Maya is a shamanic facilitator, interdisciplinary artist and researcher. She supports and guides initiates through the initiation and training process in the woods.

She has studied Shamanism for 10 years, undergoing her shamanic training in the traditional model of apprenticeship and experience beginning with assisting on the practitioner training since 2016 before completing the training herself in 2020. Over the last 10 years she has worked with various Amerindian indigenous shamanic cultures including the Mazatec, Aztec and Shipibo of Mexico and Peru, working especially closely with the Wixarika tribe of northern Mexico.

Her background is in psychedelic parapsychology research with Greenwich University, specialising in exceptional human experience and entity encounters on psychedelics, and as an artist. She publicly lectures on the subjects of psychedelics and shamanism, and produces art on the subjects informed by her research and experience, including films, performances, writing and immersive worlds. She has performed and exhibited internationally including at the Tate Britain and Breaking Convention and is the creator and host of Psychedelicacies, an online lecture series.

Walking between the worlds of art, psychedelic science and shamanism she works to bridge them and uses each as investigatory tools to inform and articulate each other as tools for healing the self, society and the environment.

Maya is the daughter of Leah, the Co-founding teacher and shamanic practitioner of Second Sight, who passed in 2019. She honours her mother’s legacy by continuing the ancestral work, keeping Leah’s spirit alive in the very veins and roots of the work in the woods.