Experienced guide & explorer of the entheognosis space
Stacy Darby, LAc, LMT
Stacy has had many teachers in her life, direct experience has been the greatest. Her path has brought her to the study of the mind-body-spirit connection and the therapeutic process of engaging presence through various avenues. As a practitioner she uses her training to support individuals in the cultivation of integrity of an embodied & connected Self.
Stacy is an advocate for the expanded world view that honors the inter-connectivity of All things. She see’s that there is no separation amongst mind, body and soul-spirit. She understands that, in its Nature, the human experience is vastly complex. Her work’s central focus is on the cultivation of embodied integration of an authentic living expression of a Holistic -Whole- & Connected Self.
Stacy’s curiosity of the human experience is a driving force for her engagement in the study and practice of mind-body medicine. Her studies as a hands-on healer began in massage school over two decades ago. Since then she has studied with various teachers in the healing arts and recently completed a masters program in Acupuncture and became licensed to practice Acupuncture and Asian Medicine in Oregon. Her journey as a student and practitioner of the healing arts has been a journey of personal and professional evolution. Her natural interests in the process of healing has been an ally for her own progression as an evolving soul.
Her path has provided her with countless opportunities to grow in her capacity to provide a safe and supportive presence. One of which has been the study of Biodynamic Therapeutics. The study of biodynamic massage & craniosacral therapy has greatly impacted her life as a human walking on earth and influenced her position held in life as a practitioner. She has been studying this work since meeting her teacher in 2013. Today her hands-on practice is infused with the lessons learned from this study and her life continues to be touched by the wisdom contained within the its teachings.
Stacy first met Ayahuasca in 2007. Very soon after her initial meeting with the medicine she journeyed to Peru for a ten day retreat. When she returned she continued her relationship with the medicine byway of attending works with the Santo Diame Church in Portland, OR. In spring of 2022, she immersed herself in a two month long intensive in the Peruvian Amazon studying with the Mahua-Lopez Shipibo lineage.
In 2016, her and Damian came into each others lives and began to walk together. Damian brought her the chance to work closely with Iboga. Since the dawn of their partnership, Stacy has supported Damian in the process of helping those who come to the medicine to detox from substances, for psychospiritual healing and to grow their souls.
Her relationship with sacred plant medicines continue to teach her about what it means to be human and helps her access the deepest recesses of Heart-Soul.
Philosophy
Touching the body is also an act of touching the mind and spirit. We are engaging in a conversation with the lived story of Soul when we listen with the compassionate presence of heart and hands.
The story that is contained in each atom and cell that composes the physical form, holds within it a history of experience.
The body remembers what the mind is seemingly able to forget.
The stories that we carry within us are written by our experience of life. Influenced by familial, cultural, societal and ancestral inheritance, the inherited conditioning’s and patterns created impact our experience of ourselves and our perceptions of reality.
From the most dense to the subtlest form, all-that-is contains a living expression of consciousness.
When engaging with the body-mind, with present awareness and allowance for what is, we are able to assist the process of transformation within oneself. Doing so, the experience of Life begins to change. What was once a ‘pain’ becomes an integrated part of ourselves, an accepted part of our lived story. As a result, Life is enhanced.
Life is a process. Healing is an expression of Life.
Our bodies and beings are expressions of Nature. Within Nature is an innate force of healing that supports the evolutionary process that is continuously underway.
Sickness, suffering, pain and death are all expressions of the human condition, of human nature and life on earth. These expressions of life can act as our greatest teachers.
Connection is Key.
When we disconnect from life experiences as a means of self preservation we also disconnect from aspects of ourselves and of Nature. Healing is a process of returning to a unified, connected and embodied Self. A return to integrity of self invites the wholeness of being to return to its rightful place in relationship with Nature.
“Stacy Darby is a profoundly gifted healer. She is a naturally gifted spiritual healer whose loving presence alone begins to heal the patient. Her further training in Reiki, therapeutic massage and body work allows her to address the issues in her clients on many levels. Her healing presence and being, the result of life long spiritual practice, have a deep effect, bringing about deep healing transformation, vitality and balance, to the patient. Some people train in healing, Stacy IS that healing presence.” — Po Li, Tea Master