Welcome to EMERGENCE
An invitation to step fully into the medicine man/woman you already know you are.
An opportunity to sharpen your space-holding skills, integrate ceremonial practices into your work and carry forward this medicine in a good way.
A hands-on training program designed to teach you how to run ceremonies with my Quantum Creation method.
This program weaves specific hands-on ceremonial training throughout a series of 8 ceremonies over the course of 7 months.
During the 4 training weekend retreats, each participant gets an opportunity to sit to the left of the altar as a primary guardian of the space and hold the responsibility of helping me run the ceremony. This will involve all aspects of guardianship and I will give you hands-on training through every point of the ceremony - start to finish. Each retreat will progress with more responsibilities being slowly handed by Ima over to the guardians. In the first retreat, you will sit to my left in the guardianship seat and you will primarily watch closely what I am doing, studying how I am running the ceremony, and I will teach you how to do each piece as I am doing it, preparing you to take it over in the following training ceremonies. Training includes:
Gridding the land
Building the fire
Setting the altar
Opening the directions
Dosing and pouring medicine
Building the energy (instruments and tools)
Maintaining and moving the energy (tools - feathers, herbs, sprays, oils, etc.)
Tending the fire
Supporting the participants
Musical accompaniment
Closing the ceremony
Cleaning the energy of the space
How to work with the instruments (flute, drum, chacapa, harmonica, etc.)

ABOUT THE PROGRAM
The ceremony will be guided and accompanied by live music, sound healing and prayer. In order to work with this medicine at the next level of its potential, I will be facilitating a unique quantum energy work to clarify what it is you desire to create in your life, remove whatever is in the way and start moving towards it. This process and its capacity to pair with this medicine in particular is what makes these ceremonies so profound. It's my belief and experience that this medicine can unlock incredible amounts of creative potential, so there will be an emphasis and opportunity for everybody to sing, express and pray; to share what is in your heart and to fill the space with your essence. After a full night of ceremony we will come together in the morning for a sharing circle.
COST AND TIMING
There are only 8 spots for each round of this program, so that each person will have a chance to sit to the left of the altar and support a ceremony in direct guardianship. The small and intimate size of the program allows for really high level work with each of you and gives me the capacity to comprehensively train each person so I can provide my blessing to carry forward this work in a good way that I can stand behind with integrity.
We are currently in the midst of a training program. Our next cohort begins November 2025.
To express your interest and be placed on the waitlist for the next round, please click here to book in a call.
PLEASE NOTE
This ceremony and all work is housed and protected under The Temple of the Eagle and Condor - a lawfully established Private Ministerial Association and Church. Upon registering for this ceremony, you will receive a waiver to sign for your participation within the activity of the Temple as well as a membership agreement which enacts the protections. Membership with the Temple is required in order to participate in its activities.
STRUCTURE
Here is an outline of how our program and retreats will be organized:
Month 1
Opening Ceremony for program
Two Training Ceremonies
Month 2
Virtual Training & Learning
Month 3
Two Training Ceremonies
Month 4
Virtual Training & Learning
Month 5
Two Training Ceremonies
Month 6
Virtual Training & Learning
Month 7
Two Training Ceremonies
Closing Ceremony
Ima Rao
Ima weaves transformational coaching with the wisdom of plant medicine to support entrepreneurs, healers, coaches and business leaders to drop into a state of heightened focus, align with their truth and rise into the most authentic expression of their power.
He is a trauma-informed, somatic oriented facilitator with 10+ years of experience training and coaching people all around the world as well as running retreats and ceremonies.
He has started and run multiple six-figure coaching businesses and taken hundreds of people through his coaching programs and consulting processes. With a Masters in Nonprofit Management and a focus on Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation, he is the former Co-Founder and Executive Director of RENEW - a nonprofit organization that ran transformational workshops for thousands of young people all around the world to learn to love themselves and live their dreams.
He is deeply passionate about supporting our next generation while honoring our ancestors and the indigenous wisdom carriers.
He is the founder of The Temple of the Eagle and Condor.