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Lacey Ann Luna

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Lacey Ann Luna

Intertwining Medicines founder, retreat facilitator, body-mind-spirit health guide, & yoga teacher.

18/10/2025

I made a prayer to the jungle before our Intertwining Medicines non beginner retreat began a few days ago- “please show me a snake (in a good way) while we are here with this round of plant spirit medicine.” And the jungle delivered! 🐍

I’ve spent a lot of time in the Amazon rainforest over the years, and snake encounters are mostly rare without devoting an entire trip to spotting wildlife. The last time I saw a snake in the Amazon was 6 years ago as I was walking to ceremony and almost stepped on a coral snake who was casually slithering across the path near my dieta tambo.

This gorgeous tree boa made her grand cameo on a beam above our balcony on the second day of our retreat! We named her Princesa because she was coiled on her own little throne up there. It was a bit challenging for me to get her down, but I managed to gently remove her without landing a single bite (tree species can be a little cranky, but she was a sweetheart).

I knew all those years of snake keeping would pay off one day, and I can finally put my herpetology skills to good use here in the Amazon rainforest.

SerpentLacey found her way back home.

31/05/2025

Less than two weeks to go until we embark on an adventure to the magnificent Peruvian Amazon rainforest for Intertwining Medicines non beginner retreat and our first Shipibo dieta for those who we have personally worked with and are ready to level up their commitment to the path. This has been in the making for years, and I’m over the moon to see my vision finally come to fruition.

In Todd’s and my last personal dieta, three months with el rey Shihuahuaco, we both felt with absolute clarity that non beginner retreats and plant dietas are the direction we want to expand our offerings for Intertwining Medicines. We are currently the only retreat space offering intermediate/non beginner containers.

To those packing their bags soon to meet us in the rainforest, we are so excited to have you on our first ride into those ineffable plant dieta realms where human language can’t define or describe the journey. As they say, you never forget your first. 😉 This is so special for everyone involved.

If connecting with the Amazon rainforest and being guided within the masterful Shipibo lineage are whispering to you, we have two Amazon retreats left for this year in October and they are almost sold out. 🍃

25/05/2025

In my happy place… because I’m responsible to make life my happy place.

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08/05/2025

We have fun here. 🌿

Yes, ayahuasca can be fun if we give ourselves permission to blast into the full spectrum of feeling. Have fun and get a little playful even when it’s heavy. Especially when it’s heavy. There’s a time and place for all of it.

Sprinkle laughter into the psychic surgery because that also plants seeds. What’s worth calling in if it doesn’t bring joy in every cell and smiling eyes?

A farewell to our most recent guests who journeyed together into the heart of grief, pain, fear, laughter, bliss, love and everything inbetween. ✨ I’ve certainly never experienced a retreat quite like this one, and for that I bow in deep gratitude for the AWEsomeness of how these things play out better than my feeble human brain could plan for. I commend the bravery it takes for every person turning toward those internal spaces that most people don’t have the guts to confront.

I say this often, but I freakin love ayahuasca, the Shipibo lineage, shamanic healing arts, all of it. 🌱 It never gets old to say it just as it never gets old to participate in it. It really is the gift that keeps on giving.

In service, devotion, and collective happy tears. Intertwining Medicines 🫶🏼

10/04/2025

There’s potent magic and medicine in your roots.

The grand Mojave desert, the wild western city of Las Vegas, teaching Bikram yoga again after many years, catching up with dear friends who I’ve been missing in my heart, Red Rock Canyon, the Neon Graveyard, and dancing down memory lane with the most epic family reunion I’ve ever had. 🥲

I even managed to squeeze in the shortest ink session yet and finally got my star dust “Vegas tattoo” as homage to my sparkly hometown. Who knew these tiny stars could represent and hold so much meaning for me?

I kept teleporting here whilst in my recent plant dieta, aching to touch into “home” and make peace with all the pain from my former life, and to appreciate from my heart everything that I had rejected about my Las Vegas past. All of it, the good and the bad and everything in between, was absolutely perfect and necessary despite it almost killing me on many occasions. How wonderful that all of it was always working in my favor.

Sin City helped to sculpt me into the woman I am today, and I’m so proud of her.

11/02/2025

Yoga is an avenue of self exploration. The body is not what it was yesterday, nor is it yet what tomorrow will bring. It’s a practice of anchoring into the present without resistance, without expectation, and without attachment.

Que sera, sera.

Can we mentally submit to a steady and intentional rhythm of breath whilst in uncomfortable asanas? Can we hang up the thoughts that cloud our focus and commit to the aspects of surrender that feel triggering? Because there are absolutely some days where yoga can feel triggering, and other days it feels absolutely liberating. Can we show up with the same centeredness and equanimity no matter the day?

This practice is many things for many people. More and more lately I’m seeing my personal practice as another sacred mirror like ayahuasca apprenticeship. It’s my powerful integration tool, my daily prueba of concentration, my little space for continued self dissection.

Mastery isn’t some level to be achieved, but an unfolding journey of repetition with curiosity and mindfulness.

02/02/2025

When humor is your lifeline through the underworld… ⚓️😂

More is revealed every time I enter ayahuasca’s class room in the powerful and amazing containers of sama (dieta in Shipibo). The final ceremony of these last three months: I was given a test of brujeria (black magic) and an onslaught of the world’s suffering, sadness, trauma, and despair. It was only a test, an obstacle course… holy madre, I barely passed that test. That wasn’t even as inky as the dark can get, nor was it a direct attack. It felt akin to Neo entering an uploaded training program to learn how to fight in the Matrix. An exam to prepare for the real deal.

So how does one not get absolutely steam rolled when these energies cascade into a ceremony like a black tsunami? What do we do when our previous strategies and tricks to bind to the higher frequencies get covered in tar and demonic portals try to suck you into a hell realm?

The only people who understand how to navigate the complex dimensions of ayahuasca are those who train and train and train in the spaces of dieta. Years in the making to have the strength and capacity to hold and transmute darkness. These are the true plant medicine alchemists, spirit doctors, and energy specialists.

My deepest respect for those who commit their lives to ayahuasca curanderismo and constantly widen their ability to be so anchored in the strength of plant allies and god that not even satanic energies can knock over their lighthouse.

The language of light we learn/develop through plant diets doesn’t have words, but there is always a thundering message to keep that channel alive, clean, clear, and rooted. I’m grateful to be learning and seeing more than I ever thought I could handle.

Please let this be a reminder to only sit with extremely experienced and well guided maestros in ceremony. There are so many charlatans and false shamans out there who have never touched into these spaces, or they outright disregard it because “it’s all light and love.”

Yes we must hold the light and love frequency as best we can, but to blindly pretend darkness doesn’t exist in a world of duality is yet another example of spiritual bypassing and the dangers therein.

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