The Aluna Experience Podcast

Podcast, I talk to Sean who shares his journey as a veteran in recovery stepping onto the medicine path.Having served 15 years in the military and navigating life with PTSD, Sean shares his careful consideration in communing with psychedelics whilst staying committed to his 9+ year sober journey.He candidly shares all that called him to explore his healing and how that path led him to Aluna where he communed with MDMA and then Ayahuasca. In the intentional space of ceremony he found a deeper sense of self, healing and how he can be of service through his work as a social worker supporting other vets. www.alunahealingcenter.comIG @aluna_healing_centerwww.brianahata.comIG @bri.anahata

On this episode of The Aluna Experience Podcast I talk to Emily who shares her journey to unconditional love with the support of Ayahuasca.Emily talks about her relationship with death after experiencing the passing of loved ones at a young age and how grief invited a deeper exploration of herself and opened the door to her healing path.We talk about Ayahuasca being a root medicine and how her journey helped her to clear out her physical body and specifically her root center, the foundation of self. Emily shares how the medicine supported her to release, rebirth and refill herself with unconditional love revealing the way in which she intends to be a mother someday.www.alunahealingcenter.com@aluna_healing_centerwww.bri.anahata.com@bri.anahata

On this episode of The Aluna Experience Podcast, I talk to Kathryn who shares her experience in joining an Aluna Rose Women's Ceremony.Kathryn is an artist and channel who shares her call to medicine and how experiencing death at young age opened her to her healing path.Kathryn shares how her journey with Ayahuasca connected her to her inner child and provided the nourishment she always needed. She shares how chanting mantras in ceremony helped her connect more to her power and how movement reminded her of her ability to transform and transmute trauma in her body and create new beliefs and patterns. Kathryn shares her deep journey with a group of 12 other women and how synchronicities continue to illuminate her path and purpose as an artist and channel. www.alunahealingcenter.com@aluna_healing_center@KathrynGarcia@Bri.anahata

On this episode of the Aluna experience podcast I talk to Megan, host and creator of the Frequency of Courage Podcast and Aluna community member who joins me to share her experience with healing and Aluna.Megan shares her transformative journey to a conscious healing path and how she navigates working in high tech while being the radiant being that she is, helping to bring light into every space she enters and incorporating a more attuned awareness into corporate life.She shares the bodily healing she received with Ayahuasca and how the medicine nurtured her body with a physical “tune up.” She shares connecting to her maternal line, celebrating the women in her life and of this Earth, opening her throat chakra to clear a way for her power as a conscious leader and embodying the love that she is. alunahealingcenter.com@aluna_healing_center@bri.anahata@Megan.imbert@frequencyofcourage

On this episode of the Aluna experience podcast I talk to Alex who shares her experience joining Aluna for an Aluna Couples retreat, an Aluna Ayahuasca Retreat and Aluna's Inner child retreat— 3 consecutive retreats inspiring a deep dive onto her healing path.Alex shares how she heard the call and decided to jump all the way in! She shares some of her experience in all 3 retreats and how they have impacted her life, her partnership, her parenting, and her creativity. She shares her experience clearing ancestral trauma and connecting to unprocessed grief from her father's passing and tells a heartfelt story of reconnecting to her late father and being held within a hum of a death ceremony. She shares her journey traversing through the murky waters of her limiting beliefs and with the assistance of Ayahuasca, stirring them up. Alex is a deeply wise woman who shares information and wisdom on how all 3 of these back to back Aluna retreats continue to impact her life, her family and her creativity.alunahealingcenter.comIG @ Aluna_Healing_Center

On this episode of the Aluna experience podcast I talk to Steve, a dear brother of Aluna who shares his journey to plant medicine and how Ayahuasca has impacted ever facet of his life. Steve shares how his upbringing forced him to hold the world on his young shoulders and how an intention to release his critical judgements opened a world of healing, a deeper connection to himself and a chance to experience feminine energy within himself.Steve shares his experience in what he calls a “Soul Dive” and how the medicine illuminated the many layers of his emotions to find a sense of acceptance. He shares how Ayahuasca continues to impact his life, his parenting, and his career. 

