Plant Medicine Portal Team

Shanti is a dedicated Ceremonialist, Plant Medicine Integration Coach, and Yoga Teacher. From an early age, she developed a profound connection to Eastern spirituality and the medicine path, committing herself to a life of devotion to both.

In October 2020, Shanti experienced her first Ayahuasca ceremony, a life-altering moment that initiated a deep devotion to sacred plant medicine work. A year later, she found herself immersed in the jungles of Costa Rica, studying and working full-time at an international Ayahuasca retreat center. After three plus years of apprenticeship and over 100 ceremonies later, Shanti has cultivated a deep understanding of how to guide and support individuals before, during, and after their Ayahuasca journeys.

Shanti is a certified Life Coach, specializing in Integration Coaching for those working with Ayahuasca and other plant medicines. Her coaching style is grounded, practical and compassionate, meeting each individual where they are, offering support in pre-ceremony preparation, post-ceremony integration, navigating life changes, and integrating the teachings of the medicine. Whether you are seeking clarity, direction, or assistance in integrating the “homework” given by Ayahuasca, Shanti’s experience and compassionate guidance will help you on your path to transformation.

Melonie is the founder of Ancient Arts Academy, a transformative center dedicated to guiding individuals through the profound journey of plant medicine integration, trauma healing, and somatic wisdom. As a seasoned plant medicine facilitator and trauma-informed somatic practitioner, Melonie bridges ancient wisdom with modern healing practices, supporting clients as they uncover and embody the transformative power of plant medicine. She believes that true healing begins where ceremony meets integration, creating the foundation for lasting personal transformation.  Melonie’s approach honors the integration process as a sacred unfolding, helping clients internalize their ceremonial insights into daily life, fostering embodied resilience and wholeness.

A dedicated guide, Melonie creates a safe, nurturing environment for individuals to process and integrate their plant medicine experiences fully. Her work transcends the ceremonial, focusing on deep-rooted shifts that enable clients to connect with their authentic selves and align with a life of meaning, connection, and inner harmony.

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Mateo has been guided over the last decade to explore various healing modalities including sacred coaching, plant medicines, regression hypnosis, akashic records, vision quests, ancient initiations, and studying with wisdom keepers. He has worked extensively with the master plant teachers and also offers sessions in Soul Contact Hypnosis, Sacred Life Coaching and Plant Medicine Integration. Within that space, he helps guide others to release old programs, traumas, and limiting beliefs. To write a new story for themselves. To access their eternal / spiritual nature more deeply.  To live more authentically and in their power. 

Rachael Popky is a Sacred Empowerment Coach, Retreat Leader, and Director of The Center at Kahuna Falls in Hawai’i. Her work in empowerment and the healing arts is deeply rooted in her degree in Activism and Social Change. She believes that when we heal ourselves, we heal the world. As we navigate these times of rapid transformation, she is committed to helping others birth new paradigms, do the inner work, and embrace the abundance that surrounds us. Her mission is to revolutionize the way we do business by fostering soul-driven, purpose-led, and ethically grounded practices that empower the collective. Rachael is dedicated to reminding us of the unity that connects us all and inspiring everyone to walk in beauty.

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Who am I?  

I am Jeffrey Powers.

I am a man, in my mid-forties.  I am a Father.  I am a provider. I am a Veteran.  I

I am Me, Jeffrey Powers.

Yes, I am me, Jeffrey Powers, but I am so much more than that.  Those are labels I’ve acquired in this lifetime to identify myself as a human body, inhabited by a Soul, here, now. 

I am my own healer.  My number one mission and purpose in this life is me.  I came here to heal all parts of me, from all incarnations and parallel timelines.  All parts of me includes my ancestors, the generations that came before me, and generations to come. Beings sharing my DNA and Soul level family.

I am my own teacher.  Beyond healing, I came here to grow into the best example of a Human I can possibly be.  I aspire, as I like to say, to walk the Earth as Jesus did.

I am Spirit led, meaning I am not doing this alone.  I am Led and supported by the Divine.  Throughout my entire healing and growth journey, once I made the commitment to me and started investing in me, with the intent of bettering me to create the life I desire, Ive been led.  Divine messages, synchronicities and direct guidance have been placed into my path, into my awareness, for me to investigate, research, learn and take action on.

