Virtual Small Group Master Plant Diet with Ayahuasca Vine
1-month dieta launches on Monday, February 9th at 10 am PT / 1 pm ET / 7 pm CET
Cost: $499 – Can pay in full or in 4 installments
Limited Spaces Available
All sessions will take place via live video on Zoom, led by Kat Courtney
Master Plant Diet Summary
Here at PMP, Master Plant Diets are our very favorite experience with nature. They profoundly transform our bodies, minds, emotional landscapes, and overall lives. This practice facilitates a deep connection with plant spirits and has sparked enthusiasm and inspiration worldwide. Shamanic guide Kat Courtney will lead an intimate group of plant-lovers in this month-long exploration of one of the most legendary, wise, and beloved Master Plants on Earth: the Ayahuasca vine herself. Known as the jungle queen and a guardian of consciousness, the vine of Ayahuasca carries ancient intelligence that has guided humans for hundreds of years.
What is a Master Plant Dieta?
A Master Plant Dieta is a sacred shamanic practice that invites you to connect deeply with the consciousness and spirit of a specific plant, known as a Master Plant. Rooted in the ancient traditions of the Amazon jungle, this practice has been used for centuries by indigenous cultures to foster a profound and healing relationship between humans and plants. Engaging in a Master Plant Dieta involves a process of purification, discipline, and dedication, where you commit to working intimately with a plant spirit to receive its teachings, guidance, and medicine. This journey is not just about physical benefits but also about spiritual growth and self-discovery, as you open yourself to the wisdom and magic of the plant kingdom.
Ayahuasca Vine: The Maternal Guardian of Consciousness
Banisteriopsis caapi — the Ayahuasca vine — is one of the most revered master teachers in the world. Long before the modern brew became known globally, indigenous tribes worked with the vine alone as a sacred spirit, teacher, and healer. She is known as a maternal protector, a consciousness-expanding ally, and a guide who can illuminate your inner world with profound clarity. Unlike the psychotropic Ayahuasca brew, the vine by herself is not psychedelic and is fully legal to work with. Yet she remains intensely wise, emotionally intelligent, deeply cleansing, and capable of initiating major life breakthroughs.
For thousands of years, the Ayahuasca vine has helped humans expand perception, restore emotional balance, open intuitive channels, and reconnect with their spiritual essence. She is associated with ancestral connection, inner truth, energetic protection, and the awakening of creativity, consciousness, and purpose.
The Ayahuasca Vine Master Plant Diet Experience
In this dieta, we will be working exclusively with Banisteriopsis caapi, honoring her pure spirit and ancestral wisdom. You will learn to connect with her through traditional methods such as tea and sacred smoke, allowing her essence to meet your body, mind, and energy field gently and consciously.
Upon registration, we will share our favorite ethical sources for obtaining your vine, ensuring that her spirit is honored with integrity. This dieta does not involve any psychedelic effects — instead, it brings you into direct, intimate communion with the consciousness of Mother Aya herself, in her most elemental form. Her teachings are subtle yet powerful, nurturing yet clarifying, and often life-changing for those who choose to merge with her in this way.
Ayahuasca’s Magical Properties
Ayahuasca is one of the most complex and potent conscious beings on Earth. There’s no part of human consciousness she can’t access, so her possibilities are limitless, however some common traits attributed to Ayahuasca include:
Physical Benefits:
Soothes Depression and Anxiety: Ayahuasca is an MAOI, and therefore has the ability to balance our neurotransmitters and give significant relief to depression and anxiety.
Relaxation and Stress Relief: Her calming properties help reduce stress and promote a sense of tranquility.
Sleep Aid: She can promote restful sleep and alleviate insomnia due to her deliciously soothing effects.
Anti-Inflammatory Properties: Aya is medicine for our inflamed and aching joints, tissues, and nerves.
Antioxidant Activity: The plant contains compounds that have antioxidant properties, helping protect cells from damage.
Digestive Aid: Aya can also help the digestive tract come back into balance and alignment, assisting with IBS symptoms, constipation, and related issues.
Emotional Benefits:
Calmness and Peace: Aya’s serene and gentle vibration promotes a sense of inner calm and emotional tranquility.
Enhanced Emotional Balance: Aya helps bring about emotional stability and harmony, and she’s amazing at soothing turbulent and untamed emotions.
Spiritual Connection: There’s not a plant around that has a better capacity to help us feel spiritually connected; to ourselves, each other, and the earth.
Inspiration and Creativity: Her vibration can evoke inspiration, creativity, and a positive view. She illuminates our density and helps lighten our perspectives.
Healing and Release: Ayahuasca assists in emotional healing, helping to release negative vibrations and promote rebirth and renewal.
Spiritual Benefits:
Purity and Divine Connection: She embodies purity of spirit, helping individuals connect with their higher self or divine presence.
Rebirth and Transformation: Aya helps bring about spiritual renewal, growth, and rising above material limitations to reach a higher state of being.
Inner Peace and Harmony: This vine promotes tranquility within the soul, fostering harmony between the physical, emotional, and spiritual selves.
Divine Inspiration: Inspires intuition, wisdom, and insight, encouraging personal spiritual journey and self-discovery.
Soul Retrieval: Aya helps call back fragmented parts of our souls that are yearning for wholeness, and to discover and step into our true purposes.
Protection and Spiritual Cleansing: Aya also helps to purify negative energies and protect us from spiritual harm.
Schedule and Registration
Virtual Small Group Master Plant Diet with Ayahuasca Vine
Duration: The Diet itself lasts 3 weeks total, with an additional session 1 week later for integration.
Location: Online
Dates: Dieta begins Monday, February 9th, 2026 at 10 am PT / 1 pm ET / 7 pm CET
Price: $499 - Can pay in full or in 4 installments
Includes:
Daily ceremonies and rituals
Guided meditations and contemplations
Dieta protocol document & recipe guide
Weekly Zoom meetings (recorded and shared same day)
Daily connection and check-ins with your facilitator
Personalized dieta opening and closing ceremonies
Ongoing access to Kat for support throughout the process
If cost is the only reason you choose not to register, please email us here and name what you can afford. No one will be turned away because of a lack of resources. Feel free to reach out with any questions too.
About Kat Courtney
Kat Courtney
Kat has had the supreme honor of studying and practicing shamanism for over 20 years, with multiple maestros and lineages. She began her studies in the Peruvian Amazon in 2006, under the protection of the late, great Don Howard Lawler; one of the most powerful and esteemed Huachumeros who has ever graced this Earth. Kat attended dozens and dozens of Ayahuasca and Huachuma ceremonies with Howard and Don Rober Acho at SpiritQuest, and then went on to apprentice for 10 years with several incredible Ayahuasquero masters. She also graduated from the Gaia Institute’s Master Herbalism Apprenticeship in 2009. Kat has poured medicine for thousands of sincere seekers, and coached hundreds of people in the aftermath of powerful plant ceremonial work. She’s a humble servant of all plant medicines, having completed 44+ Master Plant Diets to date. She is thrilled and honored to share some of the priceless knowledge imparted to her during these wildly eclectic experiences.
Kat is ready to talk plants, explore the mystery of consciousness, and help each participant find their unique and personalized next steps in the magical, love-filled realm of shamanism.