INTEGRATED TOBACCO DIET
A 3-MONTH PLANT DIET WITH ORALLY ADMINISTERED TOBACCO
2026 CO-ED COHORT
JANUARY 31 - MAY 1
THE PRIMORDIAL PATH
RENEWING THE POWER OF THE SOUL
In our time, there is a call to remember the old ways.
Not to perform a dead and culturally irrelevant ritual, which can no longer be authentically accessed or which is disjointed and not fully relevant to our modern lives,
but to awaken the aspects of ancestral wisdom which are still burning with life within us.
TOBACCO MEDICINE
HUMANITY'S OLDEST KNOWN PLANT ALLY
The Shamanic Tobacco art has remained the foundation of traditional Earth Medicine in the Americas for over 20,000 years.
Whether it be a Sundance or an Ayahuasca ceremony, rituals of power are conducted under the safety, guidance and authority of Tobacco.
Many indigenous words for shaman in the amazon mean something like "The One Who Knows Tobacco."
When we undertake study with Tobacco in a good way, we come into deep communion with the power of a benevolent wisdom which acts to inform our lives through clarity, directness, truth, focus, practicality, depth, tenderness, vision and noble virtue.
The primordial path to understand and learn Tobacco is not through smoke, or the nostrils, but to eat the plant and digest it.
SOUL PROCESS
LIVING WISDOM & PERSONAL MASTERY
How?
We work with a paste of Nicotiana Rustica, known in the Amazon Rainforest as Mapacho. It is a species of wild tobacco cultivated in the jungle for many thousands of years as pure, unadulterated medicine.
The paste is taken once per day in a meditation which lasts for about 40 minutes.
As we journey together over the course of 3 full-moon cycles, the medicine of our daily practice with Tobacco, weekly group calls and Integrity Partner check-ins weave into a braid of revelation, shining light on the places bound up within us ready to be matured into wisdom.
Why?
The STK Tobacco Apprenticeship is thoroughly and sensitively held, to provide a multidimensional learning experience.
This work makes contact with our physical bodies, our emotional landscape, our belief systems, our dreams, our psychic channel and ultimately our souls.
The focus is to sharpen presence, develop intimacy with intuition and integrate our personal gifts with our soul's living knowledge.
The result is a matured, living wisdom, embodied as personal mastery.
EXPERIENCE
CHALLENGE & HONOR CODES // FULL LIST
Dieting Tobacco for 3-months can, without a doubt, be challenging.
Yet, for any challenge the medicine presents us, the sense of grounding and support we receive from ingesting the force of Tobacco is greater.
The Integrated Tobacco Diet is designed to bring concealed and splintered aspects of ourselves to the surface with relative ease.
The anchor of the medicine, support of the container, energy of the community and activation of soul grants us access to a beautiful and ancient form of grace.
To receive the medicine in a good way and do our part in holding the integrity in the community, we practice adherence to shared Honor Codes. Find all codes here.
Sex
The ITD requires both celibacy and sexual fluid retention for 3 moon cycles. No exchanges of erotic energy are permitted. While this can pose a potential challenge, it is one of the most transformative aspects of traditional shamanic training. When we retain and protect this vital energy, the medicine can guide it.
Food
The ITD asks us to hold a clear and unwavering boundary with any foods which could interrupt the process of the medicine's integration with our body. This includes pork, red meat, alcohol, caffeine and dairy. A complete list of foods excluded from our container can be found here.
Medicines & Ceremonies
The ITD is a deep and focused process that is best served by refraining from any other medicines, ceremonies and substances for its duration. This includes strong herbal medicines, alcohol, cannabis and sweat lodges.
Alternative Therapies
The ITD is a holistic and comprehensive protocol that is most effective when insulated from other alternative therapies such as acupuncture work, chiropractic, reiki and energy work, prolonged sauna & cold plunge therapies and high-intensity workouts.
Community
To support the powerful alchemical process of the ITD, we maintain weekly group calls. Additionally, participants will be paired up with Integrity Partners for weekly check-ins.
Dreams
When working so closely with tobacco paste for an entire season, a deep element of the experience may be found within our dreams. We are advised to record our dreams upon waking and, during our weekly calls, we will be reviewing techniques for interpreting our dreams—a process which invites the possibility of profound personal revelation.
Karma
Working with the medicine of Tobacco for 3 seasons can dredge up our karmic patterns and bring them into the light, to be purged and released. Equally, disrespect of ourselves, the Honor Codes and the medicine can weave confusion and karmic stress. Accountability, co-witness and trust are vital for the medicine to yield safe, life-changing results.
