Values and Guidance

Direct Relationships: We maintain direct relationships with tribal artisans, a rare approach that grants them the autonomy to shape their own destinies and bypass any imposed hierarchy. This direct connection ensures transparency and authenticity in what we offer, as there are no middlemen to obscure the true origin and quality of the products.

Fair Trade: We honor the prices set by these tribal artisans and don't negotiate; we consider this “fair trade.”

Advance Payments: We pay the artisans ahead of time for their sacraments, ensuring zero risk for them and their families.

Generational Seeds: The artisans we collaborate with cultivate their own 'Tabaco Mói' (Nicotiana tabacum) from seeds that have been passed down for generations. Other rapés may use hybridized Sabiá tobacco (Nicotiana rustica), resulting in an inferior, unnatural product.

Respect for Tradition: We research those people who respect the “old ways.” Everything they do is handmade/grown/collected and charged with strong prayers.

Tribal Community Artisans: We work exclusively with artisans who reside within tribal communities, immersing themselves in the rich tapestry of tribal life and culture, rather than those living 'in town.'

Expert Production: Our medicines are made directly by Pajés or under their supervision. The Pajé (or shaman) is a person who has undergone long spiritual training, under the guidance of plants.

Energetically Fresh: Sacraments are made to order and are therefore energetically fresh; they carry the healing energies of the medicine maker.

Respectful Approach: Set the stage for optimal growth by greeting these allies respectfully as teachers, not treatments. Listen without judgment, establishing trust rooted in patience and acceptance. Surrender to each medicine’s unique wisdom, on its schedule, not yours.

Humble Courage: True plant spirit medicines ask us to walk their paths with humble courage. The healing manifests gently and organically, in alignment with each seeker’s readiness to receive the gifts waiting within. Our role is to steward this sacred transition in service to human awakening.

Quiet Listening: A true plant medicine offers guidance if you quiet the mind to listen. In gentle ways, it reveals how one may walk in step with its healing rhythms. Do not rush its blossoming or your own.

Patient Integration: Stay open to direction from the medicine itself—where it wishes to take you, what it asks you to consider, and when integration is right. Move through each passage at the pace it sets for you. This careful, attendant patience allows the medicine’s authentic voice to come forward.

Understanding and Intuition: In stillness, understanding will grow of proper use, dosage, and duration. More so, deeper intuition develops, sensing when a period of working together is complete for now. There comes a knowing when to incorporate lessons before saying thankful farewell. For now. True plant allies depart only to circle back when the student stands ready once more to receive their gifts.