The Origin StoryHow Sacred Counsel came to be.
We met in a context neither of us would have predicted — Luke and Alexa first intended to lead ceremonies with Kambo in the USA in 2017. Quickly after the intention for just professional collaboration, it seems a new plan was emerging. A love for one another, and a love for the space we held, we decided to commit ourselves and our lives to service to our Earth and our People. For the last 10 years we have been traveling and curating healing retreats in Mexico and the USA. Our path has been the living answer to the question: how does healing truly emerge? How can we deepen the lessons from life, inside and outside ceremony? How can we need less medicine and become more of the medicine ourselves?
The answer we kept arriving at was simple and not glamorous. The work doesn’t land because nothing holds it afterward. Insights are easy. Integration is rare. People go on retreats, take medicines, sit with great teachers — and then return to a life that has no container for what they brought home.
Sacred Counsel started as our private answer to that. A clinical practice and a ceremonial practice that share the same address, the same kitchen table, the same long view. Counseling that doesn’t flinch at the sacred. Ceremony that doesn’t pretend the clinical isn’t there.
“Insights are easy. Integration is rare.”
La Fuente — our adobe home on the high mesa above Valle de Bravo — became the physical place where this could exist. Gardens, co-created altars, a meditation space, a recording studio, a steam sauna, a hyperbaric chamber. The amenities are not the point. The point is that nothing about a stay with us is rented. You are in our actual life, with our actual animals, eating from our actual garden.
Over the years the work has grown to include annual gatherings at Espacio Khungi, an online community, and a counseling practice that meets clients wherever they are. But the spine is the same as it was that night in Oaxaca: do not separate what was never meant to be separated.
