I’m grateful to have connected with TOSW community soon after landing in the Austin area in 2020. I was immediately drawn to the leader’s reverence for natural rhythms and patterns and how those energies weave in with the medicines. After getting to know the facilitators over many months, I was called to participate in ceremony. The experience was community based and unlike any I’d ever experienced and for which I’m still integrating now over 2 years later.

A few months later, I opened to receive a trilogy of Kambo ceremonies in a lunar cycle and was led through each one with extraordinary attention to detail and holding of the sacred container. The facilitators opened each ceremony with shamanic prayer and setting clear boundaries for the container. They offered sananga, then kambo, followed by hape in each ceremony. That work opened a powerful energetic portal that has been supported by opportunities to participate in other community events and gatherings where personal connections are made and ideas are inspired. I’ve participated in one additional kambo ceremony and they will be my first choice for any future medicine work that I’m called to.

I hold a high level of respect for the integrity of this Temple and organization and its approach to the work which is exceptional and sets a standard for all others serving medicine. They also organize ceremonies with tribal healers and respect the work enough to understand what medicines are appropriate for them to serve and which are best reserved for those healers who have spent a lifetime in the work.