Taking the essences as and when needed

You may take the essences whenever you feel the need for support, protection, clarity, or cleansing from the trees. They are particularly helpful during moments of emotional intensity, inner challenge, or when you feel disconnected from yourself.

When taking the essence, allow it to become a moment of presence. Sit quietly, take a few deep breaths to calm the mind, and gently call the spirit of the tree into your awareness. Invite its guidance and assistance, and allow yourself a few minutes to rest into its energy.

The recommended dose is three drops, taken as needed. You may place the drops directly onto the tongue or add them to a glass of water and sip slowly. The essence can be repeated throughout the day as often as you feel called.

This is not simply a remedy, but a practice — a way to consciously connect with the spirit of the trees and receive their gentle, ongoing support.

Advanced shamanic treatment

Highly recommended

Taking the essences over a longer period is highly recommended for those seeking deeper energetic transformation and spiritual learning. This approach allows for a more profound connection with the plant spirits.

To engage with the plants in a traditional way, it is advised to follow a simple dieta (discipline) for the first seven days of your treatment. During this time, please refrain from consuming the following:

  • Sugar
  • Caffeine
  • Recreational drugs
  • Any other Supplements
  • Sexual activity of any kind, including kissing
  • Pharmaceutical medications (only reduce if safe to do so; any prescribed medication must continue to be taken as directed by your doctor)

After the first seven days, you may resume your normal lifestyle; however, for best results, it is recommended to continue taking the essence daily for a full 30 days, without the need to continue the initial dietary or lifestyle restrictions.

Dosage:
Take three drops, four times a day. This may be done by placing the drops directly on the tongue or by adding them to a glass of water and drinking it slowly with intention.

For Lucid Dreaming - Camalonga essence

If you are working with the Camalonga essence specifically for lucid dreaming, you may take six drops at bedtime instead of the standard daytime dosage. To connect with the spirit of Camalonga more deeply, you are welcome to follow the full advanced treatment outlined above.

For additional support in developing your dream practice, we highly recommend reading Lucid Dreaming: A Beginner’s Guide by Charlie Morley, alongside taking the essence.

Lucid Dreaming: A Beginners Guide

 

Using the essences within your spiritual practice

The Sacred Tree Essences are not only healing tools — they are living connections to the wisdom of the forest. Whether you are deepening your medicine path or simply opening to the guidance of the trees, the essences can be woven into many spiritual practices to support your transformation, insight, and connection.

Staying Connected
For those who have travelled to the Amazon and worked directly with the plants and tree spirits, the essences offer a way to continue the journey of purification, learning, and integration. They help maintain the sacred connection to the trees and the medicine path, even from afar.

Ceremony
Invite the tree spirits into your ceremonies. Call upon their protection, healing, and divine wisdom to support and guide your shamanic work. The essences can serve as powerful allies when used with intention and respect.

Drumming Journeys
Drumming journeys can lead you into altered states of consciousness where the spirit world becomes more accessible. The essences enhance this connection, allowing you to plug into the unique energy of each tree and experience their consciousness, teachings, and presence directly.

Visualisation Journeys
Enter into meditation with focused awareness on your third eye. Connect with the essence of the tree and allow its spirit to reveal itself to you — through vision, sensation, or intuitive knowing.

Meditation
Taking the essence before meditation can open the space for insight, clarity, and deep inner listening. The energy of the tree may support you by revealing guidance, inspiration, or simply offering calm and presence.

Yoga & Energetic Movement
Yoga and other forms of embodied practice help to release trapped emotions and stagnant energy from the body. The essences can support this process by working through the open energetic channels created during movement, helping to release unwanted or ‘crossed’ energies and promote balance, clarity, and vitality.

Using the essences as a practitioner

Supporting others in your healing work

The Sacred Tree Essences can be powerful allies in your practice as a healer, therapist, or energy worker. They are designed to complement and enhance a wide range of healing modalities — including bodywork, counselling, energy healing, breathwork, plant spirit medicine, and more.

Each essence carries the energetic signature of a specific Amazonian tree, offering support in areas such as emotional clearing, energetic protection, grounding, insight, and spiritual connection. When used with intention, they can help to deepen the therapeutic process and assist clients in accessing their own inner healing pathways.

Essences may be offered before or after sessions, integrated into rituals, energy balancing techniques, or guided meditations. They can also be intuitively selected for each client, or used over time as part of a broader healing journey.

Using the Icaro CD

The Sacred Tree Icaro CD has been created to support and deepen your experience with the Sacred Tree Essences, though it can also be used beautifully on its own. Traditional icaros — sacred medicine songs — are a powerful way to connect with the spirit world and the healing energies of the Amazonian trees. Each icaro carries the unique vibration and wisdom of the plant it is sung for, inviting the presence of the tree spirits into your space.

The steady rhythm of the shacapa (leaf rattle) guides the body and mind into a calm, meditative state. From this relaxed place, the icaros gently open a doorway — carrying you on an inner journey of healing, insight, and connection.

To work with the CD alongside an essence, take three drops of your chosen essence beforehand. Then, if possible, lie down, close your eyes, and allow the icaros to lead you. Let the music hold you, guide you, and open you to the subtle realms where the spirits of the trees can be felt and heard.

