If you have a deep connection with plant consciousness, medicine and wisdom, and are at a point where you wish to share this beautiful dimension of reality with your community in a respectful, reciprocal, and fully grounded way, then read on...
Twenty years ago, I was lucky enough to train in-person, and at length with two great contemporary plant wisdom communicators, namely Stephen Harrod Buhner and Elliot Cowan. Through the different trainings I undertook with each of them, I learned many tools and techniques for communicating with the wisdom of plants. But there was something else. Something deeper. A way of being present. Of honouring what I instinctively knew, and of recognition and trust in my intuition. A deeply grounded way of standing with absolute authenticity and integrity.
This became the baseline. This way of showing up in the world, became more valuable than any fancy tool box. The portal to inter-dimensional connection, respect, reverence and reciprocity, opened up before me.
During 2022, first Elliot and then Stephen, passed. In the months after Stephen's passing, I was asked in dreams many times, to step up into an elder role, to help fill the space that they had left. My plant allies guided me to generate this training in response. It took over a year of receiving and delicately balancing what to include, and then two years to test it with a beta group. Now, finally, I am opening my invite to you...
This training is a journey, a journey, like no other. This is a held and guided exploration into regenerative relationships with all beings, for practitioners, guides, leaders and teachers. An essential expedition for the curious of heart, at this time of polycrisis.
Within the human community, longing for direct relationships with the mysteries of soul, with our plant kin, with the more-than-human, is growing. Will you step up and help people find their way?
At this imperilled time for humanity, for Gaia, remember that you are an active participant. This training has been developed to support you, as you work to guide people into direct relationship with all that is, to a place of belonging.
Seek and integrate the wild wisdom of the world. Spiral deeper and deeper into the true nature of reality. Form your own unique blueprint for regenerative living. Grow and nurture your community of more-than-human allies, gain the confidence and authenticity to share with other open-hearted souls.
Where I, and this training, can take you...
to being a confident & authentic teacher & guide of sacred plant medicine.
to being a plant spirit medicine ceremonialist.
to being a true nature connection guide.
living in the flow of interweaving lives and the richness that brings to being.
to a place of full dis~illusionment. Escape from our current machine-led consensus reality, making space for the true nature of reality.
to a place of full and constant immersion within a community of more-than-human beings.
into deep presence.
into being a conscious contributor to the conversation with all life.
This training is not prescriptive in any way. If you are looking for an easy ride, a listing of contents for your ceremonies or courses, and a "right way" to present it, you are in the wrong place!
you are looking for a "course" with lots of given material to work through.
if you don't have at least eight hours each week to devote to your explorations and practice.
you are hoping to read through some material and receive a certificate simply from attendance.
you are not open to making changes, in all areas of your life.
you are looking for a simple personal healing/ personal development experience.
This training requires sideways thinking, an awareness of and tuning into the minutiae, deep personal presence, and a return to the utter simplicity of the wild cycles that we all live by.
My role is to guide, as you explore the invisible dimensions. So that you can be grounded and deeply present, as you bring forth your own unique Plant Spirit Wisdom related offerings.
Over 18 months of study, each theme taking 3 months to fully consider and work with
Presence
Authenticity & Integrity
Deep Integration
Holding Space
Beyond the Comfort Zone
Sacred Cycle of Life
"I am deeply grateful for this rich and thought-provoking course, which arrived at exactly the right moment in my life. In the past I have led workshops, facilitated groups, taught classes, and offered coaching and mentoring. After a long enforced break due to illness, however, I found myself questioning my capabilities and sense of direction.
Over the course of 18 months, this programme offered a steady and spacious framework in which to explore different strands of leadership: authenticity and integrity, integration, the cycles of life, and, most importantly for me, kinship with the more-than-human world. These are not themes commonly centred in conventional leadership trainings, yet they felt essential and deeply relevant. It pays close attention to the language we use and the practices we embody, inviting leadership that is less about hierarchy and more about relationship. Each strand built thoughtfully upon the last, allowing me to revisit and deepen my core understandings rather than simply accumulate new information.
I have emerged with renewed confidence, fresh ideas, and genuine enthusiasm about how to bring my learning into practice. If you are drawn to relational ways of working, or feel yourself in conversation with the living world, I wholeheartedly recommend this inclusive course. It gently questions dominant narratives and invites more connected, life-affirming ways of leading."
Juin, Feb '26.
Although the specifics will be dictated by where your personal journey goes exactly, I promise that you will be:
more than equipped to teach, hold ceremony or otherwise share, sacred plant medicine work from a place of deep integrity.
living with awareness of a kincentric based worldview.
embedded within the living flow of communication between all species and in conscious awareness of this.
working with and for, a selection of more-than-human allies.
confident in generating you own modes of exploration and communication with the more-than-human.
able to generate original material, designed to share the truth of reality, as you experience it, with other humans.
living in a more sacred way on this Earth.
living a more regenerative life, giving a positive feedback to all beings at this time of crisis.
