The Song of Belonging: A Free Online Ritual to Remember Our Medicine in These Times

Sage is a guide in expanding consciousness and integrating through the body, breath, and connection to Earth. For many generations, her Lusitanian and Anatolian lineages have been creating spaces so that life can flow. Sage’s initiation into the path of sacred space began when she was seeking healing for almost a lifetime of severe chronic Lyme disease, depression, and trauma. For over a decade, she has studied the transpersonal: meditation, shamanic cosmologies and medicines, depth psychology, and consciousness. She holds a BS from Georgetown University and a MA in East-West Psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies, and she is trained through the Awe Foundation in Transpersonal Psychedelic Therapy with a strong focus on deep ecology and shamanic cultures. Her approach is in deep reverence for our resiliency and radically trusting in life’s initiations as the path of awakening. Through the alchemy of inner-reconciliation, we become medicine for the collective and stewards of the mystical. Sage's work brings together modern trauma resolution science and spiritual healing. She apprentices closely under Onanyá Pablo (a Shipibo spirit doctor), and works with the traditional Shipibo modality of channeled Ikaros, learned from the plants after years in master plant dietas. She has also pilgrimaged many times over the years to learn from multiple other indigenous families of South and Central America in their ancestral lands. She has been leading international medicine retreats for over six years - both in-residence and hosting at various retreat centers. Sage is also trained in Somatic Experiencing, Internal Family Systems, Conscious-Connected Breathwork, Systemic Family Constellations, the Holotropic Paradigm, Axiatonal Alignment, and Ecopsychology. With the preservation of indigenous wisdom close to her heart, she founded a nonprofit, Caya, dedicated to supporting indigenous voices, sustainability of their ancestral lands, and healing scholarships.