Virtual Small Group Master Plant Diet with Hibiscus
1-month dieta launches on Wednesday, June 17th 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 and Faegann Harlow
Master Plant Diet Summary
At PMP, Master Plant Diets are our most cherished communion with nature. They have the power to profoundly transform our bodies, minds, emotions, and overall lives. Rooted in ancient Amazonian shamanic traditions, this sacred practice fosters a deep, reverent connection with plant spirits and has inspired and transformed individuals worldwide. This intimate and often challenging journey offers limitless opportunities for healing, growth, and self-discovery. A Master Plant Dieta is a truly magical experience, open to individuals from all backgrounds. Whether you’re new to this path or a seasoned practitioner, you are warmly invited to connect with a powerful Master Plant and share this unique journey with a small, supportive group of fellow plant enthusiasts.
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.
Hibiscus: The Gentle Guardian of the Heart
Hibiscus (Hibiscus sabdariffa) is a soft, radiant, and deeply nurturing master plant. A sweet, heart-centered spirit known across cultures for her warmth, beauty, and quiet power. Often associated with love, tenderness, and emotional renewal, she carries a gentle presence that soothes rather than pushes, inviting us into connection through kindness and care. Across Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia, Hibiscus has been revered in ceremony, ritual, and daily life, not only as a delicious infusion but as a sacred ally that brings the body and spirit back into harmony.
Hibiscus is the medicine of compassion. She teaches us how to soften, how to receive, and how to meet ourselves with patience and grace. She calms the nervous system, cools emotional intensity, and creates a safe space for the heart to open at its own pace. Rather than stirring overwhelming waves, she gently supports emotional clarity, helping us process what is present without force. She reminds us that healing does not always need to be intense to be profound, and that there is deep strength in gentleness, in slowing down, and in choosing love again and again.
The Hibiscus Master Plant Diet Experience
In this dieta, we will be working with Hibiscus sabdariffa. Plant material is not included with registration, but we do offer ethical and trusted sources upon sign-up so you can connect with this beautiful flower in a way that honors her spirit and the traditions she comes from.
Here’s how the process will work: Beginning on or around Wednesday, June 17th, 2026, Kat or Faegann will schedule individual dieta openings with each participant, which happens through the power of song and intention. The group will meet for 5 total Wednesdays via Zoom, discussing the experience and sharing insights. We will provide a protocol document outlining food instructions and specific wisdom on how to work with Hibiscus, including a suggested recipe for brewing her tea as well as creative ways to connect with her essence.
In addition to only eating clean, organic, simple foods, we will all abstain from sexual activities, media, dark energies, and other distractions for the duration of the 3 weeks. Each Wednesday at 10 am PT / 1 pm ET, we will meet on Zoom to connect, share stories, and learn more about the gifts Hibiscus has to offer through our vulnerable shares.
Kat and Faegann will hold the diets for all participants, checking in on the connection and listening for messages each morning and night. They will also be available throughout the process for spontaneous support as needed, because we intend to go deep with this adventure. Dietas will be closed individually on or about Wednesday, July 8th, 2026. The final session on July 15th is devoted to integration.
Hibiscus’ Diverse Benefits
Hibiscus is a positively beautiful plant medicine with physical, emotional, and spiritual superpowers. She is an extremely important ally in multiple cultures, featured in medicinal rituals, rites of passage, holiday festivities, and spiritual dreamwork and journey work, among many others. Above all, Hibiscus is known as a remarkably gentle, kind, and patient spirit. She doesn’t push, she nurtures. She doesn’t intensify, she soothes. She is the perfect friend to bring into a body and spirit that is overwhelmed, stressed, and exhausted.
Physical Benefits:
Cardiovascular: Hibiscus tea can lower blood pressure in people with mild hypertension (short‑term effect in several studies).
Lipids & metabolism: Studies suggest improvements in LDL/triglycerides and insulin sensitivity, and increased digestive ease.
Antioxidant activity: Hibiscus is rich in anthocyanins and polyphenols; which provide antioxidant and anti‑inflammatory benefits.
Diuretic & digestive: She’s a traditional mild diuretic, digestive tonic, and liver‑supporter.
Antimicrobial/skin: Antimicrobial effects have also been noted; and she’s used historically in poultices and topical washes for all kinds of ailments.
Emotional Benefits:
Cooling & calming: Hibiscus is culturally and experientially used as a cooling, clarifying beverage that calms the nervous system and cools the body in hot climates.
Heart‑opening & soothing: The red color and tart, vivid flavor are often used in ritual to evoke heart or emotional clarity; many people report uplift and relief and a pronounced softening.
Ritual comfort: Tea rituals with Hibiscus function as containment practices — intentional sipping, warmth/temperature contrast, and repetition produce calming, reflective states.
Maternal nurturing: Hibiscus has a sweet, kind, and inquisitive spirit that feels very maternal, very encouraging, and impeccably kind.
Spiritual Benefits:
Heart, love & emotional renewal: Her red blossoms invoke heart energy, tenderness, and reconciliation in many folk and contemporary ritual uses.
Feminine, fertility & lineage symbolism: Used in some rites of passage, fertility rituals, and as an emblem of the feminine principle in folk practice, Hibiscus is fantastic with womb work/healing, and overall feminine empowerment and cleansing.
Cleansing / offering: Used in offerings, altar work, and purification rituals as an accessible, fragrant, edible expression of gratitude and love.
Dreamwork ally: Mild dream‑enhancing associations when taken as a bedtime infusion. Hibiscus gently opens up the dream space and can even help soothe and pacify nightmares and restless sleep patterns.
Schedule and Registration
Virtual Small Group Master Plant Diet with Hibiscus
Duration: The Diet itself lasts 3 weeks total, with an additional session 1 week later for integration.
Location: Online
Dates: Dieta begins Wednesday, June 17th 2026, at 10 am PT / 1 pm ET
Price: $499 - Can pay in full or in 4 installments
Includes:
Personalized dieta opening and closing ceremonies
Dieta protocol document & recipe guide
Weekly Zoom meetings (recorded and shared the same day)
Daily connection and energetic check-ins with your facilitators
Guided meditations, contemplations, and emotional processing prompts
Ongoing access to Kat and Marwa 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 and Faegann Harlow
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.
FAEGANN bridges body-based therapies in their integrative role of mind-body reciprocity thanks to a rich relationship with Mama Aya, and by the guidance of the plants. Through curiosity and embodied practices, Faegann finds space in each being to anchor the insights received from our allies, increasing our capacity in receiving, healing, transmuting, creating.... being. Integration at a somatic level serves as an act of assimilation; honoring our role with our relations; nature, self and beyond. With 20+ years in the somatic field of touch, movement and psychology, and 10+ years in plant spaces, Faegann humbly holds Noya Rao, Mugwort and Thyme dietas, as trusted allies in her heart-centered and nurturing therapeutic approach. Trauma-informed through physiological and psychological lenses, Faegann invite science and spirit into a space. The symbiotic nature of our body, psyche and universe want to reveal the mysteries of our own personal magic & medicine. Faegann serves to support and encourage your innate self, whole and perfect.