Ceremonies
Sacred Tobacco
Rustica Nicotiana
The intelligence of the plants is a powerful force for recovering our connection to ourselves each other and all beings of Mother Earth.
Our need to reconnect to Mother Earth is urgent.
Plant medicine recovers vitality and restores meaning and purpose.
Toxic mental and emotional patterns and harmful imprints in the body can be cleansed.
The unconscious is made visible to inform and recharge our natural cycles and nourish our soul lives.
The indigenous wisdom of our elders is vital for our collective healing …
“I’ve fallen into the soft guiding hands of Prajna and woken up to the power of Grandfather tobacco. A trust I had not felt before.
I feel a embodied step forward within myself—with new responses to areas of my life that used to trigger me. I’m relieved with awe and grounding in a strength from this beautiful medicine.”
Venetia David
Sacred Tobacco
Tobacco is our primary plant teacher & guides our work
Tobacco is Mother Earth’s firstborn, the most revered plant in the entire jungle for its power to teach, cure, communicate, and protect.
It is said that tobacco is the grandfather plant from which all the other plants sprung forth to receive guidance for their work. Tobacco invokes the power of other plant medicines. It is food for their spirits.
You may be thinking, “Isn’t tobacco harmful?”
Unfortunately, tobacco is the most misused and misunderstood plant on the planet.
In America and other industrialized countries throughout the world, tobacco is connected to a series of serious physiological problems. Wild tobacco, Nicotina rustica of the Amazon, is a revered healing plant—regarded as sacred by tribes throughout the jungle. The way sacred tobacco is used has nothing in common with the Americanized processed tobacco of commercial cigarettes.
In this way, tobacco heals rather than harms. It is a remedy rather than a poison.
Sacred tobacco can be taken in different ways: as smoke, powder, or tea. The smoke is used as a way to clear energy; both of a space and a person and to offer protection. The tea is curated specifically for learning and healing in ceremony.
Prajna facilitates a traditional ceremony as guided through her Maestro—Ernesto Garcia.
“Prajna’s expert holding, archetypal guidance, and meditating with Tobacco has helped me let go, slow down, and reframe the myth I choose to embody. I’ve learned to lean into life with more trust and love. I doubt I would have come all this way in a relatively short time without the help of Master plant teacher—Tobacco.”
Anne Becker
Tobacco Benefits For You:
Clarity:
Learn to rest and allow mental, emotional, and physical fatigue to rinse and clear. Energy rises to support you for the next step on your path.
Cure:
Tobacco is a powerful purgative that effectively cleanses the intestines, the blood, and the body including killing parasites, viruses, and bacteria.
Learn:
Tobacco is the most powerful way to discover more about yourself and to learn from the plant world.
Unearth Blocks:
Receive insight into who you are. Clear what is in the way—to move forward with power and purpose.
Ground:
inhabit your body, deepen your inner life and connection to the earth.
Dream:
Receive direction and teaching from ancestors and other soul dimensions through dreaming.
Tobacco Dieta is the foundation for further training with other plant medicines for healing throughout the plant world.
Tobacco Ceremony:
is a sacred ritual for powerful healing on mental, emotional, physical, and sexual levels.
Tobacco is a wise teacher, strong purgative, and at times difficult to endure. Upon completion, you are left feeling grounded, clear, and connected to nature with new insights about yourself and how to engage in life with meaning and clean power.
It’s important to have a tobacco ceremony with a Tobaquero who is trained to work with tobacco properly otherwise the effects may be harmful.
Tobacco Initiates:
Prajna offers tobacco ceremonies online for participants who have received tobacco initiation with her on retreat.
These ceremonies are a way to continue your healing journey and deepen your relationship with this master plant teacher.
Tobacco Plant Dieta:
Traditionally, dieta (diet) is the process of learning from one specific plant for an extended period of time in seclusion under the guidance of an established Tobaquera. There are multiple plants within an apprenticeship program. Tobacco is an initiatory diet that serves as the foundation for traditional training in most indigenous traditions.
Many people diet with master plant teachers for the profound health, healing, and wisdom they provide.
Prajna offers a private or small group eight-day tobacco diet.
An application process is required.
“Little by little we learn, as curanderos, that we don’t learn more. We learn that we know nothing. And from a space of nothingness, true healing can occur.”
Ernesto Garcia Torres
Master Tobaquero
Prajna & Her Teacher Maestro Ernesto Garcia
Maestro Ernesto Garcia is a world-renowned Peruvian Mestizo Tobaquero from the Tigre River and a long lineage of Curanderos. Ernesto is dedicated to healing by facilitating connection to the spirit of Mother Earth and plants through ‘dietas’ with tobacco as the foundation for initiation to an apprenticeship. He has guided Prajna through a full apprenticeship with the preparation and protection necessary to bring plant medicine to others. He told her, “Many people will come to you. You are very ready.”
Ernesto speaks as a guide in this world. “We as Peruvians ancestrally and traditionally have many natural medicines. They have been used only by people who know the plants, their preparation, and dosages. These are our roots. As curanderos, my students carry this medicine as an energetic healing force for many people and our earth.”
In 2021 Prajna completed a full apprenticeship of dietas with Ernesto although learning never ends. He has blessed her to serve as a Curandera in his lineage.
