BRIDGING WORLDS MENTORSHIP SEASON 3
You already feel the call and now it’s time to trust yourself enough to answer it.
A 5-month mentorship for the woman ready to step into embodied leadership, guide real experiences for others, and hold space with clarity, integrity, and self-trust.
8 spots available · Begins August 2026
YOU’RE NOT IMAGINING IT. YOU’RE BEING CALLED INTO SOMETHING MORE.
There comes a moment where the call is no longer subtle.
You feel it in your body.
In the way you listen.
In how people open up around you.
You’re not just here to receive healing anymore.
You’re here to hold it.
And still…
You question yourself.
You wonder if you’re ready.
You wait for someone to validate you.
This is the threshold…
between who you’ve been and who you’re becoming.
YOU’LL PROBABLY FEEL YOURSELF IN THIS…
THE “I HAVE SO MUCH INSIDE ME” GIRL
You have sooo much inside of you.
Ideas, notes, journals, voice memos…
it’s all there.
But when it comes to actually putting it out there?
You freeze a little.
You don’t even know where to start.
THE “I’M MEANT FOR MORE” FEELING
You know you’re meant for something deeper.
Not just doing what everyone else is doing like there’s something in you that wants to work with people,
to hold space, to create something meaningful…
…but you haven’t fully stepped into it yet.
THE “I’VE LEARNED BUT HAVEN’T MOVED” PHASE
You’ve taken courses.
You’ve learned from teachers.
You’ve been in the spaces.
And it’s not that it didn’t help—
it did.
But deep down you’re like…
Okay but when is it my turn to actually DO the thing?
THE “I’M COMPLEX AF” TRUTH
You want to be around women who get you.
Where you can talk about healing and purpose and also be laughing, dancing, being a full human.
Like yes, I can drink cacao in the morning and be outside dancing to some Afro beats and Bad Bunny later.
Both exist. That’s real life.
You don’t want to be cookie cutter.
You don’t want to be the “perfect spiritual girl.”
You want to be:
Spiritual and human
Grounded and confident
Soft and powerful
Deep and fun
THE “I WANT TO LEAD, NOT JUST WATCH” SHIFT
You feel called to this work.
Maybe it’s cacao, maybe it’s ceremony, maybe it’s just…
you know you’re meant to be with people in a deeper way.
And you don’t just want to sit in the circle anymore, you want to be the one holding it too.
THE “I’M READY, BUT WHAT IF I’M NOT GOOD ENOUGH?”
You’re done waiting for someone to tell you
you’re allowed to do this.
You know you’re ready.
But at the same time—
you don’t want to skip the learning.
You want to be in a space where:
You feel safe asking questions
You feel seen and understood
You actually trust the person guiding you
And you can grow without feeling judged
And if you’re being honest…
There’s a version of you
who is already doing this.
Speaking. Leading. Creating. Holding space.
You can see her. You can feel her ♡
You just haven’t fully let yourself become her yet.
THIS ISN’T JUST A TRAINING.
This is a rite of passage into embodied leadership.
Where your healing and your work stop being separate
Where you stop performing spirituality and start living it
Where you become someone others can trust in a room
You don’t learn this work by watching.
You learn it by becoming it.
THIS WORK IS ROOTED IN PRACTICE AND BEYOND THEORY.
You’ll build a real relationship with cacao as a plant ally.
Not just drinking it…
but learning how to work with it intentionally for yourself and others.
You’ll learn how to:
Guide cacao rituals and ceremonies
Hold 1:1 and group spaces
Lead with presence, intuition, and integrity
MOST SPACES TEACH YOU WHAT TO DO — THIS ONE LETS YOUR BECOMING UNFOLD.
Your nervous system will stretch.
Your patterns will surface.
Your self-trust will build through experience.
Not perfectly… honestly
And that’s what creates real leadership.
VOICE
NERVOUS SYSTEM
LEADERSHIP
PRACTICE
For some of you this becomes your first tool as a facilitator.
For others — therapists, coaches, or space holders — this deepens the work you already do.
You’ll also be introduced to working with Jauneka (tobacco) as a tool for prayer, cleansing, and energetic clarity under the Sapara Cosmo-vision.
This isn’t about “using” plant medicine.
It’s about being in relationship with it and holding that responsibly.
HOW THIS MENTORSHIP WORKS
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[01] Teaching
Grounded teachings on facilitation, cacao, nervous system awareness, and ancestral wisdom.
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[02] Practice
You guide practices, are witnessed in your leadership, and build confidence through real experience.
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[03] Integration
You reflect, receive feedback, and refine your voice and approach. This is the space to integrate, revisit what you missed, and stay supported.
WHAT CHANGES WHEN YOU STOP HOLDING HOLDING YOURSELF BACK
You stop asking, “Can I do this?”
And start living, “I am doing this.”
