Women's Circle and IxCacao Ceremony
2025-04-28 10:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Helsinki) | Spiritus Victoria, Malmesbury, South Africa
The experience will be to develop self-care, self-knowledge and feminine expressions in your body and soul –
–consecration of cacao
-dynamic meditation
-song and dance
– painting
-integration sharing circle
-lunch included
When we call this medicine a Goddess, we are calling for IxCacao, the Mayan Goddess of cocoa, who had the divine responsibility of banishing hunger and ensuring the safety of her people. Inittially she was an earth Goddess in a matriarchal society, much loved by the people as a goddess full of love, compassion and abundance.
However, with the drop in vibration that the planet went through that started patriarchy, this Goddess was taken away from the fields and forced to marry the God of commerce, thus, her seeds were turned into currency and her people could no longer drink its medicine, which became a delicacy only for aristocrats.
IxCacao devises a plan with the Goddess of Love who adorns her with delicate flowers from head to toe and thus, She returns to her people as a Goddess of fertility, love and pleasure. This is the return of the Goddess that we are experiencing at this planetary moment.
We once again honor and partake of this medicine in a sacred way, after centuries of consumption mixed with sugar, transformed into the irresistible chocolate.
However, ceremonial sacred cocoa is the original pure drink, with a bitter taste and added, at most, with some spices. When we partake of this sacred drink, we soon feel our hearts beat stronger and more vigorously. The Cocoa Goddess arrives in a subtle but profound way, acting on our emotions, feelings and intuition.
She embraces us and welcomes us with deep love, bringing us precious teachings for our lives, releasing sorrows stored in our hearts. A unique experience

Santo Daime Ceremony (Ayahuasca)
2025-04-30 19:00 - 2025-05-01 19:00 | Spiritus Victoria, Malmesbury, South Africa
Santo Daime was founded in the 1930s in the Brazilian Amazonian state of Acre by Raimundo Irineu Serra, known as Mestre Irineu. Santo Daime incorporates elements of several religious or spiritual traditions including Folk Catholicism, Kardecist Spiritism, African animism and indigenous South American shamanism, including vegetalismo. Ceremonies are typically several hours long and are undertaken sitting in silent “concentration”, or sung collectively, dancing according to simple steps in geometrical formation. Ayahuasca (Daime) is drunk as part of the ceremony. The drinking of Daime can induce a strong effect which is embraced as both emotional and physical healing.

Half Moon Vision Quest Closing Ceremony
2025-05-03 22:00 - 2025-05-04 22:00 | Spiritus Victoria, Malmesbury, South Africa
The Half Moon or “Four Tobacco” Ceremony draws from an ancient, timeless ceremony rom South, Central, and Northern America.
“Tobacco” in the title, The Four Tobaccos, refers to the medicine of prayer. Through a sacred use of it Great Mystery leads us to knowing all our other sacred medicines. Throughout the ceremony, we focus our full attention on the sacred fire, shaped like an arrow into the half-moon altar.
We begin with the Purpose Tobacco, which the ceremonial leaders will use to state and support the intended purpose of the ceremony.
The medicine (Peyote) is then passed around the circle, followed by the first prayer songs round. For purposes of singing the prayer songs, a staff and gourd is passed around the ceremony space, accompanied by a water drum.
Once the medicine and instruments have made their way around the circle, the ceremonial leader calls the firekeeper to bring the Midnight Water for purposes of the Midnight Water Prayer Smoke.
After another round of medicine and singing, it is time for the Power Tobacco which is a crucial point in the ceremonial journey. With this tobacco, there is a weaving of great clarity, and much opportunity for healing and integration.
After the power round, the women leave the ceremonial space to take care of the Morning Water and the sacred food. This is the time for the Earth Mother. It is now time for the Morning Prayer Tobacco, which is a time for stillness and deep listening. The Morning Water and food are then sent around the circle and we sit in the celebration and gratitude of accomplishing our ceremonial purpose together.
Until we sing together again around the Sacred Fire,
Aha Mitakuye Oyasin

FSI Star Dance Africa
2025-05-06 18:00 - 2025-05-07 09:00 | Spiritus Victoria, Malmesbury, South Africa
After years of lifting the prayer of the Vision Quest in South Africa and growing our African family of the Fire, we have been given the permission and authorisation from the Chief of the Sacred Fire of Itzachilatlan, Aurelio Diaz Tekpankalli, to lift the altar of the Star Dance in South Africa.

