About Isa Modern Medicine
This body of work has emerged through several identity deaths and rebirths – from standing at the thresholds of my own unraveling, and at the thresholds of thousands of others. The COVID ICU. Thousands of humans through ceremony in the Amazon jungle.
Transformation is messy. Faith is messy. Truth is messy. Life is messy. Anyone who has lived through their own resurrection knows this in their bones. What we need is permission – to be where we are, to shapeshift, to outlive the old story – and the support to walk toward something more real.
I spent the first wave of the pandemic as a frontline nurse in New York City. What I carried out of that year took me to the heart of the Amazon, and to a multi-year shamanic apprenticeship with traditional healers in Mexico and Peru. And to a longer study: the soma, the voice, the nervous system, and the bare bones of how we construct a thought.
For years those felt like two lives. They are one practice now: ancestral medicine held with clinical rigor. Ceremonies that are therapeutic, awe-inducing, dripping in beauty, and genuinely safe. A way of working that honors the lands, peoples, and traditions who initiated me.
I am also a musician. Artistry lives at the center of how I hold rooms and people — and making music, art, and beauty is not adjacent to the medicine I share. It is the beating heart of it.
This is where that work lives: facilitation for retreats and properties, high touch one-to-one work, and a six-month online mentorship for women, taught by me and my feminine elders.
