the Ixchel way
Ixchel is a plant medicine specialist, Bwiti initiate, and founder of The Ixchel Way. She is devoted to guiding individuals through deep healing and transformation using sacred earth medicines within safe, ceremonial containers. Her work bridges indigenous wisdom and Western therapeutic practices, with a strong emphasis on preparation, integration, and trauma-informed care.
With years of experience facilitating retreats and ceremonies, Ixchel has supported clients in navigating trauma, depression, anxiety, PTSD, addiction, and chronic illness—including conditions such as MS and Parkinson’s—through medicines such as psilocybin, Syrian rue, kambo, iboga, and rapéh. Her path has taken her around the world, apprenticing with wisdom keepers and elders across traditions, and completing training in the Ecology of Clinical Shamanism.
Ixchel is known for her grounded, compassionate presence and her ability to meet each person exactly where they are. Her ceremonial work opens portals for joy, clarity, and freedom—supporting lasting shifts in perspective and empowering individuals to reclaim their truth.
She currently serves as Head of Communications at ETÉREO Center for Truth, a luxury medicine and wellness retreat center in development outside Todos Santos, Mexico, where she leads stakeholder engagement and strategic positioning in the psychedelic space. Ixchel holds degrees from Harvard and Stanford, and brings a unique synthesis of intellectual rigor, spiritual depth, and integrative healing to every space she holds.
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- ERIKA, 2023
"I can't thank Ixchel enough. She is truly a beacon of light. Her words of wisdom feel so tender and poignant. She is such a force, a radiant human, and a badass mom. I have so much to learn from her. Thank you, thank you!"
- LARA, 2024
"I’ve had the honor of sitting in ceremony with Ixchel and she is such a beautiful soul and powerful medicine woman. I encourage anyone interested in investing in some deep, beautiful healing to connect with her!"
- CHARLES, 2024
"I’m new to psychedelic medicine. I would have been very nervous to try rapéh with anyone else. Ixchel provided a very comfortable and safe setting in which to have my first experience. She walked me through the possible challenges I might face, and I was given to understand that it was to be MY experience, free of judgment and preconceptions. I stepped into an awareness of my place in the universe, completely free of the mundane. It was a profound experience and to Ixchel I am grateful."
CLIENT REVIEWS
- DEVOTED PARTNER & MOTHER to TWo BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN.
- accomplished Classical pianist who performed with symphony orchestras. sound artist for ceremonies.
- CONTINUOUS TRAINING FROM WISDOM-KEEPERS FROM BRAZIL, MEXICO, AFRICA, COSTA RICA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, & THE BAY AREA.
- Practitioner of ASHTANGA & MYSORE YOGA FOR OVER 17 YEARS; YTT200 with LARRY SCHULTZ, It's YOGA
- BA IN HISTORY: International Relations, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
- MA in INTERNATIONAL POLICY, STANFORD UNIVERSITY.
- INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP, STANFORD UNIVERSITY.
- STARTX FOUNDER, STANFORD UNIVERSITY.
- Ixchel HAS BEEN WORKING as a change agent in EDUCATION, transforming limiting beliefs since teaching HER YOUNGER BROTHER TO READ at the AGE oF 5. HER STUDENTS HAVE GONE ON TO Harvard, CALTECH, STANFORD BUSINESS SCHOOL, YALE LAW SCHOOL, & OTHER TOP INSTITUTIONS.
- Initiated into the MISSOKO Bwiti tradition and women's rites of passage in Gabon, Africa. UpCOMING initiation with The FANG THiS JULY.
- 2 year training in shamanism, sacred earth medicine & ReIKI through the ecology of Clinical shamanism.
- IXCHEL KINLOCH has facilitated at international retreats for two years.
- IXCHEL KINLOCH has been working with psychedelics and exploring altered states of consciousness for over a DECADE.