Ceremonial plant medicine work carries a unique power to illuminate that which is unseen and hidden to us, offering a beautiful potential to heal, expand our horizons, and come into fuller expression of ourselves.

The medicines offer the process and the pure materials to facilitate bodily, spiritual and emotional healing of the whole self. 

TESTIMONIALS

I have had the pleasure of sitting with Kambo under the care and direction of Matthew several times in the last few years. Each experience has been transformative, expansive, and nurturing, much to his credit. Matthew creates a container that feels incredibly safe, and it is clear that he is always paying great attention to the needs and experience. He demonstrates a deeply intimate knowledge of and respect for the healing work being done as well as the nature of the medicines he works with.

Matthew has gone above and beyond, sharing wisdom during integrative conversations, consistently providing a helpful perspective and honest feedback. During our time together, he remains grounded, generous, intentional, intelligent, and kind, which has absolutely lent to my own personal growth and success. I'm so grateful to have done this work under his care.

- Sam, repeat client and retreat attendee

OFFERINGS

I have been studying to serve ceremonial plant medicines since 2021.

My teachers operate in a Shamanic - Therapeutic framework, meaning that traditional Amazonian & North American indigenous ways of working with the medicine are utilized to create a ceremonial process that opens potential for healing and transformation of the body, mind, soul, and spirit.

Are you ready for a shift in your life?

The medicines will not fix your problems or live your life for you. However, engaging in ceremonial work profoundly illuminates and shifts our perspective around life’s challenges, therefore offering an opportunity for us to make better decisions, create real & lasting change, and open unforeseen creative possibilities.

Interested in working together? Contact me at MatthewADeRubertis@protonmail.com

NOTE: While having undergone extensive training to serve Kambô, I am not a licensed medical professional, and a Kambô ceremony is not to be considered a medical treatment

KAMBO CLEANSE

Kambô as a modern day medicine has helped thousands of people overcome addiction, autoimmune dysfunction, chronic pain, as well as mental, spiritual and emotional blocks. The secretion from the Amazonian Phyllomedusa Bicolor frog is one of the most powerful natural ways to modulate and strengthen immune system, heighten all senses, reduce pain and treat infections.  

It triggers a powerful release of toxins that organs and tissues are holding, and the result is unprecedented clarity, stamina using bioactive peptides. The bioactive peptides in the frog’s secretion allow your system to dump and release its toxic load.

Hapé & Sananga are served before sitting with frog medicine. These indigenous medicines are powerful agents of emotional & spiritual transformation as well as physical cleansing of your system.

The medicine has been used for centuries in the Amazon to purge the body, cleanse the spirit, release energetic attachments and heal disease of all kinds. Tribespeople take Kambô at every season change, lifelong.

The medicine provides incredible mental clarity, sensory acuity and restored physical function, as well as pain relief for chronic conditions. Kambô is also known as “Hunter’s Medicine,” as is taken by tribesmen prior to hunting in the jungle at night, due to the stamina and mental clarity it provides.

It is especially effective for depression, anxiety, substance abuse/addictions, PTSD, sexual trauma, autoimmune issues, Lyme disease, musculoskeletal pain, heavy metal and chemical toxicity, and many other conditions. Clients report feeling lighter, more emotionally intact, and empowered to make changes in their life, where they were previously blocked.

Pricing

Single Kambô sessions are priced at $200

The medicine is most powerfully received in a cycle of 3 during one moon cycle, or 3 in 3 days, priced at $500

Payment plans are available.

Why a Kambô cycle?
Working with the medicine in this format may offer the following benefits:

- a very deep physical cleanse
- elimination of deeply embedded toxins
- opportunity to break addictions
- opportunity to break dependency on pharmacuetical medications
- profound boost in immune function
- profound boost in mental clarity and focus
- alleviation of stress & anxiety.

Learn more about this incredible medicine HERE.

Interested in receiving the medicine? Send me an email at: MatthewADeRubertis@protonmail.com

KAMBÔ RETREATS

I hold several Kambô circles and retreats a year. These are full scope healing experiences involving the medicine, yoga, meditation, Ayurvedic food, and other healing modalities.

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HAPÉ & SANANGA CEREMONY

Receiving Hapé and Sananga together is a powerful combination that will clear your energy field and bring you in deeper truth.

SANANGA

Sananga is eye drop brewed from the Tabernaemontana genus of shrubs native to the upper Amazon. For traditional Amazonian tribespeople, Sananga is a powerful eye medicine used to sharpen night vision. For modern seekers of spiritual healing, Sananga does more than help with hunting. These powerful eye drops have a healing power that’s more energetic than physical, and that has the capacity to increase spiritual insight in the minds of those who work with it. Research studies have shown that Sananga treats and prevents ocular diseases such as glaucoma, cataracts, farsightedness, nearsightedness, and astigmatism.

HAPÉ

While hapé is often made of several Amazonian plants, most hapé snuffs contain the tobacco species Nicotiana Rustica. This Amazonian tobacco, also known as Mapacho, is used extensively in tribal rituals and is different than Nicotiana Tabacum, the type of tobacco found in cigarettes.

Our culture has a warped relationship with tobacco. In many American indigenous cultures, tobacco is regarded as the master plant medicine, holding the power to treat many ailments if worked with properly. For former smokers, Hapé is a beautiful way to come into right relationship with tobacco.

The medicine clears away distorting energies and is a powerful aid for setting intentions, which is how the indigenous tribes of the Americas have used it for more than three thousand years. Hapé decalcifies the pineal gland, opens the crown chakra and clears the thirds eye, our energetic center of perception. It has the power to bring us immediately to the here & now, while simultaneously grounding and opening our energy.

Interested in receiving the medicine? Send me an email at: MatthewADeRubertis@protonmail.com

INTEGRATION SUPPORT

Integration, pre and post, is an extremely important part of this work.

Medicine does not change our lives for us, it only reveals that which we previously could not see. Through integration, we bring this expanded awareness into our lives in a way that allows us to feel more whole, expressed, and connected.

If you have had a challenging experiencing integrating a medicine experience, I am here for support. Sessions are offered in person or via zoom. Please contact me at MatthewADeRubertis@protonmail.com.

I specialize in creating integration programs for clients with a yogic framework. If this interests you, please head to the program page:

SACRED VALLEY HEALING COLLECTIVE & SACRED MEDICINE RETREATS

I operate as part of the Sacred Valley Healing Medicine collective, led by Connie Magee, medicine woman. Our works take place in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and the greater DC area. Experiencing medicine ceremony in a group container is a beautifully transformative.

Please inquire with me directly for a schedule of works.

At our retreats, you will receive: 

A safe, grounded medicine ceremony 

Medicine wheel teachings and elemental rituals 

Daily yoga, meditation & breath work practices

Freshly prepared, healthy Ayurvedic meals 

Nightly sound healing with gongs & many instruments

Sacred music

Practices for healthy diet and lifestyle 

Post ceremony integration support