)

  • Build the Kallpa (power base) of your sacred healing container and Mesa, through devoted offerings, pilgrimage, and focused practice.

  • Learn the Way of Reverence as the foundation to any further service to and with the Sacred Plant Medicines. 

  • Learn and embody “The Circles of Sanctuary”.

 

In year one we will be guiding you to

develop the core PSMC competencies of:

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  • Clear consistent direct communication with Master Teacher Plant and Spirit Guides, so as to be their assistant.

  • Deep relationship rooted in love, devotion, and Ayni with Plant Spirit and Benevolent Guides

  • Practiced ability to remain coherent, clear, grounded, and calm within expanded states of consciousness.

  • Has a strong healthy mind, body, and fortified stable resilient bio-field- only practices offering ceremony for others when personally well. Has the tools and support of the community to return to wellness through life’s curveballs.

  • Embodied understanding of true healing, the role of the PSMC, and is able to consistently create the energetic and 3-D conditions in which true healing occurs.

  • Absolute devotion to living a daily life of service to All of Life.

  • Absolute devotion to mature self-care, personal practice, personal shadow work.

  • 100% commitment to Truth, impeccable with words and actions, and repair of personal error or unintentional harm.

 

****The first year of apprenticeship is for the Personal Creation of Deep Relationship with your chosen Master Teacher Plant/s (this apprenticeship is not limited to anyone plant, but will support you to learn the way to develop this direct spiritual connection to any plant teacher.) Many may choose to only embark on year 1 of the training to radically deepen in the personal connection, allyship, and love of the plants and to become more empowered within their individual journey of healing and awakening. 

 

This year of immersive learning with the plants will illuminate each apprentice’s sacred path of service and if in their calling is to move forward with the next level and year of focused apprenticeship.

This in-person and online container offers absolutely unique and lineage sanctioned mentorship and energetic support for the steep and intense learning curve with the master teacher plants through: 

 

  • A step by step guided and radically supported process to become a plant spirit medicine ceremonialist with the master teacher plants

  • Bimonthly group teaching & mentorship video calls (Every other Wednesday, 10-12pm PST) 

  • Quarterly guest teachers including don Oscar Miro-Quesada & Cindy Miro-Quesada and other ceremonial guides we love and respect who will offer specific teachings on the nature of being a fully integral practitioner of the sacred arts- the gifts, the challenges, and the power of initiation

  • In-depth mentorship and support (energetically and practically) from Darcy and Robin

  • 1 personal mentorship session with both Robin and Darcy each quarter year (4 calls with Robin & 4 with Darcy)

  • 2 Group in-person 5 day Retreats and Immersions at Star River Sanctuary to open and close the year long ceremonial container

  • Continuing your own healing journey in a radically empowered way- Our path of healing is our path of service. 

  • Direct initiation and empowerment through the Pachakuti Mesa Lineage, Benevolent Guides, Plant Spirits, and Guardians of Ayni

  • Every step of the way is learning the shamanic, multi-dimensional levels, and complexities of space holding through direct personal practice

  • Teachings on the vast complexities of the shamanic realities and the absolute necessity of aligned ethics of ceremonial practice and offering (This may not be able to be taught entirely in 3 years, but we will aim to give you the the foundational wisdom and skillful means to have the tools to build a practice upon.)

  • Prioritized Opportunities to be Darcy and Robin’s ceremonial support and learn hands on as support roles for our ceremonial work (This is at 50% cost of event plus agreed upon trade support for each event.)

 

SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION WILL REQUIRE:

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  • A personal Paqowachu and pilgrimage for completion of each year of ceremonial initiation.

  • Plus at  least 13 personal ceremonies each year to develop sanction from plants, lineage, and Source to be of service in ever more expanding levels

  • More will be shared of the personal requirements of each initiate to successfully complete this radically unique curriculum.

  • This is an authentic, initiatory, lineage guided, and radically supported Apprenticeship in the sacred ceremonial healing arts of the Master Teacher Plants that will require at least 2 hours per week of study time, 1-3 hour per week of personal practice, 4 hours of online class time, 1 personal ceremony a moon cycle, and daily devotion to embodying the teachings.

  • Required readings, written material, and creative assignments.

 

This is a “masters” level learning container and will invite each initiate into the “driver's seat” of their own learning and relationship to the plant spirits. In making this year long commitment, it is up to each initiate to organize their lives and time, to prioritize this process.

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IN PERSON RETREAT PORTIONS

The Way of Reverence Opening Retreat

 

September 21st- 25th, 2023

Star River Sanctuary, Nelson, British Columbia


 

The Way of Reverence : Closing Retreat

 

August 29 - September 2nd, 2024

Star River Sanctuary, Nelson, British Columbia

PAYMENT OPTIONS

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OPTION 1

PAY IN FULL

$5555 USD

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OPTION 2

PAYMENT PLAN

$1000 Deposit 

$333 USD per month

Sacred Reciprocity for Year 1 of the Plant Spirit Medicine Ceremonialist Apprenticeship

(includes everything listed above as well as an honorarium for each guest teacher, an honorarium for the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition, all course materials, online teachings, beautifully crafted organic food and shared lodging for each in-person retreat held at Star River Sanctuary)

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*Price Adjustments Available for Canadian Residents
 

2 Potential work trades and scholarships available by application

 

~ Does not include travel to and from Star River Sanctuaries or gratuities to Star River Staff ~

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