It was easy to connect with you spiritually and I like the combination (spiritual strength + intellectuality) when discussing things with you. As I’ve tapped into both worlds, I can tell you, acquiring this combination is rare even among shamans!
As for the ceremony itself, I don’t have much to say apart from that it truly went great!
Project Manager
It was a beautiful experience with Maya Abou Chedid, her presence, her support, her nurturing attentiveness were all embracing and made the experience altogether very enjoyable and comfortable. Maya allowed me the time and space to feel my surroundings and become partial to that. Her lightness of spirit provides much ease to the hours prior to the ceremony.
Entrepreneur
I felt so comfortable around your energy, something called me. And I’m glad I did this journey with someone like you – so grounded, humble, experienced, wise, calm and organized.
Theta Healing
(Being in a Ceremony with Maya). It gave me what I can deal with and handle during that period of time.
It allowed me to sit more with myself to slow down and shift things in different manners and most importantly I felt safe.
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Maya… I can’t think of any better guide to trust and be in ceremony with. Although I expressed lack of trust during the ceremony that I wasn’t even aware of, I know now that it was my own inability to trust myself or anyone else that was being highlighted. Maya is a strong and loving being and it has been really a pleasure being guided by her in Ceremony.
Although my experience was dark and intense, she held me in a space of love and safety, before, during, and after the ceremony. I feel totally lucky that I have known her for many years now and that I had the chance to share such a powerful life-changing experience with her. Maya, your work is “saintly”.
Artist
I like working with Maya. She is very specific and thorough in everything she does or says. Post-ceremony she is always accessible as well and shows up when needed.
Independent Photographer
A sacred space with total trust in the process and a welcomed expertise /guidance that allows a total let go
Pharmacist & Writer
Maya is an amazing human being before being a good shaman and an authentic healer. Her approach is always based in integrity to hold a non-judgmental space where one can be there, do the work, be vulnerable and be safe experiencing it all. That’s a great quality for people to access medicine spaces with the sheer knowing that they will be held in love and truth. I loved working with her and experiencing different plant medicine and their spaces. Every time is a great experience in time and space.
Astrologer and Coach
Maya is a great medicine woman who has embodied the wisdom of shamanism with heart and passion.
Within the medicine space, who you are, where you come from, what you have done, are not important. Instead, you are held with love, courage, and compassion into a journey of becoming whole again.
Artist
I believe Maya was a savior as I had a violent experience with another “plant medicine” in 2019 and did not think I would do plant medicine anymore. The medicine space was gentle, understanding, and very focused on the deep ‘’issues’’ I was looking to undig.
Maya was a great channeler, guide throughout the whole process. Especially during the ceremony, she has a gentle and yet firm grip on the space and keeps it as pleasant as possible.
Finance
The ceremony was really intense for me, I was really receptive, Maya holds the space in an amazing motherly way.
At some point, I wanted someone to be next to me and support me physically. But other than that the experience was really good and the circle was beautiful.
CS, Fitness Expert, DJ & Producer
The open space-ceremony and the way Maya created the safe room gave me security and I could fall/”go” very deep.
I´ve got a lot of trust. After the ceremony, I felt a deep guidance with the “medicine”, Maya, and the spirits.
It was so professional. There was a safe space she created. I was pampered and comfortable.
The connection will never be lost.
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My ceremony with Maya was truly transformative and helped me navigate a challenging period by reminding me of what truly matters in my life.
Maya created a safe space for me and guided me through the preparation and ceremony process. I placed my full trust in her and this helped me focus entirely on my intention and journey and not worry about anything else.
Management Consultant
Maya is a true medicine woman who transforms both herself and those she is serving in ceremony.
She has the ability to create sacred space and hold it in such a profoundly magical way that transports one to a different realm. I was able to go deep within and felt safe and supported pre, during and post-ceremony with her.
I am grateful for the experience and look forward to more journeys with her.
