Maiana

My love for the earth guides my life and work. Through one-on-one sessions, mentorship, ceremonies and wilderness-based initiatory encounters, I foster embodied, relational, and creative ways of being and knowing that invite reconnection with the healing forces of nature and the deep wisdom of soul. Centering the intelligence of our sensitivity, recovering the ecological relationality essential to our wholeness, and tending our innermost longings, we nurture emergent capacities for insight, clarity, resilience, courage and joy.

My work is informed by decades of experience supporting healing through ceremonial work with sacred plants. As a psilocybin facilitator, I bridge this shamanic experience with the science of psychedelic therapy, to create safe, trauma-informed containers for the expansion of consiousness. Rituals are embedded in a web of creative and somatic modalities for integration: as a yoga practitioner, writer, and trail runner, my own wellbeing hinges on dedication to daily practices, and this holistic, embodied approach infuses all I share. And as a lifelong student of Ecopsychology, Transpersonal Psychology and Indigenous Wisdom, I situate my offering within an interdisciplinary praxis rooted in an understanding of health as fundamentally interconnected with stewardship of society and planet.

I am committed to reciprocity with the wisdom-keepers who tend earth-based lineages, and solidarity with all movements for indigenous sovereignty. A deep bow to the Coast Salish tribes who are the original stewards of the land I call home. This work is gender-identity and poly-affirming, and rooted in decolonial, anti-racist, feminist and neuro-queer theory.

I speak English and Spanish and offer all services at a sliding scale for people with marginalized identities and limited resources.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

  • PhD student in East-West Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (currently enrolled)

  • MA in East-West Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies (May 2025)

  • Inner Trek’s Psilocybin Facilitator Certification program (March 2023)

  • 8 Limbs Yoga Centers Teacher Training (2015)

  • Vancouver Film School Digital Design Program (2005)

  • Esalen Institute Massage Certification Program (2001)

  • Ida Rolf Institute, Rolfing Trainings 1 & 2 (2001)

  • Naropa University, BA in Ecopsychology and Creative Arts Therapies (1999)