SEDONA, ARIZ. — White wellness entrepreneur Katie Clemens has reportedly discovered that she was Indigenous in a past life, firmly absolving her of any potential risk of cultural appropriating her own ancestors.
She has described her work offering conscious donation based ayahuasca ceremonies in Florida as a continuation of her sacred lineage that stretches back to before Lemuria.
Katie received confirmation that she is qualified to lead plant medicine ceremonies for other people based on a series of visions and dream interpretations in which she was also instructed to raise her minimum conscious donation threshold.
“I’ve always felt a profound connection to Indigenous plant medicine ceremonies, which is why I quit my job as a barista at Starbucks after my first ayahuasca ceremony 3 months ago to go all in on reclaiming my heritage as an ayahuasca entrepreneur,” said Clemens, who is known in the Floria ayahuasca community by her spiritual name Sky Moon River.
“The medicine is about remembering who you are, and then owning that regardless of how inverted and questionable your dharma looks to anyone else.”
According to Sky Moon River, the revelation came 5 minutes into her first ceremony despite the facilitators assurance that the effects could not possibly take hold that quickly. She later attended two more ceremonies the following day — one in the morning, and another one in the afternoon just to confirm her epiphany. By hour 5 of her third ceremony in two days, she had received unassailable confirmation that she is in fact a reincarnated ayahuasca priestess and that her destiny in this life cycle is to ‘build the lululemon of ayahuasca brands’.
“I knew immediately that this wasn’t cultural appropriation,” she explained. “It was cultural remembrance.”
The revelation has since become the centerpiece of her $10,000 four-day “Spirit of the Ancestors” retreat, where participants will reportedly learn how to discover their own past life indigineity and channel that into building a thriving business in the $1 trillion wellness industry in this life. The retreat will be held at the Howard Johnson hotel in Orlando, Florida in late September.
“I don’t teach Indigenous traditions,” she clarified. “I channel them.”
She has reportedly declined requests to identify which Indigenous nation she belonged to in her previous life, explaining that “we’re all one.”
“They told me I’m not supposed to focus on labels,” she said.
“They just want me to keep doing the work”.