2026 JOURNEY GUIDE TRAINING
Become a Sacred Plant Medicine Holder and Guide for Journeys with Sacred Mushroom (Psilocybin) Medicine | Next Offering begins January 2026 | OPEN for Applications
Plant and earth medicines are returning from being “exiled” to support, deepen and co-facilitate our healing, allowing us to let go of what is in our way consciously or unconsciously and reconnect to who we truly are, so we feel more vibrant and whole, live more consciously and make aligned choices from a place of inner knowing.
This sacred medicine and the work of guiding others on a healing journey in a sacred and safe way to heal is so needed now.
We have all witnessed how traditional therapies and Western medicine cannot access the depth of healing needed, especially when limiting beliefs, patterns and triggers are deeply ingrained from childhood or are pre-verbal (before 4 years old or in the womb), held in the subconscious and unconscious or handed down in ancestral lines.
In your practice as an energy healer, shamanic practitioner, herbalist or functional medicine practitioner, coach or therapist, you and your clients are seeking a path that reaches below surface symptoms to root or unconscious causes and creates new neural pathways that allow for more conscious choices and healthy responses, while enhancing creativity, joy and vitality. You feel deeply called to learn how plant and earth medicines can support them.
This extensive training includes theory, personal practice and self-guided journeys, mentoring and conversations about your direct experience, which is often missing from more clinical trainings; and provides what’s needed for you to hold sacred and safe healing journeys with sacred mushroom medicine with integrity, confidence and optimal results.
Training candidates are asked to apply and will be interviewed. The application process ensures that this path is for you as it requires a level of capacity to hold sacred and safe space; deep listening and wisdom; emotional maturity and experience to address what comes up in journey sessions; and commitment to your own inner work and healing.
Next Program Offering: begins March 26, 2026. Please contact Nicole for more information.
Testimonials from Recent Training Graduates
“For anyone sincerely called to be a sacred plant medicine guide, I believe you will find no better trainer and mentor than Nicole. From our first interaction and my first glance at her materials, I could tell that she is the real deal; highly-organized, precise and articulate, well-researched, experienced, poised and generous with her time and guidance. Nicole is clearly committed to excellence, and I deeply appreciate the opportunity to learn from someone with such high integrity. I feel so grateful to have been in such good hands during my training with Nicole. I now have the confidence and skills to enrich my shamanic offerings to include healing journeys with plant medicine.” – Sonya Jason
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“The sacred call to be a carrier of this medicine can be overwhelming. I had no idea where to start or who I could turn to for guidance. The universe had connected me with Nicole in another class and when she announced this opportunity I knew she was the one. Her reverence for the ninos and cacao is palatable. Her knowledge is beyond deep, in fact almost instinctual. She navigates every conceivable aspect, both expected and unexpected. Her guidance has no other option other than to put your soul at ease.
“I joined the course with Nicole to feel more comfortable in medicine ceremonies, primarily as a participant, for both individual and group settings. I had received several requests from friends to facilitate with different medicines and I didn’t feel like I was deeply connected enough to any medicine to support someone else’s journey. So I stepped in to deepen my relationship with the medicine directly, and learn best practices, and how to embody the respect I felt.
Throughout the course, the theme of hygiene came up repeatedly. To name a few: Ceremonial structure, energetic sovereignty, mental health, self-care, diet, dialogue with the medicine itself, intention. All of these concepts, for me right now, are deeply resonant of my understanding of the Native American phrase “Come in a good way.”
As well as anyone I’ve seen in the medicine spaces, Nicole exemplifies integrity, gentleness, precision, respect, skill, and deep empathy. She has a special connection with the medicines she serves and that relationship is the foundation on which her ceremonies occur. The course was built on it, and it was inspiring and clarifying to see clearly how those relational dynamics work with a master teacher.
If you are curious to connect more fully with the medicine and be healed and held, or if you want to take your facilitation to a more grounded, cleaner level, or whatever your intention, Nicole is an expert that I recommend fully. She is an archetypal mentor.