The Star Dance is an ancestral dance where you have the opportunity to honour and remember all your grandparents – all our ancestors, those that are not walking amongst us any longer, all those who have preceded us. We remember them through this dance and dedicate ourselves to these grandmothers and grandfathers of the stars. We are seeing them there.

Shamanic Ceremony with Ayahuasca
2025-05-24 20:00 - 2025-05-25 20:00, 2025-06-28 20:00 - 2025-06-29 07:00 | Spiritus Victoria, Malmesbury, South Africa
The ceremony will be in the shamanic style, a ceremony during which teacher plants/ power plants are taken by the participants with a prayer for healing, direction and spiritual growth.

A shamanic journey is to invoke the four directions, the heart of the sky, the Great Spirit, the Great Mystery, the heart of Mother Earth and the Sacred Fire. The teachings and knowledge of the medicines open our hearts and our minds – not only to really know, accept and love ourselves, but also to accept and include others in our circle, without any judgements. By doing the work with clarity, integrity, respect and consistency, always remembering to be humble and sincere, we honour those that came before us – their knowledge, wisdom and instructions. Much healing is possible during a shamanic journey – with the guidance of sacred songs, we are able to restore our connection Great Spirit and All That Is. In this way, physical and emotional obstacles are shifted, and limiting beliefs are removed. By healing this separation in each of us, everything can be healed.
I will send preparation guidelines closer to the time.

Shamanic Ceremony with Ayahuasca and Los Niños
2025-07-25 20:00 - 2025-07-26 20:00 | Spiritus Victoria, Malmesbury, South Africa
The ceremony will be in the shamanic style, a ceremony during which teacher plants/ power plants are taken by the participants with a prayer for healing, direction and spiritual growth.
A shamanic journey is to invoke the four directions, the heart of the sky, the Great Spirit, the Great Mystery, the heart of Mother Earth and the Sacred Fire. The teachings and knowledge of the medicines open our hearts and our minds – not only to really know, accept and love ourselves, but also to accept and include others in our circle, without any judgements.

By doing the work with clarity, integrity, respect and consistency, always remembering to be humble and sincere, we honour those that came before us – their knowledge, wisdom and instructions. Much healing is possible during a shamanic journey – with the guidance of sacred songs, we are able to restore our connection Great Spirit and All That Is. In this way, physical and emotional obstacles are shifted, and limiting beliefs are removed. By healing this separation in each of us, everything can be healed.

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Women's Circle and Shamanic Ceremony
2025-08-09 16:00 - 2025-08-10 09:00 | Spiritus Victoria, Malmesbury, South Africa
Upon arrival we will have an introduction circle to get to know each other a little and consecrate the medicine of cacao to open our hearts and our minds, to surrender to the presence of our sacred space.
Afterwards, we will construct our women’s altar together and make an offering of cedar, tobacco, corn, salt, fruit and flowers to Mother Earth.
Around 20:00, we will start the shamanic ceremony with Los Niños, BUT this will be a more interactive ceremony where we sing, drum and dance together in order to fully express our individual essence of being a woman, to share our challenges and our joys through the ancient the rhythm of our bodies.
The ceremony will end in the early morning, after some rest and something to eat in the morning, we will have our final sharing circle.

Shamanic Ceremony with Ayahuasca
2025-09-12 20:00 - 2025-09-13 20:00 | Spiritus Victoria, Malmesbury, South Africa
The ceremony will be in the shamanic style, a ceremony during which teacher plants/ power plants are taken by the participants with a prayer for healing, direction and spiritual growth.
A shamanic journey is to invoke the four directions, the heart of the sky, the Great Spirit, the Great Mystery, the heart of Mother Earth and the Sacred Fire. The teachings and knowledge of the medicines open our hearts and our minds – not only to really know, accept and love ourselves, but also to accept and include others in our circle, without any judgements.

By doing the work with clarity, integrity, respect and consistency, always remembering to be humble and sincere, we honour those that came before us – their knowledge, wisdom and instructions. Much healing is possible during a shamanic journey – with the guidance of sacred songs, we are able to restore our connection Great Spirit and All That Is. In this way, physical and emotional obstacles are shifted, and limiting beliefs are removed. By healing this separation in each of us, everything can be healed.

