Integrated
Tobacco Diet
A 3-Month Tobacco Diet
with Optional Rose Medicine
FEBRUARY 19 – MAY 21, 2027
Your heart is
welcome here.
The Integrated Tobacco Diet is for those who wish to deepen into the mysteries of the shamanic path—learning, healing, and evolving. This ITD asks you to look into your soul and make adjustments where your life is not aligned with your higher knowing.
This is a serious commitment.
The path is deep but gentle, strong but meditative, profound but grounded. the Sacred Tree Keepers' approach to ceremonial plant medicine honors each person’s delicacy, sensitivity, and uniqueness.
Whether you come for healing, for learning, to journey, or to “power up,” your heart is welcome here.
A season of deepening.
Grounding and support
Dieting Tobacco for three months is, first and foremost, deeply grounding. Aspects of ourselves that we struggle to meet can come to the surface with relative ease when we feel anchored by the container, the community, and Tobacco’s presence working deeply within us. This is one of the most consistently expressed experiences among those who complete the ITD.
Living with Boundaries
Successfully completing an ITD requires up keeping the Integrated Lifestyle Boundaries for three moon cycles. The practice of holding these boundaries powerfully strengthens a muscle within our core that emphasizes self-will, relaxation into structure and cleanliness. You can read the full list of Integrated Lifestyle Boundaries here.
Dreamwork
Working closely with Tobacco paste for an entire season can bring a deep dimension of the experience into our dreams. Participants are encouraged to record their dreams each morning upon waking. During our weekly calls, we explore techniques for interpreting dreams—a process that invites profound personal revelation.
Identity Shift
Dieting any Master Plant for 3 months can lead to an identity shift—and very powerfully so with Tobacco. The medicine of the ITD will lead us into terrain that asks us to become extremely clear about what is aligned with our deepest life path and what isn’t—and then to make the changes that reflect our truth. Iterated over time, this is like a slow purge that can strip parts of us off that were never true to begin with.
Grandfather Tobacco
In the time we live in, there is a call to remember the old ways: to awaken the ancestral wisdom still alive within us, rather than perform something that no longer feels authentic or relevant to our lives.
The Tobacco art embodies this old way and has remained a foundation of traditional shamanic practice in the Americas for over 20,000 years. From Sundance to Ayahuasca ceremony, rituals of connection are conducted under the provenance of Tobacco. Many Indigenous words for shaman in the Amazon mean something like “The One Who Knows Tobacco.”
When we study with Tobacco in a good way, we enter deep communion with a benevolent wisdom. It informs our lives through clarity, directness, truth, focus, practicality, depth, tenderness, vision, and noble virtue.
The traditional path to understanding and learning Tobacco is not through smoke or the nostrils, but through eating and digesting the plant.
Tobacco paste
We work with an Amazonian Tobacco paste that our community cooks once a year in the Sacred Valley of Peru. January 2027 will mark our fifth year cooking the paste at the same mountain lodge.
It is a pure medicine, free of contaminants, prepared at 12,000 feet with raw Andean glacial water.
The paste is taken once daily during a 40-minute meditation.
The medicine is grounding, sobering, clarifying, and strengthening. It is not hallucinogenic or intoxicating, though it can invoke inner vision and stimulate dreams.
In our opening & closing desert ceremonies, we offer the paste in doses that cause a physical purge or vomitivo.
About Herbal Tobacco
Mapacho (Nicotiana rustica) is not commercial tobacco.
It is Herbal Tobacco cultivated by multigenerational families of medicine growers in the deep jungles of the Peruvian Amazon, 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.
The way we work with Tobacco in this community is in resonance with a way that communities, tribes and peoples have been utilizing the medicine of the Master Plat for over 10,000 years.
Rose Medicine
Participants may choose to diet Rose alongside Tobacco.
Our Rose medicine was prepared by Charlotte Pulver of Pulver’s Apothecary at the Apothecary Gardens in Glastonbury, England. Each spring, the garden grows an abundance of roses specifically for medicines and oils. The Rose transmission of the Apothecary Garden and the Glastonbury Well Garden is profound.