On this episode of The Aluna Experience Podcast I talk with Daniela, a co-creator of Aluna, about our shared passion for vocal sound and somatic movement as medicines. The Integrative Inner Child Retreat, that we will be co facilitating in March 2025 for the third time, is an expression of this passion. We reflect on our own relationship with our self expression, our fears and shame around being seen or heard and what role sound and movement played in our journey of healing. Sharing how our stifled self expression started in childhood and how that affected all areas of our lives growing older. We also share some of the structure for the Integrative Inner Child retreat and how we utilize the voice and guided movement to unlock our inner child and express ourselves more fully in every aspect of our life.www.alunahealingcenter.com@bri.anahata

On this episode of the Aluna experience podcast we talk to Jordan who shares her experience finding Aluna and her wake up call to her healing path through giving birth to her child. Jordan shares her work in better understanding the energy of money and unraveling her feast and famine relationship with it. She shares her journey to Aluna after unfortunately paying for a Ayahuasca retreat with a fake retreat center she had found online. She shares how this only added fuel to her fire and set her sights on finding the right (and real) group to sit with.She shares how the medicine helped her connect to a deeper sense of self acceptance including her shadow parts, allowing her to recognize a crippling perfectionist belief system. She shares how Ayahuasca connected her to an abundant sense of self love, love for her friends and family and love for her life. alunahealingcenter.com

On this episode of the Aluna Experience Podcast we talk to Jenn, a recent Entheoguide graduate who shares her journey to Aluna and plant medicine.Jenn shares the call to a deeper understanding of herself and her experience in her journeys with Ayahuasca and San Pedro. She shares how her first journey allowed her to reconnect with her deceased father and reanimated the knowing of the healing ability she always held in her hands as a massage therapist.She shares how multiple journeys with Aluna and the Entheoguide training helped her reconnect to her power as a healer, connected her to Aluna family, helped her to heal her relationship with her feminine line and open to the infinite potential within her.alunahealingcenter.com

On this episode of the Aluna Experience Podcast, we once again talk to Attila who shares one of his current highest excitements-- supporting men on their healing journey with Men's Work. But what does "Men's work" even mean?Attila shares his definition of Men's work and informs listeners of the multi layered process of the journey to brotherhood and the importance in men having spaces to come together to express, heal and step into their power, together. This episode is full of wisdom gained through many years of medicine work and supporting men to connect with their feelings, find clarity on their path and embracing their masculine and feminine energy. Check out alunahealingcenter.com to see upcoming Lion Hearted Men's Retreats with Aluna and Attila.alunahealingcenter.com

On this episode of the Aluna Experience Podcast we talk to Liz who shares her journey to healing and plant medicine. She shares how becoming a parent was a catalyst to her healing path and how a call to heal her inner child in order to not pass on unwanted patterning to her children inspired her to join Aluna's Integrative Inner Child Retreat.Liz shares her experience in the Inner Child Retreat and how it impacted her expression, her parenting and her continuous healing journey. alunahealing.com@alunahealing

On this episode of the Aluna Experience Podcast we talk to Caitlyn, Entheoguide and mother of 4 girls under the age of 10 who shares her journey with Aluna. Caitlyn shares how plant medicine and the Entheoguide training program helped her find her confidence and step into her power as a facilitator.Caitlyn shares the impact of plant medicine on her partnership and being a mother and how this work has helped her to find more patience, compassion and presence in all her relationships which she incorporates into the work she does facilitating private ceremonies. @caitdenaealma-journeys.comalunahealing.com@alunahealing

On this two part episode of the Aluna Experience Podcast, we once again talk to Attila, co-creator of Aluna who shares the importance of properly preparing and integrating plant medicine journeys and ways to do that. Attila shares the impact of dieta and watching what you eat in order to clear your vessel before communing with sacred medicines. He shares his excitement behind the Aluna Health Guide which launches this week and is an accumulation of information meant to support the community to prepare and integrate their journeys. On the second half of this episode we speak with Tristan and Andreas who created the Aluna Health Guide and they share their passion behind creating a guide to optimize and unite the body, mind and spirit and how their healing journeys have led them to supporting the wellness of their community. Check out the Aluna Health Guide on alunahealingcenter.comIG @alunahealing

