MAPACHO CEREMONY FACILITATOR TRAINING

For over 3,000 years, Indigenous cultures across South America have worked with Mapacho—sacred tobacco known as Nicotiana rustica. Far more than just a plant, Mapacho is revered as the Emperor of Guardian Spirits, an elder medicine of masculine power, deep grounding, and energetic sovereignty.

Until now, the only way to learn this work was through years-long jungle apprenticeships with tabaquero curanderos in Peru or Bolivia—requiring months of time, significant financial investment, and the ability to leave your life behind.

That changes today.

Quantum Soul Academy is offering the first comprehensive professional training for facilitators ready to hold space with Grandfather Tobacco—combining traditional protocols with modern safety standards in a hybrid online + in-person format, ensuring your practice remains safe and responsible.

“I AM THE FATHER. I AM THE WISE LEADER. THE GIFTS I OFFER ARE STABILITY AND PROTECTION. YOU MAY TRUST ME, FOR I AM THE EMPEROR OF GUARDIAN SPIRITS.”

—Mapacho

Then working with Mapacho is not optional—it is essential.

Grandfather Tobacco is known as the Guardian of the Guardian Spirits for a reason. Mapacho provides the spiritual protection and grounding that every facilitator needs when working in expanded states of consciousness. Without this foundational relationship, you are entering ceremony without your primary ally of protection.

Here’s what experienced facilitators know:

Mapacho creates an energetic shield around the ceremony space, protecting both facilitator and participant from intrusive energies, spiritual attachments, and the destabilization that can occur when working with powerful plant allies. It grounds the experience, helps clear confusion, and acts as the elder presence that maintains order and safety in non-ordinary states.

If you are serving entheogens without Mapacho in your practice, you are working without one of the most important protective allies available to you. This is not about adding another tool to your menu—this is about fundamental spiritual safety and proper protocol.

The Indigenous teachers who have held these medicines for millennia do not work without Grandfather Tobacco for this very reason. Neither should you.

In this training, not only will you learn to work with the practice of ‘Soplar’ mapacho smoke for protection and grounding, but you will also learn to prepare and serve purgative Mapacho Tea—one of the most profound cleansing ceremonies available in the plant medicine tradition, offering deep transformation for your clients.

This is not casual tea drinking. This is deep ceremonial medicine work.

The purgative Mapacho Tea ceremony induces a powerful physical and energetic purge, clearing the body, mind, and spirit of accumulated toxins, trauma, and stagnant energy.

Physical Benefits:

• Deep detoxification of the digestive system and liver
• Expulsion of parasites and pathogenic organisms
• Strengthening of the immune system
• Powerful antibiotic and anti-inflammatory effects
• Stimulation of digestive fire and metabolic function
• Clearing of respiratory congestion and lung mucus
  
  

Energetic & Spiritual Benefits:

• Removal of spiritual attachments and energetic cords, past and present
• Clearing of fear-based thought patterns and anxiety
• Release of trapped emotions and unprocessed trauma
• Energetic boundaries restoration and sovereignty
• Enhanced clarity and mental focus. So much clarity! 
• Restoration of personal power and courage
• Protection from intrusive energies and psychic attack
• Preparation and clearing before dieta or other ceremonial work
• And did we mention how grounded you will feel after? 
  
  

Why This Ceremony Is Essential for Your Practice:

The purgative Mapacho ceremony is a stand-alone, powerful healing modality that your clients will seek out specifically. It is also the ideal preparation ceremony before deeper plant medicine work, such as Ayahuasca, San Pedro, or extended dietas.

This ceremony can generate significant income for your practice while providing genuine transformation for those you serve. Clients often report that a single Mapacho purge ceremony shifted years of stagnant energy and brought clarity they’d been seeking for years.

This is medicine your clients need—and you will learn to serve it with mastery.

This training is led by Omar, founder of The Quantum Soul and one of the most experienced plant medicine facilitators working today.

I didn’t learn Mapacho from books or weekend workshops. I learned it the traditional way:

• 8 years living full time in the Peruvian Amazon, training with the Matsés and Shipibo tribes
• Completing tobacco dietas and initiation ceremonies under curandero guidance
• Facilitating 10,000+ plant medicine ceremonies across 3 continents where Mapacho was central to the work
• One of only 12 people worldwide authorized by Mayan elders to work with sacred medicines
• Founder of Certified Kambo Practitioner International (CKPI), training over 90 practitioners in sacred medicine protocols since 2011
  
  

Our Team’s Collective Experience: Our facilitation team brings a combined 30+ years of direct plant medicine work. We have lived in and traveled extensively throughout the Amazon, learning directly from Indigenous teachers and guardians of these sacred traditions.