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Sweat lodge & Ceremony with Ayahuasca & Los Niños
2025-10-18 14:00 - 2025-10-19 14:00 | Spiritus Victoria, Malmesbury, South Africa
The ceremony will be in the shamanic style, a ceremony during which teacher plants/ power plants are taken by the participants with a prayer for healing, direction and spiritual growth.

A shamanic journey is to invoke the four directions, the heart of the sky, the Great Spirit, the Great Mystery, the heart of Mother Earth and the Sacred Fire. The teachings and knowledge of the medicines open our hearts and our minds – not only to really know, accept and love ourselves, but also to accept and include others in our circle, without any judgements. By doing the work with clarity, integrity, respect and consistency, always remembering to be humble and sincere, we honour those that came before us – their knowledge, wisdom and instructions. Much healing is possible during a shamanic journey – with the guidance of sacred songs, we are able to restore our connection Great Spirit and All That Is. In this way, physical and emotional obstacles are shifted, and limiting beliefs are removed. By healing this separation in each of us, everything can be healed.

Shamanic Plant Medicine Retreat - Harare, Zimbabwe
2025-11-07 19:30 - 2025-11-09 14:00 | Savanna Safari Camp, Harare, Zimbabwe
The retreat consists of the following:
Friday, 7 November 2025 @ 20:00: Shamnic Ceremony with AyahuascaThe ceremony will be in the shamanic style, a ceremony during which teacher plants/ power plants are taken by the participants with a prayer for healing, direction and spiritual growth.

A shamanic journey is to invoke the four directions, the heart of the sky, the Great Spirit, the Great Mystery, the heart of Mother Earth and the Sacred Fire. The teachings and knowledge of the medicines open our hearts and our minds – not only to really know, accept and love ourselves, but also to accept and include others in our circle, without any judgements. By doing the work with clarity, integrity, respect and consistency, always remembering to be humble and sincere, we honour those that came before us – their knowledge, wisdom and instructions. Much healing is possible during a shamanic journey – with the guidance of sacred songs, we are able to restore our connection Great Spirit and All That Is. In this way, physical and emotional obstacles are shifted, and limiting beliefs are removed. By healing this separation in each of us, everything can be healed.

Saturday, 8 November 2025 @ 09:00: Kambo (contribution: R 1250/$70)

Kambo is the frog medicine from the Amazon. It is the venom from the giant tree frog, a sacred medicine used by the indigenous people of the Amazon basin, it is utilised to extract illness and toxins from the body along with boosting the immune system. It is therefore a powerful detoxifying agent and immune booster.

Kambo sessions last anywhere from 30 to 60 minutes, depending on the person.

The Kambo application involves burning the person’s body (usually the arm for men and the leg for women) and then applying a Kambo secretion to the small skin opening.

The effects of the frog medicine can be felt most on the liver (vomiting of bile), heart, spleen (lymphatic system), the intestinal system and by possible facial swelling (which will go away).

After treatment, most people feel invigorated and have increased energy.

Saturday, 8 November 2025 @ 15:00: Medicine walk (San Pedro and Mushrooms)

Sunday, 9 November 2025 @ 09:00: Cacao, sound healing and yoga

Sunday, 9 November 2025: personal healing sessions (on request, 45 mins, limited slots available, contribution R850/ $45)
Liesl offers personal healing sessions with personalised counselling and guidance that facilitate a complete healing process and help you go to the heart of the situation you would like to shift, no matter if it is of a physical, mental, emotional and/or spiritual nature.
You will receive insight, clarity and the release of blockages and old hurt.

Shamanic Ceremony - Ayahuasca & Los Niños
2026-02-28 20:00 - 2026-03-01 07:00 | Spiritus Victoria, Malmesbury, South Africa
The ceremony will be in the shamanic style, a ceremony during which teacher plants/ power plants are taken by the participants with a prayer for healing, direction and spiritual growth. We will work with the medicines of Ayahuasca and Los Niños (mushrooms), benefitting from the powerful interaction between the Grandmother and the “Little Children”.
A shamanic journey is to invoke the four directions, the heart of the sky, the Great Spirit, the Great Mystery, the heart of Mother Earth and the Sacred Fire. The teachings and knowledge of the medicines open our hearts and our minds – not only to really know, accept and love ourselves, but also to accept and include others in our circle, without any judgements.
By doing the work with clarity, integrity, respect and consistency, always remembering to be humble and sincere, we honour those that came before us – their knowledge, wisdom and instructions. Much healing is possible during a shamanic journey – with the guidance of sacred songs, we are able to restore our connection Great Spirit and All That Is. In this way, physical and emotional obstacles are shifted, and limiting beliefs are removed. By healing this separation in each of us, everything can be healed.

