What I Stand For

My Mission is to support a shift from separation consciousness back into unity consciousness, both within ourselves and in how we relate to the natural world. This means restoring balance not only to human awareness, but also to the land — because without healthy soil and clean water, we cannot survive.

We are in Separation Consciousness
The root cause of all our problems is Seperation Consciousness. When we come back into Unity Consciousness we remember everything is interwoven, and interconnected, and we automatically change our destructive patterns.

Pattern disruption
Our toxic behaviours are shaped by inherited beliefs and unconscious conditioning, rooted in Separation consciousness. My work helps people recognise these patterns and awaken to a new consciousness.

Conscious leadership
The Age of Guru and Spiritual Teacher is over. True leadership is enabling others to become sovereign and empowered.

Integrity and reciprocity
Working with Plant Medicines carries an important and privileged responsibility. I believe in honouring the communities, traditions and ecosystems that make this work possible.

At the heart of my work is a form of conscious leadership rooted in nature. I act as a pattern disruptor, guiding people to go beyond cultural conditioning, destructive and negative patterns of behaviour, and develop a deeper, more conscious relationship with themselves, their community, and the natural world.

My work is dedicated to helping people disrupt the patterns that shape their lives, through ceremonies, retreats, mentoring and training programmes — both online and in person, and helps them find greater conscious awareness, courage and integrity.

Rebekah Shaman sits at the intersection of Plant Medicine, Consciousness and Leadership. For more than two decades she has helped people disrupt limiting patterns, challenged inherited belief systems, and helped them reconnect with a more conscious relationship with themselves and the natural world.

Rebekah’s journey into the world of plant medicine began in 1997 while working in a hotel in Machu Picchu, Peru. She became disillusioned and disheartened, things were not going right and she didn’t fit in. One day on her daily run, she decided to follow and animal track through the forest, rather than the usual path. Climbing up through the dense folliage she lost track of time. She finally reached a plateau, but by now the sun was setting fast and she had no flashlight, water, and was dressed in just shorts and a T-Shirt.

Convinced she would find the path, she started edging her way around the mountain, but it got steeper and more slippery, until she knew that on her next step, she would fall. She couldn’t turn back, because darkness was fast approaching. She had to take that next step…

She began free-falling down the side of a mountain and prepared herself for death, as her life rushed in front of her. She knew she didn’t want to die, and called out for something to save her, and a tree caught her near the base of the mountain. The rush of adrenalin and other release of chemicals enabled her to get down to the ground and walk back to the hote,

That night she called out to the night sky for answers, and a Shaman appeared in a vision. The chemical explosion in her body, including DMT, had blown open a doorway into another dimension, where she was able to see the Shaman, who had drunk Ayahuasca.

He told her that he had been waiting for her, and had the answers for her, and the reason for why she was on the planet. So she left the hotel in search of this Shaman, and found him nestled in a tiny village deep in the Amazon jungle, where she became his apprentice.

Over the following fourteen years, Rebekah stayed true and loyal to her teacher, Don Juanito, the Plant Medicines, and Mother Earth, while living back in the UK.

Her work with cacao began in 2012 following an Ayahuasca ceremony in Palenque, Mexico, where she was told by the Plant that she had to introduce ceremonial-grade cacao to Western audiences as a powerful plant ally for emotional wellbeing, and to help reduce the stress and anxiety that is so prevalent in our societies.

Returning to London in 2013 with 21 pounds of cacao in her rucksuck, Rebekah began offering Plant Medicine cacao ceremonies at a time when very few people in the UK were familiar with ceremonial cacao. Through this work she created spaces where people could work directly with the Spirit of Cacao to heal emotional wounds, trauma and reconnect with their intuition, clarity and inner guidance.

These early ceremonies helped establish what has since grown into a wider cacao movement, where ceremonial-grade cacao is now commonly integrated into holistic wellbeing practices such as yoga, meditation, sound healing and movement.

In 2018, Rebekah founded Ritual Cacao Ltd, a ceremonial-grade cacao company that sources directly from local farming communities in Ecuador. By working closely with growers, she maintains full oversight of the quality and integrity of the cacao used in both her products and ceremonies, while supporting traditional agricultural communities.

Rebekah is also a Hemp Phytoremediation specialist, and Managing Director of the British Hemp Alliance (BHA), the UK’s leading organisation championing industrial hemp as a powerful environmental crop. The BHA advocates for the strategic use of industrial hemp to support the UK in the decarbonisation of industries, phytoremediation and advancing regenerative land use.

Rebekah has a BA (Hons) in Study of Religions, an MSc in Development Studies, both from SOAS University, an MSc in Global Environmental Politics and Policy, from Birkbeck, and a Post-graduate Psychology Diploma in the Human Givens Approach.

She is also the author of two self-published books: ‘The Shaman’s Last Apprentice,’ and its sequel 'Beyond Illusion' the true stories of her Apprenticeship with Don Juanito, the plant medicine shaman from the Peruvian Amazon, and how she integrated her journey back in the West.