Self-Apply Kambo Virtual Course
Learn to apply Kambo in a self-guided and private mentorship program.
Your program is grounded in 3 core visions:
1. Reclaim your healing path and restore a deep, personal relationship with body, intuition, and Earth.
2. Empower each self-healer's agency and direct access to healing tools in a safe, economical way.
3. Support ethical sourcing of Kambo and our teachers through partnership with indigenous communities.
Empower your intuition, presence, and innate healing force as the ultimate medicine. You are your own healer.
Safely work with Kambo and prevent harmful healing crises from being in settings with inexperienced practitioners.
Restore trust in your body's innate capacity to heal.
Ground in healing wisdom across multiple levels to rebuild connection to your nervous system, Earth, and benevolent energy.
Ease your financial burden to heal while supporting indigenous teachers and the ethical sourcing of Kambo.
Immerse in the power of Kambo to release toxins, trauma, and energies and receive healing, strength, and balance.
Course
Learn the foundations of Kambo and the nervous system through over 2.5 hours of recorded course content, self-paced and accessible to your schedule.
Mentorship
Over 3.5 hours of live private mentorship opportunities.
Resources
Downloadable manual and course content, resources, and guides for your journey.
Support
Unique application techniques, protocol, and recommendations for healing trauma and the chronically ill body.
Inspiration
This path of self-application of Kambo - specifically as a support for chronic illness, Lyme disease, and trauma resolution - draws from years of over seven years of training as one of the first people with Lyme to heal with Kambo.
Sage was first diagnosed with Lyme disease at age 7, and by the time she experienced Kambo, she had already tried some of the world's most innovative treatments without lasting success. From her own experience both healing with Kambo and supporting others over the years on their own journeys, it became clear that deep healing occurs in settings that are literate to the intricacies of chronic illness and trauma (involving lower-dose, frequent, supported protocols). For many people who have experienced years of disappointment from the medical system, the healing space shifts when they are able to take their healing into their own hands.
Self-application training allows financial easing alongside a deep personal relationship with the body, intuition, and the medicine. We believe in access that is grounded in education, safety, integrity, ethical harvesting, and reciprocity.
The protocol includes specific periods of self-application of Kambo, other periods of rebalancing, and an array of multidisciplinary tools to support your healing.
The educational vision synthesizes:
Nervous system regulation and trauma healing
Integration of psycho-spiritual tools through a multidimensional approach to healing
Ecopsychological and depth psychological connections
Development of an intuitive trust in the body
A gentle movement towards purgation and rebalance
About Kambo
Embark on a journey with the Amazonian Phyllomedusa bicolor frog, cleansing your mind, body, and spirit. This secretion has been used for thousands of years by tribes in the rainforest to heal both physically and energetically, as well as to bring strength before hunting. Through a deep purging process, Kambo realigns, harmonizes, and cleanses your body and energetic systems.
Traditionally, Kambo is used to clear stagnant energy known as Panema, which is believed to be the source of physical and spiritual imbalances. With its purgative, immune-boosting benefits, it is often referred to as Vacina da Floresta, the Vaccine of the Forest. Today, Kambo has spread all over the world for healing, spiritual growth, and research.
Kambo Experience
The secretion from Kambo is dried and stored on a flat stick. It is activated with water and then formed into small balls. Superficial, 1/2-centimeter burns are made in the top layer of skin as an entry point for the secretion to enter the lymphatic system.
Once the Kambo is applied, each experience is unique. Typically, the sensations first begin with a pleasant warmth as it scans any areas that need attention. Kambo travels to these places, disseminating throughout the body. As the bioactive peptides begin to work, one's heart rate usually increases and there may be some short-lasting facial swelling. The following effects vary greatly depending on levels of toxicity and inflammation. Kambo releases physical and energetic blockages through a variety of sensations, such as purging, yawning, laughing, crying, sweating, feelings of electricity, or deep meditation.
Science
Research on the chemical makeup of Kambo has been conducted since the 1960s and recognizes its healing capacities in short chains of amino acids, known as peptides. These bioactive peptides impact the gastrointestinal muscles and blood circulation, as well as stimulate the adrenal cortex and pituitary gland. By isolating a few of the secretion's many bioactive peptides, pharmaceutical companies have used Kambo to create over 70 patents in the US alone that comprise many of the popular drugs used today.
Our current knowledge of the main peptides present in Kambo points to effects on the following conditions:
Depression
Migraines
Blood circulation problems
Vascular insufficiency
Organ diseases
Cancer
Fertility problems
Deeply rooted toxins
Chronic pain
Addiction to opiates or painkillers
Fever and infections
AIDS
Hepatitis
Lyme disease
Autoimmune diseases
What’s Included
Medicine Box (over $200 value)
All you need for self-applying: fair trade and ethically harvested large Kambo stick, burning and mixing tools, Sangre de Grado, flower bath, and more
Virtual course
Self-application instruction and recorded demonstrations, history + science of Kambo, nervous system science, detoxing + support, psychoneuroimmunology framework for healing, self-application manual and specialized protocol
Live Q+A Session
Private 30-minute live Q+A session, scheduled once you complete the virtual course and conducted over Zoom
Live Instructional Sessions
Two 1-hour private, guided instructional sessions for self-application
Integration
30-minute follow-up support session
Donation
Donation made in your name to nonprofit CAYA Fund
Course Phases
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1. Apply
This program is designed for folks willing to commit to a path of working with Kambo and shift their healing journey into a place of empowerment. Applicants are screened for contraindications and overall program fit.
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2. Medicine Box
Upon acceptance into the program, you will receive a medicine box (over $200 value) that includes a fair trade Kambo stick, burning and mixing tools, sangre de grado, healing flower baths, and more.
