Tobacco as Medicine
A 5-Day Training in Tobacco, Lineage, and Right Relationship with Visting Wisdom Keepers Ramiro Peralta and Alejandro Alfonsín
March 18–22, 2026
Evergreen, Colorado
Tobacco is one of the most powerful and misunderstood plants on Earth. Across cultures, it has served as medicine, prayer, protector, and relational bridge between humans, ancestors, and the unseen.
Through colonization, commodification, and disconnection from lineage, tobacco has been distorted into addiction, harm, and dependency. This 5-day training is an immersive learning and practice space for those seeking to repair and restore their relationship with tobacco, not by rejecting it or romanticizing it, but by returning to relationship, responsibility, and care.
Together, we explore tobacco beyond addiction and commodity, learning how to meet it as a teacher rather than a habit, and as a medicine rather than a product. The emphasis is on listening, humility, consent, and ethical engagement, learning with tobacco rather than using it.
This training is not about mastery or authority. It is about remembering right relationship, and tending the personal and collective wounds that have shaped how tobacco has moved through our families, cultures, and lands.
*We are committed to making this work accessible. If the full investment feels like a stretch, monthly payment plans are available.
“Tobacco is not just a plant, it is a bridge between worlds.”
Who This Training is For
This training is for people who recognize that tobacco carries both deep ancestral wisdom and profound harm, and who feel called to engage this plant with honesty, responsibility, and care.
People healing personal or ancestral relationships with tobacco, including patterns of use or addiction, who are seeking repair rather than abstinence or indulgence
Therapists, clinicians, and healing professionals wanting to understand tobacco through a relational and ancestral lens, including its role in compulsion, dependency, and intergenerational harm
Coaches, facilitators, and ceremony leaders seeking grounded guidance on when, how, or whether to work with tobacco with integrity
Individuals drawn to meet tobacco as medicine rather than habit or commodity, and to clarify their relationship through direct, guided engagement
Students of the mystery who feel called to listen to tobacco as a teacher of power, prayer, grief, and reciprocity.
No prior ceremonial experience is required. This training is deeply welcoming of Spanish speakers and of queer, trans, and nonbinary participants. This training is held by queer facilitators committed to creating a safe, affirming, and relational space.
Financial questions should not be a barrier to this work. Monthly payment plans are available. Reach out to co-create a payment rhythm that supports your capacity.
What You’ll Experience
This training is a hands-on, experiential learning space. Participants will work directly with tobacco through guided smoking practices, learning traditional and relational techniques for connection, clearing, protection, and receiving information.
Tobacco is engaged as a teacher and ally—not as a substance for consumption or mastery, but as a plant with agency, boundaries, and intelligence. Practices emphasize consent, pacing, and choice. Participants are never required to smoke, and alternative forms of engagement are always available.
The work is supported by:
Lineage-based rituals to support the composting and digesting of ancestral entanglements
Mayan Fire Ceremonies to connect with ancestral support
Systemic and family constellation practices to support ancestral and collective inquiry and integration
Guided teachings on tobacco’s traditional roles across cultures
Facilitated group process and reflection
Preparation and Integration support
This is not a recreational experience. It is a facilitated space for learning how to meet tobacco with responsibility, humility, and care, while tending the personal and collective wounds that shape our relationships with power, addiction, and medicine.
Hosted at Kodera Ranch in Evergreen, Colorado
A 40-acre property with forest, meadow, and mountain views, including a renovated chapel, main lodge, bunkhouses, cabins, and yurt.
Lodging includes shared rooms and private rooms. We will be offering simple, nourishing, healthy, organic (as much as possible) high-protein foods sourced from the land. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner will be provided.
Detailed arrival information and ranch guidelines will be shared upon acceptance.
*We are committed to making this work accessible. If the full investment feels like a stretch, payment plans are available.
Meet Your Guides
Ramiro specializes in systemic and family constellations, lineage-based ritual work, and ancestral healing. He trained as a Family Constellations facilitator in Icalma, Chile, and has spent decades integrating systemic approaches with ritual, grief work, and ancestral practices.