This work goes beyond your personal healing.
You will find yourself:
Guiding your own cacao ceremonies
Creating intentional spaces in your community
Trusting your intuition in moments that matter
A Space You Can Trust
This space is trauma-informed, culturally respectful, and rooted in integrity.
You will never be pushed beyond your capacity,
only guided deeper into your own readiness.
What You’ll Experience Inside This Journey
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Theme: Safety, grounding, and self-trust
Each month includes: Teaching • Embodied Practice • Mentorship • Integration Week
Inside this month:
Opening cacao ceremony + intention setting
Nervous system grounding foundations
Identity shedding + reclamation
Establishing your altar + ritual space
Creating emotional + spiritual safety within yourself
You begin this journey feeling held, clear, and anchored in who you are.
You’ll leave this month feeling grounded, safe, and deeply connected to yourself.
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Theme: Expression, alignment, and activation
Inside this month:
Your Gene Keys + Human Design exploration
Understanding your energetic role as a guide/healer
Voice activation as a medicinal instrument
Embodied communication for holding space
Guest session: Vocal Activation
This month opens your voice, your truth, and your unique medicine.
You’ll leave this month expressing yourself with clarity, confidence, and embodiment.
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Theme: Reciprocity, connection, and Earth-based wisdom
Inside this month:
Andean cosmovision + working with the Elements
Building relationship with the land + the Apus (mountains)
Creating despachos (sacred offerings)
The wisdom of La Chakana Andina (the Andean Cross)
✨ Cacao Immersion Experience
A deep somatic + ceremonial space to embody what you’re learning.You begin to move in devotion, not just understanding.
You’ll leave this month feeling deeply connected to the Earth and your practice.
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Theme: Purification, integrity, and energetic responsibility
Inside this month:
Amazonian cosmology (as transmitted through lineage)
Working with tobacco as a master plant (cleansing, prayer, protection)
Learning to read energy + anchor spiritual protection
Introduction to limpias + ceremonial tools
Trauma-informed facilitation foundations
You refine into a clear, grounded, and protected vessel.
You’ll leave this month feeling energetically sovereign, safe, and deeply anchored.
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Theme: Embodiment, service, and integration
Inside this month:
How to facilitate cacao ceremonies + healing sessions
Structure and energetic flow of a ceremony
Group + private session facilitation
Boundaries, energy hygiene + leadership embodiment
Sacred strategy: bringing your work into the world sustainably
✨ Student-led cacao circles (optional but encouraged)
✨ Closing ceremony + lineage honoringYou step into leadership that is grounded, responsible, and fully embodied.
You’ll leave this mentorship confident, prepared, and ready to hold space for others.
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Retreat: November 12–17th, 2026 | Ecuador
This 5-day retreat is a sacred immersion into the spirit world and the medicine of cacao. It’s both a profound journey of personal healing and a training ground for those who feel called to share cacao with others.
Guided by Barbara and held in Ecuador, you will learn to create a safe space for healing and transformation, connect with your ancestors, and cultivate the skills to hold cacao gatherings, protect yourself spiritually, and call upon the support of the spirit world.
This retreat also includes teachings with Amazonian Tobacco (Jauneka) — a powerful plant ally for cleansing, protection, and grounding.
During the retreat you will learn to:
Reconnect with your ancestral roots and the wisdom that lives within you
Build and work with a sacred altar, guided by the Andean Cross (Chakana)
Lead song circles and invite spirit through music and prayer
Leave offerings for the Earth to practice sacred reciprocity
Pre and post ceremony care
Hold space for deep emotional processing — grief, heartbreak, trauma, anxiety, and depression
Learn healing practices rooted in the Sapara cosmology
Deepen your personal relationship with cacao and share it as a medicine for others
…and so much more!
This retreat is not only about learning, it is about becoming. You will leave not just with tools and teachings, but with a deeper embodiment of your medicine, ready to guide others with confidence, reverence, and love.
“I realized I don’t need to be scared anymore. Before, I didn’t feel like I could fully be myself and that I was holding parts of me back.
This space helped me get really honest with myself and with my family and have conversations I never thought I would.
It’s doing exactly what I came here for.”
-LESLIE
“After working with Barbara and being ceremonies with her and the elders, I felt affirmed in my relationship with the medicine and with the web of life itself.
There was this deep confirmation that I was on my path, that I could trust my own inner guidance.”
-MISHA
“I’m noticing the shift now to a higher timeline and version of myself that has even bigger impact in this world due to my expanded capacity to hold the duality of pain and beauty.
This was exactly what I needed. I have felt held by these teachings, the land, by the beautiful women in this space, by their songs, their love, their humor, and their kindness.
I am blessed to know you all and walk alongside you as medicine women. Somos uno. We are Nukaki.”
-CRYSTLE
So…are you ready to ride?
