Today we’d like to introduce you to Ryanna Battiste.
Hi Ryanna, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story?
My path to this work was never a straight line. I have always been interested in personal development and healing, and it took shape as a career 15 years ago when I became a health coach focused on nutrition. But our work is always personal. I have never felt vibrant or well, I was not a thriving baby, I look tired and sad in toddler photos, and as a kid I remember dreading gym class in a way that went beyond just not liking sports. Where my physical body struggled, my emotional body and spirit learned to take shape. My intuition and gifts as a “mature beyond her years” guide were strong from a young age.
After my second son was born in 2016, I fell into a postpartum and chronic illness black hole. I was so sick and so hopeless. The Sacred Mushroom showed me how to save my own life. Breathwork came into my world a few years later and cracked my heart open in a completely different way, teaching me how to feel and how to be more courageous. When I started combining microdosing with breathwork, something clicked. I began discovering my spiritual path and developing my own unique style as a facilitator and guide.
I found myself weaving together breathwork, plant medicine, and embodiment practices in a way that felt less like a career choice and more like something I was being asked to do. As I helped others heal, I called my healing into reality using the same methods.
I went from being overwhelmed by everything, yelling at my kids daily, living in constant pain and anxiety to feeling a freedom in my life and body that moves me to grateful tears. I’m not perfect, each day has plenty of messes, and I come up against my shadows regularly, but now I have support, a framework, inner strength, and a love for myself that moves me through it.
I’ve been facilitating something I call Breathwork Church for years now, I have been building a community around the idea that the body holds the map, and that altered states don’t always require a substance. The mushroom Sacrament became part of that ecosystem naturally, as something that could support people between sessions, open doors that breathwork had started unlocking, and allow people to work with their healing on their own time, from their own homes.
My work in the world, the sharing of the Sacred Mushroom Sacraments through the Embodied Microdosing Ministry, is my daily purpose, along with raising conscious humans and nurturing meaningful relationships with other humans, and with the beautiful patch of earth I am living on.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Every day has struggles. There were dark parts that I don’t even have memory for – losing our home to black mold and discovering that was one of the root causes of my physical struggles, having to move to my parents house the year I turned 40, supporting my husband through his rock bottom nervous breakdown after finally feeling like I was on solid ground, financial crisis, the health of our children faltering… its a deep challenge to live whole in a toxic world, it takes commitment to the path and I could not have gotten tot his place without a strong set of spiritual beliefs and the Sacraments that support me daily – mushrooms, flowers, herbs, and medicines from the earth.
Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I am an herbalist, self-taught and still learning so much. It feels like an art, my hands feel the memory of generations of women before me who have done the same thing. Tending to a garden, growing from seed, tending and watering, harvesting at peak, drying and processing, extracting and bottling and sharing. That love can be felt in the formulas. Some medicines I don’t grow, the sacred mushroom formula I make, for example, comes from carefully grown and dried specimens that I process into a liquid formula for safe, easy, effective and discreet microdosing.
I am a guide, I help others take the sacred medicines and then go within and connect to God (whatever name they use for God!) and find that source for their own healing and life. I am not the healer, I am simply connecting the individual to the inner-healing and helping them restore a relationship to Source. This feels like an art form, when the music os going and the medicine is flowing, the right words and cues come through organically.
My work as a medicine woman is still developing, but the methods and techniques and guidance appears to be useful to many people. I wrote a book about how to microdose, so I suppose I am also a writer. https://a.co/d/01qjiZ5i
What would you say have been one of the most important lessons you’ve learned?
That being human is hard and you cannot do it alone, we need each other, we need support, we need community. This is complicated because people are also what have caused us pain, disconnection, and trauma. People will always have the potential to hurt us because people are flawed. Learning to find and trust people again is a whole healing initiation in and of itself.
That a relationship with Source / Creator / God / Universe is paramount for the deeper healing work to take hold, it heals the attachment wounds caused by people to have that unconditional support that is not flawed and is utterly perfect in design.
Pricing:
- $97 – sacred mushroom sacrament
- $67 – amanita mushroom sacrament
- $29 – blue lotus sacrament
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.embodiedmicrodosing.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/embodied.microdosing/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@embodiedmicrodosing
- Other: https://www.tiktok.com/@embodiedmicrodosing