For those dieting both medicines, the Tobacco paste is followed approximately 20 minutes later by a dropper of pure Rose hydrosol.
The Rose Transmission
Rose Medicine is heart medicine. She is strong, poignant and crystal clear. Rose has the capacity to teach the seeker from soul, up through the layers of mind, spirit, emotions and physical tissue.
Rose brings truly beautiful, feminine balance to the masculine structure of Tobacco, by softening the edges, helping us to relax into the holding and find strength in gentle nobility—while bringing energies of piercing clarity into right relationship with the heart.
She can be a surgeon of the energetic body, pulling out thorns from the wounds of love, in ourselves and ancestral memories.
What’s included
- Three months of STK Tobacco Paste and optional Glastonbury Rose Medicine
- Four in-person Tobacco ceremonies in the Arizona Sonoran Desert
- 12 months of access to the online portal and course material
- 12 group calls to keep the diet anchored and flowing in alignment
- Three one-on-one calls with Mockingbird
Space for 13 men
and 13 women.
Words from our Community
“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.”
Ancestral Healing Guide · sacredancestry.com
Read Torie’s experience
"Through the ITD, 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."
“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.”
Engineer
Read Grant’s experience
"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 ITD 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 ITD and I respect anyone who shows up to do this."
What the path asks of you.
For the duration of the ITD, all participants must agree to:
- Be free of pharmaceutical drugs.
- Refrain from sex.
- Refrain from masturbation and ejaculation.
- Refrain from alcohol and intoxicants, including marijuana.
- Refrain from caffeine.
- Refrain from other plant medicines, including hape, kambo, aya, mushrooms, etc.
- Refrain from smoking of any kind.
- Refrain from red meat, pork, shellfish, dairy, fermented foods, and processed foods, including vegetable oils and seed oils.
- Attend all scheduled calls unless an absence is approved.
- Sit daily with the medicine.
Together in
the desert.
The 2027 ITD includes four full-force, purgative Tobacco ceremonies in the wilderness of the Arizona Sonoran Desert, outside of Phoenix.
In-person attendance is optional and highly encouraged.
Through shared experience, these ceremonies deepen the bonds within our circle and the web we are weaving together. They also continue the teaching of Tobacco’s force within the body.
We camp out as a community, around the open fire, under the stars. This is an opportunity to go deep on land in the exact site where Sacred Tree Keepers has been working for 7 years, annually.
Cohorts & weekly calls
There is space for 13 men and 13 women.
Our cohorts are gender polarized, with separate male and female groups. Weekly calls alternate between these groups and the full co-ed container.
Recordings automatically appear in your STK portal account if you miss a call. The spaces we create together while on diet are powerful, and your presence is strongly encouraged.
The schedule
February
Optional // Attendance Encouraged!
March
March 3 · Men’s Cohort
March 17 · Men’s Cohort
March 31 · Men’s Cohort
April
April 14 · Men’s Cohort
April 28 · Men’s Cohort
May
May 12 · Men’s Cohort
Optional // Definitely come!
An initiatory step.
The skills you learn in the Integrated Tobacco Diet are valuable, powerful, and worthwhile, whether or not you continue studying with Tobacco beyond this container.
Completing the Integrated Tobacco Diet does not make you a “shaman.” Only time and great strength of will can do that. If you believe this is your path, walk it slowly and humbly.
This ITD does not certify you to serve orally ingested or purgative Tobacco.
Administering orally ingested Tobacco is a shamanic medical practice requiring multiple years of ITD and extensive technical skill and knowledge. The potential severity of malpractice with Tobacco deserves the highest respect.
For those seeking training to carry a Tobacco altar or administer diets, Sacred Tree Keepers offers a comprehensive, multi-year training program. Inquire within.
For Practitioners & Facilitators
2027 Integrated Tobacco Diet
February 19 – May 21, 2027
$500 Deposit