But these are exactly what the world needs right now and is invisibly conspiring to endow you with; why else have you found it to this page? We are being asked, called on, to undertake some very sacred work. The work of remembering our true place, set in the bosom of all our relations. This is not magic, or a bunch of crazy ideas. This is our true way of being, and guiding you there is what I came here to do.
That you have some level of connection with Plant Spirit Wisdom; an awareness of, and interaction with, plant consciousness. This could be through courses/ mentorship/ apprenticeship with me, or other human sacred plant medicine teachers and guides. Or through plant initiations (directly from the plant or guided by a human), work with entheogens, or ceremony with a single plant which could mean anyone from Mugwort to Rose to Cacao (or any plant in between!). If you have no direct experience of deep connection with a plant, or means to do so, we will need to work on these foundational tools as a precursor to the training.
Primarily this training is designed to prepare you to become, or deepen your reach as:
nature connection ~ plant ceremonialist ~ sacred plant medicine ~ plant spirit medicine.
Whether you have been offering this work for some time, are just setting out in the role of teacher/ guide, or are feeling a calling that this is your next direction ~ by participating in this training, I guarantee that your offerings will reach a much deeper dimension.
If you are working within the healing arts, your current role is essentially guiding people to good health. So this training is also relevant for: herbalists ~ naturopaths ~ eco-psychologists...
The training will support and assist anyone working to lead within the regenerative living realm, or where the more-than-human are regarded as central (kincentric), or indeed any leadership role that holds rights of nature as central.
And why visionary? Because the need for a new vision, a new story to live by, is acute. This training will help you develop your vision and fully inhabit the world you are dreaming into being.
If you have no intention of guiding or teaching, no leaning towards leadership, you may think this training is not for you. But if you wish to take your own personal practice with inter-species presence and communication to new levels of richness and meaning, then this training is also for you.
A meaningful personal practice is foundational for any teacher/ guide/ leadership training, and so this is where we begin. And as that practice deepens, so you begin to shine, and consciously or not you begin to guide, simply from being you...
"When I started this training, I had no specific expectations. I simply wanted to learn more. The plants had other ideas. They led me to unexpected places and taught me what I needed to know. Rachel's experience, understanding and flexibility of approach were precious gifts that guided and supported me during this enlightening yet often difficult journey of infinite potential."
SD
I am offering to guide you to a place that goes beyond the already incredible experience of plant and mushroom connection and consciousness. A place where your bare feet will truly feel the stone you stand upon, not just the temperature, the texture, but the who. The wind, the water as they caress your skin, you will know that you are touching them back, in an exchange. This is an awakening to all that our broken machine-fed culture has taught us is dead, empty, merely functional, devoid of being-ness.
This journey is an investigation, an expedition, where you are held and guided as you find your own way to the richness of being. So that you can rend the veil of illusion and live within the animate universe, both touching and being touched in every moment.
...more a light framework, through which I will guide and hold you. Each person who chooses to travel this road with me will have a unique experience, as like the Wolf, I will lead from the back, allowing you to make the choices, which path, which twists and turns to follow. Rest assured, I will have your back. I am not alone, you will benefit from the fact I have multiple more-than-human allies guiding and informing me. My team is varied and strong, as will yours be, by the end of this adventure.
Good question! This offering is the culmination of over 20 years experience of teaching and sharing different tools and techniques for connecting with Plant Spirit Wisdom, plant consciousness. The landscape has changed significantly in that time, with many people now being aware of, and living with consideration for, plant consciousness and rights of nature.
I celebrate that our plant-kin are once again being acknowledged, the is world rebalancing in the most beautiful way. However, as more and more plant connection work and ceremonies are being offered, it is clear that not all are held with deep reverence for the plants. There are some very surface level offerings out there, extractivist by their nature.
Within my personal experience as a singular example, there have been multiple occasions where, after only a few hours of workshop or ceremony, an attendee begins offering what sounds essentially the same. Except of course it is not the same, it is simply a copying of form, with no underlying depth of relationship. Form is a template of how something looks, relationship is the heart of how it feels.
Relationship with the plants is everything. Underlying every healthy relationship is respect and reciprocity, that cannot be copied, there are no short cuts. Respect and reciprocity are central to the way I work and the direction in which I will guide you. After all, you can only take people as deep as you yourself have been able to go, as deep as your relationships with the plants go.
If you wish to hold plant-kin in the very fabric of your bones, to feel their guidance as clearly as the warmth of a summer breeze, so that it holds, shapes and feeds your way of being in the world, everything you are and everything you offer, then you are in the right place. This offering is big. I have to trust, trust my allies to guide and support me, while I do the same for you. And so I am inviting you also to trust, to trust me, to trust the process...
