“Number one highlight was finding real presence in tobacco ceremony. This is what I called in and I determined to to be in every moment. Felt very privileged to be a part of waking Grandfather Tobacco, tapping awake, savored every moment and really felt his energy and speaking to him and feeling his spirit around as I went back to my place.”

“Thank you for a deeply nourishing and humbling retreat. Working with Prajna, our healing hoop and the plant teachers has facilitated what feels like a closing of a cycle of pain I have been in for as long as I can remember. Prajna’s deep reverence and knowledge of the plants made me feel very safe and held, stepping into the unknown. It was easy to trust in the process which felt grounded, but also light.

My most meaningful moment was my “limpia”. Prajna worked with me to restore my dignity after childhood abuse. The way she worked using therapeutic techniques and with the medicine helped me come back to myself, to re-embody my dignity after so much self-abandonment and humiliation. So gentle, powerful and very loving and tender. I felt seen and incredibly supported by the other participants. It took courage to speak my wound which has caused me continuous suffering and heartache, all of my life, so to be met in such grace and beauty, and to be witnessed in my reclamation of my dignity, was overwhelmingly, heartachingly amazing. I feel so grateful to Prajna and to all on the retreat for this deep healing.
The warmth, tenderness, humour, and fun was infectious. I so enjoyed getting to experience the plant teachers with dear Prajna. It has been both an honor and a privilege to share your depth of experience, deep reverence for the plants and your teachers and the passion you have for your work made the retreat inspirational.”

“I have a new physical body that is free from a big piece that has lived in me for such a long time. My teeth are pain-free, and my mind is healthy. I finally feel like I can mother myself, practically and emotionally. Shame is softening. The plants and Prajna’s work have lifted the punishing, panicking void that kept me bound in old habits. I have found a reverence for my life and my body. I’ve been shown a healing way that has gotten to the root cause and allowed me to take baby steps into a new beginning.

Deep healing, letting go, sisterhood, brotherhood, tears, laughter, silence, dancing, tender holding, fierce mothering, giving witness to and being witnessed in all vulnerabilities—in all feelings. Prajna, nature, dreams, spirit weaving a blanket that carries us through to new lands we didn’t know existed.” 

“I enjoyed the whole of the retreat — time away to dedicate to healing. I loved the group togetherness, after an intense ceremony, when we danced and laughed. My biggest relief was after the tobacco ceremony, all my body pain/inflammation just left. The holding patterns in my jaw, neck, and shoulders melted. I was able to fully be present, in my own “lightness of being.” I also loved being able to talk and listen to a subject I am very interested in! The psychology of the evolution of consciousness — Prajna’s wisdom and interest in archetypes and the divine feminine speak to me on a deep level. Witnessing three women healers together was powerful. I thank you for making my mum feel so safe. You helped her come out of her shell. I think she had a fantastic time, and she can be hard to convince!”

“A perfect flow from beginning to end. Every activity, ceremony, teaching… all woven in a harmonious natural way. The holding of the space was amazing and I felt total safety. Prajna’s guidance and attunement to what is needed at any given moment are amazing and her grounded wise love, compassion, and competence keep surprising me. The highlight for me: The Limpias on Cactus Tea Day. The witnessing and participating in people’s healings with so much love in the room— brotherhood & sisterhood and the sacred way they were held. My Limpia and the insights/healing piece that followed about my father. Something huge has happened there. Thank you!

I am glad that Mother Tea came before Tobacco for me. She worked with me on self-love, encouragement, and trust—kindly softened many shells and helped me believe more in myself. Tobacco touched parts of me that often felt hopeless. I appreciate the resources to hold and integrate that tension.

Prajna’s retreats are life-changing, I have never participated in anything so deeply healing, transformative, and empowering as her retreat. I am more alive and open to life—more connected with my heart and deeper wisdom with the courage to go for the life I choose. Prajna is a master in the art of soul empowerment!”

“I came one way, I left another. This was the single most important journey on my spiritual path. For the first time ever, I belong.
I came with my heart totally on board, my mind and body braced—fragmented, at war with each. In my limpia, I was witnessed giving birth to myself — falling into the arms of loving, parents who truly wanted me here, a huge shift happened. A valuable human incarnation – through Prajna’s work, tireless patience — without a need to fix me, change me — without a trace of judgement. This and the plant teachers healed something in me.
For the first time ever, that I belong on this planet. I have a right and a responsibility in being here. I am not an accident! I am a celebration, a gift to myself and to all beings. The most profound medicine for me was the tobacco — knots dissolved. The fear of being wrong that I carried in my heart & belly — purged from me. Minute by minute resistance turned to welcome for “what I did not know.”
The Alchemy of Forgiveness continues to work in me. I am in my body — my human life. Thank you!”

“A community of like-minded people is so precious.”

“My highlight was the limpias — to witness Prajna’s strong presence with the help of medicine has changed and healed so much for me and the entire circle. Thank you.”