Fransie Garcia (Ceremony Guide)
Fransie Garcia (Ceremony Guide)
About the Teacher
Why study with them?
Fransie brings a deep, lived understanding of sacred plants and many years of experience holding and guiding ayahuasca retreats. Over the years, he has accompanied hundreds of people through intense inner processes and has studied closely with elders and teachers from different regions of the Amazon. This long-term dedication has shaped a way of guiding that is grounded, attentive, and rooted in direct experience rather than theory.
Within the retreat, Fransie serves as the main ceremony guide, guardian of the yagé, and voice medicine. He leads each ceremony with clarity and care, holding the space with steadiness, patience, and a strong sense of responsibility. His presence is calm and focused, allowing participants to feel supported while remaining fully engaged with their own process. He understands how to respond under a wide range of circumstances and knows when to intervene and when to give space, always prioritizing safety and respecting the process of every participant to not interrupt them.
Fransie is also a musician and songwriter, and his relationship with sound, breath, and rhythm is an integral part of his work. During the retreat, he guides breathwork sessions and explains each stage of the process in a clear and structured way, helping participants understand what may arise and how to navigate it with greater awareness. His way of communicating is direct and caring, combining structure with warmth and presence.
He has experience facilitating different plant medicines, including yagé, tobacco, and kambó, always supported by the Mahanse team. During ceremonies, he may offer energetic cleansings using his tools, tobacco, and sahumerios, adapting each intervention to the individual and the moment, without imposing interpretations or promises, knowing that everyone must get their own answers.
Born in Spain to a Spanish father and a Dutch mother, Fransie moves fluently between cultures and languages, guiding in both Spanish and English. He plays several instruments and brings a broad, embodied understanding of music, breath, and ceremonial space. He also dedicates time to studying mental health, addiction, and the ways in which disciplined work with plants and traditional diets can support long-term change, always emphasizing responsibility, preparation, and integration.
Fransie has completed several plant dietas and continues to return regularly to the Amazon to deepen his learning and maintain a living connection with the roots of this work. What once touched him deeply is now shared with humility and commitment as an invitation for others to look honestly at their habits, patterns, and ways of living, and to take responsibility for creating a more coherent and conscious life, for the next generations to come to find a better place.
His strength lies not in grand gestures, but in consistency, integrity, and the ability to hold demanding spaces with clarity and heart, while walking the path himself.
Within the retreat, Fransie serves as the main ceremony guide, guardian of the yagé, and voice medicine. He leads each ceremony with clarity and care, holding the space with steadiness, patience, and a strong sense of responsibility. His presence is calm and focused, allowing participants to feel supported while remaining fully engaged with their own process. He understands how to respond under a wide range of circumstances and knows when to intervene and when to give space, always prioritizing safety and respecting the process of every participant to not interrupt them.
Fransie is also a musician and songwriter, and his relationship with sound, breath, and rhythm is an integral part of his work. During the retreat, he guides breathwork sessions and explains each stage of the process in a clear and structured way, helping participants understand what may arise and how to navigate it with greater awareness. His way of communicating is direct and caring, combining structure with warmth and presence.
He has experience facilitating different plant medicines, including yagé, tobacco, and kambó, always supported by the Mahanse team. During ceremonies, he may offer energetic cleansings using his tools, tobacco, and sahumerios, adapting each intervention to the individual and the moment, without imposing interpretations or promises, knowing that everyone must get their own answers.
Born in Spain to a Spanish father and a Dutch mother, Fransie moves fluently between cultures and languages, guiding in both Spanish and English. He plays several instruments and brings a broad, embodied understanding of music, breath, and ceremonial space. He also dedicates time to studying mental health, addiction, and the ways in which disciplined work with plants and traditional diets can support long-term change, always emphasizing responsibility, preparation, and integration.
Fransie has completed several plant dietas and continues to return regularly to the Amazon to deepen his learning and maintain a living connection with the roots of this work. What once touched him deeply is now shared with humility and commitment as an invitation for others to look honestly at their habits, patterns, and ways of living, and to take responsibility for creating a more coherent and conscious life, for the next generations to come to find a better place.
His strength lies not in grand gestures, but in consistency, integrity, and the ability to hold demanding spaces with clarity and heart, while walking the path himself.
