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Chelsea Leigh • Facilitator

Treating:

Depression

Anxiety

PTSD

Chronic Illness

Suicidal Ideation

Relationship Difficulties

Mind Expansion

Utilizing:

Bufo

Ayahuasca

Psilocybin

Specialties:Andean Shamanism, ceremonial facilitation, somatic treatment, explorative movement, energy work, integration coaching
Vancouver, WA 98661
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Remote sessions are available via:Google Meet
I am the steward of the vision of Temple Abzu. I am a ceremonialist and facilitator of healing and transformation. I assist others by creating sacred space for awakening through ritual, ceremony, and embodiment, with the purpose of evoking deep remembrance and connection to Divine Essence and personal power. My work is inspired by my passion for and dedication to reconnecting to the Earthways of my ancestors and recreating balance and harmony through right relationship with the Feminine. I have been initiated as a Pampamessayoc in the Q’ero lineage and continue to be a humble student of ancient wisdom, earth-based traditions around the world, and mythology. I am also a graduate of the Four Winds Shamanic School and a certified Shamanic Practitioner, Level 2 Reiki Master, Certified Integration Coach, and Horse Coaching practitioner. As a perpetual student, I am committed to further learning and exploration, continually deepening my understanding of Shamanic practices, trauma-informed facilitation, somatic facilitation, the left-hand path of the Divine Feminine, and spiritual teachings. Above all, I am an apprentice to my own soul and to the mystery, devoted to my own learning and expansion through direct transmission and direct relationship with Spirit. The soul of my work is informed by my own healing and journey of remembrance. Born a seeker of truth and freedom, I grew up in a heavily religious environment but rejected any ideology that tried to put truth in a box or on the pages of a book. From a young age, I forged my own path, thinking for myself, dreaming big, and unsatisfied with the life that was presented to me as my options. In my search for truth, I earned a degree in Middle East studies with the intent to become a war correspondent. I moved to the region, where I lived for nine years, traveling extensively to sacred places around the world, activating many codes within myself along the way. My travels reinforced my belief that we have something to learn from every person and experience that crosses our path. In seeking truth, I learned that there is no absolute truth, only a path that brings us closer to our own truth. Along the way, I was pulled in many directions, not realizing that the truth had always been within me. I also struggled deeply with mental health, which I now recognize as stemming from a disconnection from my authenticity and truth, as well as from generational and personal trauma. The healing of these aspects required years of devotion to sitting with the Medicines as a participant. I can honestly say that the medicine, alongside my soulmate horse, Gunner, saved my life. While my journey will never be over and continues, I have walked the red road, the spiral around and around the medicine wheel. I have faced my own shadow with love in my heart, I have walked to the depths of myself, and in that fertile darkness, I have remembered my own wholeness. I believe that I can only walk beside others to the depths that I have gone into myself. Today, I stand in deep gratitude, knowing that I am fulfilling my soul’s work. My approach bridges nature, embodiment practices, shadow work, spiritual devotion, ritual, energy work, and the sacred force of love to create a space for others to reconnect with their innate wisdom. As a trauma-informed facilitator, I honor indigenous wisdom while also integrating the distinct challenges and textures of Western trauma and society. I combine my Shamanic training, energy work, and ritual practices with somatic and embodiment techniques, as well as several trauma-informed modalities, to offer a deeply tailored experience. I see myself as a weaver, of my own self, and of the many aspects of this journey, the sources from which we draw, and the paths that we may walk. As a guide, I see my role as a mirror to help others recognize their unique purpose, authentic selves, and path to self-love. My goal is to guide you toward discovering the Divine light within yourself. The answers are already within you—I am here to hold space, gently supporting your journey with love and care, helping you remember the truth and power of who you truly are. I believe each of us is our own healer, and it is my honor to assist you in realizing that for yourself.
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The Process

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Screening - I have a comprehensive screening process which includes intentionality, medical and psychiatric history, and current medical and psychiatric condition. The screening process involves a screening form and a screening call.
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Intake and Preparation - once screening is completed, the intake process begins. Comprehensive information is shared with participants, and a preparation protocol is given with emotional, spiritual and physical preparation guidelines that must be adhered to. 1-1 Prep and intention setting support is available.
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Ceremony - whether a one night or longer retreat experience, my ceremony is a safe container where sacred space is upheld at the highest levels of integrity. Personalized support and guidance and Shamanic energy work are an important part of the process. As a trauma-informed facilitator, my priority is safety. Additionally, I have been initiated into a Shamanic lineage and have learned how to work with the spirit world and energetics of the space, which is essential to the safety of these experiences. I have personally sat with the medicines over many years and many times on my own journey and have a deep relationship developed over a long period of time. I have facilitated over 50 ceremonies and served over 200 participants. Experience and relationship with the medicines is essential to the safety of a participant in this space.
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Integration - the ceremony itself is only half of the work. Integrating the experience into daily life is essential for lasting change. Our organization offers free basic integration support to all members, as well as extensive support available after the ceremony for additional investment.

