As a native New Yorker, Stuart’s career in the arts took a turn when he first experienced ceremonial plant medicine. Exploring the esoteric arts, he spent the past 13 years traveling the world, working with different plant medicine lineages – time on the Red Road (Native American Tradition), in Peru with the Shipibo and with the Columbian Tiatas. He served plant medicine for years helping people heal. Now he is sharing his lifelong wisdom with students and clients – working with plant spirits, teaching the Alchemy of Prayer and offering spiritual, shamanic and integration guidance in New York and around the world. He continues to study and deepen his wisdom through devotional practice with elements, plants and the cosmos.

Stefanie’s healing path began in an effort to heal herself from a decades-long struggle with anxiety and depression. After years of being on and off various psychotropic medications, she finally gave up and began seeking help from the natural world. In 2015, Stefanie started working with herbal allies in a ceremonial context and experienced the deep healing and vast intelligence the natural world offers.

Eventually, Stefanie returned to a state of peace and began a deep exploration into her own psyche and the true nature of consciousness. She then started working with meditation and contemplation, exploring the teachings of mystics and wisdom traditions. At the same time, studying and experiencing personally various therapeutic modalities such as Hakomi and Internal Family Systems, in which she holds a Level 1 certification. Stefanie also looked to indigenous teachings: apprenticing to soul work through Vision Quests and land-based practices, learning shamanism with Rose Khalsa and sitting in deep meditation with the moon and the mountain. She holds a certificate from the Synthesis Institute’s Psychedelic Practitioner Training, which offers a new paradigm for mental health care, and has completed the Rainbow Bridges School for Evolutionary Guides.

Stefanie brings humility and humor, honesty and compassion, skill and curiosity to her work with clients as she considers it a great honor to be able to work with them in that way.

Episode Highlights

• Stuart’s personal awakening to the consciousness of the heart
• Bringing our negative narratives down into the heart
• Meditation and focusing on the vortex of the heart as key practices to connect with the wisdom and guidance within
• The significance of stories and agreements in relationships
• Stuart's studies of plants and practices such as ayahuasca, peyote, prayer, and alchemy and how they contribute to his healing work
• The difference between shamanism and alchemy
• Embracing awareness and conscious choice for personal transformation
• The metaphysical movement of energy with the sacred frog medicine, kambo
• Uncreating limiting agreements and creating empowering ones
• Tapping into the power within the heart for personal awakening and growth

Stuart Adam’s Links 

• Website: www.thealchemyofprayer.com
• Instagram: @stuart_alchemyof

Stefanie Cohen’s Links 

• Website: www.harveymountainhealing.com

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• Book: The Emerald Tablet: Alchemy for Personal Transformation by Dennis William Hauck
• Book: The Emerald Tablets of Thoth The Atlantean by Michael Doreal
• Book: The Red Lion: The Elixir of Eternal Life by Maria Szepes