02/10/2025
Do you remember the incredible Amelia, who recently completed her six month Kambo journey with me?
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This is what she has just shared about her experience…..
“The invitation to work with Advanced Kambo Practitioner Lisa Collins of Shakti Kambo over six months came at a really important time as I was navigating cripping low self- confidence, unhealthy relational patterns and most of all antidepressant withdrawal which had been challenging due to the intensity of the side effects.
Lisa was looking for support in her studies and was especially interested in how Kambo can support medication withdrawal (spoiler alert: It hugely helped).
I initially hesitated as Kambo is a big purgative (I’m not a huge fan of vomiting) but as the months went on and the withdrawal symptoms got worse and worse, I answered the call.
Alternative medicines like these have been important allies on my healing journey (more to come on that another time) and so I knew that as Kambo had ‘come to me’ it was time.
Although we already had a friendship, nothing could have prepared me for the depth and skill Lisa brought to my healing journey. Across four Kambo ceremonies and integration support, Lisa held space with incredible expertise, intuition, and compassion. She worked not only shamanically with the medicine itself but with the psychological, emotional, and spiritual layers that surfaced each time. Her follow-ups were thorough, thoughtful, and deeply attuned to my process.
Session 1 (February 25) This was a good reconnection with the medicine. I was concerned that I wasn’t going to purge like in previous ceremony a few years ago in London (despite tiny Chinese woman screaming at me to put my fingers down my throat) but Lisa expertly guided me through and I eventually purged with no problem. Kambo met my depression and eased physical symptoms like exhaustion and fatigue. In our integration call, Lisa guided a shamanic journey that uncovered a deeply painful core wound of aloneness I’d carried my whole life. With her guidance, I connected to a tender inner child who had been protected by this pattern and she took me through the process of reintegration. Her ability to track the emotional roots of what was emerging, while honouring the sacredness of the work was masterful.
Session 2 (April 25) brought intense purging and emotional unraveling. I doubted everything, even the process. Unlike the last ceremony where I felt so good at the end, it was a different story for this one. I felt unwell after the ceremony which was made much worse by the fact that on the way home I listened to a Kambo podcast which suggested that I had taken way too much. I was extremely paranoid so called a friend who is a Dr and Kambo practitioner who assured me that everything Lisa was doing was absolutely safe (and the person who I had heard on the podcast had a shady reputation in the industry). Deep patterns of mistrust came up which I was able to witness along with old memories of taking too many drugs in my younger years. Lisa held me through this with unwavering steadiness, she normalised what I was experiencing and helped me identify patterns, and held me accountable to my deeper truth rather than collapsing into old ways.
Session 3 (June 25) brought me into contact with my deepest fear: abandonment. Life mirrored this terror back to me between sessions and Kambo helped me move through the trauma stored deep in the root of my body. Lisa held the ceremony with such precision and care as I drifted in and out of consciousness, allowing a huge purge that left me feeling completely restructured on the other side. I had never felt so supported in allowing something that big to move through me. At the end Lisa wrapped me in the softest blankets, held me in her arms and stroked my forehead like a baby. It was such a tender moment made all the more healing by Lisa’s Mama Bear energy..
Session 4 (July 25) This was another good purge out of both ends this time and afterwards it connected me to something far greater than myself. The days that followed were busy and emotionally complex, but I noticed how much more resilient I’d become. My integration was quicker and I could name critical thoughts without believing them and I noticed how I trusted myself. I saw how Kambo had helped me soften, open, and root into a new level of presence. The session didn’t bring dramatic revelations, but it brought wholeness and that has been one of the greatest gifts of all.
Throughout this journey, Lisa’s support extended far beyond ceremony. Her follow-up calls and written reflections were detailed, insightful, and incredibly helpful in anchoring the medicine’s teachings.
Nine months since I began the Kambo adventure, I am completely off antidepressants (woooohooo!), a process which initially was extremely uncomfortable and exhausting but that felt much more easeful with Kambo’s support. I feel more alive, expressed, and secure in myself than ever before.
My relationships are rooted in mutual nourishment and I no longer carry the fear of being abandoned. I feel deeply supported by both the human and more-than-human world and truly alive in my own soft, embodied power.
Lisa is an extraordinary medicine woman. She blends deep shamanic wisdom with emotional intelligence, safety, and an enormous heart. I trusted her to walk with me through my darkest places, and she brought in love where I could not reach on my own.
If you feel called to Kambo, Lisa is your medicine woman. The journey may not be easy, but it is potent. And with Lisa by your side, you’ll be held with the highest integrity and deepest love every step of the way.”
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I am so deeply touched by Amelia’s reflections and courage, and it was my deepest honour and privilege to support and witness her journey. Her dedication and commitment to herself and her healing and growth, plus her openness, honesty and vulnerability, is what enabled her to get so much from her experience.
Get in touch if you feel the call and the fire in your belly to make real and life changing shifts.
