Avi-Esther
@pleasant_forest_13

Avi Esther, began learning to facilitate altered states of consciousness in 2010 with shamanic tantric practitioner trainings, followed by ‘Birth into Being’ facilitator training in 2011. She ran transformative workshops using breath and movement to induce trance and trained other practitioners to facilitate till 2017. She used these healing skills and knowledge to help prepare women and their partners for childbirth while assisting as a doula for many women in labour. She began facilitating mushroom ceremonies in 2017 by request from a group who witnessed her powerful facilitation skills.

By comparison to helping a panicking, “pain-filled” woman in labour; calm, find her centre and naturally (peacefully and even pleasurably)  birth a child as a psychedelic-like,  sacred,  rite of passage…. mushroom ceremonies are easy. 

Since then she has guided many journeys for people, both with and without substances. She has researched chemistry and biological mechanisms, Searched out myths and stories from the old world to listen for the motifs of the sacraments she works with, Amanita Muscaria and its medicinal allies. So she understands how to honour the ancients of the land who worked with these entheogens along side the science and ethical practices. Through integration, Avi Esther, helps make the experience relevant and meaningful for each person and group by supporting their relationship with themselves and nature rather than putting her own “way” onto them.