Session Types

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3 Day Plant Medicine Retreats

Homecoming is a three-day immersion into healing, remembrance, and renewal. Away from the noise of daily life, you are invited into a sacred space to reconnect with the deeper truth of who you are. With trauma-informed facilitation and an intimate group container, you’ll move through ceremony, integration, and embodied practices that support the release of old patterns, the awakening of clarity, and the return to your original wholeness. This is a path for those ready to shed what no longer serves and step more fully into their power, guided in reverence and integrity through 2 sacred ceremonies. Each retreat is carefully designed to balance depth with safety and support. The experience includes guided ceremonies, integration circles, movement and energetic practices, group preparation and follow-up sessions, along with nourishing plant-based meals and lodging. The small, intentional group dynamic allows for authentic connection and reflection, so the journey itself becomes medicine, offering insight, belonging, and the foundation for lasting transformation.

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Women's Only Retreats (4 Day)

These retreats invite women into the ancient cycle of death and rebirth, held in a safe and trauma-informed container. Over the course of several days, you are guided through ceremonies and practices that allow old stories, wounds, and identities to be laid down, making space for what is waiting to be born. In this descent and release, you are met with reverence and care, supported by a circle of women walking the same path of remembrance. This is a journey of reclaiming your wholeness, your intuition, and the truth of who you are through 3 sacred ceremonies. Each retreat is intentionally intimate, offering the depth of ceremony alongside integration circles, embodiment practices, and group preparation and follow-up sessions. Plant-based meals and lodging provide nourishment for the body, while the community and sacred container nourish the soul. Together, we witness one another in the passage from death to rebirth, and from that threshold emerges the clarity, strength, and freedom to walk back into life renewed.

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4 Day Plant Medicine Retreats

Roots of Rebirth is a four-day rite of passage for those called to go deeper into their healing journey. Guided by trauma-informed facilitation and the wisdom of plant medicine, this retreat moves through the archetypal cycles of death and rebirth - descent, void, and ascent. In ceremony, you are invited to release the old stories, wounds, and patterns that no longer serve, rest in the stillness of the void, and rise into renewed clarity and purpose. It is a journey of surrender and awakening, held in a sacred container of reverence and integrity. This immersive retreat includes two Ayahuasca ceremonies, one Psilocybin ceremony, integration circles, movement and energetic practices, and group preparation and follow-up sessions. Plant-based meals and lodging are provided, and the intimate group container allows for authentic connection, reflection, and support. Here, the path is yours to walk, but you are never alone, held by experienced facilitation, community, and the medicine itself as you step into alignment with your true essence.

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Private Ceremonies

Private ceremonies are available with Ayahuasca, Psilocybin, and Bufo

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Private Bufo Ceremonies

Bufo work is offered exclusively one-on-one, in a private three-hour ceremony held with deep reverence and care. Each session begins with intention setting, ofrenda creation, breathwork, and guided somatic practices to open the body and spirit. Two rounds with the medicine may be served, with space for integration and grounding through practices like Hapé, energy work, and hands-on support. The focus is always on creating a safe, trauma-informed, and sacred container where you can fully surrender into the process. What makes this work unique is the way ceremony is woven with shamanic practices, biofield tuning, and integrative guidance, ensuring that the experience is not just intense, but supported, embodied, and transformative. The medicine we carry is ethically sourced Bufo Alvarius secretion, honored in full alignment with the spirit of the toad and the lineage that holds it. Every ceremony is tailored to the individual, allowing you to be met exactly where you are and guided into a process of release, renewal, and return.