REGISTER FOR AUGUST 2026 SEASON 3 NOW.
Save $333
Pay in Full
$3200
$2867
12 monthly payments
$293
$263
At a Glace: Bridging Worlds
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꩜ OPEN APPLICATIONS
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꩜ DURATION
5 months
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꩜ START DATE
August 2026
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꩜ SPOTS
Because of the level of intimacy
and support inside this space
there are only 8 spots available
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꩜ MENTORSHIP (ONLINE EXPERIENCE)
Early Bird: $2,867
or 12 payments of $263Standard: $3,200
or 12 payments of $293 -
꩜ END DATE
November 2026
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꩜ RETREAT EXPERIENCE (ADVANCED IMMERSION)
Early Bird: $6,200
or 12 payments of $569Standard: $7,200
or 12 payments of $660The retreat is a deeper, in-person immersion
and is not required to join the mentorship
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꩜ LIVE CALLS
3 live calls per month (~2hr sessions)
Schedules will change at times throughout the year due to travel,
sick days, knowing that life will life in a long container
If you are not comfortable with that. This will not be a good fit
Reflections from our retreat community…
-MARINES
-LAURA
-ARIELLE
-AMBER
MEET YOUR GUIDE
I know what it feels like to question your place in this work.
I was raised between New York and Ecuador and I didn’t feel like I fully belonged anywhere. Ni de aquí, ni de allá…not from here, not from there.
For a long time, the stories of why I shouldn’t led my life..”Who am I to do this?” “I’m not indigenous enough,” and the classic “I don’t know enough to begin.”
But over time, I realized those were just stories keeping me disconnected from my truth.
My path has been one of remembering that I, like many others, live between multiple worlds, multiple realities, multiple cultures.
I’ve spent years learning from Indigenous elders in the Amazon, working with cacao and tobacco, and leading spaces for people to reconnect with themselves.
I’ve also built and supported businesses in this space, so what I offer isn’t just spiritual.
It’s embodied. It’s grounded. It’s lived.
Over the years, I’ve led:
2 retreats in the Andes
3 retreats in the Amazon (Sapara territory)
multiple group and private ceremonial spaces
myself down and up the spiral ꩜
Being a bridge between worlds is my medicine.
And if you’re here, I trust something in you is remembering too.
A NOTE ON MENTORSHIP AND INTEGRITY
This apprenticeship is both a mentorship and initiation. It is not a certification, so it does not hand you a title or certification.
This path is deeply rooted in Indigenous traditions, which are earth-based, lineage-based, and community-based. Most of these traditions cannot be “certified,” and to try would risk stripping them of their sacredness and replicating colonial patterns.
Instead, you’ll receive teachings directly from the lineage and guest teachers, always honoring the cultures, medicines, and practices from which they come.
This mentorship is a doorway: the beginning of a lifelong journey of curiosity, exploration, and being both a student and a teacher.
So…are you ready to ride?
REGISTER FOR AUGUST 2026 SEASON 3 NOW.
Save $333
Pay in Full
$3200
$2867
12 monthly payments
$293
$263
There will always be a reason to wait.
More time.
More clarity.
More confidence.
But that moment where you finally feel ready?
It doesn’t come before you begin.
It comes because you do.
If you feel the call, even if it scares you, this is your invitation.
Celebrating your reclamation 🧚🏻
Frequently Asked Questions
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You don’t feel ready before you begin. You build readiness through action and we will always move at the rate you have capacity for.
This mentorship is you laying the foundation in which you build your dream life. -
All sessions are recorded and will be uploaded into your student portal.
Plus, the audio will be uploaded to a private podcast, so you can listen to the calls wherever you go.
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Nope! You just need willingness to show up and be seen.
This is open for beginners, healers, soace holders, yogis, holistic practioners, etc.
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This path is deeply rooted in Indigenous traditions, which are earth-based, lineage-based, and community-based.
Most of these traditions cannot be “certified,” and to try would risk stripping them of their sacredness and replicating colonial patterns.
Instead, you’ll receive teachings directly from the lineage and guest teachers, always honoring the cultures, medicines, and practices from which they come.
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Not at all! Most people in Barbara’s community identify as women so most participants tend to be women but this is open for all humans who are deeply devoted to their spiritual path and life.
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Bridging Worlds has two components you can be a part of:
Mentorship (Online Experience)
Early Bird: $2,900
or 12 payments of $257Standard: $3,200
or 12 payments of $293Optional: Retreat Experience (Advanced Immersion)
Early Bird: $6,200
or 12 payments of $569Standard: $7,200
or 12 payments of $660The retreat is a deeper, in-person immersion and is not required to join the mentorship.
So…are you ready to ride?
REGISTER FOR AUGUST 2026 SEASON 3 NOW.
Save $333
Pay in Full
$3200
$2867
12 monthly payments