The medicine as it flows through me is a rainbow of ancestral memory, long-term training with different lineages, and a quality of compassion that comes from tenderly loving my own heart back into radiance, and deeply desiring the same for you.
What a life this is, dearest.
Navigating the human experience, and showing up for the fullness of what it means to incarnate in a human body,
can leave us breathless and send us to our knees.
There are times during our journeys when we have to surrender to the Mystery and allow ourselves to fall. Sometimes we don’t even get a choice, we’re simply catapulted out of our familiar structures, and into a whole new realm of the unknown.We turn our gaze to the broken pieces around us, the collapse of everything we thought we knew, and we feel the groundlessness of our own Awakening.
This is a most sacred and most powerful moment, which holds the potential for an alchemy so great that, in that very experience of excruciating despair, we are given the opportunity to rewrite the entire trajectory of our lives. When we allow the false reality to crumble and fall away, we can become magicians; alchemists who dream Life into the world, and who create the reality that we want to live in.
In my personal journey, the Fall happened when my numbing strategies could no longer mask the pain of the stories I was telling myself. Stories about who I was, what I deserved, and, the most dangerous story of them all, that I was separate from God.
My Fall was laced with fear and grief, was marked by divorce and substance abuse, was filled with the searing pain of my own self-hatred, and was catalyzed by my father’s passing.
But my Rise, dearest, has been the most precious journey, guided by the whirr of the hummingbird’s wings as she moves in and out of time, finding the nectar of the sweetest flowers and bringing that medicine to mine and all of the tender hearts that need it. The Rise is not without pain, of course, but when we align ourselves with what is True and what is Holy, when we reorient ourselves to the wisdom of the Earth, and when we remember that Gratitude is the most beautiful and most healing gift of all, the pain of human existence transforms into something not only bearable, but integral, and so much spaciousness opens up for us to dance in the waters of conscious Creation.
And so I offer myself…
As a pillar of support,
As a reflection of what is True inside of you,
As a guide into the non-ordinary realms of your own spiritual knowing,
And as a medicine keeper, who wants to see your heart take flight and carry you into the most beautiful life that you can dream into existence.
The medicine that flows through me is a rainbow of ancestral memory, long-term training with different lineages, and a quality of compassion that comes from tenderly loving my own heart back into radiance, and deeply desiring the same for you.
I offer my support to your Becoming through ancestral and earth-based practices, which are meant to provide you with tools to reclaim your own awareness and personal power. These include clearing and connection rituals, traditional gratitude offerings, cacao medicine ceremony, deep shamanic journeywork, channeled energy work, 1:1 psychospiritual support, song magic, and many combinations of the above.
about me
Kate Vredevoogd is a published author and linguist, ceremonialist, herbalist, plant medicine maker, cacao medicine carrier, nature-based ritualist, trauma-informed workshop facilitator, teacher, and mentor. Honoring the indigenous healers that have preserved their spiritual healing practices and shared with her their ancestral wisdom is integral to Kate’s geo-cosmovision. She was initiated as cacao steward and sahumadora, trained in traditional ritual, by Mexica elder Veronica Sarmiento, and later by Maya Quiché Day Keepers and Ajq’ij Spiritual leaders of Guatemala, Tata Juan and Tata Miguel. She received extensive training as a mesa carrier and steward of the ancient teachings of Pre-Incan origin, in the high Andes of Peru by Pampamesayok Don Augustín Machacca Flores and his family. Her ongoing involvement with the wisdom school Pakarina Wisdom allows her to continually deepen her connection these lineages and teachings. She received the attunements to become a Reiki Practitioner and Teacher in the Usui lineage, and carries the nine sacred rites of initiation of Munay Ki. Most recently, she has studied herbal medicine making with teachers like Nicole Apelian and Kami McBride. Currently, she is studying Hawaiian L’au Lapa’au. She gives deep gratitude to all of her teachers, seen and unseen, who have shared their teachings with her in a good way.