Love Practitioner – Activist
During the ceremony, it felt cozy, and as the journey began, I felt Maya being the caregiver, like a mother. Her Icarus were a beautiful gentle guidance towards my inner self. It was very loving, and I felt like a little baby at a certain point who was playing and feeling joy!
Artist
Beautiful ceremony where Maya’s aim is the person’s wellbeing and evolution. Maya accompanied me during the ceremony with love and care
Nutritional Therapist
Maya is a highly qualified and potent practitioner. The ceremony is a life-changer and one to undergo with openness and honesty. She holds a very safe space for exploration and healing. A wonderful guide with powerful medicine songs that echo the spirit of the Amazon and the trees she worked with extensively. A profound and must-have experience!
Copywriter
My ceremony experience with Maya was a really important and valuable
healing journey that I’ll always look back at with gratitude. I genuinely
feel like a better version of myself since that day, even though I know
there is still a lot more work to do. Maya ensured that the space was safe
and protected and paid attention to every little detail of the process in
order to make it so. I knew I was in good hands before, during and after,
and would absolutely do it again in the future.
Seeker
My experience with Maya was a caring, exploratory, nurturing journey of self. I would encourage anyone who has the desire to heal and deep dive into self to explore a ceremony with Maya.
You are simply a beautiful nurturing light! I am grateful we met and I have had the opportunity to work with you!
Client Servicing Advisor
My experience with Maya was AN EXPERIENCE ! 🙂 Strong, deep, and her presence, her shamanic presence, her spirit, chanting and her soul being there, aligned in a beautiful way with my “medicine” journey was a gift for me…. Needless to say, it is the most powerful experience with medicine plants… since I am born ! 🙂 but I can say that working through it with Maya made me feel safe and self-confident through the whole process.
Architect
Where to start? The fact that Maya was the main reason that I wanted to do the ceremony in the first place? If I wanted to share one thing about Maya, like only one thing, because if I want to talk about her attributes and knowledge and humility and love this testimony will go on forever. This one thing would be generosity. You know some people are generous materialistically, others spiritually, others intellectually … Maya is truly one of the rarest guides who shares light for the sake of light, shares love for the sake of love, shares knowledge for the sake of knowledge and she is generous for the sake of helping others and that is exactly what makes the world a better place.
Store Manager
You see the purer the intention, the more intense the journey, the more you learn, the more you connect, the more you remember, the more you LOVE. So thank you Maya for helping me understand so much over the past two years, knowing you is truly one of the greatest gifts God has ever given me.
Manager
Maya is a real medicine woman with a pure heart and a sharp mind, and that’s only a reflection of her strong and bold spirit, alongside her wide experiences with plant medicines which was more than enough for her to hold the space for me so I can safely study and do the inner work that had to be done.
Head of Unit – International Trading
My experience with Maya in ceremony provided a safe space and confident caring guide to reveal some of the dark energies around me.
While I did not go very deep inside myself in this particular journey. I felt protected from the dark energies that were trying to influence me and distract me from acquiring a deeper knowledge.
Ayurveda, Yin/Tantra Yoga and Hakomi Therapy studies
Maya holds space with such gentleness and grace, bringing a sense of safety and expansion to the experience. Her capacity to hold whatever comes up with no judgement or intention in trying to change what is, allowed me to welcome all that was surfacing for me. I highly recommend working with Maya for anyone ready to take their experience to a deeper level
Transformational Coach, Resonant Healing Practitioner
To say that Maya is a facilitator, space-holder and observer of my journey would be to greatly undersell her- she journeyed alongside me, ushering in those energies that would reveal, help and carry me through. Along with her nurturing demeanor, she brings enormous creativity, curiosity, gentle interaction and powerful presence to the ceremony, all of which helps to deepen you further into contact with the medicine. From previous experience, I thought I knew what to expect in ceremony, only to discover in the moment that what I was experiencing with Maya as a guide was far more precious, and continues to unfold in my life several months on. I am eternally grateful for my full moon eclipse ceremony with Maya! I look forward to the
day the medicine calls me back again, and, of course, know who I would want to guide me.