COMMUNITY VOICES
THOUGHTS FROM FRIENDS REFLECTING ON TOBACCO
Torie Feldman // Ancestral Healing Guide // sacredancestry.com
"Through the Integrated Tobacco Apprenticeship, I have become so much more clear and trusting of myself, so much more connected to G-d. I have a much clearer sense of my own boundaries and I benefited by learning how to work with my energetic field. Tobacco is a huge teacher of understanding how to work with psychic threads and the energies of others I used to be so heavily influenced by.
I used to be taken down by emotional storms from within me and some from outside of me. I was constantly in this emotional journey and emotional processing. Through this diet I’ve really come into my center and I’ve learned how to lean back into myself and no longer need to push for boundaries to happen. It just feels like this natural emanation of knowing my truth, trusting myself and feeling clear within me."
Grant Neubek // Breathwork Facilitator
"The biggest shift has been my trust in myself and connection to my soul. I feel super grounded in who I am, what I'm doing, why I'm doing it and feeling clear on that. The Tobacco Apprenticeship has strengthened how I show up, hold structure and hold myself to a new standard of being in life, that has led me to feel the most vitality I’ve experienced to date.
This Tobacco Diet is no joke. It’s extremely deep, profound and transformative. It requires a level of devotion I don’t see very often. So those that are called to this are people with a high degree of devotion. It's been amazing to witness the high caliber individuals in this container navigate their own processes, and I admire the way in which everyone here shows up to meet themselves head on and embrace their challenges. I've formed amazing friendships with some extraordinary people in this Apprenticeship and I respect anyone who shows up to do this."
SCHEDULE
2026 STA // JANUARY 31 – MAY 1
All calls will take place at 5pm CT and will be recorded and shared with all participants.
JANUARY 31 & FEBRUARY 1
OPENING CEREMONIES // SONORAN DESERT, AZ
FEBRUARY 11
CALL #1
FEBRUARY 18
CALL #2
FEBRUARY 25
CALL #3
MARCH 4
CALL #4
MARCH 11
CALL #5
MARCH 18
CALL #6
MARCH 25
CALL #7
APRIL 1
CALL #8
APRIL 8
CALL #9
APRIL 15
CALL #10
APRIL 22
CALL #11
APRIL 30 & MAY 1
CLOSING CEREMONIES // SONORAN DESERT, AZ
OUR CEREMONIES
FULL POWER OPENING & CLOSING
We will have 4, full-force, purgative Tobacco ceremonies in the 2026 Spring ITD. The Ceremonies will take place in the wilderness of Arizona Sonoran Desert, outside Phoenix.
In person attendance to these ceremonies is not mandatory to participate in the Apprenticeship, but highly encouraged.
The intention behind these ceremonies is to deepen the power of the web we're weaving through our circle, through shared bond in experience, alongside a continued teaching of the force of Tobacco within the body.
EXCHANGE
$2500 per person
$4500 per couple
⁜ 3x months of Tobacco paste ⁜
⁜ 4x In person Tobacco Ceremonies in the Arizona Sonoran Desert ⁜
⁜ 3x Months of access to the Sacred Tree Keepers online portal & course material ⁜
⁜ 11x group calls designed to keep the diet anchored and flowing in alignment ⁜
⁜ 3x one-on-one calls with Mockingbird ⁜
WHO IS THIS TOBACCO DIET FOR?
THE CALLING OF THE SOUL TO BURN
The ITD is for those who desire to deepen into the mysteries of the shamanic path of learning, healing and evolving.
The terrain we traverse in this apprenticeship will ask you to look into your soul and make adjustments to the areas in your life where things are not in alignment with your higher knowing.
This is a serious commitment.
This Tobacco Diet is for those who desire to walk the path in a way which is deep, but gentle; strong, but meditative; profound, but grounded.
Mockingbird’s approach to Herbal Tobacco honors the delicacy, sensitivity and uniqueness of all peoples.
Whether you come for healing, for learning, to journey, or to “power up,” your heart is welcome here.
This Tobacco Diet is excellent for those practicing healing arts or facilitation, who desire to deepen their understanding of how to hold containers, conduct ritual, clear energies and deepen their practice of reading spaces with intuition.
These concepts will be explored through oral offerings, practiced in the ritual of the daily Tobacco sit and actualized in ceremony.
