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
Jimena Chalchi
Astur, Mayan
Jimena is a global Leadership researcher and Indigenous knowledge holder focused on models and systems for intercultural collaboration between Indigenous peoples for mental, spiritual and planetary health. She is conducting research on the traditional knowledge, philosophy and practices of ancestral entheogenic medicine, land-based healing and relational ways of knowing and being among Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island (Now called North America), Anahuac (now called Mexico), Mayab (now called Riviera Maya and Central America), Abyayala and Tawantinsuyu (now called South America).
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.
Darron Smith
Darron's area of research and teaching centers around inequalities in the health care delivery system. Social factors like race and class-based discrimination often give rise to the formation of disease. Stress is the main culprit. More specifically, his research examines systemic domination of one group over the another and the consequences for well-being. In addition, he has taught sociology courses on race, ethnicity and gender in US society at three different universities. He has also taught in PA education and chaired the development of a new program. In addition, he's published in the fields of health services research, sports & race, black masculinity & health, religious studies, especially regarding blacks in Mormonism.
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.
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.
Carlos Plaloza
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.