A Series in Communal Ceremony

EntheoEcology

Sacred gatherings in nature — held with Grandfather Wachuma, woven into the temples of the living world.

The cactus is older than the language we use to speak about it. It carries the prayer of the high deserts and the patience of stone — and it remembers us, when we come.

The Tradition

A gathering in the temples of nature.

EntheoEcology is a series of sacred gatherings — ceremonies held on the land, with Grandfather Wachuma as the central plant teacher and the living world as the larger sanctuary. Each ceremony is a meeting place: between the human and the more-than-human, between the inner temple of the body and the outer temple of the land, between the practitioner and the long lineage that has tended this work for thousands of years.

These are not classes or workshops. They are ceremonies — tended carefully, prepared for in advance, and integrated afterward. Group ritual and individual ritual are both held within the same container, woven together by the rhythm of the day and the wisdom of the medicine.

The Plant Teacher
Grandfather Wachuma · Huachuma

The untarnishable prism of the heart.

The Grandfather Cactus — called Wachuma, Huachuma, San Pedro — has been tended in the high deserts and mountain ranges of the Americas for longer than most lineages remember.

He is a daylight teacher. Where some plant teachers move through the dark night of the soul, Wachuma moves through the open day — through wide vision, through the warmth of the sun on stone, through what the lineages have long called the best day of your life.

He teaches in the language of relation. Of the sky to the canyon. Of the canyon to the breath. Of the breath to the heart. Of the heart to every other heart in the gathering. In his presence, the boundary between self and world softens — not erased, but remembered as the kinship it always was.

What the Ceremony Holds

Three temples, woven in one ceremony.

Each gathering opens three temples at once — the inner, the outer, and the weave of light that runs between them. The medicine moves freely through all three.

The Inner

The temple of the body

The heart, the breath, the cathedral of the chest — the first sanctuary, the one you carry with you. Wachuma tends this temple with extraordinary gentleness.

The Outer

The temple of the land

The canyon, the river, the grove, the sky. The ceremony is held outdoors, on land that has been welcomed and welcomed in return — the land itself participates in the rite.

The Weave

The webs of light between

The threads that run from heart to heart, from human to plant, from plant to land, from land to sky. The medicine illuminates the weave — what was always there comes into view.

How the Container is Held

Group ritual and solitary ritual, in one weave.

The day moves between the communal and the solitary. Both are facilitated — held and witnessed by Adi Marie and the tending team. Neither is an afterthought to the other.

Group Ritual

The communal weave

Opening prayer, the welcoming of the directions, the offering to the land. Song and silence held in the circle. The medicine taken together. Witnessing one another in the deepening — the symphony of breath and movement and sound that the medicine makes possible.

Individual Ritual

The solitary thread

Stretches of the day for private communion — with the medicine, with the land, with whatever rises in the inner temple. A piece of canyon to yourself. A tree to lean against. Time for the work that only happens alone — held within the larger field of the gathered circle.

What the Container Asks

The shape of the ceremony.

Every EntheoEcology gathering is shaped by the same set of principles, drawn from the lineages and refined through Adi Marie’s nineteen years of tending this work.

  • Preparation precedes ceremony. Diet, intention, and an intake conversation in the weeks before. No one comes cold to Wachuma.
  • The food of the realm. Fasting practices held in the days surrounding the ceremony — food is a tether to the realm you eat in.
  • The land is welcomed first. Every gathering opens by offering to the land that holds us. The site is a participant, not a backdrop.
  • The symphony is welcome. Crying, laughing, breathing, singing, silence, movement — the body’s honest response to the medicine is part of the rite.
  • No spoken language during deep work. The medicine moves on the amygdala; language sits in the frontal cortex. We work below speech.
  • Integration is required. A follow-up call within one to four weeks. The ceremony does not end at sunset — it is released into the life of the practitioner.
Upcoming Gatherings

The wheel of the year, marked.

EntheoEcology gatherings are held on the wheel of the year — tied to seasons, moons, and the land’s own rhythm. Dates, locations, formats, and reciprocity are listed on the Calendar. Register from the calendar event itself.

See the Calendar →
Begin Here

Come to the temples.

Every EntheoEcology gathering begins with the same first conversation — the Intake & Inquiry. We meet, we listen, we determine together whether this is the right ceremony, the right season, the right teacher for the work you are bringing.

Schedule the Intake & Inquiry