Dearest Community

We are calling on your support to raise funds for The Plant Spirit Talk BIPOC Love Fund.

This scholarship fund is dedicated to supporting future generations of Black, Indigenous and People of Color healers, medicine makers and plant stewards. As we continue to live with the legacy of colonization and its fruits of systemic oppression, it is our collective responsibility to remedy the inequities wherever we can. By contributing to the PST BIPOC Love Fund, you will support scholars of color as they legitimize and initiate their healing abilities, gifts and inheritances grounded in ancestral memory and connection to the land. You will also support Plant Spirit Talk's financial viability, a woman and BIPOC-owned business.

These Funds will be used for:

~ BIPOC Scholarships for upcoming courses, workshops, retreats, and immersion programs hosted by Francisca

~ Supporting opportunities for BIPOC students to travel and access the medicine directly from the sacred lands and indigenous peoples of South America

Please join us in cultivating future generations of BIPOC healers and stewards. Your support and investment are received with gratitude and love!

Testimonials:

"I've often been one of a few Black women in the Plant Spirit Talk courses I've attended. While I've been able to build amazing relationships with the women in circle with me, it was a journey in itself to get to the place of opening up to receive all that I could in these beautiful medicine spaces. My work with Francisca has literally changed my life. And while I'm appreciative of the healing opening up to non-BIPOC women has provided me in these spaces, it's also nice to heal, grow and receive powerful medicine without moving through the fears and discomfort that comes along with being one of a few Black women in a majority white circle. My wish is that other Black and Brown women can access powerful medicine from a Black medicine woman without having to also heal wounds around whiteness. This scholarship helps more Black and Brown Women enter these spaces."

-Courtney Watson

“Being part of Plant Spirit Talk was more than I could imagine. It has been a portal into the world I’ve been praying for. Plant Spirit Talk transformed the way I see the world and myself. It was an anchor for my spiritual growth and transformation and gave me tools to help navigate through it all. Francisca is an amazing, kind, gentle, compassionate and beautiful teacher who shared many teachings in a way that I could digest and integrate. I’m forever grateful for Francisca, her wisdom, care, and teachings."

-NoNo Wolves

"I had always felt an unspoken connection to the plants for much of my life. Plant Spirit Talk provided a home and sacred learning container for that unspoken connection to be named, honored, cultivated, and to flourish into the foundation of my spiritual practice. I have attuned to the sovereignty of my own wisdom and self-leadership, embody a felt sense of the sacred, and expanded my connection to life. Francisca leads with beauty, grace, truth, and integrity. She guides her students in ways that are de-colonial, liberatory, and paradigm-shifting. By holding space for our empowerment, Francisca cultivates and nourishes the next generation of healers that this world needs."

-Terry Hwang

About Plant Spirit Talk & Francisca Santibanez:

Francisca Santibanez is an herbalist, ritualist, wellness guide, medicine maker and founder of Plant Spirit Talk. Raised in South America, she has studied Amazonian plant medicine with teachers of Mestizo, Quechua and Shipibo Conibo lineage, including Maestra Amelia Panduro de Sinuiri of Pucallpa, Peru.

In 2018, Francisca launched the Plant Spirit Talk course, a thirteen-part program that integrates the teachings from her initiations with the plants, the lessons from her healing journey and her studies in clinical and folk herbalism. The course is grounded in Andean-Amazonian Cosmology.

Francisca teaches several courses that deepen and expand on the Plant Spirit Talk Course. These focus on Ancestral Healing work, including Plancestral Medicine, Earth Blood +Soul, and Medicine Spirit Mentorship.

Her programs focus on creating nourishing ritual spaces for deep sharing, learning integrative life skills, and developing spiritual tools and plant-based healing practices for intimate engagement with nature and the healing process.