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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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  • Zefyr
    October 29, 2022 at 4:20 am

    This circle is so wonderful. I can’t help but feel blessed and graced to have found it. The facilitators are all superb in their sensitivities and openness. It’s truly a raw and nurturing experience, to be able to open up about your vulnerabilities in order to grow and heal. The respect, kindness, and warmth that everyone grants so freely gives you the positive energy needed to overcome the tremendous darknesses we face in life. The lighthouse where this all happens is truly a beacon for wayward souls adrift at sea.

    A genuinely guiding and comforting force. A warmth to be reckoned with, a spark that will kindle your heart’s embers and help you glow and blaze. And the healing talents of the staff – of their musical and lyrical therapy – is completely rapturous.

    It is tremendous what a positive force this community is. The tightness, the closeness, the intimacy. The openness, the acceptance, the freeness. In a world where we are so often closed up and isolated from one another in a variety of ways, this circle truly breaks down those barriers that divide us, in order to bring us all closer together.

    This is a genuinely safe space for so many to come together and heal. What you pay for feels like a pittance in comparison to what you get – in an era of monstrous healthcare costs barely capable of treating potent mental ailments and distresses, this medicine circle is a genuine breath of fresh air, a sigh of relief, an opportunity to let go, and to grow.

    It is wonderful to begin to realize what it means to be a human being. To be able to walk with courage, rather than being governed by fear. To overcome trauma and pain. To embrace ourselves in order to be truer, gentler, and more authentic.

    For so long, I thought I was lost. Then suddenly, I saw I was found.

  • dfb
    October 25, 2022 at 12:44 pm

    The other reviewers here are capturing how special this circle is and I +1 all of their comments.

    What I have to add is that when I speak with close friends who have sat with Aya, they are blown away at how I describe the experience with Maharani. It is really unmatched and this is on top of the fact that there’s so few circles such as this one in the US. It speaks to the source of the leader’s enthusiasm to heal.

    Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

  • RJ_@@_transform
    October 11, 2022 at 8:20 am

    I have now sat twice in this beautiful circle of people trying to change the world one ceremony at a time. Both experiences were top notch with feelings of love, nurture, and deep caring for my well-being from the moment I arrived on property and has not stopped. From Eliana’s amazing voice and musical abilities calls in beautiful Icaros that move grandma deep inside. She fully immerses herself into providing the best experience as lead facilitator and guides the facilitation team with grace and beauty.
    The facilitation team, just wow!!! They each bring an uniqueness to container that provides comfort as you travel your experience. I am blessed to have met this amazing group and never felt supported in the ways I do now. This circle has allowed me to leave behind much guilt and shame I’ve experienced in life as they support my journey, exactly as it needs to be. No projection of what I should do, just a deep understanding of what I needed in that moment. They honored me and the path I needed to take to work on myself further which leaves me feeling so filled with their love and support, and it hasn’t stopped since leaving.
    Amazing human beings doing solid work to make my experiences world class, and to them and Grandma Aya, I am eternally grateful

  • Crysalis01
    September 29, 2022 at 10:03 pm

    I probably wouldn’t be here today if not for Eliana & her beautiful ceremonies.

    I first came to Eliana in 2020, dealing with major health issues that really took a toll on my quality of life and had me contemplating ending things. I have sat in around 22 ceremonies and facilitated four more with Eliana, and the growth and healing I’ve experienced from her ceremonies are one of the main reasons I am here today.

    Eliana creates an incredibly safe and respectful space where you can be vulnerable, feel held, seen and safe enough to dig deep and do whatever work you’ve come to do. She herself is strong and respectful towards the medicine, and she finds wonderful facilitators who are kind, skilled and exactly the kind of people you want around when you’re wading through the muck. Her ceremonies are small and contained and she always has enough help, so things never go off the rails.

    Eliana herself is a light — wise, kind, and honestly really freaking funny. You will be crying one moment and laughing the next. And her music is beyond comprehension. She is a classically trained opera singer and her voice can do otherworldly things; her lyrics are beautiful and cut straight to your soul, and she can play like a dozen instruments masterfully.

    Every weekend I have sat with her has been magical, and I have learned so much. She has become a lifelong friend, and I am proud to be a part of the community she’s built in upstate New York. I am a completely different person than I was when I first found Eliana’s ceremonies — happier, more whole, more self-confident — and I am so grateful to have found her. You will not make a mistake sitting in her ceremonies.

  • BrandedLove
    September 26, 2022 at 1:57 pm

    I just returned from the journey of a lifetime! An entire life of healing and revealing experienced in 48 hours. Eliana was the perfect Guide for the magic of this plant medicine for me, providing wisdom, compassion, encourage with “otherworldly “ synchronicity. This experience has resuscitated my heart and life. I am not the same person that arrived and I know gratitude, love, and interconnectedness not just as a verbal constructs, but as direct experiences. I Highly recommend Eliana and Maharani because the ceremonies are simply safe, effective, and centered around a pure and powerful intention that is held from the very first contact with Eliana and remains thereafter.

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