MEDICINE SPIRIT
INITIATION
APPRENTICESHIP
This Program is FULL for 2025
Embracing the Medicine Path
Walking the Medicine Path is a conscious and empowering choice we make to embrace, apply and share the healing gifts we hold. As we initiate with earth medicines, we honor and integrate the wisdom that we receive from them, weaving their teachings and synthesizing our lives and our selves whole.
This path requires commitment to continuously cultivate and honor sacred reciprocity, nourishing the ongoing relationship with the essence or “mother spirit” of the medicine.
Like all gifts and privileges, the medicine we receive, is meant to be shared and passed on to those who need it most. As we heal and become resourced, we are equipped to support and guide our kin through their healing journey as we’ve been held with our own.
“The Plant Spirit Initiation practice has offered me the most profound and deep healing. Working with plants in a sacred way has helped me transform my deepest wounds into my most powerful medicine.”
-Melissa Whippo, Apprenticeship ‘22
Join us on a one—or two-year deep-dive journey, apprenticing and initiating various medicines. This journey is for advanced students who are ready to take the next step in their Medicine Path, and deepen their relationship with their Medicine Council. This offering is also for those wishing to be in service to supporting dear ones and the community by facilitating initiations with various medicines.
2025 MSI Apprenticeship Options
One Year Apprenticeship:
4 facilitated medicine intiations with plants, elements, land and/or your own medicine
*Ideal for folks that want to deepen in the path but that do not intend to guide in this modality
A personalized program and schedule to fit the needs of the apprentice
Working directly with Francisca with her mentorship and guidance
Cohort support through 3 in person gatherings, text thread and online platform
For each initiation, the participant will gather, organize and integrate information on the spiritual, energetic and physiological attributes of their medicine including: :
Dreams and their teachings
Traditional and contemporary rituals specific for their medicine
Signatures of the Medicine Spirit
Written in depth report about the medicine’s attributes (monograph)
Formulations and recipes
Engagement exploration
Exchange agreement as a medicine steward (Sacred reciprocity commitment)
3 in person training workshops in the art of ceremony
that will include topics such as:
opening and closing a ceremonial space
working with a spiritual council
summoning the healer and medicine spirit
Two Year Apprenticeship:
9 facilitated medicine intiations with plants, elements, land and/or your own medicine
*Ideal for folks who are planning on integrating MSIs into their practice, supporting guiding others
A personalized program and schedule to fit the needs of the apprentice
Working directly with Francisca with her mentorship and guidance
Cohort support through 6 in person gatherings, text thread and online platform
For each initiation, the participant will gather, organize and integrate information on the spiritual, energetic and physiological attributes of their medicine including: :
Dreams and their teachings
Traditional and contemporary rituals specific for their medicine
Signatures of the Medicine Spirit
Written in depth report about the medicine’s attributes (monograph)
Formulations and recipes
Engagement exploration
Exchange agreement as a medicine steward (Sacred reciprocity commitment)
6 in person training workshops in the art of ceremony and facilitation
that will include topics such as:
opening and closing a ceremonial space
working with a spiritual council
creating a safe space for deep sharing
guiding through the inquiry process
summoning the healer and medicine spirit
preparation of plants and formulation
holding accountability and more
Cohort Gathering Dates
2025
March 15th
June 21st
September 20th
2026
March 21st
June 20th
September 19th
“Through the apprenticehip, I built an ancestral council of tinctures, oils, teas as well growing and nurturing the plants in my garden. I have become whole again. Ready to share my sacred medicine with others and sacred reciprocity to Mother Earth. I am forever grateful for these teachings and the support of Francisca!”
— Lori Stewart, Apprenticeship ‘22
Throughout our 1 or 2 year journey you’ll receive:
Exchange
This Program is FULL for 2025
Mentorship through each medicine initiation
For each initiation, you get
Initiation and closing ritual sessions (55 min each)
Three weekly 55-minute support sessions (call, zoom, or in person)
3 or 6 cohort day-long garden gatherings
connection to community with a cohort group throughout the online platform
Exchange is a sliding scale tuition of
$4,000- $5,000 for One Year Apprenticeship
$9,000- $11,500 for Two Year Apprenticeship
* A $1,500 deposit is required for all applications to be reviewed and to be accepted to the course (deposit is refundable if not accepted into the program)
* Once accepted, you may submit remaining balance in one payment or through our payment plan options.
*Unfortunately, we don’t have work-trade or scholarship options for this offering.
About Francisca Santibanez
My interest in intimate connection with plants, the earth and the spirit world began before I could speak as an infant. This love and passion for the mystery and aliveness in nature is my primary compass in life, along with my devotion to Pachamama.
I’m passionate about healing, growth and liberation and repeatedly in awe of the magic, empowerment and activation of deep wisdom that happens, when we return to the earth for healing and remembrance.
I have been blessed with an abundance of teachers, Western and Indigenous, in human, plant, ancestral and spirit form. Their presence and teachings have guided me to my own Medicine’s awakening and initiations. Granting me a path of purpose, sovereignty and deep commitment to guide, support and pass on the wisdom I’ve gathered, to help and uplift others as they awaken to their own Medicine.
2025 Apprenticeship Program Application
We’re not accepting any more applications for our 2025 cohort at this time, as our program is now FULL. Please contact us with any questions or to be added to our waitlist.
This payment plan will cover $4,500 of the $9,000 tuition, to be paid within the 12 months of signing up. A new payment plan will be created after that to cover the remaining half of the tuition.
*To be used if deposit has been submitted