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About Us

Founded in March 2020, Sapo Spirit was birthed by Alicia Lucas after being called back home. A place within herself that had been forgotten.

Alicia has been working full-time as a sacred medicine carrier and practitioner since founding Sapo Spirit in 2020. She has dedicated her life and heart to this sacred path, continually learning, deepening, and growing in order to support those who make the brave decision to dive into deep, embodied healing.

Her journey began with a Diploma in Child and Youth Care Counselling in 2009, which led to over 20 years of service in nonprofit organizations across the Greater Vancouver Area. Six of those years were spent supporting Indigenous youth in the education system as a Program Coordinator in an inner-city school for First Nations youth, and later as an Aboriginal Support Worker for the Langley School District. During this time, Alicia immersed herself in Indigenous culture, traditions, and protocols, which have been instrumental in her own process of reclaiming her identity as an Indigenous woman.

In March 2020, Alicia traveled to the Sonoran Desert in Mexico to begin her initiation into serving sacred Bufo Alvarius medicine with the Tohono O’odham tribe at Shaman School. In July of that same year, she completed her Kambo Practitioner training with the International Association of Sapo Practitioners and returned home with a clear calling, leaving her government job to step fully into this work.

Since then, Alicia has continued her studies, completing a Trauma-Informed Plant Medicine Facilitation Training with Atira Tan in February 2022. In 2023, she began the intensive three-year Somatic Experiencing Practitioner training through Somatic Experiencing International, which she will complete by January 2026.

Alicia’s work is rooted in deep respect for the medicines, spiritual integrity, and trauma-informed care. She walks alongside those she serves, guiding with humility, reverence, and an open heart.

Alicia Lucas

Alicia’s path into sacred medicine began with a personal health crisis. In 2015, she was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. Despite the prognosis, something deep within told her that healing was possible, and she set out on a quest to uncover how to truly restore her body. In 2017, Kambo first appeared on her path as a potential ally, but fear held her back from answering the call. Still, the seed was planted.

Through determination, inner work, and a deepening connection to her body and spirit, Alicia became completely free of symptoms and medication by 2018. As her body healed, Kambo began calling more insistently—but she still wasn’t ready to say yes.

In 2019, a deep rupture in her life—a mother wound that triggered a spiritual awakening—left Alicia feeling lost, broken, and energetically depleted in her government job. At the beginning of 2020, Bufo Alvarius called her home to her ancestral lands in Mexico. It was there, in the Sonoran Desert, during an ancestral initiation with the Tohono O’odham tribe, that everything shifted. Alicia experienced a profound awakening and knew she was being asked to serve this sacred medicine.

It was also during this journey that she sat with Kambo for the first time—and this time, she said yes. She enrolled in practitioner training immediately after her Bufo initiation. During that training, she received a clear message: it was time to step fully into this sacred work.

She listened.
And from that moment, Sapo Spirit was born.

Education and Training


  • 2009 – Diploma in Child & Youth Care Counselling

  • March 2020 – Initiated in Bufo Alvarius facilitation through direct experience with the Tohono O’odham tribe, Mexico

  • July 2020 – Kambo Practitioner Certification – International Association of Sapo Practitioners (Toronto)

  • February 2022 – Trauma-Informed Plant Medicine Facilitation Training – with Atira Tan

  • 2023–2026 – Somatic Experiencing Practitioner Training – Somatic Experiencing International (in progress; certification expected January 2026)