The difference matters. In a field increasingly filled with weekend certifications and superficial training, we offer transmission from genuine lineage and lived experience. When you work with medicines as powerful as Mapacho, your teacher’s depth of knowledge and relationship with the plant can mean the difference between safe, effective facilitation and potential harm.

Weeks 1-6: Online Training

• 7 comprehensive video modules
• Weekly live Q&A calls with Omar
• Practice assignments and integration work
• Private practitioner community access

Weekend 7: 2-Day In-Person Intensive (Location: USA, Berlin, Mexico, or Portugal – determined by cohort composition)

• Day 1: Your 2 personal Mapacho purges under supervision
• Day 2: Observe experienced facilitation, learn hands-on preparation. Supervised practice serving the medicine to 3 clients

Weeks 8-12: Mentored Client Practice

• Serve 6 clients under remote supervision
• Weekly mentorship and feedback calls
• Video review and refinement
• Final certification upon completion

Total commitment: 12 weeks from start to certification

This format gives you the depth of traditional apprenticeship with the accessibility and professional structure of modern training.

MODULE 1: The Spirit of Mapacho

• 3,000+ years of sacred tobacco history
• Spiritual cosmology across Amazonian traditions
• Mapacho’s role as Guardian of Guardian Spirits

MODULE 2: Traditional Preparation & Serving Protocols

• Sourcing authentic Nicotiana rustica
• Exact preparation ratios, timing, and temperature
• Sacred serving sequences and blessing protocols

MODULE 3: Ceremony Facilitation

• Opening prayers and calling in protection
• Holding space during the purge process
• Reading the medicine’s movement in each person
• Closing ceremony with earth-honoring rituals

MODULE 4: Mapacho as Protection in Multi-Medicine Practice

• Using Mapacho with Kambo, Ayahuasca, Psilocybin, San Pedro
• When to use tea vs. smoke
• Case studies: How Mapacho stabilized challenging ceremonies

MODULE 5: Safety, Contraindications & Emergency Response

• Complete medical and psychological contraindications
• Emergency scenarios and response protocols
• Informed consent templates and documentation

MODULE 6: Ethics, Lineage & Integration

• Honoring tobacco lineages and cultural respect
• Supporting participants through post-ceremony integration
• Your ongoing relationship with Mapacho

MODULE 7: Professional Practice & Business Setup

• Pricing your ceremonies
• Legal considerations by region
• Marketing sacred medicine work with integrity

Hands-On Training & Direct Supervision:

This is not a theory-only course. You will be taught, evaluated, and receive hands-on training under the direct supervision of experienced instructors. You will practice preparation techniques, serving protocols, and ceremonial facilitation with real-time feedback and guidance. Your competency will be assessed throughout the training to ensure you are truly prepared to hold this medicine safely and effectively.

  7  comprehensive video modules (6+ hours of instruction)
  6 weekly live Q&A calls with Omar during online training
  2-day in-person intensive with supervised practice
  Downloadable Mapacho Ceremony Manual
  Safety guide and contraindications checklist
  Informed consent templates and intake forms
  4 weeks of mentored client practice (6 supervised sessions)
  Professional certification from Quantum Soul Academy
  Lifetime access to all course materials and recorded calls
  Private practitioner community for ongoing support
  Resource library: tobacco suppliers, ceremony music, altar setup guides

What’s NOT included: Travel and accommodation for the 3-day in-person intensiv2

To receive your Mapacho Ceremony Facilitator certification, you must:

Complete all 7 online modules
Attend all 6 weekly live calls (or watch recordings)
Attend the full 2-day in-person intensive
Complete your 2 personal Mapacho purges under supervision
Pass the written exam with 80% or higher
Submit proof of CPR/First Aid certification
Successfully complete 6 supervised client sessions
Write and submit your personal Mapacho prayer
Sign the Practitioner Code of Ethics

Once certified, you are authorized to:

• Serve Mapacho tea in ceremonial contexts
• Work with Mapacho smoke (Soplar) for cleansing and protection
• Incorporate Mapacho into your existing plant medicine practice
• Offer Mapacho as a standalone ceremony