On this episode of the Aluna Experience Podcast, Alexandra interviews Bri, our Aluna Experience Podcast host. In this episode Bri has a chance to share her own story and how she found her way to Aluna.Bri shares how plant medicine ignited her spiritual journey and how it supported her in unraveling limiting beliefs and fear which stopped her from expressing herself.She shares how Ayahuasca has impacted every layer of her life— her relationships with herself and others, her expression and her facilitation— supporting her to create a life that she loves by following her passions and now supporting others in doing the same. brianahata.com@bri.anahataalunahealingcenter.com

On this episode of the Aluna Experience Podcast we talk to Melissa who shares her journey to sitting with with Aluna and how Ayahuasca impacted her partnership, her parenting and the way in which she supports her clients on their own healing journeys.Melissa shares that although she was experiencing success and expansion in her career, she felt there was a deep part of herself that was missing something, And although she had been exploring inner work for some time, communing with Ayahuasca opened a doorway to the parts of herself that had been hidden in shadow. She shares the impact of the Entheoguide training to uncover the core of conditioned beliefs and how deep diving with like-minded individuals by expressing her truth vulnerably helped her step more fully into her healing practice and life. 

On this episode of the Aluna experience podcast we talk to Adam, an Entheoguide and passionate two time combat veteran who shares his journey of healing PTSD with MDMA and Ayahuasca.He shares how plant medicine mended his relationship with his wife and supported him to step into fatherhood with presence and compassion and led him to lean into sharing his story to voice the healing potential of sacred medicines.We discuss the different variants of PTSD and how coming together in community and sharing each of our unique perspectives plays a vital role in the healing process, connecting us to a deeper sense of acceptance which permeates to every being we encounter, including ourselves. Adam shares his journey with integration and his prayer for universal healing.adamzaffuto@gmail.comalunahealingcenter.com@alunahealing

On this episode of the Aluna experience podcast we talk to Dan, an entheoguide graduate who shares the call to medicine after his wife returned from a journey with Aluna and shared her own impactful experience. Dan shares how his intention to “fully surrender and loose his mind”  in his first journey was the exact medicine he needed and opened him to the vast world of healing with Ayahuasca. He shares his experience in the Entheoguide training program and the impact of attaining valuable skills and knowledge which he has implemented into his life, work, and relationships.Dan shares how medicine work has positively impacted the quality and frequency of communication in his relationship and inspired a deeper love, clearer communication, and more solid foundation within his partnership.The Brilliant Rebels Retreatthebrilliantrebellion.comOur Community: The One Moksha NetworkHama Healing Library

On this episode of the Aluna Experience Podcast we talk to Francesca, a recent Etheoguide graduate who shares her journey to healing and Aluna and how plant medicine supported her in aligning to a higher calling to merge her business of healing with sacred medicines and acupuncture.She shares how her journey with psilocybin was a life changing catalyst which helped her to align with who she truly is and what it is she is here to do. This journey invoked a deeper sense of awareness as to why she was enacting certain multigenerational patterns and verified her work to break those patterns.She shares how a dream of a baby jaguar was a call to ayahuasca and how an ovarian cyst which landed her in the hospital helped her realize a multitude of repressed emotions and the necessity to leave an abusive relationship.alunahealingcenter.com@alunahealing

On this episode of the Aluna Experience podcast we talk to Helena, a recent Entheoguide graduate who shares their journey to ayahuasca after a dark period of life when coping mechanisms for CPTSD seized to work and therapists were turning them away. They share their experience with MDMA and how it illuminated a better understanding of their childhood sexual, physical, and emotional abuse which served as a prelude to a journey with Ayahuasca.Helena shares their powerful healing journey of perseverance and how a deep knowing that there was  a way to the light through the dark kept them moving forward. And now they are building a tool kit full of wisdom and expertise with their embodied understanding of just how to make it to the other side of trauma and supporting others to do the same.@alunahealingalunahealingcenter.com

On this episode of the Aluna Experience podcast we talk to Rebecca, the daughter of Alex and Attila. She shares her experience growing up with the founders of Aluna and how plant medicine has impacted her life.Rebecca shares how she first journeyed with Ayahuasca at 18 and how she found her own healing journey which unfolded into starting her own business and utilizing mushrooms as her “business mentors.”She shares how burnout led her to take a step back from work to reconnect with her feminine cycle which led her to the work she passionately shares now as a menstrual cycle coach— supporting woman to understand their inner landscape and empower themselves based on their bodies rhythms and cycles.IG @blumewomb@rebeccaakat@alunahealingalunahealingcenter.com