Halfmoon Ceremony - Peyote
2026-03-14 22:00 - 2026-03-15 07:00 | Spiritus Victoria, Malmesbury, South Africa
The Half Moon Ceremony draws from an ancient, timeless ceremony rom South,Central, and Northern America.
“Tobacco” in the title, The Four Tobaccos, refers to the medicine of prayer. Through asacred use of it Great Mystery leads us to knowing all our other sacred medicines.Throughout the ceremony, we focus our full attention on the sacred fire, shaped like anarrow into the half-moon altar.
We begin with the Purpose Tobacco, which the ceremonial leaders will use to state andsupport the intended purpose of the ceremony.
The medicine (Peyote) is then passed around the circle, followed by the first prayersongs round. For purposes of singing the prayer songs, a staff and gourd is passedaround the ceremony space, accompanied by a water drum.
Once the medicine and instruments have made their way around the circle, theceremonial leader calls the firekeeper to bring the Midnight Water for purposes of theMidnight Water Prayer Smoke.
After another round of medicine and singing, it is time for the Power Tobacco which is acrucial point in the ceremonial journey. With this tobacco, there is a weaving of greatclarity, and much opportunity for healing and integration.
After the power round, the women leave the ceremonial space to take care of theMorning Water and the sacred food. This is the time for the Earth Mother. It is now timefor the Morning Prayer Tobacco, which is a time for stillness and deep listening. TheMorning Water and food are then sent around the circle and we sit in the celebrationand gratitude of accomplishing our ceremonial purpose together

Ceremony with BUFO (SAPO)
2026-03-20 19:00 - 20:30 | Spiritus Victoria, Malmesbury, South Africa
In the circle around the Sacred Fire, participants will hold space for each other while the medicine is administered to each one individually.
The experience will be about two hours long (depending on number of participants) and you will be able to return home afterwards.

Vision Quest 2026 Halfmoon Opening Ceremony
2026-04-18 22:00 - 2026-04-19 08:00
The Half Moon Ceremony draws from an ancient, timeless ceremony rom South,Central, and Northern America.

“Tobacco” in the title, The Four Tobaccos, refers to the medicine of prayer. Through asacred use of it Great Mystery leads us to knowing all our other sacred medicines.Throughout the ceremony, we focus our full attention on the sacred fire, shaped like anarrow into the half-moon altar.

We begin with the Purpose Tobacco, which the ceremonial leaders will use to state andsupport the intended purpose of the ceremony.

The medicine (Peyote) is then passed around the circle, followed by the first prayersongs round. For purposes of singing the prayer songs, a staff and gourd is passedaround the ceremony space, accompanied by a water drum.

Once the medicine and instruments have made their way around the circle, theceremonial leader calls the firekeeper to bring the Midnight Water for purposes of theMidnight Water Prayer Smoke.

After another round of medicine and singing, it is time for the Power Tobacco which is acrucial point in the ceremonial journey. With this tobacco, there is a weaving of greatclarity, and much opportunity for healing and integration.

After the power round, the women leave the ceremonial space to take care of theMorning Water and the sacred food. This is the time for the Earth Mother. It is now timefor the Morning Prayer Tobacco, which is a time for stillness and deep listening. TheMorning Water and food are then sent around the circle and we sit in the celebrationand gratitude of accomplishing our ceremonial purpose together.