I know why it is that I incarnated as a White male.  I know why it is that I incarnated in America.  I know why it is that I didn’t consciously begin my awakening and healing journey until my late Thirties.  I know exactly why I had the experiences I did in this life up to this point.  I know what I came here to do, and that is to remember who I AM.  

Through the journey of remembering who I AM, I’ve picked up a lot of tools, knowledge, wisdom, and soul level remembrance.  Through the acquisition of the aforementioned, I’ve gained priceless experience.  Through that experience I have awakened deep soul remembering of my long forgotten gifts and intuition.  Through that experience, I’ve built one heck of a toolbox that enables me to navigate this world differently than I ever knew, or believed, was possible.  Through this Journey, I’ve re-established my connection to The Divine Mother and The Divine Father,  my Highest self and GOD.  I am guided and protected  by Universal consciousness at all times.  Through this journey, I’ve remembered that I AM and WE are ONE.

I am a life long learner.  I will be growing until the day this incarnation is complete.  The most recent and current lessons of growth I am experiencing are how to communicate and share all the aforementioned in a way that all can receive. How to share my energy and navigate differing energies effectively.  How to keep my center, in ALL situations, no matter what is presented to me.   I came here to learn so deeply about myself, my skills, my gifts, my wisdom and connect with Universal Consciousness so I can help others do the same with the upmost respect and discernment for the highest good. 

Some Labels that I don’t resonate with are the labels of Shaman or Healer.  

Just as I am my own healer, I believe everyone is their own healer, however, we all need a little help sometimes, so I’d rather refer to myself as a coach or guide.

Shamans have the ability to remove energies, entities and Spirits from people, which I can do, but this is only temporary if the person is not committed to healing and change.  Without change, the energies removed will only come back, as you are continuing to operate at the frequency that created or attracted them to begin with.  In this sense, everyone is also their own Shaman, able to heal and make change for themselves, thereby releasing stored energies and attachments due to a shift in frequency, and by doing it themselves, it can be permanent. 

I am Me, Jeffrey Powers.

Spirit Led, Heart Centered, Transformational Coach and Shamanic Guide.

Angela has dedicated her adult life to traveling the world, exploring many spiritual traditions, and integrating into her daily life practices that help her embody her experiences learned. She is a kambo practitioner, certified Kundalini Yoga instructor, artist, LMT, detox specialist, naturopathy student, and owner of the small business My Medicine Bag. She has been in the ancestral medicine world for nearly a decade and continues to dedicate her life to it. 

She has studied many of the medicines and their modalities from the origins and traditions of which they come from. She has spent extended time in India, Peru, Guatemala, Thailand, Mexico, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and more. Her travels have helped her align with amazing teachers and mentors that have helped her heal so she can lead her life in a more centered, authentic, and sovereign way. She has worked alongside a large variety of ancestral medicines and continues to work with her teachers on this path to advance her work, healing, and teachings. 

She is very passionate about plant medicines, spirituality, natural medicine, integration work, and self-healing study. She believes that the best teacher is our own personal dives, healings, and experiences. How can we know something if we have not experienced it and gone through the appropriate initiations to get there? She upholds strong values pertaining to integrity and humility in the plant medicine community. She believes that integration work is even more important than the ceremony itself and prays to see more proper integration taking place outside of ceremonies so we as a collective can walk in an embodied way alongside these ancestral medicine allies. 

For this reason she has dedicated her most recent years to self-studying how proper integration works and how we can actualize our ceremonial experiences through diet, movement, meditation, communication, and self awareness practices. She has a strong passion for the body and understanding how to optimize and bring it into balance, harmony, and health alongside the work with ancestral medicines.

"K'hiel Anker is a Masculine Evolution Guide that specializes in the facilitation of psychedelic and plant medicine assisted rites of passage for males who seek to individuate into whole, mature, Men. He was raised in Rhode Island, went to college at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, traveled much of the world finding himself thereafter, and presently resides upon Mt. Chirripo in Costa Rica. He is a traditionally apprenticed medicine man, certified psychospiritual integration coach, Internal Family Systems guide, master reiki channel, student of the mythopoetic school of men's work, and walker of the Path of Righteous Integrity."