Paulina leads every ceremony. She has worked with plant medicine for over twenty-five years, trained within living traditions through years of direct apprenticeship. She received the blessing of Shuar elders to continue her path as a healer, and spent years learning alongside Shipibo medicine keepers in Peru and Piaroa teachers in Venezuela. Her practice includes ayahuasca, San Pedro, mushrooms, and other plant medicines.

She is a certified Gestalt therapist, an artist, and a dedicated investigator of ancestral songs and chants. She is the founder of Mujeres de Luna, an international women's collective, and a leader of the Sacred Fire of Itzachilatlan. She brings therapeutic sensitivity and deep experiential knowledge to everything she holds.

Depending on group size, Paulina is accompanied by one or two ceremony assistants.

Sandra has walked her own medicine path for over 13 years — as a vision quester, as someone who has sat in ceremony innumerable times, and as a medicine music artist whose guitar and voice have become part of how Alma holds its ceremony space. She does not serve the medicine, but she is present and active in other ways: translating, playing, accompanying.

She founded Alma because she needed a place like it herself. She handles all preparation and integration support, and is the first person you'll speak with when you reach out.