All disorders are from desynchronization. From cancer to depression, from addiction to anxiety, when the mind is out of sync with the body, and the body is out of sync with its environment, the systems no longer function in health. The cure is to reset your clock: to achieve equilibrium through entrainment.

The FirstMemory method takes an integral approach to trauma coaching by training both mind and body in an emotionally safe space. By realigning your dissociated energy in the nervous system with somatic and shamanic practices, you can process and integrate unhealthy patterns and emotions and restore them to health.

We focus on two fundamental means for achieving this: shamanic ceremonies and self-regulation practices.

Shamanic ceremonies offer expanded-state experiences where you can gain access to your inner vision and the contents of your subconscious mind. Leveraging authentic lineages, you can process your stored emotional energy, recognize your truth, and empower and guide yourself into better states of being. 

The visions brought on by state experiences are not of new worlds but result from activating different areas of your nervous system to see beyond what is ordinarily available. Alejandro and Desiree are initiated and classically trained ceremonialists who practice holistic healing just as the Indigenous people of the coastal and Andean regions of Peru have for thousands of years. Shamanic technologies offer many years of therapy in a single day. 

Profound state experiences and the ability to therapeutically journey are most effective when we are grounded and centered in our being. By engaging with a daily practice, we can prepare for a ceremony and deepen our work, as well as maintain higher states of consciousness long after the experience. 

We highly recommend that after a shamanic ceremony of any kind, you follow through with a self-regulation daily practice and coaching to integrate your experience.

​​​​It makes sense that, as human beings, we are highly responsive when we integrate practices that train our bodies, harness our minds, process emotions, and align us with our truest nature. It is only in a culture obsessed with specialization that these natural techniques have been compartmentalized and separated, which has led to the misinterpretation of knowledge that is fundamental to living extraordinary lives.

We combine ancient shamanic wisdom from South America with meditation, breathwork, bioenergetic release, weight training, yoga, cold exposure, red light therapy, and nutrition. We weave these modalities into a powerful daily practice that trains your layers of being as one integrated and interdependent system.

We show you how to regulate your nervous system by navigating between sympathetic (stress response) and parasympathetic (relaxation response) activation. We do this with supportive, real-time tools for shifting between different states of consciousness and with stress inoculation practices. You can learn to activate your body’s trauma-resolution mechanism to remain present and engaged, regardless of your circumstances.