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3. Virtual Portal
Receive access to the virtual course portal and complete over 2.5 hours of instructional videos, handouts, and meditations on your own time.
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4. Q+A Session
Upon completion of the virtual course, schedule your 30-minute private or small-group Q+A session to review material and answer any questions you have.
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5. Private Instruction
When you are ready to embark on the protocol, you receive two, 1-hour guided self-application sessions for personalized support.
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6. Follow-Up
After embarking on your self-led protocol, schedule a 30-minute follow-up to receive individualized support and integration for charting your path forward.
Course Modules
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We begin our course with a background into the world of self-healing with Kambo by orienting to the upcoming course content. We will also open a discussion on ethics and how we can approach this medicine in ways that honor the Amazon, the frog, and the indigenous people who have shared Kambo.
Sections:
Welcome to the Program
Course Outline + Materials
Setting Your Intention
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We review Kambo's history and the amazing bioactive peptides. We discuss safety and physical considerations for working with Kambo, as well as the intricacies of opening sacred space and dropping into the spiritual elements of this medicine.
Sections:
History of Kambo + Ethics
Introduction to Science
Bioactive Peptides
Safety + Considerations
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Learn the basics of how to burn, mix, and self-apply Kambo. You receive instruction to different techniques for self-application, designed to support a gentle and balanced process. *Before ever applying Kambo to yourself, we have private live sessions (over Zoom) for instruction.
Sections:
Setting the Space
Opening Sacred Space + Altars
Burning + Mixing
Test Point
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Here we review self-application techniques specific for healing chronic illness, dive into protocol possibilities, and discuss holistic support tools along your path.
In our approach with Kambo, we will titrate between purgation and rebalancing as we support our systems and open detox pathways. We will examine various techniques, practices, and protocols that we can combine with Kambo for optimal healing.
Sections:
Techniques for Chronic Illness
Protocol
Using Sangre de Grado
Hydration
Holistic Support: Cleansing + Rebalancing
Self-Application Steps
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Deepen your journey of healing chronic illness and entering into the medicine space with instructional and experiential components across different levels of healing: nervous system and trauma healing, depth and ecopsychology, spiritual and energetics.
Psychoneuroimmumology is a newer field of study in Western medicine, but this interconnection between mind, emotions, and body is in all of our ancestry. Trauma (ancestral, collective, and personal) has a direct impact on our health. We will explore autonomic nervous system science and somatic practices to support your system's discharge and regulation.
In depth psychology, symptoms are viewed as the language of the unconscious. When we expand this further to include the field of the Earth, we can recognize how environmental illness and symptom presentation often points us towards the very medicine we need to heal. Through embodied practices, we will explore approaches to symptoms that invite observation and dialogue with body and nature.
Sections:
Introduction to Healing in Wholeness
Nervous System + Chronic Illness
Spiritual + Energetics
Depth + Ecopsychological Approaches
Parts Work
Shamanic Healing
Working with Mapacho
Smudging
Working with Hapé
Working with Sananga
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Knowledge review and preparation for your live sessions.
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Accompany your journey of self-healing with guided meditations, embodied breathwork, nervous system regulation practices, and integration tools.
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After completing the recorded educational components of your course, we move onto live, one-to-one Zoom sessions:
Live Q+A Session: Private 30-minute live Q+A session
Live Instructional Sessions: Two 1-hour private, guided instructional sessions for self-application (during these, your first two self-applications are observed and you are guided through them)
Integration: 30-minute follow-up support session
Pricing
$1,250
What's included:
Medicine box (all the tools you will need, secretion for approximately 70 applications)
Access to virtual course
Self-application manual, handouts, healing tools
4 live, one-to-one sessions
Learning to self-apply Kambo is an investment into your long term health future. Most facilitators charge upwards of $600 for 3 sessions, so this investment will financially ease your long term journey with Kambo and empower you to take your healing into your own hands. A percentage of the course fee returns to the Matses tribe to support the preservation of their culture, land, and Kambo. Please know that supplemental products will be recommended as part of the protocol.
Please note that this is a self-application course - designed for your own healing and taken at your own risk - and does not “certify” you to facilitate Kambo to others. If you are interested in learning facilitation, we encourage your discernment in your path. Many people now facilitating Kambo have not been to the Amazon or have simply taken a 2-week course, which can be extremely dangerous. Anyone who works with Kambo is also responsible for its future - its legality, the survival / ethical harvesting of the frog, and the indigenous people who have shared this medicine. Any 2-week course cannot begin to create this relationship and an ethical, knowledgeable, safe container.
This self-application course can be looked at as a stepping-stone in building your relationship with Kambo. Should you be interested in facilitation after you complete this program, please reach out to learn more about 6-month mentorship opportunities.
Partners + Reciprocity
rec·i·proc·i·ty : a state of being reciprocal; action from the standpoint of the interconnectedness between Earth, community, and Spirit
This course tithes to CAYA Fund to support our teachers. In addition to paying fair wages for Kambo, a percentage of every course purchase is donated to CAYA.
This work is guided by maintaining reciprocity with our teachers, communities, and the environment. The indigenous healing modalities and cultures we learn from, along with the indigenous land on which we live, have undergone severe abuse and appropriation through colonialism.
CAYA stands for the sovereignty, preservation, and regeneration of indigenous wisdom and healing cultures. CAYA is a response to indigenous sacred medicines, territories, and healing lineages facing extinction through appropriation, extractivism, climate change, and cultural erosion due to colonization. In collaboration with indigenous elders, CAYA sponsors projects for cultural preservation and creates educational and healing opportunities for the collective.