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Maharani Medicine Circles

Ithaca, New York

Welcome! Below is our upcoming schedule;

*We have also made the decision to offer an optional third night of ceremony at all of our retreats- this is a wonderful opportunity to deepen your experience with the medicine, and call in more celebration and light into your life.*

2026 New York Retreats 

August 28th-30th (Third night available)

  1. September 25th-27th (Third night available)

Our next Integration Call will be offered in August, at 7 PM. Here, we discuss Plant Medicine, spirituality, and personal development. Please message us for the link- all are welcome to come and join us!

Please e-mail us for more information.

Our mission is to provide a safe, honest and sincere space for people of all walks of life to come and heal. We believe in the combined power of plant medicine, Umbanda,  and emotional vulnerability. These key elements are the fertile soil for beautiful transformation to occur in our lives!

Maharani Medicine  first opened its doors in 2018– since then, we have served at over 140 retreats. We are proud to be a culturally diverse hub for seekers of all kinds. We are honored to be of service to anyone with a desire to grow, learn and heal regardless of background, age or creed. Working closely with our teachers in Hawaii and Brazil we provide a space of tradition but also flexibility to suit the needs of every person and group that we serve. We humbly walk this path as students of life, seekers of change, and owners of our actions.

Here are some things that set us apart from other groups:

  • Our groups are ALWAYS intimate & small. We will never serve a group larger than ten people. This fosters a sense of community between participants & staff, creating a safe, familial atmosphere.
  • We keep a supportive staff-to-participant ratio so we can all feel fully supported in this intense journey. We strive to have 3-4 facilitators on board in addition to our Medicine Leaders. Our team members are humble volunteers with ample personal experience with plant medicine. Each facilitator brings their own unique abilities to retreats.
  • Our medicine is brewed with love, prayer, tradition and integrity, sourcing high quality materials from sustainable sources from Central America. All of our medicines are sent from our teachers in Brazil and Hawaii.
  • The most important part of any medicine experience is Integration. Integration means applying the lessons learned during ceremony to everyday life. Integration is what separates recreational use of medicines from ceremonial & intentional use! It is very important we honor ourselves and our medicines in this way. We offer multiple integration circles, one on one sessions during the weekend and also provide supportive resources for our participants when they go home.
  • Our Guides have been taught how to activate and amplify the Medicine through presence and music.  Many Plant Medicine traditions suggest that music is the vessel which carries the ceremonial energy. The music harmonizes with the medicine and serves as a “Lighthouse” that helps each participant navigate their internal shadows & light alike, and to call upon our allies both in nature and in spirit to assist us in our development. The music serves as a compass to bring us back our hearts. Whether it be traditional pontos, the call of the flute or powerful icaros (medicine songs), the music, prayer, and spirits will be an ally to those who are present with their transformation. 
  • We are officially non-profit & church. Spirituality is very important to us, but we will never be dogmatic in our beliefs. While our ceremonies are spiritually based, they are very universalist as well. Folks with secular beliefs will not have issues connecting to the ceremony experience.
  • It can feel extremely overwhelming to find the right practitioner, modality or healing space when we live in such a fast-paced world. We are happy to provide a simple, organic and humble space where you can just be yourself. We believe that everyone is a student in this space— we are all apart of the same universal chain of interconnectedness! We hope you will join us in this incredible opportunity to unravel & remember who we truly are.

Our Retreats are for you if…

  • You are looking for a retreat that is not overwhelming in size (2-10 participants)
  • You are seeking a supportive community to connect with in the long-term— Whether it be for integration, friendship, spirituality or medicinal purposes!
  • You are unable to travel to South America or commit to a longer term retreat.
  • You feel a profound urge to become a better human, work on trauma, process challenging emotions, foster a deeper connection with Nature or expand your relationship with Spirit/Source/The Universe.

We are a “mobile ministry”. This means that we split our time between Upstate New York and the high desert of Arizona. We feel the call to be in service to both sides of this country. We also hope to someday soon travel to other states and offer our retreats in more locations.

For our New York offerings, we have a beautiful property in the woods that we hold our retreats in. We are blessed with 60 acres of forest land, with hiking trails, waterfalls and a large pond. It is completely remote, and a perfect opportunity to give yourself to solitude.  Because we host small retreats, we are able to offer a tenderness and care that births an intimacy of relationship. The better we know you the more we can curate the experience to your needs and ultimately the more you will get out of the experience.

For more information on our ceremonies and community visit us www.maharanimedicine.com

Please message us if you’d like more information about our retreats or upcoming schedule. We are always available to talk about this work if you have any questions. Thanks so much for reading and many blessings!

Vision Statement

Our vision is to become compassionate, pure, healthy, and unconditionally loving people. Through prayer, meditation and the foundational support of our ancestors and their medicines, we humbly walk this path.

In a world shrouded by illusion, our Medicine bursts through the shadows as a shining light. We call upon the guidance of our sacred plant teachers to shed hardened layers around our heart built by the suffering we have endured.

Through dance and song, we shatter resistance keeping us from a righteous and all pervading Spiritual Relationship with life. Our ancient Amazonian Medicine combined with communal celebration yields profound healing for our selves and the entire planet.

