Ana’s life mission is to help people remember who they are. Her spiritual path started in her early 20’s after she moved from her home land of Mexico to the U.S. to study music. Her mission became even clearer when she was summoned by the plant teachers of the world to give her gift of service to the community in an even deeper way. Her education spans a wide range of modalities. In addition to being a certified Life Coach, her training includes, Sound Healing, Reiki, Pranic Healing, Shadow Work, Quantum Healing, Psych-K, Ho’oponopono and Internal Family Systems (IFS) to name a few.

Ana has an incredible gift of creating very safe spaces for people to explore deep trauma as well as the remembering of their innate wellness and connection to creation. Her unconditionally loving demeanor and ability to meet people where they are at, provide for an environment where people can do very deep spiritual and emotional work. Ana lives and works in a beautiful mountain cabin, surrounded by ponderosa trees and breathtaking mountain views, only 25 minutes above Boulder Colorado.

In this episode, Michaela Carlin and Ana Medina discuss …

• The life–changing sense of love and belonging Ana felt during her first ayahuasca experience
• Being guided by the medicine to start assisting in ayahuasca ceremonies
• Ana’s developmental trauma growing up in Mexico City, including the suicide of her stepfather
• Ana’s first “soul revealing” (psychedelic) experience as she flew from Mexico to move to LA and realized that she had the power to reinvent herself
• Ana’s challenges living life as a suburban mother in Virginia feeling that she did not belong
• The confusion of living a “masked” life
• How Ana received divine guidance that she had to reclaim her ancestral roots and do shadow work
• What is shadow work and why do we need to do it?
• Can emotional triggers be ‘psychedelic’?
• Bringing compassion to shadow work through the understanding our need to construct layers of protection earlier in our lives
• Reintegrating exiled parts of ourselves
• Feeling the texture of feminine energy within psychedelic medicine work
• Ana’s journey learning to be a bufo alvarius facilitator
• The need for reverence and preparation in order to work with bufo safely and in a way that opens a path to meet the soul
• Bufo alvarius and the somatic release of intergenerational trauma
• The divine mother energy Ana feels in her facilitation work with bufo alvarius

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• Book: The Secret of the Shadow: The Power of Owning Your Whole Story by Debbie Ford - https://tinyurl.com/5etavy2c