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Integration and Shamanic Coaching

In a soul-centered, trauma-informed space, we work together to peel back the layers of conditioning and limiting beliefs so that your authentic self can emerge with clarity and purpose. Whether you are preparing for or integrating plant medicine, seeking guidance through shadow work, or stepping into your soul’s mission, this work offers you a path of remembrance, sovereignty, and alignment. My role is to hold a safe, grounded container where you are seen for your wholeness, supported through your healing, and guided back into connection with your own inner wisdom. This work draws from my lived experience with master plants, earth-based traditions, and years of guiding others through transformation. Shamanic coaching and integration invite you to confront old patterns, reclaim your birthright of freedom, and transform ancestral burdens into strength. Through ceremony preparation and integration, spiritual mentorship, and a whole-person approach to healing, you are given the tools to ground insights into daily life, embody intentionality, and lead from your soul. Together, we tend to the seeds of your own transformation so they can take root and flourish—awakening the life you were always meant to live.needs.

Upcoming Events

Homecoming Retreat – Joshua Tree, CA · October 10-12, 2025

Homecoming is a 3-day immersion in the high desert of Joshua Tree, an invitation to return to what is ancient and essential within you. These retreats are thresholds, a place to set down what no longer serves, to walk with your deepest questions, and to be witnessed in your becoming. The desert, often mistaken for stillness, is alive with presence. Joshua Tree has long been recognized as a portal, a place where the veil thins, and in the turning of mid-October we enter the season of descent—toward inner harvest and renewal. We will gather in ceremony on the ancestral homelands of the Cahuilla, Serrano, Chemehuevi, and Mojave peoples, honoring their ongoing relationship with this land. This retreat includes one Ayahuasca ceremony, one Niños Santos (psilocybin) ceremony, integration circles, movement and energetic practices, shamanic ritual, earth-based teachings, plant-based meals, and lodging. The medicines are offered together in harmony: Ayahuasca opens the deeper layers of the soul for release and healing, while Niños Santos brings the work into the body and heart, grounding the teachings with clarity and connection. This is not a luxury retreat but a simple, intentional space for truth, healing, and renewal.
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Women's Samhain Retreat - Portland · October 30 - November 2, 2025

Held over Samhain, a threshold time when the veil thins, this retreat is a remembering - a return to the bones, to what has always lived beneath the noise and expectations. Over four days we move with the Earth’s rhythms, through descent, stillness, and reemergence. Guided by Ayahuasca and Niños Santos, we walk together through shadow and silence, through the letting go of what no longer serves, and into the renewal of joy, clarity, and embodied truth. This is not a retreat of bypassing or rushing toward light—it is the underworld work of release and rebirth, where all of you is welcome. The retreat includes two Ayahuasca ceremonies, one Niños Santos (psilocybin) ceremony, a Hapé ceremony, shamanic rituals, embodiment practices, group preparation and integration circles, plant-based meals, and lodging. Our circle is held in a trauma-informed, intimate container, where sisterhood, ceremony, and the spirits of the land create the space for deep transformation. Ayahuasca opens what has been hidden so it can be seen and released, while Niños Santos gently anchors that work into the body and heart. Together, they guide the passage of death and rebirth, offering the wisdom, renewal, and connection this threshold season calls forth.
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Mt. Shasta 4 Day New Years Retreat · January 1-4, 2026

We gather just after the winter solstice, as the Earth tilts back toward the light. One cycle closes and another begins. Having walked through the longest night, we enter ceremony to release what no longer serves, rest in the fertile silence of the void, and welcome what is ready to be born through us. This retreat is a sacred passage - death, the void, and rebirth - held on the ancestral homelands of the Wintu, Achumawi, and Modoc peoples, in reverence to their unbroken relationship with this mountain. In Andean cosmology, the mountains are Apus - spirit beings, guardians, ancient teachers. Apu Shasta is one of the most powerful in North America, a mirror and initiator that strips away all that is not real. To begin the year here, with these medicines, is an act of alignment and authenticity. Over four days we move through three ceremonies: two with Ayahuasca, guiding us into descent and stillness, and one with Niños Santos, opening the return to joy, clarity, and embodiment. The circle is supported with ritual, movement, meditation, earth-based teachings, organic plant-based meals, and shared lodging. Here you are invited to remember yourself fully and carry that clarity into the life that waits for you.
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Price

3 Day Plant Medicine Retreat
$1,200
4 Day Plant Medicine Retreat
$1,600
3 Hour Bufo Ceremony
$550
Integration Coaching
$125
1 Day Private Session Per Person
$1,500

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Locations

Vancouver, WA 98661
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Remote sessions are available via:
Google Meet

Price

3 Day Plant Medicine Retreat
$1,200
4 Day Plant Medicine Retreat
$1,600
3 Hour Bufo Ceremony
$550
Integration Coaching
$125
1 Day Private Session Per Person
$1,500