Today we’d like to introduce you to Collette Elosha
Hi Collette, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstory.
My work in the healing arts began organically as a child, and then in my early adulthood, I intentionally started holding space for others. I guided my first women’s circle in 2017. But even before that, I had been teaching yoga, guiding movement and understanding the body on a deep level. In 2019, after years of studying meditation, I decided to break my own rule (and everyone else’s) and mix cannabis with my meditation practice. Every modern spiritual tradition condemns the use of “substances” with meditation, and I was a rule-follower and a purist, so I agreed. I also held a lot of shame about my relationship to cannabis at the time. I loved her, but she was my little hidden, secret pleasure that I hid from others.
I was living in my aunt’s converted garage, and I created a safe space for this plan of mine -to smoke weed and meditate- in my room on the floor. I prayed over my weed, just in case they were right and something wild was about to happen, I put music in my headphones and I walked myself through a simple body scan meditation. By the time I got to my chest, I was completely overcome with fear. A fear that I had no idea lived in my body, but I so very obviously could tell it was entirely mine. After a few moments of deep gutteral sobs, I took a breath, I offered compassion and just accepted the fear entirely, finally understanding a very prominent part of myself completely for the first time. As soon as I accepted the fear, it dissolved instantly. Suddenly, what can only be described as wash of energy, a sloshing of waves of vibration came over me and I was completely submerged in Love. Love with a capital L because that is something different than ordinary love. That was the most healing and profound moment of my existence up to that point. And something awakened in me; a memory or an ancient code came online with this practice, that I have lovingly called Cannabis Meditation or Cannabis Ceremony ever since. (Creative name, I know. ;)) Since 2019, I have guided thousands of hours of Cannabis Meditation and Ceremony. I have sat with hundreds of people in-person and online. After about 3 years of guiding, I wrote a Cannabis Meditation Facilitator Training and have run that 19 times (#20 is Summer 2025!) It has grown into a 6-month virtual immersion container that is more of an initiation than a training. (I’m not the initiator, by the way, cannabis meditation is.) I guide live ceremonies every single Monday night at 6pm pst on my virtual community platform called Love Culture.
Cannabis Meditation is the foundation of my small business and my life’s work. This practice teaches people how to feel, how to alchemize and release trauma memories stored in the facia and energy system, it builds emotional and nervous system resiliency and robustness, it expands consciousness and awareness, and opens us up to a deeper and deeper felt understanding of Love, Itself. This practice has changed my life, it has helped me integrate every single powerful experience using psychedelics, it has supported my healing and my evolution on every single level. I am a changed person because of cannabis meditation, and there are a lot of humans out in this beautiful world that would say the exact same thing. The proof is in the pudding. The fruit of the practice speaks for itself.
In 2020, I wanted to add more tools to my toolbox as a facilitator and space holder, so I took a virtual Breath Work Facilitator Training. I also wanted to have another practice/modality that I could offer people that did not include cannabis, because I was still coming up against so much stigma around cannabis consumption and people in fear or judgement of it in some way. In 2022, I started guiding breathwork workshops that were focused entirely on Womb Healing. Looking back, I didn’t really know what I was doing, but I was following another ancient code that lived within me, and I trusted myself. The experiences people were having in these Womb Healing Workshops were nothing shy of miraculous, and that is still true to this day. So, I was guiding my cannabis practices virtually because that felt safer and easier for people to attend, and I was guiding Womb Healing in-person with a beloved friend and energy healer name Rita Shea. Over the past three years, we have run 20 workshops in Utah, many of them with over 100 participants, and alone, I have run womb healing retreats and events in California at small studios, private events and 1:1 sessions.
As I continued to guide, more wisdom continued to come to me. I began seeking and studying Mary Magdalene and felt Her presence guiding me in the passing down of ancient wisdom about Womb Healing; what it is, why we need it, and why we need it at this particular point in history, specifically.
Womb Healing is the clearing of trauma memories that are being held in the womb space. These memories can cause everything from a disconnection to one’s intuition and gifting, the blocking or collapsing of the voice, and can also manifest physically as well, painful periods, inability to get pregnant, endometriosis and more. Womb healing is the energetic “birthing” of anything that keeps a woman or non-binary human with a womb, disempowered. When we come together and do Womb Healing, we are healing generations of humans severed from this important and sacred life-giving portal.
