Dr. Ali Maya
Module 1 Allies for Life
Discover the power of intention and prayer to reinvigorate your relationship with the sacred — and how to strengthen and empower your prayers to cultivate loving, supportive alliances with plant medicine spirits. You’ll also learn how to bring the spirit of ceremony into your daily life for ongoing transformation, peace, and inner strength.
This module is an introduction to “the territory” — including selecting the right medicine, set/setting, and distinguishing betweenceremonial and recreational use of plant medicine. You’ll develop a new relationship with prayer, stripping away what is not alive or doesn’t work, and focusing on intention.
In this module, you’ll:
- Explore the differences between sacred and recreational plant medicine practices
- Discover how to determine which medicine, guide, and setting are right for you
- Reclaim the power of prayer in a way that is aligned, alive, and illuminating
- Explore tools to strengthen and empower your prayers
- Experience a spirit-based microdosing ritual to nourish your relationships with plant spirits without physically ingesting them
Module 2 Taming the Ox
This module combines Buddhist and yogic meditation practices with Western psychological techniques to cultivate an empowered, loving relationship with your mind. You’ll establish a somatically oriented mindfulness practice to regulate your nervous system, relax your body, and connect with yourself in a consistently grounded, balanced way.
Through the “Who are you being?” meditation, you’ll embody the wisdom aspects of yourself and use a journaling exercise to access and dialogue with the clear, wise parts of your being.
You’ll learn to surf the waves of your mind, rather than be knocked off by them — to track when your mind is going in a helpful or unhelpful direction, and get out of suffering journeys. You’ll also learn about the concept of a “bad trip” as an invitation to unpack and heal old wounds.
In this module, you’ll:
- Review the Ten Oxherding Pictures of Zen Buddhism — a series of short poems and accompanying drawings used in the Zen tradition to describe the stages of enlightenment and the subsequent return to society with greater wisdom and compassion
- Explore a synergy of Buddhist and yogic practices along with Western psychology to navigate psychedelic plant medicine journeys
- Journal to access and dialogue with your higher wisdom
- Recognize how to shift from confused neurotic mind to clear wisdom mind
- Explore tools to train your mind to be a wonderful servant rather than a terrible master — through meditation practices to relax, regulate your nervous system, and embody clear wisdom mind
Module 3 Embracing “The Shadow”
Let’s explore the themes of light and shadow, and learn how to meet the more challenging, uncomfortable aspects of self and other with calm, centered, wise, and loving presence. You’ll gain a variety of practices, visualizations, and tools to transform suffering into clarity, strength, compassion, wisdom, creativity, and light — drawing on Indigenous, Buddhist, and Western psychological tools and practices, and exploring their similarities, differences, and potential synergy.
You’ll learn how to create healthy spiritual boundaries and distinguish that which is yours to process and transform... from that which isn’t. You’ll also learn how to engage safely with uncomfortable emotions and energy through inquiry, tracing threads, accessing where they reside in your body, and feeling the energy and emotion without getting locked into the story.
Additionally, we’ll cover techniques to reduce and manage unnecessary fears and maintain a calm, centered, and loving presence in the face of whatever may arise. You’ll learn how to clear and seal energy and transform darkness into light, allowing you to embrace the shadow and wisely navigate encounters with darker expressions of creation.
In this module, you’ll:
- Learn how to create healthy psychic boundaries to safely navigate the spirit world
- Explore traditional Indigenous tools for protection and healing — including mapacho, flower essences, rattles, and feathers
- Practice a traditional Tibetan Buddhist visualization for transforming suffering
- Discover Western psychological practices to heal shadow wounds and liberate your creative life-force energy. .. transforming your wounds through love, compassion, and wisdom
- Receive affirmations and invocations for safe journeys through interdimensional realms
Module 4 Love Is the Medicine
This module explores love as the ultimate healer, with a focus on how psychedelic plant medicines facilitate transformative experiences of love. Beyond plant medicines, you’ll examine other practices that cultivate love, compassion, and forgiveness.
Traditional Buddhist, Peruvian, and Hawaiian heart-centered practices deepen our understanding and embodiment of love. We will also engage in ritual and prayer to commune with the loving, healing energies of rose medicine, recognizing that many plants offer potent healing properties beyond psychedelics.
Through the Bodhisattva vow, we commit to living in service to the wellbeing of all and to cultivating the power of love in all aspects of our lives. The Judaic concept of Tikkun Olam and the Path of the Bodhisattva illustrate the great joy and fulfillment of walking the path of the healer.
In this module, you’ll:
- Discover how love, compassion, and forgiveness hold the power to heal and provide refuge
- Learn how to cultivate these qualities for yourself and extend them to others
- Explore heart-centered practices from the Buddhist tradition
- Experience the transformative power of rose medicine through ritual and prayer
- Embrace the Path of the Bodhisattva and find joy and fulfillment in serving the wellbeing of all
Module 5 Harvesting the Jewels
We explore the eight types of plant medicine experiences that can occur and the integration pathways for each. These experiences can include embodying expanded states of consciousness, decoding and applying teachings from visions, healing past traumas, or feeling unsure about the experience. Regardless of where you are on your integration journey, Ali will provide tools and practices to support you.
