For indigenous people to remember our right relations
to our plant medicines to mother's breath
Our Mission
To establish standards of care and research, engage the healthcare system towards the adoption of entheogenic care and ethical research and include indigenous peoples in all stages of the process.
The Salish territories is where we honor the salmon homecoming with songs celebrating the return of the healing plants.
STANDARDS
To establish culturally-safe standards of research, programming, care, education and practice to engage the healthcare system towards the adoption of entheogenic medicine by and for Indigenous people.
ADVOCACY
To advocate for safe, effective, and accessible care and a respectful, ethical and reciprocal treatment for plant, fungi, animal relations, and Earth’s systems related to entheogenic medicine.
EDUCATION
To provide education, mentorship, and cross pollination based on Indigenous science and Indigenous organic relational technologies for a multidisciplinary community of indigenous practitioners.
COMMUNITY
To steward a self organizing regenerative community of practitioners, educators and advocates from the entheogenic field and global Indigenous mental health network.
Meet Our Society Members
Solana Booth
Nooksack, Tymsyian, Mohawk
Solana has a vision to open her own “Re-Cover Me In Wellness Center”. She is the founder of Advocates of Sacred, providing indigenous healing modalities. She promotes Native American and Alaska Native traditional teachings by being a Traditional Canoe Family Skipper, Speaker/Doer of Ancient Knowings, hunter & gatherer, traditional medicine keeper, Family Violence and Recovery Specialist, Generational Brain-spotting Practitioner, Somatic Archeology Practitioner, and Plant Medicine and Lactation Educator. Additionally, she utilizes Traditional Ceremonies, Traditional Art, First Foods, Birth and Death work, Storytelling or First Narratives.
Felix Neals
Eastern Band of Cherokee
Felix is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC), practicing for over ten years. His theoretical orientation as a therapist is trauma informed and somatically focused, based in sacred, relational, and humanistic approaches. He draws from transpersonal psychology as well as attachment theory, neurobiology, Holotropic Breathwork, and psychedelic medicine work. As a psychotherapist, he supports his clients to look at themselves with honesty and love in order to create more freedom and connection in their lives. His rreas of practice include: trauma-focused psychotherapy, mind-body therapy, somatic therapy,
Michael Yellowbird
Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara
Dr. Yellow Bird is an internationally recognized social work and Indigenous studies scholar. He is the Dean and Professor of the Faculty of Social Work, University of Manitoba. His research focuses on colonization, decolonization, and neurodecolonization; Indigenous mindfulness and contemplative practices and research. He is a certified, internationally trained mindfulness meditation teacher, professional, and scholar. He is a board director of the Mindfulness Council of Canada and the Global Compassion Coalition, and a Member of the Council of Elders for Indigenous Mindfulness Practices.
Anthony Back, MD
Anthony MD is is Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. He is also Director of the Program in Cancer Communication at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington. He has been deeply involved in the development of palliative care in the US. In 2018, he published a first person account of his initial journey with psilocybin in the Journal of Palliative Medicine (What Psilocybin Taught Me About Dying). He is now principal investigator on the only clinical trial testing psilocybin-assisted therapy for doctors and nurses with symptoms of burnout and depression associated with the pandemic.
Danielle Herrera
Pascua Yaqui, Chiricahua
Danielle loves people for a living. As a course facilitator with Beckley Academy, she facilitates training for practitioners in the foundations of relationally-centered psychedelic assisted therapies from a decolonized lens. Her framework is emotion focused, somatic, and spiritual, centering Indigenous knowledge, ritual, and ceremony. Danielle focuses on careful attunement to systemic oppressions that impact the individual within a complicated
ecosystem while helping clients with meaning-making. She loves working with people experiencing spiritual emergence or emergency, exploring non-ordinary states of consciousness or mystical experiences.
Carlos Plazola
Carlos co-founded the Decriminalize Nature movement in 2019 to liberate natural plant and fungi medicines, and was the chair of the organization during its rapid expansion phase. He is the child of an indigenous farmer from rural Jalisco and a powerful and loving Mexican woman who raised three children as a single parent. Today Carlos builds housing in Oakland while volunteering with various organizations to apply theories of social change toward greater compassion in society, and toward building sustainable and equitable cities. His highest commitment, however, is to help enable the emergence of indigenous worldviews and ancient wisdoms into the west, especially around plant medicine healing work.
Alan Christopher
Alan is a transpersonal psychotherapist and integral shamanic counselor trained at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). He is the founder of Medicine Heart Recovery Ibogaine Detox in Baja California, and co-founder of Entheogenic Integration, Research, & Education (ERIE) in San Francisco. With eight years in the field, his speciality is healing inherited epigenetic trauma and addictions through an integration of ancestral family constellations, ritual, and guided entheogenic journeys. Alan’s work is uniquely grounded in ancient traditional lineages carefully integrated within a contemporary psychological framework.