I am deeply grateful for the wisdom I’ve remembered under her guidance, and blessed for the time I’ve committed to follow her lead. I now have much greater clarity about my path forward in serving others.” —Chris
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My first experience with Nicole was over two years ago when I participated in a healing journey session she facilitated. I came out of it thinking, “Thank the universe for people like her.” It takes a very special being to hold space with Los Niños [“the children” as mushrooms are known in Mexico].
Fast forward, the signs started showing up again to return to Los Ninos—I felt the calling, though I was confused as it seemed to be a calling to explore space holding and not just sitting with the sacred medicine. I’d never seen myself as one of those “special beings,” even though I’ve been holding space for years as a coach, energy worker, and cacao practitioner.
But once the calling came, I realized: there’s really no such thing as a “maybe.” If you’re called, you’re called. The work is just to sit with the hesitation. And luckily, I didn’t sit with it long. What helped me leap into the unknown was Nicole’s deep connection to both Cacao and Los Niños—an immediate resonance for me.
Whether it was for my own healing or to eventually hold space for others didn’t really matter. The calling was clear. I jumped into Nicole’s Journey Guide Training with trust. Nicole brings immense wisdom and experience, yet she honors every participant’s unique rhythm. Our group had varied range of reasons, experience and pacing, and she held it all with spacious grace.
Nicole weaves a container of trust, deep connection to the sacred medicine, and true community. She brings her wisdom and experience, loving acceptance, and openness to continue learning alongside our experiences. I now feel part of a Los Niños family I’ll carry with me always.
If you’re reading this? You’re probably already called. Be curious. Be brave. Be open. The Niños are already working in your favor. –Sarah
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THE CACAO MEDICINE PATH PROGRAM: Beyond a Practice
The Cacao Medicine Path: A 12-Week Shamanic Journey with Cacao with optional Keith’s Cacao Practitioner Certification | TBA 2026 | Application only | Limited to 8 participants
Be INITIATED with Cacao as a plant medicine spirit to deepen your HEALING
Expand into your MAGIC with her as your guide
Receive and embody her wisdom teachings and be a sacred MEDICINE CARRIER
A gentle and yet powerful teacher, healer and guide, the spirit of Cacao initiates you into receiving, integrating and embodying her wisdom teachings. You will receive the medicine of unconditional love, support and compassion on this path while feeling grounded, centered and connected to Spirit, Source, the Universe.
Cacao, on this immersive path, guides you in remembering who you truly are—whole, loved and luminous–while coming back into wholeness and reconnecting mind-body-soul.
This path is inspired by and mirrors my own personal path with Cacao, which began 11 years ago. My true essence became my presence…. –Nicole
You will receive direct transmission of the teachings from Cacao and through Nicole, a masterful facilitator, guide, practitioner and mentor. You will feel both humbled and empowered, qualities necessary to be in true, right relationship with Cacao as a plant medicine and to carry her medicine in the world with depth and presence.
Remembering Who/What You Are…. A fundamental question you will answer on this path with cacao as your guide.
Whether you are on a path of awakening or working with other plant medicines, but are new to Cacao, and are ready to deepen into her teachings; or you already are a Cacao Practitioner, who wants to access and embody the wisdom teachings of Cacao (beyond what you have learned already) and empower and deepen your presence and ceremonial offerings, this path was designed for you.
The Cacao Medicine Path is one of self-realization, self-healing, self-actualization and ultimately self-love and self-empowerment. You meet your Highest Self and higher consciousness on this path.
As you deepen your relationship with Cacao as a plant medicine and spirit through ceremonial, shamanic Cacao Medicine Journeys, intentional practices with cacao and live support calls, you walk the Cacao Medicine Path with commitment and in devotion and reverence. Your cellular structure and DNA will evolve as you become the medicine.
Become the medicine the world most needs.
