Leaf and deVine Church Preamble

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We are a faith-based spiritual organization, and our ceremonies are sacred acts of devotion. The psychedelic sacraments that we honor are consumed solely within a religious and ceremonial context.

 

Within our community, Ayahuasca and other psychedelic sacraments are not recreational substances, performance enhancers, replacement for mental or physical health care, or a form of entertainment; they are holy sacraments, believed to be a bridge between worlds, and a mirror for the soul.​

 

Our Commitments

• To protect the sanctity of the sacrament and uphold the integrity of ceremony

• To cultivate ethical leadership and accountable stewardship

• To create a sanctuary of safety, respect, compassion, and discipline To support integration so that revelation becomes embodied wisdom

• To recognize participation as an act of faith in prayer, not entertainment or escape​

 

Our Sacrament

Leaf and deVine does not sell, distribute, or commercialize the sacrament. Financial contributions are made voluntarily to support our religious mission and operations, which include:

 

• Ceremonial facilitation

• Pastoral guidance and spiritual counseling

• Pre-ceremonial intake, screening, and preparation

• Post-ceremonial integration support

• Education in spiritual and shamanic traditions

• Maintenance renting and leasing of ceremonial spaces

• Administrative and operational costs

• Safety oversight and participant care


• Community outreach and religious programming

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Contributions are not payments for the sacrament and do not constitute a commercial transaction. All sacramental practices are protected as acts of religious exercise under applicable laws.

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Mission and Vision

• We are a loving and caring community whose mission is to reach those who are struggling, lost, and suffering, so they may come to know their own Truth in the Light.

• We are a queer- and neurodivergent-owned church, built by and for people who have often had to search outside the mainstream for spaces where they could belong fully as themselves. That lived experience shapes everything we do: we are committed to upholding a welcoming, trauma-informed space for all who walk through our doors, honoring each person's pace, boundaries, and way of processing, without judgment or pressure to conform to any single path of healing.

• We are a community invested, engaged, and committed to our healing process and to our psycho-spiritual development.

• We are a community dedicated to providing safe, legal use of our sacraments.

• We are as one in community, sharing love and spirituality, and forgiveness of ourselves and others.

• To inspire our members to walk a path of self-reflection, self-transformation, and self-awakening, with the support of visionary plants, plant spirits, and shamanic healing practices.

• To continually improve our services so that we provide the most professional, loving, safe, nurturing, supportive, harmonious, respectful, caring, and healing environment possible.

• To develop a compelling message to the general public, as well as the academic, medical, and scientific communities, fostering understanding, credibility, and respect for the ancient shamanic healing practices that The Leaf and deVine Church has adopted from our ancestors.

• To legitimize, preserve, and disseminate the rich cultural and medicinal legacy of our church's sacraments.

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Our Approach​

We hold this sacrament with deep respect for its origins and the lineages who have safeguarded it for generations. The role of curandera and curandero is a closed practice, earned through years of apprenticeship and initiation within Indigenous communities. Our facilitators have trained and been initiated in Peru under traditional lineage holders, and we approach this work as students and stewards of that teaching, not as shamans. Leaf and deVine is a church based in Colorado, and we hold ceremony in that context.

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We are committed to engaging with this sacrament in a way that is non-appropriative and rooted in relationship rather than extraction. Our aim is never to separate the sacrament from the traditional practices, prayers, and lineage it comes from, but to honor that lineage directly, while also bringing modern, trauma-informed facilitation techniques into the container we hold. We believe this sacrament deserves both reverence for where it comes from and care for the nervous systems and life circumstances of those who sit with it today.