[Kin·] was created with reverent attention to soul-

deep safety, to nourishing environments that

celebrate your complexity, and to honoring

both the medicine and the communities who have

protected these healing ways for generations.

We are your Kith and [Kin·]

What we offer

  • Plant Medicine Retreats for BIPOC communities

    KIN curates transformative healing retreats for Black and Brown communities, centering the ethical and sacred use of plant medicine. These experiences honor ancestral traditions and offer pathways to profound individual and collective healing.

  • Plant Medicine Integration Services

    KIN offers plant medicine preparation and integration services for individuals and groups. Our comprehensive preparation sessions align mind, body, and spirit for the journey ahead, while our compassionate integration support helps you interpret and embody the insights gained—anchoring them into your healing intentions and daily life.

  • Corporate Community Building

    KIN offers a unique opportunity for organizations seeking innovative ways to foster belonging. We design team-building experiences, learning curricula, and self-guided resources that cultivate psychological safety, strengthen resilience, deepen cultural competence, and empower leaders to lead inclusively.

who we are

Since 2012, Soi Kene has apprenticed under Peruvian indigenous shaman in the Shipibo tradition, starting with Don Enrique Lopez, who descends from a long line of healers living in the Roa Boya Natiba community near the city of Pucalpa, and more recently at Nihue Rao Centro Espiritual y Cultural under Ricardo Amaringo. He has been running retreats internationally since 2014. He has led over 200 meditations and sat in more than 1000.

Soi Kene is known for:

  • A warmly supportive and highly personalized approach.

  • Precision in helping people explore the root of their motivations and difficulties.

  • Experience with high-performance clients and passion helping people to see and realize the

  • potential in themselves and their lives.  

  • Gentleness and compassion with issues around trauma, gender and sexuality.

  • Clear interpretation of the medicine experience in accessible language.



He has had an avid interest in expanding consciousness and human potential all of his adult life and has trained in yoga, qi gung, and Eastern energy arts, and has had a daily Vipassana meditation practice for fifteen years. People who work with him note that he is very good with trauma, gender, and sexuality issues, helping people to see potential in themselves and possibilities in their lives, as well as interpreting the medicine experience in an accessible language. Before coming to the medicine, he worked primarily as a filmmaker.

Soi Kene

INDIGENOUS TRAINED SHIPIBO MEDICINE PRACTITIONER


  • Integration Specialist & Somatic Healer

    Shina guides others through embodiment practices rooted in wisdom traditions that honor the body as a sacred vessel. As a Black woman who has navigated her own journey of remembering, she creates spaces where the complexities of identity, ancestry, and lived experience are woven into wholeness. Her role is to help you remember how to access your own internal medicine. Her Training Includes: Herbalism Apprentice, The People's Medicine School; Reiki Level I & II; 200-Hour Certified Yoga Instructor; INELDA Death Doula; Plant Medicine Facilitator - Shipibo Tradition, Peru.


  • FOUNDER & ELDER OF THE RASTAFARI VILLIAGE

    Firstman is a guardian of culture and one of the original founders of the Rastafari Indigenous Village. A UN-certified expert in cultural heritage preservation, he has spent decades weaving sustainable development with cultural preservation. In 2016, he brought sacred plant medicine to the village, creating the first traditional Rastafari community to integrate these plants into their spiritual practice—a revolutionary Rastadelic™ expression where psychedelic healing meets Rastafari wisdom.

  • SPACE HOLDER

    Verjeigh the founder of [Kin·] is a Black woman, mother, lover, survivor, and friend. She is a curator and holder of sacred space and community for Black Peoples. With 15+ years’ experience working in fortune 100 companies as a global inclusion and belonging strategist, Verjeigh combines personal, professional and plant medicine experience to support others to find --in themselves -- the healer they are seeking. She takes an empathetic and service-oriented approach to holding space and has a deep reverence for the respectful use of indigenous plant medicine for spiritual growth.