I have written an extended bio, specifically relating to this training, that I can send you on request - just drop me a line and I will do so. There is also my full bio here for a more general overview of who I am and what I do.
...about teaching you a set of "right" ways - of which I am and will always be the greater expert in! No, that is not how this is, I don't think or work like that, not at all... This is a place for enquiry. If you are not curious, then this is not for you. If you want a right or a wrong, not for you. If you want strict guidelines and a tick list, not for you.
This goes deeper and further. This is you building 100% direct and personal relationships, receiving unique and original knowledge from them. But you are not mining, you are reciprocating, growing and giving as you do so. Carving a more true lifeway, deeply embedded within the bosom of all beings, all life and their life-altering perspectives and wisdom.
This is not yet another course for you, your own self development and healing. This is for all beings, for the regeneration of our relationships with all beings. For Earth, for Gaia ~ we are one.
"This training is a way to look and explore into your life and ingrained thoughts, you know the ones you don't even think you're thinking! A guidance lead immersion where you go to the places that need to be explored - or run away from - but hey now you know they are there! A deep look at how we live and relate to every Being we come into connection with, a deep awakening into seeing that. With support throughout. In harmony."
Rainbow Ali
This training is planned to cover a full 18 months. Work like this cannot be rushed.
There will be a new theme every 3 months, six in total.
At the start of each "theme" I will open a new selection of lines of enquiry, to you.
On satisfactory completion of the 18 months, I can provide a certificate of achievement.
In addition, on completion, I can supply a detailed breakdown of content, alongside estimated time spent on each theme. This can be used when seeking insurance for this work.
You will have access for life to any and all, materials and prompts that I share.
There will be a fortnightly 1-2-1 Zoom call (with me) throughout, totalling 6 per theme. Each call will last up to 1 hour.
Some of your explorations may require a weekly check in over a moon cycle; leading to a couple of additional Zoom calls, within the 3 month period.
Once every 3 months there will be an optional group call with other students past and present. A fabulous opportunity for peer-led encouragement, deepening enquiry, inspiration and accountability.
If it seems relevant to your trajectory, I may invite a special guest to join us during one or more of our Zoom sessions. These will always be a well respected peer of mine with specialist and demonstrated knowledge of, and experience in, the subject we are working with.
If relevant to your journey, optional access to feasts (diets) with my inner circle students will be included in your theme fee.
Each theme will cost £800, to be paid in advance, on completion of the previous. Totalling £4800 over the 18 months. Sliding scale available on request.
A theme will only be complete on satisfaction that you have fully explored it, in the direction(s) that your personal curiosity led.
The new theme will become available on receipt of your next instalment.
Your dedication, will be 8-10 hours a week. You cannot hope to arrive at the destination if you are not prepared to walk the path.
Some of your dedicated time may be reading. However, most of that time will be in deep presence, and for that you will need to dedicate preferably an hour or two each day - this is part of the patterning. Keeping your awareness and intention on this, so that you generate new brain-pathways, allowing for the formation of new habits, so that this truly becomes you.
No one else can do it for you! If you don't think you can dedicate this much time, then now is probably not the right time for you.
Are you being called by your more-than-human allies into something deeper, more meaningful? They will be there with you on the journey, also supporting and holding you.
Content will emerge and evolve as the journey does, and so joining is more about trust. About trust in me as a guide. About following your heart as to whether this is what you need right now. For those reasons and for the fact that this is a large investment of resources, both time and money, there is an application process. If you are interested and wish to progress this, contact me directly to book your complimentary 30 minute application call.
I need to know that you are ready, that this process will work for you. I have to be sure that I can assist you on your quest. If not, I will not offer you a place. Don't be nervous, I just want to be sure that you and I are the right fit at this point on your journey.
As far as I am aware, there is nothing else like this out there on offer at this time...
My intentions for you over the 18 months we commit to journey together include:
that life is a conversation.
that all life is sacred and all beings, your relations.
that the real reason for being, is to live well and love well. Anything beyond that is a bonus. Which means, live well in all that you do.
self
more-than-human
other humans (clients/ family/ students)
ability to create own container (space/ presence/ reverence).
not enforcing your way as the correct or only way. Inviting exploration & questioning.
Being the instigator who sets up experience. And appreciation that as facilitator you are also student of both participant & subject - no matter how deep your relationship with subject already goes.
Simply email with
A brief introduction to yourself, just a couple of sentences. Please include your name, where you live, and anything else you would like to tell me, so I can get a tiny bit familiar with you, before we speak. No big pressure here, keep it short, a paragraph is all I am looking for.
Two or three dates and times when you are free - Monday through Friday, any time from 8.30am until around 8pm UK (preferably not weekends). Remember the call duration will be 30 minutes.