Teachings & Journeys

Ways to walk with the medicine

From a single ceremony to a year of training, every path is held with safety, reverence, and the wisdom of the Comcaac.

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Teaching, ceremony & safe passage

Ancestral Encounters bridges the tribal, indigenous way of Bufo alvarius (Otac) with the modern Western world. Whether you are called to experience the medicine once, to journey deep into the culture that has kept it for generations, or to train as a facilitator, there is a doorway here for you.

Teachers and students of Ancestral Encounters together

The Modern Shaman Training

Infinity School

A twelve-month Bufo (5-MeO-DMT) facilitator training: intensive small-group study in holistic healing, energy and plant work, and serving the medicine safely and ethically, with deep integration. Graduates join a lifelong community of medicine people, a cosmic tribe.

Includes: 12 months of training · small groups · 3 live online classes a week · integration Saturdays · 3 in-person meet-ups · medicine collection · lifelong community

Infinity School

4-Day Cultural Immersion

Comcaac Bufo (Otac)

A four-day immersion into the Comcaac culture that has worked with Bufo for generations. Learn the cosmovision and ceremony of the 5-MeO-DMT medicine and receive initiation into spiritual and medicine work, individually or in a small group, with the option to acquire sacred ceremonial tools.

Includes: housing, food, teachings, ceremonial items, and airport transfers

Comcaac Bufo (Otac)
Comcaac women in ceremonial dress dancing on the shore of the Sea of Cortez
Holding a Sonoran Desert toad (Bufo)

Sonoran Desert Retreat

Meet Bufo

Spend a long weekend on a traditional ranch in the Sonoran desert and experience your own Bufo (5-MeO-DMT) ceremony in the safest, most beautiful way, alongside traditional food and an ancestral Sonoran sweat ceremony of purification. Release the past, and step into your next chapter.

Includes: housing, food, airport transfers, ceremonies, and teachings

Meet Bufo

Vision Quest · Desemboque de los Seris

Comcaac Cave Journey

Have you heard the call of the cave? The Comcaac (Seri) nation, together with Infinity Shaman School, offer an authentic indigenous vision quest in the ancestral sacred cave of Desemboque de los Seris. Stay two days, or four days for experienced seekers, guided by a Seri Master Shaman. Come receive your vision and your powers.

Includes: guidance from the Seri Master Shaman · housing · food · airport transfers

Comcaac Cave Journey
Seekers resting beneath the ancestral cave overlooking the Sonoran desert and the Sea of Cortez
A private Bufo (Otac) ceremony held on the beach by the Sea of Cortez

By invitation · Anywhere in the world

Private Ceremony

Step into your own safe, personal 5-MeO-DMT (Bufo) ceremony, in Mexico or somewhere close to home. We host weekend retreats in Mexico and travel anywhere in the world to facilitate private ceremonies, one to one or for a small group you trust, held with the same care and reverence as our work on the land.

Includes: a discovery & planning call · a safe, prepared setting · your private ceremony · integration

Private Ceremony