Whether used during ceremony, meditation, rest, or quiet reflection, the Sacred Tree Icaro CD offers a simple and powerful way to invite the spirit of the forest into your daily life.

There is no better or worse time to learn from the spirits and have your energy realigned. However, doing the advanced treatment may be especially beneficial when you are going through times of stress, doubt, confusion, mental turbulence, when you are at a crossroads, when your energy needs cleansing, or when you have energetic blocks that need to be moved. If you want to build a deeper connection with the trees, nature spirits and its medicine.

It is recommended that you wait for at least a week until you begin the next treatment.

These restrictions are based on traditional methods of working with the medicinal plants. Following the restrictions ensures the best possible results from taking the essences. It creates the optimal environment in the body for your energy to be worked on. By following these rules, you will be creating an altered energetic state that will create space for the spirits to do their work. The spirits will also work to release a build-up of the very substances that you are abstaining from. If you have made the decision to do the advanced treatment then stick to it. Following all the restrictions shows respect towards the spirits and demonstrates your level of commitment.

Why can’t I have sex or even kiss when I am& doing the advanced shamanic treatment?

When two people engage in any sex-related activity, there is an exchange of energy. While the spirits are working on your energy, it is best that there are no outside energies coming into the mix. The spirits will be straightening out all your energetic centers, including your sexual energy center, which is why masturbation is also not recommended. It is ok to kiss people on the cheek. This restriction is followed for just the first week of taking the essence.

Pork has a very dense energy. During the course, an environment is created in the body to allow the release of unwanted energies. The energetic density of pork can hinder this process. This restriction is followed just for the first week of taking the essence.

As your energy is being worked on, it is recommended that these substances’ energies are not thrown into the mix. Adding these substances will reverse the effects of the essences.This restriction is just followed for the first week of taking the essence but would be better if continued for longer.

Sugar weakens your energetic body, leaving you less capable of dealing with emotional and energetic change. Refraining from sugar consumption allows the build up of this substance to be released from the body and creates a cleaner environment for the spirits to do their work.

Anything that tastes sweet, the obvious things like chocolate, cookies, ice-cream, cakes, soft drinks and adding sugar to your food and drinks. This includes: sugar-free gum, stevia, honey and sweeteners. Fruit is ok. Many processed foods contain hidden sugars. The ideal diet to follow is one that is fresh, healthy and nutritious with no processed (ready meals) or take-away foods. These restrictions are followed for the first week of treatment.

Coffee stimulates fear energy and causes anxiety. Refraining from drinking coffee will allow the spirits to work optimally without the interference of these energies and will allow these built-up substances to be released from the energetic body. Tea has a lesser stimulant effect; however, it is recommended that you not exceed 2 cups of caffeinated tea per day. (this includes green tea) If however you can completely go without caffeine even better. You may drink as much herbal tea as you desire. These restrictions are followed for the first week of treatment.

Yes, you can mix the essences. However, it is recommended that you start off using the essences individually so that you can understand how each essence works for you and you can build an individual connection to each tree. However if you would like to mix them no more than 3 essences together. Take one drop of each essence 4 times a day.

Everyone is configured differently energetically. This means that your experiences with the essences are going to be personal. A wide range of effects may take place. Sometimes it may be possible to feel that the very problem that you want to fix becomes worse. This is because the spirits bring the energies that need to be released to the surface, so you may feel them as they are leaving your consciousness. This is only temporary, and once the energies have been realigned, you will feel better. Only positive transformation can come about by taking the essences. Some people may feel very calm and peaceful after taking the essences. Some people may feel like the essences are not doing anything at all. In this case, trust that they are working. It may be that your energy is more dense so you are unable to feel them working, or that you have not developed a psychic awareness of how energy moves yet. It is quite common to have mood swings in the first week whilst you are following all the restrictions.

You can put the drops into a glass of pure water and drink it. Do not mix them with other liquids or substances.

No, the restrictions are only applied when following the& shamanic advanced treatment.

There is roughly enough to last for 5 weeks if taken as listed. There is enough to do a 30 days advanced treatment with some left over to be used as and when needed which is how I would reccommend using them.

Yes, keep away from direct sunlight.

I have introduced a way for people to be able to safetly work with the plants who are unable to make it down to the jungle.The treatment has been adapted for people to be able to use at home, carrying on their daily routines and take it unsupervised. Doing a dieta in the jungle is more intense, the plant mixture strength is different, their are more dietary restrictions & rules and best done under supervision. So please just follow the restrictions that I have outlined.

For the People that have already done self-development work, follow spiritual practices or have drunk ayahuasca will find it easier to see the signs of the changes that are happening. It depends on your level of self-awareness and intuition. Sometimes the signs are very subtle and for some people very strong. If you are having difficulty I would strongly advise that you quieten your mind and try and connect to the plants. Meditate and see what comes up in your visionary space and observe your thoughts. You may thoughts resurfacing from the past, new ideas, revelations and hear messages from the spirits. Its important to take some time out each day to be able to connect with your process otherwise you may miss it. I suggest taking a few deep breaths and connecting with the essence, talking to the spirits of the plant each time you take a dose.