Here are my upcoming events:
Ayahuasca Icaros Course
Begins May 1st at 12 pm PT / 3 pm ET / 9 pm CET - Meetings every Wednesday through May 22nd, 2024 via Zoom
Learn 4 ancient, magical healing songs, called Icaros, which are used in traditional Amazonian Ayahuasca ceremonies. This course is led by Don Moises Llerena, a Peruvian Amazonian shaman/maestro with decades of plant medicine experience, and Kat Courtney.
Click here to learn more and register for this super special 4 week offering.
Fear Alchemy Ceremony
A unique opportunity to honor and process the sacred energy of fear in a shamanic ceremony - via Zoom on Friday, May 3rd at 12 pm PT / 3 pm ET / 9 pm CET (3 hour ceremony)
Fear is a goddamn force, and a profound teacher. A potent and accurate acronym for fear is this: Felt Experience Appearing Real. The thing is, fear isn’t telling the truth of what is real, but the imagined reality of what we are afraid is true. Fear cannot be stopped by mere thoughts. Instead, we use the power of alchemy. The body experiences fear and excitement as the same physiological response. So we aren’t aiming to be people who don’t feel fear (it has such valuable information, after all). We are learning to relate to fear in a new way; honoring the expressing, but not falling for the story.
Click here to learn more and register for this one day workshop.
Ayahuasca and Master Plant Dieta Retreat
July 5th-13th, 2024: An incredible opportunity to merge with a personally selected Master Plant and work with Mama Aya in a Costa Rica paradise
There is nothing more life-changing than a traditional Amazonian Master Plant Dieta, combined with the magic of Ayahuasca. If you want the deepest experience available in the Plant Medicine space, this is IT. We practice this ancient tradition with tremendous love and reverence; our shamanic team has decades of experiences, and this is an indigenous-led experience with myself and a Maestro from the Mestizo tradition. This Master Plant Dieta features a choice of many magical jungle masters, including Mapacho/Sacred Tobacco, Bobinsana, Chuchuasi, Ajo Sacha, Remo Caspi, Renaquilla, Marosa, and many other profoundly healing options. Participants will be each paired with a personally selected jungle master, co-selected by each individual and our magnificent Maestro and Maestra. Click here to learn more and register.
Plant Medicine Mystery School Level 1 - Group 17
Remote online course - every Sunday at 12 pm PT/ 3 pm ET, May 19th, 2024 through July 28th, 2024
For those called to learn more about the magic of plant consciousness and the incredible history and power of shamanism!
The Plant Medicine Mystery School is a live online course hosted by shamanic expert and guide Kat Courtney. Up to 20 students will be initiated into the ancient art of learning to work with plant consciousness. Now more than ever we need their guidance for healing and awakening, and just as important, we need the support of our tribe.
Kat will share many of the ancient teachings of the Shipibo-Conibo and Quecha-Lamista lineages of Peru, who are part of the sacred guardians and maestros of Ayahuasca ceremony work. She will also share knowledge from the Chavin and Q’ero tribes, who are the godfathers of Huachuma/San Pedro shamanism. We will go deep into communicating with plant consciousness, and spirit itself, as well as find our unique superhero powers in these magical spaces.
As a tribe, we will unlock the secrets of working with entheogens and master plants - both through working with the sacraments, and through the spirits of the medicines themselves. We don’t have to consume plants to speak their languages, and Kat is delighted to teach those who are called how to connect deeply with these powerful partners.
BONUS - Kat will also initiate all interested participants in the art of self-serving Hapeh/Rapeh, the shamanic tobacco snuff utilized by multiple South American shamanic tribes, and we will end our journey together with a virtual Hapeh Ceremony :)
This Level 1 course will consist of 8 weekly 90 minute sessions, where Kat will share information and guide the assembled group through all of the course materials listed below. Each session will involve 60 minutes of knowledge sharing, and then 30+ minutes of live Q&A.
Additionally, a weekly integration call will be offered on Thursdays at the same class time for folks who need extra support and insights during this wild and crazy time we are living in.
Click here to learn more and register.
