Upcoming events.
PSI Hive
Plant Spirit Initiation (PSI) Hive is a community of practitioners dedicated to attuning to and learning from Earth Medicines and the rhythms of Nature.
This involves initiating with a different Plant Spirit at each season, to support harmonizing with the elemental and energetic changes that they bring.
Life as Medicine Way
Life as Medicine Way is a nine-month intensive online and in-person initiation. It is a guided journey into the sacred teachings of your ancestral inheritances, lived experiences, relations, plant teachers, and Pachamama. Life as Medicine Way is an alchemy of the mind, heart, and soul.
Weaving Andean-Amazonian cosmology, plant spirit medicine, folk herbalism, shamanic practice, ancestral healing, and other contemporary earth-based wisdom modalities, Life As Medicine Way is a course on embracing lifestyle as the conduit for ceremony and medicine.
Sacred Teachings of Plants Seasonal Gatherings
Join us for seasonal in-person gatherings at the Plant Spirit Talk Kiva.
Celebrating the rhythms of the Earth near the Solstices and Equinoxes, we will immerse ourselves in the teachings of a seasonal Plant Spirit Teacher, chosen to support harmony and expand on the wisdom of the season; we’ll create healing medicines, engage in ritual, and grow in community connection.
This series is offered in tandem with the PSI HIVE Community Plant Spirit Initiations. If you’re interested in joining these gatherings, we highly recommend you also consider joining us for a month-long initiatory ceremony with these wise Plant beings, through the PSI HIVE
2025 Wisdom Tour
Celebrating the Deep Cultural and Ethnobotanical Wisdom of the Peruvian Andes and Amazon
The Alliance for Sacred Living in partnership with Plant Spirit Talk, the Berkeley Herbal Center and La Tierra Community, is delighted to welcome five esteemed members of the Alianza Hampi Kawsay to join us in Northern California for a month-long journey of Wisdom Exchange during mid August to mid September, featuring educational presentations, community rituals, land blessings, and inter-tribal sharing.
Wisdom Exchange Confluence
Join us for our Second Annual Wisdom Exchange Confluence. This day is dedicated to sacred exchange, filled with learning, community care, connection, and celebration while exploring Indigenous wisdom, plants, healing, stewardship, and eco-spirituality.
Sacred Teachings of Tobacco; WATER
As we continue to explore the experiential teachings of Tobacco medicine and their relationship with the elemental masters, for our upcoming gathering, we will turn our attention to the spirit of Water. You’re invited to join us for a cleansing and soul-nourishing afternoon on the gorgeous coasts of Inverness with these beloved teachers.
We will gather to learn, sit, and participate in a ceremony focused on tobacco's teachings with the Water Element, exploring the roles of cleansing, clarifying and nourishing while cultivating prayer and sacred reciprocity.
We will engage in communing with Tobacco in various ways, including: meditation, medicine making, and ritual.
Dreamseed
DREAMSEED is a full-day creative immersion designed to awaken your body, clear stagnant energy, and plant the seeds of your next artistic chapter—held on the sacred, fertile lands of La Tierra in Sebastopol.
Through a blend of guided movement, ritual, storytelling, and hands-on creative practice, you’ll reconnect with your inner muse and reweave your creative energy as something sacred and sovereign.
Life As Medicine Way FREE WEBINAR
Join Us for an Inspiring Webinar on our Life As Medicine Way Program
Are you ready to embark on a transformative journey of healing and self-discovery?
We invite you to learn more about our signature program, a profound nine—month journey designed to help you reclaim your Medicine and deepen your sacred connection to the Earth and your life.
During this enlightening webinar, you will discover how our program supports you in initiating a path of sovereignty, remembrance, and purpose. With the guidance of insightful plant medicine and other earth medicine teachers, you will explore ancient wisdom that empowers you to transform your life from the inside out.
2024 Amazonian Medicine Immersion Journey in Peru
This journey will be our return for the sixth year of our Amazonian Medicine Immersion to the jungle sanctuary in Tarapoto, Peru. We are so blessed to have the opportunity to receive the potent medicine and transmissions from our Grandmother master plant and our Shipibo Conibo Grandmother, Maestra Amelia. We'll be taking a deep dive into Amazonian Medicine, its preparations, and traditional jungle healing protocols, including Plant Dietas.
Our host, beloved Medicine Woman Selva, and her team will lead us on a ten-day journey of deep detoxification, healing ceremonies with the Amazonian plants, Entheogenic herb walks, and many other wisdom-exchanging sessions dedicated to honoring and reciprocal interspecies relations with our beloved plant-embodied teachers. We’ll be learning from one of the most ancient traditions of Vegetalismo through the Shipibo Conibo lineage, how to approach this deep work and path with the plants in integrity and respect.
The Garden Under the Moon
The Garden Under the Moon will delve into the deep wisdom of dreams and provide a space for Dreamers to navigate dreams as an innate right and visionary path. We will explore indigenous practices of dream work, cultivate an understanding of our dream allies, and build pathways to bring our dreams into our waking lives.
In every session, we will learn about dream work from different perspectives and work in a projective dream work circle. Projective dream work is a participatory method for workshopping dreams in a group.
This offering does not require previous experience with dream work; all are welcome to participate in discovering dreams for health and healing.
Sacred Teachings of Tobacco
Lessons on Communing, Reciprocity, Reclamation & Praise
Join us for an enriching online evening experience with this beloved Plant Teacher.
We will gather to learn and take part in a ceremony focused on understanding consent, sacred reciprocity, deep listening, setting healthy boundaries, and guiding our prayers.
We will engage in communing with Tobacco in various ways, including: meditation, medicine making, ceremonial tool making, rituals, and more. You will have the option to work with tobacco energetically, topically and internally, with preparations of flower essence, happé (snuff), and/or ritual smoke.
Participants will receive some happé medicine(tobacco snuff), a bottle of flower essence plus the supplies to make together a copper kuripe (happé self-applicator)