The module includes a shamanic journey inspired by Robert Moss, which uses drumming to reintegrate a specific moment in the plant medicine experience. You may question long-held beliefs. Finally, you’ll continue refining intentions from the first module and nurturing that thread.
In this module, you’ll:
- Discover the 8 types of psychedelic plant medicine journeys and how to integrate each one
- Receive insight to understand the guidance and assignments received from plant medicine journeys
- Learn to tend to deeper layers of purification and trauma healing post-ceremony
- Understand the value of nurturing the spiritual and creative openings from ceremony
- Explore the shamanic practice of journey re-entry to support integration and ongoing transformation — allowing for expansion, revision, and transformation of worldviews through direct knowing of Truth
Module 6 Healing Racism, Oppression, & Ancestral Trauma
Sacred plant medicine can support the healing of internalized, externalized, personal, and ancestral racism and oppression. Through the process of acknowledging and transforming conditioning and wounding, we can embody a humanity free from the suffering caused by these age-old issues.
We’ll explore the challenges and opportunities presented by the current cultural phenomenon of an international fascination with Indigenous plant medicine shamanism. While this meeting of cultures and spiritual practices offers great potential for transformation, healing, and awakening, it can also create harm without proper care, education, and appropriate tending. You’ll gain insight into how to approach this emerging medicine culture with consciousness, integrity, respect, and karmic cleanliness.
In this module, you’ll:
- Experience a guided journey to heal internalized, externalized, personal, and ancestral racism and oppression — embracing the importance of sacred reciprocity and learning how to actively participate in it
- Learn the difference between the negative connotation of “cultural appropriation” and the respectful choice of cultural appreciation and integration
- Explore the origins of the terms shamanism and psychedelic — and their current applications
- Gain important insights into navigating the current moment in the Psychedelic Renaissance with its potential blessings and perils
- Review the dangers of applying overly clinical, colonialist, and corporate interests to ancient plant medicines
Module 7 Embodying Transcendent States
This final module will cover the tools and practices needed to integrate and embody transcendent states of consciousness into daily life. Ali will draw from Buddhist teachings to understand what it means to be awakened and liberated, and how to walk the path of embodying these states.
Additionally, you’ll explore common pitfalls and challenges that can arise during the integration process, including spiritual narcissism, delusions of grandeur, and ego attachment to experiences.
Throughout the module, Ali will emphasize the importance of humility, authenticity, and sacred reciprocity in the process of embodying transcendent states.
By the end of the module, participants will have a deeper understanding of what it means to embody transcendent states of consciousness in daily life — with the tools and practices necessary to do so. They will also be equipped with a greater awareness of the potential pitfalls and challenges that can arise during the integration process, and how to approach these challenges with humility and authenticity.
In this module, you’ll:
- Discover what it means to fully embody an awakened, open-hearted consciousness and how to integrate it into your daily life
- Explore how to transform false, counterproductive ideas of what it means to be loving, spiritual, and devoted into authentic, grounded truth
- Understand common pitfalls on the medicine path and learn how to steer clear of them in order to stay on track with your spiritual growth
- Learn how to create your own lifestyle and spiritual practice routine that supports your ongoing growth, authenticity, and awakening
- Gain valuable check points for keeping yourself grounded on your spiritual medicine path, ensuring that you continue to progress towards your goals with clarity and purpose
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
In addition to Ali’s transformative 7-module course, you’ll receive this special bonus offering to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
Energy Clearing Practice
Video Teaching With Dr. Ali Maya
Ali presents a variety of energy clearing practices for ridding oneself of negative or stagnant energy — including breathwork, visualization, smudging, flower water, and feathering. Ali will guide you through a series of methods to clear away any unhelpful or stuck energies, restoring a sense of clarity and centeredness to your being. Whether you're feeling weighed down by stress and anxiety or simply need to reset and re-center, these energy clearing practices can serve as powerful tools. By incorporating them into your daily routine or utilizing them during moments of emotional upheaval, you can cultivate balance and inner peace — and a greater sense of clarity, grounding, and emotional wellbeing.
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Seven Video Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the video will be available for you to stream in a high-quality format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the audio will be available for you to stream. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
You’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
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About Dr. Ali Maya
Dr. Ali Maya, a clinical psychologist, ceremonial musician, and healer, has been a student and teacher of world mysticism traditions and Indigenous shamanism for more than 25 years. She integrates her academic training in clinical psychology, Buddhist studies, and comparative mysticism with all she has learned from Indigenous healers of North and South America. She is an ordained minister, officiating weddings and other sacred ceremonies since 2008, and a yoga and meditation instructor since 1997.
Ali, who joined the Plant Spirit School faculty in 2022, founded a private clinical psychotherapy practice called the Aptos Counseling Center. She founded Ali Maya Retreats in 2008, providing domestic and international in-person retreats, online courses, mentorship programs, and one-on-one coaching packages.
Her retreats, programs, and music are guided by the prayer for the alleviation of human suffering and the opening of the human heart in service to creating a healthier, happier world for all. She has released four studio albums of ceremonial music.