A Living Invitation

As we cross the threshold from summer into fall, we enter a season of change.

The light begins to shift. The days shorten. The earth begins its movement inward. We are invited to notice what has grown, what we are carrying, what is ready to be released, and what we want to bring with us into the season ahead.

This fall, Chuchuhuasi will be our Master Plant Teacher, and the Four Directions will become our map.

Together, we will enter a six-week practice of relationship, listening, presence, and integration.

We will listen to the plants; we will listen to the body, and we will orient ourselves through the wisdom of the East, South, West, and North.

We will pay attention to what the changing season is revealing within and around us.

At the heart of this work is something I have come to understand more deeply through the years:

Plant medicine is about relationship:

Relationship with the plants, the seasons, the body, those who came before us, one another, and the living world of which we are already a part.

Why Chuchuhuasi?

Chuchuhuasi invites us into a rooted relationship with life.

Traditionally associated with strength and grounding, Chuchuhuasi offers a powerful plant relationship for the transition into fall.

Its invitation is not necessarily to retreat from change, but to discover what allows us to remain rooted within it.

What strengthens us?
Where do we stand?
What are we orienting toward?
What can we release?
What do we trust when the landscape around us begins to change?

Over four weeks of dieta, we will have time to move beyond our first impressions of the plant and allow the relationship to unfold slowly.

We are not just drinking Chuchuhuasi.

We are learning how to listen.

✦ Three Seasons · One Continuing Practice 

Each plant relationship stands on its own. Together, they create a larger arc of listening, practice, and integration across the changing seasons.

✦ The Space Between Is Part of the Journey 

One thing I have learned through years of working with plants and presence is that the immersion itself is only part of the practice. 

We need time to integrate. To live. To notice what has changed. To discover how what we have experienced begins to move through our relationships, choices, bodies, and everyday lives.

Portals becomes our ongoing place of practice between the plants, with two live gatherings each month, community support, and a growing Living Library of more than 300 practices, teachings, and conversations in presence, breath, nervous system awareness, emotional embodiment, and somatic listening. 

It gives us a place to continue listening, integrating, and practicing together through the months between each plant relationship.

Master Plants & Presence gives us a place to go deeper.
Portals to Presence gives us a place to continue.

Enter · Listen · Integrate · Live · Enter Again

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What People Experienced from Past Immersions

Eric M. 

This has become my spiritual practice. I didn’t grow up religious, but this? This is real.

Annie R. 

This journey slowed me down in ways I didn’t expect. The plants helped me respond instead of react. It became my spiritual practice—woven into everyday life.

Alex B.

This practice helped me remember what I already knew, and somehow forgot. My relationships are better for it. My life is better for it.

Paras G.

The gentleness of Ena’s teachings, combined with the gentleness of these plants, helped me find a deep sense of spaciousness and calm that is not normally my state of being.

The work Ena put into this experience and the level of support she offered genuinely surprised me. I learned so much from her and felt incredibly supported throughout the process. Thank you, Ena.

Your Guide

Ena Vie has spent more than 24 years guiding individuals and communities through presence-based practice, ceremonial work, integration, and trauma-sensitive facilitation. Her work with master plant teachers has grown through years of direct relationship with the plants, teachers, traditions, and practices that have accompanied her path, and is rooted in humility, reciprocity, presence, and respect for the lineages from which these teachings emerge.

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