The District House is a benefit of District216. Come by for a portion or all of the evening, meet amazing members + guests, and interact with speakers on a variety of topics.
Topic: “How to Hold a Personal Medicine Ceremony”
When: Wednesday, November 1st from 5pm to 9pm (Speaker at 6:30pm)
Where: LoDo Studios, 216 E. Gutierrez Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
(Please only park across the street on the Office Max side of the lot.)
Members are Free to attend The District House evenings, and are prioritized when we reach capacity.
Guests Welcome to purchase $50 tickets to The District House evenings.
Note: We will be filming the speaker for the District216 Change Your Lens Series. Refreshments provided.
Speaker: Timo Brind'Amour, Dr. Samantha Morse, Camino Brillante
SPEAKER BIOS
Timo Brind'Amour, Dr. Samantha Morse, Camino Brillante
Tímo Brind’Amour has worked with the medicine for 30 years. During this time he has developed a deep understanding and appreciation for the profound changes that this work can bring for individuals, families and communities. He has worked as a spiritual teacher and minister for many years and incorporates this into his ceremonial practices. During the past year, Tímo worked directly with the Huni Kuin to support various tribes in Brazil and served as a guardian and musician for their chief, Yube, on his recent medicine tour. The experiences with the Huni Kuin people have helped to inform his approach to spiritual and ceremonial practices. Over the past 2 years, he has traveled extensively studying and practicing medicine work in Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Peru. Tímo has a particularly deep relationship with the sacred mushroom, specializing in education on how to work across the various strains.
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Samantha Morse has worked with sacred medicines for thirteen years, with a particular focus on psilocybin and ayahuasca. Her studies have been both experiential and academic. After a year-long mentorship from an indigenous Ecuadorian mushroom shaman, she embarked on a 6-month research-based study of the medicine through Third Wave’s psychedelic coaching certification. She has sat ayahuasca dieta in the jungle three times, and traveled extensively for medicine work in Peru, Guatemala, and Costa Rica. For the last two years, Samantha has worked full-time as a mushroom facilitator in Bend, Oregon, providing one-on-one therapeutic support for individuals navigating depression, anxiety, PTSD, eating disorders, OCD, addiction, and grief. She partners with psychiatric and medical practitioners, and sees herself as a bridge between therapeutic and spiritual/ceremonial approaches to the medicine.
Prior to dedicating herself full time to the medicine path, Samantha earned her PhD in literature and was a college professor. She believes the imaginative, metaphoric, and symbolic space of literature has many connections to the expansive places we can go in ceremony. She won several distinguished teaching awards due to her compassionate teaching style and student-centered approach to learning. These skills have translated well to the medicine space where Samantha’s warmth and care contribute to an incredibly safe, loving, and joyful ceremonial container.
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Camino Brillante: The medicine path led both Tímo and Samantha into a deep relationship with sacred music. Tímo plays guitar while Samantha plays charango, a 10-string Andean lute used frequently in Peruvian ayahuasca ceremonies. They study traditional medicine music from Brazil, Peru, and Mexico, and sing in Spanish, Portugues, Kaxinawá, Yawanawa, Quechua, and Nahuatl. One of the prayers that resonates most deeply with them comes from their teacher, Jaya, who asks the medicine, “Make me an instrument.” For Tímo and Samantha, it is a great joy to play music together in sacred space, and that joy suffuses the container they hold.