You will receive what you most need on this initiatory path in masterfully held sacred and safe space, as you are guided and supported by:
- 6 LIVE (and recorded) Cacao Medicine Journeys on Zoom with Spotify/Apple Music playlists
- 6 LIVE (and recorded) Group Support & Integration Calls on Zoom
- Core teachings including shamanic practices and drum journeys, cacao wisdom teachings, and guided meditations on Google Classroom
- Private WhatsApp Group for sharing and support
Program Themes
Over our 12 weeks together, we will explore and deepen into these themes and intentions: Opening & Allowing | Deepening & Healing | Inner Knowing & Awareness | Receiving & Flow | Illumination & Expansion | Integration & Embodiment
This healing and empowering path will allow you to:
- Deepen your connection to the Cacao Spirit as a plant medicine teacher, healer and guide
- Feel held by unconditional love and compassion as you go deeper on your healing journey
- Reconnect mind-body-soul to access your life force energy and creativity
- Connect to and trust your inner knowing, intuition and emotional body
- Release emotional burdens, limiting beliefs and conditioned patterns
- Remember the essence of who you truly are and embody that knowing
- Work with the symbolism of messages received during your journeys and in dreams to understand the deeper messages from your soul
- Explore and integrate your shadow aspects—bright and dark—to reclaim your light and feel whole
- Learn your Mayan day sign and destiny to guide you on your soul’s path
- Receive distance Reiki energy healing and transmissions of high vibrational energy during ceremony
- Receive direct transmissions of teachings from the Cacao Spirit and from Nicole, Master Cacao Practitioner
- Ground and deepen while you expand your connection to the Cacao Spirit, your Higher Self and Source consciousness
- Share your experiences and learning with other students and be witnessed and celebrated on this path.
Walk the Cacao Medicine Path with Presence, Authenticity & Integrity.
Testimonials from Recent Graduates
“I have loved this group and Nicole how you led us and created the space for sisterhood. It was really healing and empowering for me on so many levels and coming to know the beauties of cacao and her medicine. I am honored to be here and it has been my honor and joy to travel with you. It’s been so nourishing. It took someone like you, Nicole, to show us how. Because of your energy and where you led us, it made cacao something spectacular. When you learn to work with the energies, it’s a totally different game.” –Brianne Earhart
“It all feels for us. Moments that feel completely magical. Allowing us to be astonished and affirmed. Because of you, Nicole. It felt like exactly what I needed. I love that I don’t know what’s coming but I know that it’s integrated and part of my practice. I am more informed and embodied. Thank you, Nicole, for bringing us together with such grace and hiding the space with dignity.” –CK
“I feel so happy. It’s one of the first times I have finished something that I started. I am so grateful to all of you. I feel all the love, strength and grace. I feel like Mama Cacao is my plant medicine….I can’t explain the love I have for this plant medicine. I want to share cacao with many people; it is such a gift.” –Livia Balboni
Mentorship Path: Plant and Earth Medicines
You may already be a practitioner or guide with plant and earth medicines and feel that something fundamental is missing from your training or you find yourself being confronted or triggered by new, challenging experiences in 1:1 or group journeys and need expert guidance and support. 
In my 1:1 sessions, you can share your challenges and ask questions in a safe and sacred container with a mentor who understands right and sacred relationship with the medicine, how to hold safe and sacred space while optimizing client and participant healing outcomes.
1:1 Mentoring Sessions. Contact Nicole for an Exploration Call.
CACAO PRACTITIONER TRAINING
Power of Cacao Practitioner Training. As Director of Training for Keith’s Cacao, I designed and co-developed this experiential training program for new and experienced Cacao Practitioners that shares detailed research, instructional videos and live classes about ceremonial cacao; history, myth and cultural awareness of cacao; science and nutritional benefits of cacao; and how to hold sacred and safe space.
“Find your magic,” as Keith would say, and find out more here. Rolling enrollment. Start anytime! Choose the class that fits your timezone.
