At Plant Medicine Thailand, our retreats are held by a carefully chosen team of experienced facilitators, space holders, and support staff who are deeply committed to creating a safe, grounded, and transformational environment for every participant.
Our team is made up of individuals with diverse backgrounds in traditional plant medicine work, trauma-informed support, mindfulness practices, somatic healing, integration, music, and ceremonial leadership.
Each member of our team plays an important role in the retreat journey, whether through emotional support, practical care, energetic grounding, music, prayer, or ceremonial presence. Together, we hold a collective intention: to create a space where you feel safe enough to soften, supported enough to surrender, and held enough to explore the deeper layers of your healing.
Because true transformation requires more than medicine. It requires the right people holding the space around it.
The work we hold is deeply personal, vulnerable, and often life changing. For this reason, not all members of our facilitation team are publicly profiled. This is not only to honour the privacy of those who serve within this sacred work, but also to protect the integrity of the ceremonial container itself.
Behind every retreat is a carefully structured support system, experienced facilitators, assistants, integration support, and on-the-ground care, all working together to ensure your journey is held with professionalism, compassion, and deep respect.
From the moment you arrive to the moment you leave, you are never walking this journey alone.
You are held. Seen. Supported.
Every step of the way.
At the heart of our facilitation team is Kay, the steady presence who helps hold the thread of your retreat from beginning to end.From orientation and preparation to ceremony, emotional support, and integration,
Kay is often the consistent point of connection throughout the retreat experience. While our retreats are held by a wider collective of experienced facilitators, Kay helps weave the container together; creating continuity, structure, and grounded support throughout every stage of the journey. His role is not only to facilitate, but to hold the integrity, safety, and continuity of the entire retreat journey, ensuring each participant feels safe, supported, and deeply seen. With over a decade of experience in traditional and integrative healing practices, Kay bridges ancient wisdom with modern understanding in a way that is both grounded and deeply compassionate.
Before stepping fully into ceremonial work, Kay’s journey began in science. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, supported by a U.S. Department of Energy research grant in nuclear fusion, and has worked in nuclear safety research in France while also lecturing in engineering in Thailand. Yet through science, he found himself asking deeper questions, about consciousness, healing, identity, and the nature of human transformation.
That path led him to Peru, where he trained in the Sacred Valley and immersed himself in traditional ceremonial practices and indigenous wisdom.Through this journey, he was given the Shipibo name Isa Sheka (“singing bird”) by a respected elder healer of the Peruvian Amazon. He is also an apprentice of the chief of the Noke Koî tribe of the Brazilian Amazon, continuing his study of indigenous wisdom and ceremonial traditions through direct lineage and lived practice. Over the years, Kay has facilitated hundreds of ceremonies in Thailand, supporting participants through deep emotional healing, spiritual growth, and profound inner transformation through structured ceremonial practice, prayer, and medicine songs.
Alongside his ceremonial work, Kay has trained in martial arts since childhood; including Karate, Taiji, and internal martial disciplines studied across Okinawa, Taiwan, and Chiang Mai, integrating these practices into his understanding of energy, discipline, presence, and healing.
Each year, Kay returns to Peru to continue studying with his teachers, maintaining a living relationship with the traditions that guide this work.This ongoing devotion ensures that the space he helps hold remains rooted in authenticity, humility, integrity, and deep respect for the medicines and traditions themselves.
While Kay serves as an important anchor within our retreats, healing is never held by one person alone.Our facilitation model is built on collective support. Each facilitator brings their own unique medicine to the space; whether through music, prayer, grounding, emotional regulation, practical support, or intuitive care.
Together, we work as one unified team. A living support system dedicated to holding you through every layer of your journey.
This collective approach allows us to create a stronger, safer, and more responsive container, one where each participant receives personalised care, genuine attention, and meaningful support.
Because healing is not something to be rushed.
And it is never something you should have to navigate alone.
Choosing to enter a plant medicine retreat is a courageous decision.
It asks you to step into the unknown.
To meet yourself honestly.
To trust the process.
Our role is to meet that courage with care.
To create a space where your nervous system can settle.
Where your body can soften.
Where your truth can rise.
And where your healing can unfold in its own time.
At Plant Medicine Thailand, we honour this work with deep responsibility, reverence, and heart.
