SMOKING MIRROR

Camilo weaves together the many threads of his life's work — as medicine carrier, keeper of traditional chants, professional musician, and devoted seeker of knowledge — revealing what has always been one single path, seen from different perspectives. Just as every beach and every river meets the same sea from a different angle, the ancient geometries found across traditions all point toward the same underlying phenomena. From science and physics to philosophy and ancestral wisdom, the same patterns emerge — the same grid, manifesting from the same source. In these workshops, we will start to recognize those patterns, to understand more deeply what this existence is truly about: what are the rules of the game, and who is the real player. Lets play! 

• Shannon draws from her studies important aspects of neurobiology, nervous system regulation, and somatic practices. Her contribution is to bring awareness so the body can bring itself into alignment — a territory with its own dynamics, its protection mechanisms, its intelligence. When the nervous system feels sufficiently safe, it naturally opens to more information. Not because we force it, but because that is how it works. Her sessions progress from fundamental to deep: first exploring the experience of safety in the body, then observing how the nervous system creates patterns, then learning self-regulation tools, and finally exploring stored emotional energy. At the close, the Tea Mandala Ceremony invites each participant to integrate their personal story into an act of symbolic alchemy. 

• Mornings explore the body and nervous system (Shannon). Afternoons expand the field of perception (Camilo). Evenings integrate through circles, sound and ceremony. Each day is a cycle: exploration of the inner territory, opening the field of vision, integration in shared space. The week is cradled between two Temazcales- an opening to shed what we carry, and a closing to anchor what we’ve received. The final morning, we gather in a tea mandala ceremony, where each guest creates a personal blend of herbs that is then brewed and received as an embodied ritual of becoming our own medicine.