On this episode of the Aluna Experience Podcast, we talk with Justin, an Entheoguide graduate and audio engineer who makes the Aluna Experience Podcast possible and who has been dubbed the "Mix Shaman" by his friends and colleagues due to his space holding and facilitation in his recording studio to support musicians in their authentic expression.Justin shares how a called-off engagement inspired the first steps on his healing path and how stepping into his dream of opening a recording studio came with a journey to go deep inside of himself. But it was years later when he met his now wife Kathy, that Justin stepped onto a new layer of his healing path with plant medicine.With curiosity and devotion to support and heal with his wife, Justin embarked on a healing journey with Aluna. Starting with MDMA, Justin found a deeper connection to himself which broke down the walls keeping his trauma enclosed within him. He shares how the "come down" after the journey was also a part of a deeper self discovery.And although Justin admits initially thinking Ayahuasca would be a trip he could scratch off his list, Ayahuasca ignited a realization to prioritize his healing and to look at what he had been avoiding inside of himself to find who he truly was. He shares his experience with the Entheoguide training and how plant medicine has impacted the work he does and how it continues to support his unfolding. @iamblkmrktalunahealingcenter.com@alunahealing

On this episode of the Aluna experience podcast, we talk to Suja who shares her story of resilience and strength after her husband unexpectedly took his own life 5 years ago. Suja shares how this unexpected occurrence ignited her will power to raise her two young boys, start a business she had been dreaming about and lean on her surrounding community for support, recognizing who and what was in alignment in her life. She found Ayahuasca with hopes of finding answers about her path but instead connected to her mother and her own feminine energy. She shares how Ayahuasca had some surprising answers for her many questions and how her and the grandmother had a loving conversation filled with support and play. alunahealingcenter.comIG: alunahealing

On this episode of the Aluna Experience podcast, we talk with Mendy, the Spiritual Rabbi, who shares how addiction led him to join the 12 -step program which birthed an awareness to his past traumas where Mendy's healing journey began. After hitting “a wall” on his healing journey, Mendy knew he needed to break through something so answered the call to commune with Ayahuasca.Mendy shares his enjoyment in the preparatory dieta and how it serves as an invitation to care for himself in a new way. He shares how medicine helped him to process traumas from his childhood, to find calm amidst a sea of anger and his experience healing his relationship with the feminine through Mother Ayahuasca and the synchronicity of an only women group in his Entheoguide training retreat.He shares his love and appreciation of Judaism and how medicine, to his surprise, reignited his faith and supported him to take back sacred ritual to make it his own and share his light and new understanding of spirituality with his community.Email: mendeldalfin@gmail.comInstagram: @thedalfinoalunahealingcenter.com@alunahealing

On this episode of the Aluna Experience podcast, we talk to Angie, an Aluna community member who shares how her mothers passing ignited an exploration of her healing journey. Before sitting with Aluna, she had never sat with a psychedelic but felt a clear call to commune with Ayahuasca to take a deep dive into the core of her Being.Angie shares her discovery of the importance of healing our ancestral lineage and how the Grandmother helped her clear the rage, grief and sadness that was passed on from her maternal line. She shares how listening to the many synchronicities around us guide us to the next step on our healing journey and how to listen to your spirit guides within. We end this episode with a beautiful transcription of light language from Angie— a blessing of light and love.Alunahealingcenter.com@alunahealing

On this episode of the Aluna Experience podcast, we talk with Frankie who shares how a call to healing the pain in his heart lead him to Ayahuasca. He knew he was ready for a change and was guided to Aluna by acquaintances on their own healing journey that he felt inspired by.He shares how Ayahuasca helped him to grieve and achieve a deeper sense of acceptance in his past relationships which helped him to hone in on an innate pure primal power within him. Through an Immersion with Aluna, Frankie gained clarity in the work he is here to do— utilizing his experience as a professional body builder and personal trainer to support his community, specifically men, with a holistic approach to healing and body alignment.@frankie_fitted@alunahealing

On this episode of the Aluna Experience Podcast, we talk to Graham and Ami who share their individual experiences communing with Ayahuasca and how that led to a couples MDMA journey with Aluna.Graham shares his call to plant medicine after 20 years of antidepressant use and battling habits he just couldn't seem to shake. Ami shares her call to the medicine to help her cope with  anxiety and how these sacred medicines helped her not only ease the anxiety but also her OCD tendencies. After 20 years of marriage, Graham and Ami share how MDMA supported them both to find the deepest connection they've every experienced and how these medicines have shifted their lives for the better. 