We strongly believe in the Great Spirit that dwells within all living beings. This Spirit is alive, deeply caring and calling us home to the Present Moment. We embrace all religions and creeds. All roads lead to the same One, loving and ever-present Being.

Our Mission is to provide a sacred container, as well as education and support for those who are called to Plant Medicine. Ceremony is a state of mind that can embraced every single moment of our lives. We seek to help others cultivate this way of being through integrating spiritual experience.

We also believe that human connection is a powerful gateway to the soul. Maharani Medicine offers a community space for all people to share and grow.

We honor ourselves by truly integrating our Plant Medicine journeys. In choosing to remember Love on the daily, we help the world heal. It is our prayer that we can support people, whether they are preparing for ceremony, sitting in ceremony or integrating afterward. We want every person we meet to thrive and find great internal success. We invite you to join us!

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  • Tallulah
    November 12, 2023 at 1:29 pm

    A weekend with Eliana is like 10 years of therapy. Her medicine is just as real and strong as the medicine I was served in South America by a Peruvian shaman. But the thing that makes working with Eliana so great is how she’s able to make ancient teachings accessible and relevant for people in America today. She’s forced me to look at and help process not just trauma that was done TO me, but she’s also helped me break my own unhealthy patterns that have perpetuated a victim mentality throughout most of my adult life. And her music during ceremony … it’s like she’s channelling the grandmother, Madonna and Eve all at once — pure feminine divine pouring through her soul to you.

  • odigitali
    November 7, 2023 at 10:12 pm

    It has been said, and I believe, that spirituality is not religion. It is a path for us to generate happiness, understanding and love, so that we can live deeply each moment of out life. I am so grateful that my path brought me to the ceremony I shared with Maharani Medicine Circle a few weeks ago late October in Arizona. Eliana, Austin, Erin and Becks (as well as the other facilitators) were wonderful guides. The energy container for the ceremony was meticulously curated: intense but productive. I felt well cared for the entire time and the medicine, music and atmosphere were amazing. I cannot recommend this ceremony enough.

  • heather987
    October 29, 2023 at 4:06 pm

    This was my first time doing Ayahuasca and I was extremely nervous. Eliana and all the facilitators were kind and supportive and created an environment that felt safe. The ceremonies were challenging, but so beautiful and powerful. I was able to face things that scared me and came out feeling stronger and on a path to healing. The music was absolutely amazing and fit perfectly with every moment of the journey. Everyone had so much wisdom to share and I learned a lot. I am so grateful for this experience and would definitely recommend to anyone considering attending a ceremony.

  • catpug911
    October 29, 2023 at 3:13 pm

    This was by far the most incredible, life altering experience. It was beautiful, terrifying, transformative, loving, and fun. I met the most wonderful people, I now call friends and family. I encountered so much beauty, love, and support throughout the weekend. Additionally, the music was incredible, and helped deepen the experience.
    Integrating back home has been challenging, and Eliana has pointed me in the proper avenues. I look forward to meeting grandmother ayahuasca again, and sitting ceremony with maharani medicine circles

  • jmarche
    October 26, 2023 at 10:54 pm

    I feel so grateful that I was connected to Eliana in my search for an Ayahuasca facilitator, I went into this experience as a first timer pretty blind. I only knew of a few friends who had used Ayahuasca, and it seemed like this hidden world trying to find someone. I flew to Phoenix for this ceremony and I can say that Eliana was extremely sensitive and helpful and understanding and connected me with one of her facilitators to hold my hand on the way up to the ceremony.
    I come from 25 years of facilitating personal growth workshops and have led 1000s of people through transformational experiences (without any medicine/drug). And, I’ve seen the world of instagram shamans that felt less than authentic to me so I was a little bit skeptical going in, and, and I was very impressed with this group. The instructions that were given were extremely helpful for the preparation (dieta) and the context set in our integration circles was also very enlightening. I imagine many people could take this medicine without a lot of direction or intention, and come away with either a bad experience or a high experience, given how intense it can be (and was for me). Eliana and Austin (the two head facilitators) gave excellent perspectives about the use of this medicine, what it can possibly do for us, and the work we would need to put in to help make that happen. It’s not doing a drug to escape my pain, but going into my deepest hidden places and loving those parts of me, getting to the core of who I am – light and love – and clearing away the gunk that is not that. While they are not psychologists (I am a counselor/coach), they have an excellent understanding of shadow work and it’s importance to healing.
    Through the experience I felt incredibly loved and cared for; I knew I was not alone and at any time could ask for help, and did often. Taking Ayahuasca was terrifying and also so g*damn beautiful, and knowing I was not alone and having the intention that I worked hard to create really helped. We had 4 additional facilitators who gave excellent words of wisdom through the experience while they were tending to our physical well-being; I never felt judged (an issue for me in past workshops), only supported and guided.
    Eli and Austin are down-to-earth, practical guides; no spiritual woo-woo here. And, the music was just absolutely incredible, both the curated playlist, and Eliana’s singing. It was like a divine voice sent to give me the messages I needed through the whole experience.
    Thank you so much Maharani Medicine Circles for holding space and co-creating this magnificent experience.
    And thank you to Prem Vidu for the integration and intention creating support.

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