Recognized as an Ajq’ij (Mayan Timekeeper), Ramiro serves as a ceremonial guide in tobacco and cacao work and carries teachings from the Mayan Cholq’ij calendar. His path includes training in shamanic healing, thanatology, grief rituals, and systemic ritual work with respected teachers across Latin America and Europe.
*Visiting wisdom keeper from Argentina
Ramiro Peralta
Alejandro is a holistic therapist and Family Constellations facilitator with a deep vocation for systemic and relational healing. Trained within the lineage of Ingala Rob, he specializes in family, organizational, and therapeutic constellation work.
His path has included extensive study in ancestral ritual practices in Mexico, where he became a Guardian of the Sacred Fire of the Temazcal. Alejandro is the founder of La Bendecida Retreat Center in Córdoba, Argentina, and integrates systemic work with holistic therapeutic approaches to support personal, ancestral, and collective healing.
*Visiting wisdom keeper from Argentina
Alejandro Alfonsín
Naiya (she/they), founder of Ancestral Weavings, is a ceremonialist, grief activist, and threshold guide specializing in transformative journeys focused on ancestral reconnection. She guides individuals, couples, and groups through threshold work to reconnect with ancestral wisdom, interrupt inherited patterns, and restore relational integrity.
She holds over 10,000 hours of training in ritual healing, with certifications including: Advanced Systemic Constellations (International Family Constellations Training Institute), Sacred Passage Death Doula (Chacana Spiritual Center), and Psychedelic Therapy & Indigenous Wisdom (AWE Foundation). She also holds a Master of Science in Intercultural Psychology and is currently pursuing a PhD in Psychedelic Studies focused on ancestral communal dreamwork and ritual.
Naiya D’Antoni
What to Expect
Day 1 — Arrival, Grounding & Intention
Arrive in the body, the land, and the container. Begin meeting tobacco as a living teacher and ally.
Day 2 — Ancestral Tobacco Lines
Explore how tobacco has moved through your family, culture, and ancestral lines. Identify what has been carried, silenced, or distorted, and begin practices to honor, witness, and release inherited patterns.
Day 3 — Addiction, Rupture & Clearing
Engage directly with the places where tobacco and power have been broken—addiction, compulsion, extraction, and loss of consent. Learn practical and relational techniques to clear, repair, and reclaim agency in your relationship with the plant.
Day 4 — Repair & Right Relationship
Deepen your capacity to walk with tobacco with clarity, consent, and integrity. Restore boundaries, practice guided relational and ceremonial repair, and remember tobacco’s original roles as medicine, protector, and messenger.
Day 5 — Integration, Guidance & Carrying Forward
Close the ceremonial container with clarity and intention. Integrate the teachings and experiences into your daily life, personal practice, and professional or community work. Receive guidance on how to continue working with tobacco with responsibility, wisdom, and care.*We are committed to making this work accessible. If the full investment feels like a stretch, payment plans are available. Reach out to discuss options.
Investment
Shared Rooms
$1777
Single or full bed in one of the bunkhouses or yurts, with shared bathroom. Comfortable, quiet, and heated.
11 spots available
Private Rooms
$1999
Private rooms with king or queen beds, perfect for couples or solo guests seeking quiet and privacy.
2 spots available
Early Birds Receive $200 off until February 14th!
A $500 deposit is required to reserve your spot. This deposit secures your lodging choice, confirms your place in the training, and is applied towards your total tuition.
For the remaining amount, you may either pay in full within 30 days of the training start or pay in monthly installments, completing within 30 days of the training. If you need a different rhythm, reach out, and we’ll find a plan that works for you. We are committed to making this work accessible; reach out to co-create a payment plan.
Spaces are assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.
How to Apply
Due to the intimate and immersive nature of this training, space is limited. If you feel called to join:
Fill out the application. It takes about 5–10 minutes, and we will respond within 2–3 business days.
If this is your first retreat or training with us, please schedule a 15-minute interview with Naiya.
Questions? Email Naiya at ourancestralweavings@gmail.com.
Feeling the call but unsure about finances? Apply anyway. Payment plans are available, and we’re happy to work with you to find a rhythm that supports your participation.