Less than a year ago, I went to Brazil for my first time to sit with the ancient intelligence of the Yawanawá people and their medicine, ayahuasca.
And somehow, I found myself back again, sitting with the Yawanawá people and asking myself:
Victoria, what are you doing with your life that has brought you here again?
The logical answer was work.
I was there supporting Conscious Living Network and helping foster a relationship rooted in respect, learning, and connection.
But the deeper answer?
My soul was calling me back for a lesson.
A remembering.
A deeper understanding of why I am here.
Some people may look at life in the forest and notice what is not there: no hot water, no air conditioning, fewer of the comforts many of us are used to.
But what I witnessed was not lack.
I witnessed wealth.
Wealth in culture.
Wealth in community.
Wealth in music.
Wealth in wisdom.
Wealth in love.
Wealth in relationship with the Earth.
I learned more about the prayer, intention, focus, and devotion that goes into creating the medicine, and it changed something in me.
It reminded me that there is still holiness in this world.
That plant medicine is a sacred gift.
That our bodies are holy temples.
That what is holy is not just found in churches or temples, but in the forest, in song, in prayer, in the body, in the Earth, and in the way a community remembers how to live in relationship with all of it.
I came home with a higher reverence for what it means for something to be holy.
And a deeper remembering that we need far less than we think to live a wildly rich life.
I am so grateful that aligned work is placing me in spaces that help me connect, learn, grow, heal, transform, and remember why I am here.
I want to say thank you to
@deva.uta for so lovingly leading me and so many others down this path - you are an angel. To the
@consciousliving.network for creating pathways to support the evolution of the human consciousness. And especially to my friend and co-creator
@j_poyer21 for seeing the need for this shared mission of helping others heal and align with their true essence.
My heart is so full.