Womb Healing is not about motherhood, but it can be. It is not about the uterus, but its connected. Womb Healing is necessary regardless of pregnancy or motherhood, hysterectomy or gender expression. Womb Healing is tending to the energetic vortex that is the gateway between the realms. It is far more powerful than our modern understanding of the physical organs.
Cannabis Meditation, Womb Healing, Breath Magic, and Magdalene Wisdom are all braided together in what I am here to do on this planet. I have many different ways for people to engage in my work depending on their interest, curiosity or desire. My work in all of these avenues is energetic and I believe that I am here to support others in the awakening that is happening on the planet; not by doing something FOR them, but just being a witness as they do it for themself. Healing is an inside job and there is no facilitator, coach, healer, person on this planet that can do it for you. To be a bridge of sorts, to hold the space between, to be a lantern or a friend on the weary path of one’s remembering, this is what I’m here to help people do: To heal the body of trauma and to return to the inner essence of power and wisdom within takes courage, patience and a heck of a lot of tears. Having a friend by your side at least softens the intensity a little bit.
I guide live practices virtually and in-person every week. I lead retreats and pilgrimages around the globe, I currently offer two Facilitator Trainings (Cannabis Meditation and Breath Magic) and I am in process of writing the third, (Womb Healing :)) I have a virtual community/container focused on the Magdalene Wisdom, and I do 1:1 coaching, medicine, mentoring and healing work.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
No, definitely not a smooth road. Being a “pioneer” in actuality is not really fun as it turns out, especially when I didn’t realize how forward thinking it was of me to try to put cannabis meditation and even womb healing out in the world at the time I was trying to do it. The stigma of cannabis has prevented me from getting so many opportunities to speak or share my wisdom, I have been dropped from podcasts, events, and partnerships, just because they didn’t want to be affiliated with anything that had to do with cannabis. I was also running my own business with zero business knowledge, and then the obstacles of payment processors that refuse to take me on because of cannabis. The number of obstacles is insane. I could list so many more.
But I was also completely immersed into my own healing at the time. So while I am trying to put these “taboo”, unheard of practices out in the world, I am healing and tending to my own nervous system and neurodivergent brain. I was diagnosed with treatment-resistant depression at age 14 and was on SSRI’s for 20 years of my life. I was drowning in moments of expansion and contraction that come with healing, and also trying to learn how to run a business at the same time. My journey into the healing arts has come with dozens of initiations. all of which have felt exponentially harder and more painful than the one before it.
Mirroring the growth of my small business, I am also refining my craft as a facilitator and medicine woman. I am being initiated spiritually into guiding these sacred ceremonies, and continuously being refined and matured by the Spirit and the Christ Consciousness. My work as an entrepreneur is the smallest fraction of my work as a medicine woman, and the gifting that I am attempting to steward with as much reverence and responsibility as possible. Honoring the sovereignty of every and any one who step into my space and continue to give glory to the One Beloved that makes it all possible.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I am known for Loving people, for empowering them to find their inner wisdom. I am known for reminding people that they are sacred and known. I am known to be an expander, an activator, a “reminderer”. I am known for being a safe space for others, for giving really good hugs and for having wild curly hair. 🙂
Any advice for finding a mentor or networking in general?
If you do not feel safe with your mentor, then a mentor can not do anything for you. Whether its a business mentor, a medicine facilitator, a coach or a healer, if you do not feel safe with that person, your nervous system will never actually allow you to implement and integrate their teachings.
Choose a mentor that when you see them, feel them, hear them speak, and witness them interact with others, you feel a sense of sinking in or coming towards, something about how they show up, how they speak and how it feels when they look in your eyes, trust that feeling more than their credentials, instagram following or referral.
Transformation, on any level, can only occur through the pre-requisite of safety. If the body does not feel safe, nothing will change, no matter who the mentor is.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.colletteelosha.com // http://www.balancingcannabis.com/ // live.loveculture.co
- Instagram: @collette.elosha
- Youtube: balancingcannabis1481