Small Group Master Plant Diet with Bobinsana
3 week dieta with 1 week integration, launches Monday July 22nd at 2 pm PST / 5 pm EST / 11 pm CET
Shamanic guide Kat Courtney will lead an intimate group of brave beings in this 1 month exploration of compassionate, optimistic, and resilient Bobinsana - Calliandra augustifolia. Native to the mystic energies of the Amazon jungle, and other tropical environments, Bobinsana is a well-known jungle Maestra. Bobinsana is the queen of self-love, and of reminding us how resilient and fluid we are. She’s the most water-based Master Plant in the jungle; when the rains come, she gets buried in the floods, but within a day or two, she pops back out and is back in action, with big fuchsia flowers that look like pompoms. Bobinsana is the cheerleader of the plant world; she’s a champion for our return to our hearts and teaches us how to treat ourselves with the care and reverence we deserve. She’s magnificent with helping us tap into and trust our intuition, and to be more intentional about learning to open our hearts.
Click here to learn more and register for this very special adventure.
Plant Medicine + Psychedelic Integration Training - Group 4
A 6 month deep dive into the intricacies of becoming a Plant Medicine Integration Coach / Specialist; launching August 17th, 2024 at 7 am PT / 10 am ET / 4 pm CET.
A six-month online course developed for all those called to be in service as Plant Medicine Integration Specialists / Coaches. This intensely deep experience includes bi-weekly live classes as well as bi-weekly Q&A sessions with a pioneer in the space of psychedelic integration, Kat Courtney, as she shares experiences and lessons from an almost 20-year relationship with Plant Medicines and aftermath work.
Click here to learn more and register.
Plant Medicine Mystery School Level 3 - Group 2
Must have completed Levels 1 and 2 to register and participate
Remote online course - Saturdays at 7 am PST/ 10 am EST, February 15th through April 12th, 2025
Calling all Level 2 graduates - the next Level 3 has officially launched! The course has the same format as levels 1 and 2 - 8 live, remote classes and 8 live, weekly tribal gatherings, ending with an online graduation extravaganza! The course material will cover all of the following topics, and much more:
The Power of the Icaros: You’ll learn 2 ancient Ayahuasca songs, their meanings, and how they are the core technology that drives Mama Medicina
The Immensely Critical Role of Facilitator: Why who sits behind the altar is literally the most important element of any ceremony
The Alchemy of Shame into Empowerment: How this is the most dangerous yet potent emotion we work with with folks in altered spaces, and how to guide them to a breakthrough
Psychotic Breaks and Ego Deaths: Guiding ourselves and others through the most intense ceremony experiences
Darkness, Depression, Existential Crisis, and Suicidal Ideation: Helping the most vulnerable folks before, during, and after a ceremony
Ayahuasca and Huachuma: Behind the Altar: A class wholly dedicated to specific nuances that must be considered in every ceremony
The Ever-Changing Legal Landscape for Medicine Carriers
Why Shamans Go Dark: An all-in discussion on how and why plant medicine facilitators end up as abusers
Many more based on the experience and curiosity of the assembled tribe!
Plant Medicine Mystery School Level 2 - Group 7
Must have completed Level 1 to register and participate
Remote online course - Wednesdays at 10 am PT/ 1 pm ET, April 24th through June 19th 2024
If you’ve already joined us for Level 1 of the Plant Medicine Mystery School and you’re hungry for more, please take the plunge into Level 2! The course has the same format as level 1 - 8 live, remote classes and 8 live, weekly tribal gatherings. The course material will cover all of the following topics, and much more:
Navigating a Dark Night of the Soul - The lessons of the darkness
The essence of healing: How to work with mental, physical, and emotional blockages
The Definition of Holding Space, and the sincere practice of this spiritual principle
Shamanic cosmology - deep learning about shamanic traditions
Creating allies of songs, totems, spirit guides, and other members of our spiritual tribe
A deeper exploration of shadow work, and how to hold ourselves accountable of exploring what we can’t yet access
What the plants teach us about death and the afterlife
Deepening the process of communicating with plant consciousness
Working with fear/anxiety - in ourselves and others
Making friends with the darkness; the devil as an ally
Integration for Mind, Body, Spirit - the essence of embodiment
Plus all of your unique and personal questions about what is next for you on this path