Receiving clear medicine.
OUR STORY
SowaSoma was founded by Fiona and Neil, a husband and wife team who have been working with medicinal plants for over a decade. For the past six years they have held retreats and ceremonies in Europe. During their time in the medicine world, they have sat in many circles both indigenous and non indigenous to the Amazon. They have come to know and learn from lineages within the Shipibo-Konibo and Huni Kuin tribes. They both continue to learn with plants through master plant dietas and Neil follows the path of Noya Rao.
Background
Their journey in this world has involved a number of master plant dietas, and currently Neil has begun dieting Noya Rao under the Mahua Shipibo Konibo lineage. Both have dieted with Tina Courtney. The plant dietas are an anchor for the work they do and support them and their space in many ways.
Clear medicine
Over the years they have learnt how to create a safe and welcoming space. Their core value is centered on a higher level of care and safety that comes from careful screening, trauma informed facilitators and smaller, more intimate ceremonies — a necessity when working with these powerful spirits.
OUR APPROACH
AT SOWA SOMA, OUR APPROACH IS BUILT ON FOUR PILLARS:
RITUAL
Ritual gives our lives structure and guides intention. It sets the tone, creates the boundaries and overlays the container for what we do.
RELATIONSHIP
When we are truly listening, we are in relationship and have the opportunity to be in right relationship. Our lives revolve around relationship..
RESPECT
Through respect we come to understand ourselves and those around us on a deeper level. We hear our inner, higher and subconscious voices when they speak.
RECIPROCITY
With our foundations of respect, our relationships become grounded in reciprocity. We do not take without asking. We do not give without asking.
“We stand grateful to these incredible medicines of nature and are ready to share them with you in a respectful and reciprocal way.”
— Neil & Fiona Kirwan
COMMITTED TO OUR VALUES
RECIPROCITY
As part of their work, they support the Amazon Rainforest Conservancy, an organization that works tirelessly to protect wildlife corridors at risk from destruction. Neil and Fiona also own 2.2 hectares of land where they have begun planting Ayahausca vines.
Respect
On a personal level it is their deepest wish that you meet the medicine and your healing needs in the best possible way, whether that be with them or with one of their recommended partners. They stand ready to assist in any way they can.