Plant Medicine: Preparing and Integrating the Experience
Plant Medicine: Preparing and Integrating the Experience
Join Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D. for a transformative workshop designed to guide you through the essential steps of preparing for and integrating plant medicine experiences. In an era when conventional healing paths often feel limited, plant medicine offers a profound gateway to the realms of spirit, nature, and inner knowing. Through the holistic framework of Applied Shamanism, you will explore ancient teachings that reveal how the intelligence of the natural world can support deep healing, balance, and personal transformation.
For thousands of years, shamans and healers have worked with psychotropic plants and fungi such as ayahuasca, peyote, and psilocybin mushrooms to access states of expanded awareness and spiritual insight. While these plants can open extraordinary doorways, they also present unique challenges. Without the cultural, spiritual, or communal structures that traditionally support such experiences, many people may find the process overwhelming or destabilizing. This immersive course provides a grounded and structured approach to working with plant medicine, helping you safely access its teachings and integrate its wisdom into daily life.
Throughout the workshop, you will discover how the intelligence of plants has guided shamans across generations and how this timeless knowledge can illuminate your own path. You will learn to connect with the living spirit of plants and to interpret their subtle guidance. Isa will help you understand the vital importance of “set and setting”—your mindset, environment, and intention—and show you practical ways to create a safe, nurturing space for your inner work. Finally, you will explore clear, accessible practices for both preparation and integration, ensuring that the insights you receive lead to lasting growth and transformation.
This workshop is ideal for anyone seeking deeper connection and meaning through the exploration of plant medicine, as well as those navigating anxiety, depression, or spiritual disconnection who wish to pursue holistic paths to healing. Through this immersive experience, you will learn how to engage with the wisdom of the natural world and bring its transformative lessons into every aspect of your life.
Please note: This workshop does not include the use of psychotropic plants.
What you’ll experience:
• Ancient wisdom for modern healing
• Explore timeless shamanic teachings that illuminate new pathways for growth and transformation
• Connection with plant intelligence
• Learn to engage with the consciousness of plants and interpret their guidance
• Set and setting essentials
• Understand how mindset and environment shape your experience and create supportive conditions for healing
• Preparation and integration practices
• Develop clear steps to prepare for plant medicine work and integrate insights into daily life
• Safe and grounded approach
• Discover a structured framework for engaging with powerful plant traditions in a balanced, meaningful way
This course consists of:
• Seven recorded video lectures and meditations (approx. 3 hours total)
• One 90-minute live Q&A
• Peer sharing and real-time feedback
• Recommended reading and handout materials
What People Are Saying:
“I have been a student of shamanism for many years and have had many remarkable teachers. I am humbled and profoundly moved by my experience in Isa’s Applied Shamanism workshops. What she teaches here is not being taught by anyone anywhere that I have yet found. Her integrity and dedication to both the sacredness of the material and her students is refreshing and I can’t say enough how appreciative I am.” – Janet S.
“Isa is an exceptional teacher. Her understanding of shamanic practices, and her ability to translate them into a modern healing context is extraordinary. My studies with Isa in the Applied Shamanism program have taught me so much about compassion, integrity, and humility. I am looking forward to continuing my studies with her in the other programs she offers.” – Richard K.
The Sacred Stream has provided high quality education for over twenty years. Each course we offer provides easy to use portal pages, support staff, and support materials. Classes are offered with both online and in person options that are expertly managed to offer the best experience possible for students.
Instructor:
Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D. is a renowned teacher and practitioner whose work bridges ancient wisdom traditions and modern therapeutic practices. She is the creator of Depth Hypnosis™, a groundbreaking model that combines elements of shamanism, Buddhism, energy medicine, hypnosis, and transpersonal psychology. Widely respected by clinicians and spiritual counselors alike, Depth Hypnosis offers a powerful path to healing and self-discovery and has helped thousands of people live happier, more fulfilling lives.
Holding advanced degrees in cultural and linguistic anthropology, comparative religion, and transpersonal psychology, Isa has spent over thirty years studying and practicing spiritual, meditative, and healing traditions from around the world. A pioneer in bringing shamanic and Buddhist principles into clinical contexts, she also developed Coming to Peace™, an innovative conflict resolution process inspired in part by indigenous peacemaking practices from Hawaii, Africa, and North America.
Isa created Sacred Stream’s Applied Shamanism program, which was profoundly shaped by her early years living in countries with strong indigenous traditions. She has studied with wisdom keepers from Hawaii, the Americas, Siberia, and Nepal, and trained in herbal medicine with Cherokee master herbalists. Her teachings bring the wisdom of ancient healing into a modern context, integrating traditional knowledge with contemporary practices.
An accomplished author of three books, Isa speaks six languages and teaches and lectures worldwide.
Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D.
