Mineral Shaman
A person seated among the roots of a large tree in the forest, smoke rising from a pipe.

The medicine is the easy part.

Something enormous happens. You come home lit up. You tell a few people, and within a month it has compressed into an anecdote. I work with people on the part that comes after.

$150, sixty minutes, online video.

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What integration is

Integration is what you do with what you saw. This is one to one work at its core, and it can involve talking, breathing, movement and creative practice, in whatever mix serves you.

Before and after

Before

  1. The first conversation.

    Why you are going, and what you hope it will change.

  2. Safety and screening.

    Health and medications, covered before you sit, and when a question belongs with your physician.

  3. The physical side.

    Sleep, food, water and minerals, so you arrive with something in the tank.

After

  1. The first weeks.

    Sorting what happened from the story you have started telling about it.

  2. The middle.

    The small changes the insight implies, including the inconvenient ones, made specific.

  3. The long tail.

    Months later, noticing what changed, which is rarely the thing you came home talking about.

The body took the trip too

Ceremony is physiologically expensive. Fasting, sleeplessness, heat and hours of emotion draw down magnesium and the electrolytes fast, and people come home wrung out and read their exhaustion as a spiritual problem. I look at your physiology early, because restoring the baseline gives the rest of the work something to stand on. The hair analysis and the Root Cause Protocol consultation show your own numbers.

What people bring me

I have spent time with most of these, in the places they come from.

  • Huachuma and Peyote
  • Ayahuasca
  • Psilocybin
  • Iboga
  • MDMA
  • LSD and modern psychedelics
  • Ketamine, clinical or otherwise
  • Cannabis, taken seriously
  • Tobacco, in the traditional sense
  • RapĂ© and Ambil
  • Mambe
  • Fasting, dieta and dark retreat

Sessions

Sessions are online video, one to one, and recorded if you want the recording. Everything below is in US dollars.

One session$150, sixty minutesPreparation or integration.
Ongoing supportBy arrangementA run of sessions with email between them.

For ongoing support, tell me what you need.

If you have not gone yet

I hold Huachuma retreats in the Sacred Valley of Peru with Miguel Mendiburu, who guides the ceremonies.

A group seated in a circle on a round floor painted with a mandala, instruments laid in the centre, a domed room around them.

Before you book

Does this work if I have not taken anything?

Yes. Dark retreat, fasting, breathwork and spontaneous openings bring people here with the same questions.

How soon after a ceremony should we talk?

Within the first two to four weeks if you can manage it. Later still works.

Is this confidential?

Yes. What you tell me stays with me.

Can we work together if I am in therapy?

Yes. This is coaching, it sits beside your therapist or your physician, and the legal page carries the full statement.

What happens in a session?

You talk and I listen, then I ask about the parts you moved past quickly. You leave with one or two specific things to do.

Who decides what my experience meant?

You do. I will tell you what is common and where a tradition would place it.

Where are you and what hours?

Arizona, on Mountain Standard Time year round, and I work with people across time zones.

What if I need to move a session?

Give me a day of notice and we move it at no charge. Once we have met, the session stands.

One session, sixty minutes, $150.