On this episode of the Aluna Experience Podcast we talk to Alex & Adam who share their experience exploring healing and plant medicine both independently and as a couple, supporting one another to unfold and transform.They share how plant medicine saved their marriage and supported the break through they needed when newly stepping into parenthood— Alex navigating post partum and Adam navigating PTSD after fighting oversees in Iraq and Afghanistan.The three of us explore the journey of better understanding the self and how plant medicine can support us to see who we really are as well as the patterns stopping us from being that person.

On this episode of the Aluna Experience Podcast, we talk to Pavan who shares how he turned to plant medicine to help heal his battle with addiction. He talks about drinking Ayahuasca for the first time and how to his surprise, nothing happened. But that didn't stop Pavan from his healing journey with plant medicine and he discovered that MDMA was the medicine he needed to break through to change his life. Pavan shares the beauty in communing with MDMA with his wife and how his deep work with MDMA and psilocybin prepared him for an Immersion Retreat with Aluna where he communed with Ayahuasca and San Pedro and discovered how to finally calm his mind to find his center and inner peace. This is Pavan's journey in discovering the importance of getting comfortable with the uncomfortable and embracing all that there is to feel in order to heal. www.alunahealingcenter.comIG-- @alunahealing

On this episode of the Aluna Experience podcast, we talk to Kathy, one of Bri's dearest friends who shares her brave healing journey and how she turned to plant medicine when she didn't feel she had anywhere else to turn. We talk about Kathy's mdma and Ayahuasca journeys and how they helped her to open the doors of her perception to better understand herself, her trauma and how creative expression and movement serve as healing modalities. @tomboybarbieealunahealingcenter.com@alunahealing

On this episode of The Aluna Experience Podcast, we talk to Daniela who shares her thread of the creative trio that is Aluna.Dani shares her story discovering plant medicine and how the medicine supported her to cultivate a  trust in both her own intuition as well as the guidance and wisdom of Ayahuasca. Dani talks about her time with Santo Diame, and how building a retreat center in Portugal and then seeing it all destroyed in wildfires became the phoenix that birthed Aluna where she now co-creates retreats, trainings, an array of land projects and supports a vibrant and growing medicine community. Dani shares about her latest creative inspiration, a Inner Child Workshop where participants explore movement and sound as a key to unlock the body and free stagnant energy from childhood trauma with the assistance of Ayahuasca. www.alunahealingcenter.comIG @alunahealing

On this episode of The Aluna Experience Podcast we are joined by Attila who with his partner Alexandra, created the Aluna community which supports the transformation and healing with sacred plant medicines and breath work. Attila shares how Mother Ayahuasca, who he refers to as Life, found him and changed his life. After peeling back the layers of his own "onion," Attila felt the soul call to follow his innate truth-- to step away from corporate life into supporting the healing of humanity with plant medicines.We talk about men's work and healing the masculine and the importance in remembering "the healing is in the feeling." We talk self love and feeling all that is within to connect to our highest joy and this beautiful planet we call home. Visit alunahealingcenter.com to see upcoming men's retreats and more and to connect with Attila for a 1 on 1 healing ceremony.Instagram: Alunahealing

On this very special episode we connect with Aluna co-creator Alexandra who shares her life journey with healing modalities and how she found her way to California, plant medicine, and creating a healing retreat center with her husband Attila and sister Daniela. She talks about where the name Aluna came from and how it jumped into her heart and took roots.She shares her wisdom around sacred partnership and how she learned to water her own relationship with plant medicine and how this understanding in deepening her own relationship inspired Alex to support other couples who wish to transform and heal their relationships with sacred medicine ceremonies. To see upcoming retreats and offerings visit alunahealingcenter.comIG: @alunahealing