about project KA
how it all began
Project Ka was born in the waters of the Diamante Valley, where a vision emerged to gather spiritual seekers, medicine carriers, and artists. What began as community-building soon revealed a deeper calling: to create initiation spaces that awaken the KA.
Guided by Acacia, we remembered how to hold non-hierarchical, co-curated ceremonies, led by women in reverence. Our journey carried us to Egypt, where we sat with women who now form the Council of Ka, and further into the teachings of Iboga through the Bwiti tradition, shared with us soon by one of our core creators.
Today, Project Ka seeks to bridges ancient African plant medicines with modern seekers, holding ceremonies in Canada and Europe, while aspiring to remain deeply rooted in the lands of Costa Rica, Egypt, and West Africa.
We work with ceremonies and longer immersions along with one on one psychedelic assisted therapy for all integration work or anyone seeking more information on psychedelic work. One on one shamanic healing session are also provided. We gather in caves, by rivers, and in sacred circles across the globe, creating spaces for healing and remembrance. Join an event.
At its heart, Project Ka is a vow to advance human consciousness, to be channels for the plants, to protect the waters, to walk in reverence and integrity with the Earth and ancestral traditions, by honoring ancient medicines by receiving initiation from the tribes and co-creating with them, while embodying the feminine spirit that flows through all creation.
To support personal and collective healing by awakening the KA and restoring balance between humanity and the Earth through plant medicine, initiations, and psychedelic integration.
At Project KA, we acknowledge that sacred plants, initiations and the wisdom surrounding them comes from living traditions, carried by peoples, ancestors, and guardians who have safeguarded them for generations. Our commitment is the following:
1. Humility and Learning
• We do not invent nor claim to recreate traditional rituals.
• We walk as students and seekers of truth, listening and learning from the elders and guardians of each medicine.
2. Respect for Traditions and Peoples
• Before offering any plant or practice, we seek to meet its traditional guardians, receive their guidance, and act with their blessing.
• A portion of our resources and income is dedicated to supporting the communities and lands where these medicines are rooted.
• We reject any form of cultural appropriation, and we act within a framework of reciprocity and gratitude.
3. Local Grounding and Responsibility
• In every country where we gather, we collaborate with local communities, healers, and artists.
• We ensure local participants have access through adapted pricing, scholarships, or invitations.
4. Health and Safety
• Every ceremony is guided by a trained and caring facilitation team, available before, during, and after the experience.
• We communicate openly about the effects, potential benefits, and risks of sacred plants.
• We encourage ongoing therapeutic and spiritual integration, so that each journey becomes a path of growth, not isolation.
5. Vision and Transmission
• Our intention is not to “own” knowledge, but to contribute to a movement of remembrance, healing, and reconnection.
• We honor elders and wisdom keepers by maintaining gratitude, transparency, and clarity of intention.
• We believe sacred medicines belong to the Earth, and must be shared with respect, discernment, and love.
Everything we do is part of a larger vision: creating sanctuaries for both children and animals. Our commitment extends beyond humans and spirits, to some of the most vulnerable beings on Earth.
With roots in Costa Rica, Egypt, and soon East Africa, our mission is twofold. First, to establish animal sanctuaries where they can be protected from harm, receive care when injured, and thrive in safety. Second, to create safe homes for displaced and vulnerable children—spaces where they can reclaim their voice and power through art, music, dance, and creative expression.
These sanctuaries will become places of healing, community, and mutual support. We believe that children, animals, and the arts are essential to the future of humanity. By nurturing them, we help restore freedom, wisdom, and the capacity to live in love and respect with one another.
Your support makes this vision possible. We have created a fund dedicated to this mission, and we are deeply grateful for your trust and contribution.
what we do
our vow
mission
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PROJECT KA COUNCIL
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Gabrielle Bonneville
Venezuela / Canada
Founder & Artistic Director • Musician • Singer-Songwriter • Medicine Woman
For over a decade, Gabrielle has woven art and ceremony into transformative spaces. As founder of Momentum Collective, she has welcomed over 1,000 residents into immersive artist residencies across the world — merging the performing arts, somatic embodiment, and plant medicine ceremony for circus artists and visionaries.
Her work with Project Ka emerged as a devotion to the waters of Costa Rica’s Diamante Valley, creating feminine-led spaces that honor, protect, and restore the spirit of the rivers and waterfalls of that beautiful place she calls home.
Over the past 12+ years, Gabrielle has sat in countless ceremonies and vision quests in Peru, Nicaragua, Egypt, and Costa Rica with Ayahuasca, Acacia, Blue Lotus, and DMT — carrying these medicines with reverence into all her offerings. As a harpist and singer, she uses her voice, music, voice, and prayer, to create safe spaces for people of all walks of life to meet themselves. She is also a death doula and works with people on dying with grace. Many who know her say she walks between worlds.
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Tess Schilling
France / USA
Marketing Creator, Shamanic Practitioner specializing in extraction, soul retrieval, ancestral healing, and voice & sound channeling
Growing up in Rwanda, Africa, her soul and work have been deeply shaped by the culture and traditions of this land. After moving to France, she began studying the Bible and Christ consciousness, alongside explorations of psychedelic plants, DMT, and Siberian shamanism, guided by her spirits in the invisible world.
She completed 3 intensive training sessions with the Foundation for Shamanic Studies (FSS) under the guidance of a Chilean shaman, where she deepened her practice in extraction healing, psychopomp work, and soul retrieval. The FSS, founded by Michael Harner, is an organization dedicated to the study of shamanism across diverse tribes and cultures worldwide, offering a profound and accessible path into the universal principles and rituals of shamanic practice.
Guided by her devotion to helping others reconcile with the Self, the Ancestors, and History — through the body, soul, and spirit — Tess later met Acacia in Egypt. There, Tess and Gaby heard a profound calling to join forces and share their medicine, which for her flows through the drum and the voice.
OUR STRUCTURE
Project Ka is not a company. There is no hierarchy. We lead together, listen together, and make decisions in council.
Within The Collective, Every Woman Can:
Offer and promote her own events through our platform
Join Council circles and help shape our vision
Contribute to our shared fund
Receive visibility and support
Decisions Are Made Through:
Online or in-person Women’s Councils (monthly or quarterly)
Proposals and shared dreaming
Consent-based, heart-led decision making
The Diamante Water Blessing Pledge:
Initially, KA was born from a deep calling to bless and protect the sacred waters of the Diamante Valley.
We, the women of Project Ka, vow to walk in service to the living those waters. We pledge to listen to their song, to protect their purity, and to honor their spirit through every act of our ceremonial work. We honor the spirits of that land, and vow in reverence to the power this land holds.
We will pilgrimage into the caves where the river is born, and bathe in the waterfalls of Nauyaca — offering prayers, songs, and ceremonies to strengthen the bond between people and water.
We commit a portion of all we receive to support the guardians of these waters — including H.O.M.E. Farm, Diamante Falls, and other projects that defend the rivers, springs, and hidden streams of this valley.
We understand that water is life, and life is sacred.
As long as the rivers flow, so will our devotion — carrying forward this protection not only for ourselves, but for all beings, and for the generations yet to come.