Our Icaros are not songs we simply sing — they come directly from the plants themselves. Some we received in the jungles of Peru, during periods of several weeks or months of isolation and strict dieta. This deep connection allows each plant’s spirit to teach its own “magic song”, which then lives within us. Some seem to chime in during cremony.

Every Ikaro carries the unique frequency of a particular master plant, woven with the singer’s medicine. It’s not something we memorize but something we let move through us, again and again, each time a little different. Some Icaros appear only on certain energetic frequencies and they seem forgotten, until we reenter their realm.

An Ikaro can comfort, guide, challenge, or cleanse. There are songs to help open the heart, songs to calm turbulent minds, songs that steady the body, and songs that bring courage when something needs to be released. Just like the plants, they each have a place, a purpose.

In ceremony, these songs become invisible threads between the plant world and each participant’s inner landscape. Everyone may receive them differently — and even differently again the next night.

To us, the true art is to become so empty that the Icaros can do what they came to do. We offer our voices, and the medicine does the rest.

Over time, we have a few Icaros that have become our steady companions that provide a familiar structure we can lean on. But the most powerful moments come when we open our mouths and let the plants sing through us, not knowing exactly what will come until the first note is already in the air.

Some Icaros appear only on a very specific frequency. They may feel forgotten until we enter that same state again. It’s not so much that the Ikaro returns; it’s more that we find our way back to it.

There are Icaros for every kind of work: songs that cleanse, songs that call in strength, songs that open the heart or ease fear. Each participant receives them differently — and even differently again the next night. They act like invisible threads: guiding, connecting, confronting. One may feel held. Another may feel challenged. And so, the Icaros become living, moving bridges between the plant world and each participant’s inner landscape.

When the Icaros move through the space, they also shape it. The weavings of sound and frequency are like the weavings you see in the traditional embroidery above: each pattern encodes the unique vibration of a particular plant or song.