Anima Mundi Founder Adriana Ayales: Meeting the Sacred in Plants, Business and Money

Adriana Ayales is a rainforest herbalist, a plant messenger, a seer, a mama and the owner of Anima Mundi Herbals, a beautiful brand on a mission to bridge ancient remedies and the modern world.

Adriana has studied Central and South American tribal style herbalism, with plant medicine teachers in Costa Rica, the Amazon and California.

With Anima Mundi Herbals, she’s created a business that not only provides an actual pure and powerful form of healthcare, but also helps preserve indigenous lands and their local economies through organic agriculture and wildcrafted goods.

I love making my ceremonial cacao with Anima Mundi’s blue lotus and rose. Listeners of Funded by Source get a 15% discount on animamundiherbals.com with code BREAKFASTCRIMINALS.

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We discuss:

How Adriana discovered shamanic healing as a little girl
Seeing spirits
Connecting with plant consciousness through plant “dieta”
Being a messenger for plants
How Adriana fell in love with New York and how to plants brought her there How her private clinical herbalist practice grew into a cult brand
Supporting indigenous rainforest traditions and regenerative farming
How the calling to spread indigenous wisdom drives Anima Mundi as a business
Herbs that Adriana is most connected to right now
Working with the Spirit of cacao
The dual nature of cacao Spirit
Why Adriana recommends avoiding Dutch processed cacao
Anima Mundi as a sovereign energetic being
How blue lotus plant works and why it works beautifully with cacao
Adriana’s go-to herbs and healing tonics to feel good
What’s at the foundation of Anima Mundi’s social media growth
Taking care of your immune system with plants
Herbs Adriana recommends for anorgasmia, erectile dysfunction and sexual performance
The unexpected traditional use of echinacea
Connecting to Earth through herbs and mushrooms
The difference between the two kinds of cordyceps mushrooms
How Adriana is growing cordyceps sinsensis in Costa Rica
Being selective with what you give your energy to
The manifestation formula that Adriana practices
Self-care rituals for burnout
The power of subconscious reprogramming and decluttering your field
How to set boundaries with social media
An evening ritual to reset after being online
Forest adventures that Adriana goes on to reset and ground
How Adriana has built Anima Mundi without outside investors
Money as a sacred mirror
The importance of following intuitive hits in business
Major life changes as a form of abundance

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EUPHORIA Powder : Aphrodisiac + Libido Booster
EUPHORIA : Spirit + Love Elixir
JERGON SACHA Amazonian Anti-Viral
BLUE LOTUS : Flower of Intuition Tea
ROSE Powder : Heart Opener
CATUABA Bark Superpowder – 100% Pure Wildcrafted

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About Adriana Ayales:

I am the herbalist, medicine maker, educator and founder over at Anima Mundi. I’m originally from Costa Rica and started Anima Mundi several years ago in Brooklyn as a means to bridging ancient remedies to the modern world. My heart was to create a true farm to pharmacy experience through the art of medicine making with herbs. We offer a wide spectrum of remedies and plants from around the world, integrating from several traditions that I’ve studied over the years, such as rainforest tribal styles, Ayurveda, Chinese-Daoist Medicine, and European style alchemy. I believe that by preserving these ancient forms of indigenous botany, we keep alive a very sacred aspect to our source. Anima Mundi was founded with the intention to bridge ancient healing traditions and plant remedies as a form as grass roots healthcare for today’s world.

Since I was a little girl, I devoted my studies to shamanic style healing, hands on energy work and botanical studies. I was born with intuitive sight, and at that time I was shy and somewhat scared of the potential of this energy. I remember seeing auras and spirits when I was a girly, and didn’t know what to do or even talk about it to my family. Later I learned to cultivate it and trained with psychics and healers that helped me convert this energy into a healing art that I could apply to this world.

I focused and studied on both Central and South American tribal style herbalism, studying with plant medicine teachers in Costa Rica, the Amazon and California. I then went on to study classic Western and European herbalism. I trained as a clinical herbalist at different herbal schools, and continued on to cultivate a private practice in Berkeley CA and NYC.

I became deeply fascinated with archetypes, astrology and body types and the cosmological correlations of illness/health with planetary function. I studied astrology, cosmology and consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and immersed myself in the study of medical astrology, and biodynamics.

I shortly after founded Anima Mundi Herbals in NYC with the purpose to providing a unadultured medicinal herb line that integrated native traditions and ancient formulations. I wanted to create a business that not only provided an actual pure and powerful form of healthcare, I also cared to help preserve indigenous lands and their local economies through organic agriculture and wildcrafted goods.