A Path of Remembering

This offering is shaped by ongoing study with Indigenous Amazonian lineages in Peru and Colombia, whose teachings inform an approach to healing that attends to the body, mind, and heart as an interconnected whole. Plants are understood as the teachers, and our healing process unfolds through a relationship with the plants, the body, and our inner world.

Together, we create a supportive container for plant connections, preparation, and compassionate processing, grounded in nervous-system-informed and body-centered practices.

Sessions are meant to support the development of your inner capacity, the cultivation of self-compassion, and the implementation of sustainable daily practices—integration.

Hello, my name is Shina Kendall.

My relationship with plants began long before I ever sat in sacred ceremony with teacher plants. From a very young age, I struggled with depression and chronic physical pain. As I grew older, I found myself beginning to turn toward herbal medicines, yoga, somatic and energetic healing practices. I was exploring ways of inviting in a level of listening that felt safe, gentle, and ancient. I was seeking answers for how to listen more closely to my body and to the quiet intelligence moving beneath my symptoms.

This listening led me to South America, where my healing deepened in ways that felt relational rather than prescriptive. Through ongoing study and time spent with Indigenous Amazonian lineages in Peru and Colombia, I began to understand healing as this beautifully intimate and participatory process. Plants began to feel more like teachers, rather than substances. Teachers wishing to help illuminate the spaces and threads which connect the inner experience and outer life.

These teachings profoundly shaped how I approached my own healing, and spiritual path. As my relationship with plants continued, I began training more deeply with healing herbs and underwent Reiki I & II training. I have found that energetic body work to be incredibly gentle and supportive for nervous system regulation and integration. Particularly for those whose bodies have learned to hold stress, trauma, or vigilance as a means of survival.

As a biracial Black woman, my path has also been shaped by a commitment to creating safe, attuned, and culturally responsive spaces—especially for those who identify as BIPOC. I hold deep awareness of how historical and ongoing trauma lives in the body, and how systems of racism and oppression continue to shape our experiences of safety, care, and belonging. This work is not separate from my healing journey; it is inseparable from it.

In recent years, my focus has expanded into death doula work — also known as end-of-life care. Grief, I feel is not something that belongs only to death—it moves through our lives in many forms: the grieving of past woundings, lost versions of ourselves, ruptured relationships, ancestral pains, and the ongoing reality of our impermanence. Supporting people through death and dying has deepened my understanding of presence, listening, and what it means to be with another at sacred thresholds—whether those thresholds are literal or symbolic.

Along this path, I have worked as a facilitator for pasajeros (passengers) healing spaces that hold both ceremonial and educational [oftentimes both exisit simulaneously]. This includes under the tutelage of Maestro Ricardo Armaringo at Nihue Rao Centro Espiritual, in Peru.

I continue to travel, and approach life as a student, humbly learning and remain in deep reverant relationship with my teachers, lineages, ancestors, and spiritual guides. My prayer is to continue supporting those on their healing path, and honoring the sacred traditions I am learning from with heartfelt relationship, prioritization of safety, sincere care, and ethical practice at the core.

  • Our work together is rooted in cultivating conscious, respectful relationships with healing plants—honoring them as teachers, allies, and mirrors in your healing journey. Rather than “using” plants, this work invites relationship: learning how to listen, receive, and engage with what the plants reveal about your inner world and lived experience.

    Plants often illuminate the spaces between our inner landscape and outer life, offering insight, healing, and guidance. The role of this work is to help you meet those teachings with care, grounding, and embodiment.

  • Readiness is not about perfection or certainty. It often shows up as curiosity, humility, and a willingness to participate actively in your healing. This work supports opening your system to be in relationship with plants while building the capacity to receive their teachings safely and respectfully.

    Together, we move at a pace that honors your nervous system, lived history, and current life circumstances. Sometimes readiness also means slowing down, pausing, or focusing on integration rather than new experiences.

  • For those who journey with plants, sessions can support intentional preparation and compassionate processing—often called integration. Integration helps anchor what arises in plant experiences, offering space to understand, embody, and gently live the teachings over time.

    This may include attuned and heartfelt reflections, energetic body work (Reiki), support and/or guidance in translating insight into daily life, relationships, and choices.

  • No. While ceremony can be profound, what happens after is equally deserving of care and reverence. This work honors integration as an ongoing, sacred process—supporting you as you step back into the ceremony of everyday life with greater grounding, clarity, and support.

    For some, this may also include continued support with herbal plant remedies as gentle, ongoing allies for nourishment, regulation, and healing.

Maloka, Nihue Rao

The Maloka of Nihue Rao Centro Espiritual