PLANT
SPIRIT
TALK
Transform Your Life Into Medicine
education | community | lifestyle
AWAKEN INNER WISDOM TO CULTIVATE HARMONY, HEALING & LIBERATION FOR SELF, COMMUNITY AND THE EARTH
We are a community of plant-loving healers, educators, and therapists who practice deep listening and learning from Nature. Guided by Pachamama, the spirit world, and our own intuition, we cultivate harmony, healing, growth, and liberation for ourselves and our communities.
We honor the wisdom and teachings shared by our Indigenous mentors from the Amazon and the Andes, integrating ancestral and folk practices to heal from individual and collective trauma. Through intentional time with plants, the elements, and the land, we realign with our sacred purpose as stewards of the Earth and bearers of her wisdom.
Join Us for our Upcoming FREE Webinar
On Life As Medicine Way
December 4th at 2pm-3:30pm PT
Open Enrollment for Our 2025 Programs Begins on October 1st
Our Signature Programs
Life As Medicine Way
A nine-month online and in-person intensive initiation, and our foundational program.
This course focuses on embracing lifestyle as a conduit for ceremony and healing.
Participants are supported and guided as they develop the skills and tools to step into the role of healer in their own lives.
Through this offering, they learn the art of communing with plants as teachers and wisdom stewards, while nourishing a practice of deep connection with spiritual and ancestral resources.
Apprenticeship
With the option of a one- or two-year deep dive into the path of initiation with plant teachers and other nature spirit guides, participants will build a council of support and connect with their inner healer as they grow, heal, and step onto the medicine path to support their community and loved ones.
Medicine Immersion Journeys
Since 2018, Plant Spirit Talk has partnered with our dear Peruvian hosts and medicine holders from the Shipibo and Q’eros lineages to offer ten day immersive journeys to the Sacred Valley and Tarapoto in the Amazon.
These journeys are intended for those walking the medicine path with Plant Spirit Talk and who are interested in deepening their connection with these medicines and traditions while engaging in sacred, reciprocal exchanges that are culturally sensitive and non-extractive.
Upcoming Classes
Sacred Teachings of Tobacco- ONLINE
Lessons on Communing, Reciprocity, Reclamation & Praise
With Francisca Santibanez November 7th 5pm-8pm PT
The Garden Under the Moon- ONLINE
A Dream Work Intensive
With Adam Elmaghraby
November 11th-December 16th
Six Consecutive Mondays
6pm-8pm PT
Our Modality
Medicine Spirit Initiations
Medicine Spirit Initiations (MSIs) are the core modality we practice and facilitate, informing many of our offerings. These initiatory rites with plants and other earth medicines are guided and held in ceremonial space.
Instructed by the traditional Amazonian Vegetalista practice of dietas, we provide integrated protocols adjusted for application in social and urban environments, as well as traditional dietas held in the Peruvian Amazon.
MSIs offer a highly effective and empowering space for healing, remembering, and reclaiming our innate wisdom, wildness, ancestral contracts, and reconnection with nature.
Our Community Offerings
Wisdom Circle
Join our monthly online community circles for free (til December 31st) as we delve into various themes to deepen our practice and support our healing journey with plant and Earth Medicine Spirit teachers.
Every month, we offer diverse classes to gather around a topic, or explore a practice allowing time for reflection and integration.
The Wisdom Circles provide an opportunity to explore in community and receive insight from the facilitators.
Coming in 2025
MSI Hive
Beginning in January 2025, the MSI Hive will be the next level option for the Wisdom Circle Community.
Participants will have the opportunity to experience guided Medicine Spirit Initiations in a group setting.
A series of six initiations will be offered throughout the year, with weekly guidance and cohort support. Every other month, a new Earth medicine will be introduced to the group, followed by a month of integration after the initiation.
To get on the waitlist, join the Wisdom Circle, and you’ll receive further information in December 2024.
What People Are Saying
“Working with Francisca was life-changing.
Her knowledge is wide, deep and rich, and that breadth of experience was apparent in her way of working with me as a whole person, along with various plant allies/herbal medicines. She is a very special woman and practitioner, who embodies strong, rooted integrity, sensitive compassionate care, and playful creativity. I would whole-heartedly recommend working with her to anyone who is asking for positive change and more wholeness in their lives.”
— C R, Berkeley CA
“Through monthly rituals, Francisca teaches us how to create sacred space for ourselves within the chaos of daily life, sharing with us time honored ceremonies that bring one into union with the elements. Her class offers a time of pause, reflection, growth, connection, and self-love. Francisca guides us as we build relationships with plants whose physical and spiritual healing powers are deep and potent. Francisca is a true teacher: she imparts intricate knowledge and guidance on her students and then calls upon us to integrate her teachings into our lives and to carry the rituals forth in unique and personal ways. It is truly an honor to be a student of Francisca’s and not only share in her wisdom but in her passion, warmth, depth, and grace. I am eternally grateful for this sacred offering.”
— K F, Woodacre CA
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