Sensenya Transpersonal Journeys

We spent several years living in the Peruvian Amazon where we studied plant spirit medicine and apprenticed with a number of Shipibo curanderos (traditional healers). As part of our training we facilitated retreats for hundreds of participants and formed relationships with master teacher plants, which continue to inform our work with clients today.

We also have formal training / experience in a range of complementary disciplines such as breathwork, yoga, qi gong, mindfulness, psychotherapeutic and shamanic journeys, flower essences, nutritional consulting and various bodywork modalities (including Tui Na, aromatherapy, qi healing).

Sensenya means deep listening, prayer, longing. It also means surrender. It leads to a deepening of one’s relationship with the mystery of life. It is a sanctuary for the deepening and it is the deepening; it involves not only experience, but embodiment. It is the quiet will to descend into the heart of the mountain, and to bring home its treasures – not as souvenirs, but as light and water for this world.

In service of this, we offer earth medicine and transpersonal journeys. But it is ultimately one’s prayer — conscious or unconscious — that is responsible for the process. We are only guides, facilitators, space-holders. We cultivate an environment for the seeds of prayer to flourish. And this prayer — the sensenya — is transpersonal: it is of the mystery itself.

Although we express aspects of the shamanic archetype, we are not shamans or gurus. We don’t pretend to have our “shit together” or to be offering this work from an ego-less pureland. We do not offer panaceas, pacifiers or antidotes to the human condition. Nor are we much interested in peddling pineal orgasms to tourists. We see our offering (particularly plant medicine) as only one current in a body of rivers moving towards more soul-centric ways of relating to life.

If we grow, we want to grow incrementally, from the ground up. We are also currently in a time of transition. So we are not in a rush to secure a shiny aisle in the spiritual super market… and, at this stage, we are very selective about who we see. It is more important for us right now to connect with people who are in alignment with our vision, to integrate and embody what we have learnt, and to continue learning. Although we charge money for what we do, in future we want to find ways to make it available to anyone who needs it, not just the privileged who can afford it.

We do this work because we love it and we feel it is part of our ecological function during our fleeting time on earth.
If it feels right, reach out to us.

With love,

Skye and Helm