Maestra Alanna

Alanna is a Kambo Medicine Practitioner and has undergone training and initiation from an Umbandaime community where she lived and studied in the Amazon of Acre, Brazil. She has also studied with a Peruvian master, Alonso del Rio, and is a devotee of Amma Sri Karunamayi. She uses Rapè and Sananga medicines as part of her offerings to help participants ground and focus prior to receiving the frog. Alanna is a psychiatric registered nurse by background and has experience working in hospitals and treatment centers for people with addiction and mental health issues. In her private practice she utilizes the Kambo as an alternative therapy for people transitioning off pharmaceutical medications and to prepare them to work with plant medicine. She facilitates Kambo ceremonies, women’s circles, and brings groups to the amazon each year.  She is a multi instrumental musician/composer and supports ceremony spaces with live music.  Alanna is a co-founder of the Truth is One Interfaith Organization.  She has a retreat center in Asheville, NC, USA.