You are NOT authorized to:

• Teach Mapacho facilitation to others (teaching rights require separate authorization)
• Claim Indigenous lineage or traditional training you haven’t received
• Offer Mapacho casually or recreationally outside ceremonial context

This training is designed for:

* Current facilitators of Ayahuasca, San Pedro, Kambo, Psilocybin, Cacao, Bufo, Tepezcohuite, or any entheogenic medicine who need to establish proper protection and grounding protocols
* Aspiring facilitators ready to build their practice on a foundation of protection and spiritual safety
* San Pedro, Kambo, Psilocybin, Cacao, Bufo, Tepezcohuite,  or dieta practitioners looking to expand their toolkit
* Psilocybin guides seeking grounding tools for challenging journeys
* Therapists and integration coaches working with psychedelic clients
* Spiritual seekers devoted to ancestral plant wisdom with ceremonial experience

Prerequisites:

• Prior experience with plant medicines (either as practitioner or through personal ceremonial work)
• Commitment to approaching this medicine with deep reverence
• Willingness to undergo 5 personal Mapacho purges
• Ability to attend the 3-day in-person intensive
• Physical and psychological health appropriate for purgative work

If you are already serving plant medicines and do not yet have a relationship with Mapacho, this training is essential for your safety and the safety of those you serve.

  ~ You have no prior plant medicine experience
  ~ You’re looking for recreational tobacco use
  ~ You want a quick certification without depth or practice requirements
  ~ You’re not willing to approach this medicine with lineage-based reverence
  ~ You can’t commit to the full 12-week training timeline
  ~ You’re uncomfortable with intense purging and energetic work
  ~ You expect to learn from videos alone without hands-on supervised practice
  ~ You’re already facilitating plant medicines but don’t believe protection protocols are necessary
  ~ You view plant medicines as products rather than relationships

This is serious medicine work. It requires humility, discipline, and genuine devotion to serving others with integrity.

Early Bird: $1,297 USD (First 10 students) Regular Price: $1,597 USD

Payment Plan: 3 monthly payments of $499
(Total: $1,497 on payment plan)

Everything included:

• • 7 online modules + 6 live calls
  • 2-day in-person intensive
  • 4 weeks mentored practice
  • Professional certification
  • Lifetime access and community

$697 USD

Learn the protocols without full certification:

• 7 online modules + 6 live calls
• All downloadable materials
• Lifetime access to recordings
• Community access

Does NOT include:

• In-person intensive
• Personal purge experiences
• Supervised client practice
• Professional certification

Can upgrade to full certification later for $997

$2,997 USD (Limited to 5 students per cohort)

Everything in Full Certification PLUS:

• 3 private 1-on-1 mentorship sessions with Omar
• Advanced multi-medicine integration training
• Early access to future advanced courses
• Priority placement for in-person intensive location
• Personalized ceremony protocol review

Best for: Established facilitators running retreat centers or building plant medicine practices

This training requires screening to ensure you’re ready for the medicine and meet prerequisites.

When you apply, you’ll:

1. Complete a detailed intake questionnaire
2. Schedule a 20-minute conversation with our admissions team
3. Receive acceptance decision within 5 business days

We screen for:

• Prior plant medicine experience (practitioner or ceremonial)
• Physical and psychological readiness for purgative work
• Genuine alignment with lineage-based sacred medicine work
• Ability to commit to full 12-week program
• Understanding of the responsibility this authorization carries

This isn’t about exclusion—it’s about ensuring every student is properly prepared for the depth of this work.

It demands presence. It tests integrity. It reveals what’s hidden—both beautiful and uncomfortable.

This training will prepare you to serve it with the reverence it deserves and the skill it requires.

Grandfather Tobacco doesn’t grant his protection to everyone. He chooses carefully. He watches how you approach. He notices your prayers—or your lack of them.

The purgative Mapacho Tea ceremony is one of the most powerful cleansing experiences you can offer. Your clients will come to you seeking this profound medicine, and you will be prepared to hold them safely through their transformation.

For those already holding space with other plant allies: this is the missing piece. Grandfather Tobacco has been protecting medicine workers for thousands of years. It’s time to bring him into your practice.

If you’ve felt called to this work, that calling didn’t come from nowhere.

The medicine is reaching toward you because it sees something in you—a capacity to hold this responsibility with humility and strength.

Are you ready to answer?

USA •  Berlin • Mexico • Portugal