FSI Vision Quest Africa
2026-04-18 22:00 - 2026-05-03 08:30 | Spiritus Victoria, Malmesbury, South Africa
The Vision Quest is a traditional native initiation rite of several tribes of the USA and Mexico. The vision quester climbs the mountain with the purpose of seeking a direction in life,a rebirth, or a deepening in self-knowledge through prayers, reflection and commitment.
We are in alliance with and oriented by this tradition, with the permission and blessings to lead this ancestral design delivered by the chief of the Sacred Fire of Itzachilatian, Aurelio Diaz Tekpankali. In this way, we make the call, the invocation to the four directions, to the heart of the sky, to the Great Spirit, to the great Mystery, to the heart of the Mother Earth, to the giver of life, and to all life.
We seek to understand the purpose of our true nature, to be the sum of multiple tribes and nations. Celebrating the moment in which we recognise ourselves – we are all interconnected, we all have the same origin, the same present and also the same future. For the love and respect of those who came before us, that resolved to bequeath their knowledge, their wisdom and instructions. That we can return to the truth, to the center, to the point of creation and agree to somehow stop the disease and imbalance.
Doing the work with clarity, transparency, cleanliness and consistency. With humility, sincerity, will and integrity to be useful and to be of benefit. To strengthen and nourish ourselves in the opportunity to once again place our own truth here, in the center, and together in our time return to the direction of all directions. With this purpose questers are taken to the mountain for a fast from food, water and speech for 4, 7, 9 and 13 days.
The intention is that the seeker reaches a greater level of understanding of his/ her purpose or way of life, thus recognising the ways of traditional people who gave us the sacred designs, medicines, knowledge of fasting, meditation, observation, self-study and the conscious interaction with the environment and the elements. That which is hidden is revealed through the mystery, the self-observation, the internal and external manifestations of the quester and through the wisdom of nature.

Vision Quest 2026 Halfmoon Closing Ceremony
2026-05-02 22:00 - 2026-05-03 08:00 | Spiritus Victoria, Malmesbury, South Africa
The Half Moon Ceremony draws from an ancient, timeless ceremony rom South,Central, and Northern America.

“Tobacco” in the title, The Four Tobaccos, refers to the medicine of prayer. Through asacred use of it Great Mystery leads us to knowing all our other sacred medicines.Throughout the ceremony, we focus our full attention on the sacred fire, shaped like anarrow into the half-moon altar.

The medicine is then passed around the circle, followed by the first prayersongs round. For purposes of singing the prayer songs, a staff and gourd is passedaround the ceremony space, accompanied by a water drum.

Once the medicine and instruments have made their way around the circle, theceremonial leader calls the firekeeper to bring the Midnight Water for purposes of theMidnight Water Prayer Smoke.

After another round of medicine and singing, it is time for the Power Tobacco which is acrucial point in the ceremonial journey. With this tobacco, there is a weaving of greatclarity, and much opportunity for healing and integration.

After the power round, the women leave the ceremonial space to take care of theMorning Water and the sacred food. This is the time for the Earth Mother. It is now timefor the Morning Prayer Tobacco, which is a time for stillness and deep listening. TheMorning Water and food are then sent around the circle and we sit in the celebrationand gratitude of accomplishing our ceremonial purpose together.

FSI Star Dance Africa
2026-05-06 17:00 - 2026-05-07 09:00 | Spiritus Victoria, Malmesbury, South Africa
The Star Dance is an ancestral dance where you have the opportunity to honour and remember all your grandparents – all our ancestors, those that are not walking amongst us any longer, all those who have preceded us. We remember them through this dance and dedicate ourselves to these grandmothers and grandfathers of the stars. We are seeing them there.

Shamanic Ceremony - Ayahuasca & Los Niños
2026-07-10 20:00 - 2026-07-11 08:00 | Spiritus Victoria, Malmesbury, South Africa

Women's Day celebration with Los Niños
2026-08-08 20:00 - 2026-08-09 08:00 | Spiritus Victoria, Malmesbury, South Africa
This women’s ceremony with mushrooms is a guided, intentional gathering using psilocybin which provides a safe container for participants. The gathering of women around the Sacred Fire focus on emotional release, deep healing, trauma processing, and sisterhood.

Before ingesting the mushrooms, the group creates a communal altar and establishes personal and collective intentions, where each woman can share her challenges.

The ceremony is guided through medicine songs, instruments and silence in order to support the inward journey. There will also be space for expression through communal drumming and dancing.

After a few hours, once the effects of the medicine wear off, participants share their experiences and ground themselves with a communal plant-based soup.

Bring an open heart

Incense, water, flowers, crystals, candles, personal power objects, drums, shakers, etc