HONOR CODES
IN ORDER TO UNDERTAKE THE STK INTEGRATED TOBACCO DIET:
⁜ All participants must be free of pharmaceutical drugs for the duration of the Tobacco Diet ⁜
⁜ All participants must agree to refrain from sex & erotic exchanges for the duration of the Tobacco Diet ⁜
⁜ All participants must agree to refrain from masturbation / ejaculation for the duration of the Tobacco Diet ⁜
⁜ All participants must agree to refrain from alcohol or intoxicants including marijuana for the duration of the Tobacco Diet ⁜
⁜ All participants must agree to refrain from caffeine for the duration of the Tobacco Diet ⁜
⁜ All participants must agree to refrain from taking any other plant medicines for the duration of the Tobacco Diet, including hape, kambo, aya, mushrooms, etc. ⁜
⁜ All participants must agree to refrain from smoking of any kind for the duration of the Tobacco Diet ⁜
⁜ All participants must agree to refrain from red meat, pork, shellfish, dairy, fermented foods, processed foods included vegetable oils and seed oils fur the duration of the Tobacco Diet ⁜
⁜ All participants must agree to show up for all scheduled calls for the duration of the Tobacco Diet unless absence is otherwise approved ⁜
⁜ All participants must agree to sit daily with the medicine for the duration of the Tobacco Diet ⁜
CLARIFICATIONS
COMPLETING THIS PROGRAM DOES NOT MAKE YOU A SHAMAN, MEDICINE (WO)MAN, OR MASTER OF TOBACCO
The Integrated Tobacco Diet is an initiatory step on the path of deepening into the ancient plant medicine of Tobacco. It is intended to offer an experience which is challenging yet realistic, completable and fully supported. This is a deep and real soul encounter.
The skills you will learn in this Tobacco Diet are valuable, powerful and worthwhile, whether or not you continue studying with Tobacco beyond this container.
Mapacho (Nicotiana Rustica) is NOT commercial tobacco. It is “Herbal Tobacco” cultivated by multi-generational families of medicine growers. It is free from chemicals, pesticides and fertilizers. Pure-earth, jungle medicine.
Herbal Tobacco does not cause cancer. Pure tobacco has been used as the most powerful medical herb in the pharmakon for thousands of years, across the Americas. The “tobacco industry” causes cancer.
Completion of this Tobacco Diet does not make you a “shaman” — only time and great strength of will can do that. If you believe that is your path, walk it slowly and humbly.
This Tobacco Diet does not certify you to serve orally ingested or purgative tobacco. Administering orally ingested Tobacco is an advanced shamanic practice requiring multiple years of apprenticeship, given the technical skill and knowledge of the medicine required. The potential severity of malpractice with Tobacco is to be respected at the highest level.
For those seeking a path of training to serve purgative tobacco, Sacred Tree Keepers runs a full curriculum which includes 16 diets: 4 Tobacco diets & 12 Master Tree Diets.
⁜ WHAT OUR COMMUNITY IS SAYING ⁜
"It took 6 days for the deeper knitting of why I actually showed up to come into fruition. I came in with a deep prayer to receive the strength and protection of the Oak and I really felt the tree answer my prayer and come into my whole being with medicine. It was super powerful and such a gift." -Holly
"The Tobacco Apprenticeship has strengthened how I show up, hold structure and hold myself to a new standard of being in life, that has led me to feel the most vitality I’ve experienced to date. This Tobacco Diet is no joke. It’s extremely deep, profound and transformative. It requires a level of devotion I don’t see very often. I respect anyone who shows up to do this." -Grant
"Tobacco opens the heart and the Tree Medicine weaves up your spine and straightens you. Through the Tobacco practices, everything is distributed and with Primordial Breath you learn to hold all of that energy with yourself as the structure. The core of what I've learned is how to hold the energy that is coming through and I'm taking this lesson with me on all of my journeys. " -Nora
"The Tobacco Apprenticeship has rearranged all of my furniture. It’s like I went out for a weekend, came back and my house was tidied up and feng-shui’d. There’s been a re-orchistration of how I understand what is essential in my life. Tobacco is a spirit of directness that cuts through clutter and creates a clear outcome, bringing us back to simplicity in a way that is integrated and embodied." -Mateo
"A Master Tree Diet is an 8-day break from the world to connect deeply with nature and a specific tree. They're a really profound opportunity to be in silence in nature with your prayer and to strengthen your body, your mind, your soul, your heart, in beautiful locations with beautiful groups of people. The Birch diet was incredible because before I got here I couldn't identify a Birch tree and now I feel such a deep connection to her spirit." -Courtney
"Through the Tobacco Diet, I've returned to my joy, my authenticity and my center in a way that has felt out of reach. I've opened up my channel for spirit to move through me in a way that allows me to be of service in the containers, spaces and ceremonies that I hold and to share my medicine in a way that is pure, in right relation." -Greg