Episode 14
Living life as a suburban mom in Virginia, little did today’s guest Ana Medina know that a profound experience of divine love and belonging during her first journey with ayahuasca would ultimately lead her to reclaim her ancestral Mexican roots and become a medicine woman specializing in the facilitation of bufo alvarius/5-MeO-DMT. Tune in to Part 1 of a beautiful conversation between two psychedelic Moms about the journey of awakening, healing trauma, and what it means to hold space for those seeking to meet themselves at a soul level through work with “toad medicine”.
Ana’s life mission is to help people remember who they are. Her spiritual path started in her early 20’s after she moved from her home land of Mexico to the U.S. to study music. Her mission became even clearer when she was summoned by the plant teachers of the world to give her gift of service to the community in an even deeper way. Her education spans a wide range of modalities. In addition to being a certified Life Coach, her training includes, Sound Healing, Reiki, Pranic Healing, Shadow Work, Quantum Healing, Psych-K, Ho’oponopono and Internal Family Systems (IFS) to name a few.
Ana has an incredible gift of creating very safe spaces for people to explore deep trauma as well as the remembering of their innate wellness and connection to creation. Her unconditionally loving demeanor and ability to meet people where they are at, provide for an environment where people can do very deep spiritual and emotional work. Ana lives and works in a beautiful mountain cabin, surrounded by ponderosa trees and breathtaking mountain views, only 25 minutes above Boulder Colorado.
In this episode, Michaela Carlin and Ana Medina discuss …
The life–changing sense of love and belonging Ana felt during her first ayahuasca experience
Being guided by the medicine to start assisting in ayahuasca ceremonies
Ana’s developmental trauma growing up in Mexico City, including the suicide of her stepfather
Ana’s first “soul revealing” (psychedelic) experience as she flew from Mexico to move to LA and realized that she had the power to reinvent herself
Ana’s challenges living life as a suburban mother in Virginia feeling that she did not belong
The of confusion living a “masked” life
How Ana received divine guidance that she had to reclaim her ancestral roots and do shadow work
What is shadow work and why do we need to do it?
Can emotional triggers be ‘psychedelic’?
Bringing compassion to shadow work through the understanding our need to construct layers of protection earlier in our lives
Reintegrating exiled parts of ourselves
Feeling the texture of feminine energy within psychedelic medicine work
Ana’s journey learning to be a bufo alvarius facilitator
The need for reverence and preparation in order to work with bufo safely and in a way that opens a path to meet the soul
Bufo alvarius and the somatic release of intergenerational trauma
The divine mother energy Ana feels in her facilitation work with bufo alvarius
Resources Mentioned in This Episode
Book: The Secret of the Shadow: The Power of Owning Your Whole Story by Debbie Ford - https://tinyurl.com/5etavy2c
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Special thanks to Jeremy Colbert (Taragápe) for the original podcast theme music.
You can find out more about Jeremey’s work here:
taragape.com and @taragape