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The Setting
We offer San Pedro ceremonies each week in a cozy, private, safe, and relaxing space, The countryside around Santa Isabel, Ecuador (just outside of Cuenca) is stunningly beautiful and provides the backdrop for what is sure to be a profound experience for you, as it has consistently been for us as well.
The Medicine
San Pedro, also known as Huachuma or Wachuma, is a sacred cactus that has been used in shamanic plant medicine ceremonies for thousands of years in the Amazonian region.
It is said to be a plant teacher, and you will quickly discover why as you begin to have a conversation with the spirit of the plant, which is known as Grandfather San Pedro. Because, just a like a grandfather, he can swaddle you with a level of emotional warmth and tender affection that will touch your heart in a way you might not have even felt before, and he can also provide you with tough-love advice if it’s needed too.
The Ceremony
Every day starts with a warm cup of tea of coffee and friendly conversation as we settle into the new day.
Then, around 10a.m. Steve smudges us all with white sage to clear any sort of negative energies that may be present.
Next, we sit in a small circle, and Steve shares some basic guidelines to the ceremony, and then one-by-one, we each share our intentions with the medicine. This might be as simple as “My intention is to know myself better”, or you might choose to go into more detail.
The medicine is then poured in a glass for each person, and after taking as much time with it as you would prefer, you are welcomed to drink the medicine and find a nice place to settle in.
From then on, the primary element to the ceremony is a conversation that will begin in your head between you and the medicine. You might liken this to speaking to yourself silently, although it will very likely soon be clear that the entity you’re speaking to is a very wise plant teacher who is lovingly known as Grandfather San Pedro.
Just like a grandfather, he can swaddle you with a level of emotional warmth and tender affection that will touch your heart in a way you might not have ever felt before, and he can also provide you with tough-love advice if it’s needed too.
You will feel the primary effects of the medicine for about 10 hours, during which time you’ll be given plenty of space for solitude, surrounded by the amazing beauty of the Ecuadorian countryside.
This provides many opportunities to look inside yourself in many different ways, and you will have an unlimited amount of Steve’s support, not only as a warm, gentle human being, but also as a trained and experienced counselor, with specialties in addictions and childhood trauma.
Steve is always within earshot if support is needed, and he checks on you periodically to see how you’re doing. You’re also welcome to roam around the property to find whatever little perch suits you best.
Midway through the ceremony, fresh fruit is served, which is always a welcomed treat, and at the end of each ceremony, a warm and hardy meal is served which really warms your bones to the core.
Finally, Steve provides angel card readings which you will likely find quite illuminating and may provide some clarification to your experiences throughout the day.
The Facilitator
Workshops are held at the Eagle’s Nest – home of Steve Eagle Sewell – who is self-described as a plant medicine specialist and has chosen to dedicate his life to providing plant medicine to those who need it most.
And after a 2-year apprenticeship in Peru, he’s also facilitated ceremony for over 3,000 people and drank the medicine himself over 500 times. He is well acquainted with it’s healing power as the ultimate healer of addiction, dis-ease and dis-order.
The Bottom Line
If you want to discover who you are, what you believe in, how to heal, and how to find your path, you’ve found the right place 🙂
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wunderband
October 10, 2016 at 6:20 pmMy San Pedro experience at San Pedro Workshops, in October 2016, was fantastic. The setting is beautiful, the food is delicious, and the San Pedro tea was powerful and healing. Steve is an insightful, warm and calming presence and I absolutely love his dog “Squiggles” who was a big part of my positive experience.
Highly recommended.
samrae77
October 7, 2016 at 10:08 pmMy husband and I have known Steve Eagle for over 10 years, as a practitioner of health and well being, we are blessed enough to call him a friend. We met Steve when he ran the NORA Clinic in Durango Colorado. An amino acid therapy treatment facility that changed our life, with counseling, acupuncture and amino acid therapy. Steve is someone that we are blessed to have in our lives. He has a warm, caring heart, and while my husband and I are not fortunate enough to have done a ceremony yet, Steve would be the only person whom we would want to guide us through this sacred path. We have been following Steve’s journey with love, adoration and respect. Steve lives to guide people down a healing path. We look forward to our travel to Ecuador for our ceremonies.
Samantha & John Sanders
sanpedrorn
October 7, 2016 at 7:20 pmguided by a mutual friend, I made in Banos Ecuador, I traveled to Vilcabamba to experience San Pedro with Steve. Given his vast experience with both the medicine and as a counselor (in another life) he afforded the knowledge and comfort (great location) to guide me through some very rough emotional purging. He is a good guide and a caring friend…
Jonatan
October 7, 2016 at 6:39 pmI had the fortune of meeting Steve in Peru and he supported me in several San Pedro ceremonies. Especially at one point I remember that he really skillfully guided me to release a lot of anger I was carrying around. He has also been generous with his knowledge of amino acids years after we met when I contacted him for help.
boolacalaca
October 7, 2016 at 5:54 pmMy only experience with San Pedro before was one ceremony where it was mixed with Ayahuasca in a single dose, so I was looking for an immersion with the medicine by itself in which I would have enough time and a beautiful space to appreciate an in-depth conversation with Grandfather San Pedro. I am so thankful that I found the ceremony led by Steve Eagle Sewell – it was exactly what I was hoping to find.
After three consecutive days of Kambo at another center, I felt purged of anything that might get in the way of receiving the benefits of San Pedro. But I was a bit anxious whether or not being so wiped out after Kambo would mix well with the way the San Pedro ceremony was conducted and if the space provided would be conducive. Meeting Steve and being introduced to his space put all of those concerns to rest immediately. Steve is obviously loving, gracious, and very knowledgeable of the medicine as well as counseling modalities. He is never intrusive on the experience but you feel him holding the space for you and being there for you should you need anything, including if you need to speak to someone about anything going on. I really appreciated his calm, compassionate presence.
The location he has was perfect for my experience – big enough to roam around in but small enough not to wander off and get lost. I liked the variety of things to do in the space – from lying down on a bed, to mats that could be carried off to lie down anywhere else in the garden, to chairs and a hammock on the patio with calming music, or a short hike down the hill to the river. Lying under a tree by the river, with the sound of it rushing by was greatly inspirational for meditations.
I am also so grateful for receiving the medicine for a 10-hour experience at one time at the start. Other retreat centers give a little bit of medicine when they begin and then they return to you multiple times to ask if you want more. I feel this is intrusive on the process and results in a series of small possible revelations instead of going deep. For true immersion and a profound conversation with Grandfather San Pedro, the way that Steve administers the medicine I think is best.
The days I spent at Steve’s place, receiving the medicine back-to-back over those two days was one of the best experiences of my life. Without going in to details here, the lessons I received and the conversations I had with Grandfather San Pedro sorted out sixty years of stuff I was dealing with. I am so grateful for that. And I know none of it would have been possible if Steve hadn’t led the ceremony as he did, brewed the medicine as he did, provided an awesome space as he did, and been so loving and supportive. I highly recommend the Eagle’s Nest.