
Testimonials
Please see below testimonials from some of Colleen’s clients, dear friends and family. The ones marked with *** were performed in Colleen’s service to Creator and no monetary profits were received.
My 10 day Silent Bobinsana Master Plant Dieta with Colleen in Costa Rica was very enlightening!! I was able to tame my monkey mind and overcome a fear of success. The time to myself allowed me to increase my self-love and inner stand that when my cup runs over those that I love and those that love me, benefit from the overflow. Colleen's patient and gentle but firm approach helped catapult me towards a higher frequency and a higher dimension within myself. My time is now! Our time is now! I am now who I came here to be! Thanks 🙏 Colleen.
ShaGaia Lisa - March 2026


Our time with Colleen was very transformative and healing. We have known Colleen for several years and this was our second sitting with her. We opted for a private experience as a couple so that we can dive deeper into our journey. Colleen's nurturing and hospitable nature in her home in Costa Rica combined with her expertise made all the difference. It was a very safe and healing space. Highly recommended.
David and Svetlana
January 2026
Deep gratitude for this great prayer held here with my dear sistar Michelle visiting me here in Costa Rica from Canada…Prayers this heart share is received with love and assists all those who may need support in this time 🙏 If anyone is curious to work with me here in Costa Rica with all the master plant medicines I work with, such as Ayahuasca, Bobinsana, Rose, Tobacco, and wishes to receive hands on healing in between sessions and to visit sacred sites on your days off please message me privately at templeoflovemeditations@gmail.com and I will be happy to discuss your hearts needs with you. You can also visit my website for more details, testimonials, and upcoming retreats on my events page- www.enchantedhealingcenter.com
Testimonial from Vanessa Morell after completing a 10 day Master Plant Dieta in Costa Rica on Colleens lands-
Thank you Colleen, from the bottom of my heart for this Master Plant Dieta experience - your sisterhood, the mirroring, your medicine, your power, your love, your guidance and support through the most deeply transformative and healing experience of my life. Colleen helped me clear years of trauma and karmic ties to the past, held me in such loving space and prayer throughout the entire dieta, supported me with my music (and even helped me record a very special song in the studio a few days later - what an honour!) I will be forever grateful to you and to bobinsana, and am so excited to keep weaving this powerful sisterhood and co creating more magic with you
I highly recommend anyone considering doing a dieta with Colleen to give yourself this gift - her space holding is impeccable and I can't imagine trusting anyone else with the deep space she held for me to rise into my gifts and my power. Her lands in Costa Rica are beautiful and her music and connection to the plants and medicine is unparalleled. Gracias gracias gracias
-Liz Lemon
May 2025
Coming to these lands and to Colleen was an instinct and intuition for me. Synchronicity brought me here, I knew I needed it, and I prepared. I felt very vulnerable when I arrived, new place, energy, people...away from my family. The fear and anxiety almost made me run. Colleen held space for me and provided reassurance and acceptance of where I was at and honored that. In that moment of loving acceptance, I was able to stay.
To say the week was transformative would not do it justice. With the beautiful Bobinsana Tea - I began to meet myself in a way I had been unable to most of my life. Tears were shed, as I spent my time with the green dragonfly who visited me everyday. I began to understand and live the rhythms of nature. Sleeping next to the Big Rock, and at the edge of the lake, immersed me in nature as close as one can be - other than sleeping outside. I shared space with all the living creatures around me, and felt connected to the land in a visceral way.
In Slavic culture, the snake is venerated. In particular the black snake. It is said, to have a black snake live under your dwelling brings good omens to those who dwell there. On the third day, I watched through the screen as a black snake moved under my dwelling - myth and movement in nature, to bring me the healing I sought.
Each day was a mixture of resistance and surrender - drawing upon an inner strength I did not know I possessed for these such experiences. Each day I softened and came into acceptance. And with that came inner peace and clarity. I grieved my losses, made amends in ways I needed, and held myself gently when the storms came - both figuratively and literally. I understood that my true essence is held in my heart space - a space that had been so fragmented by life. Instead of looking outwards, I journeyed inwards to my own heart.
It was there that I found the peace, stillness and groundedness that has eluded me in this life. My body relaxed, my mind opened up, and my heart beat strong.
Dreams came and gave clarity, understanding and lessons. The path forward became clearer each day.
I am beyond grateful to Colleen and this space - it held me gently in so many ways, as I walked the path of opening and transformation.
All the moments are in my journals, so that I may look back upon them and reflect when I go home. With a renewed sense of purpose, meaning, and a softened heart.
A Prayer from Bobinsana:
May the wind caress you gently
May the waters heal your soul
May songbirds gently sing
as the opening unfolds
Gently, Gently - with love and grace
May you enter into this healing space
May all you receive
Be all that you need
And a Blessing be upon you
Not one thing can define the experience I have had - there were so many moments that aided the unfurling,
the mournful loon calling
the wind gently moving through the trees
beautiful soul music created in this healing space
cleansing waters
dancing by the fire and being held in a sacred space to heal with so many beautiful souls
The medicine was Grandmother and Bobinsana, but it was also Mother Nature, in all her rhythms, cycles and beauty.
Thank you - with gratitude I will leave with a full and open heart - in my grounded and still inner energy - to bring this peace and love home with me to ripple outwards.
Colleen - thank you so much for all your wisdom and healing capacities. I will continue this journey now, as the medicine lives within me. My soul has been touched by the earth and medicine she provides.
Thank you Colleen - may your voice continue to sing free and heal the hearts of so many.
Blessings in gratitude,
Janet xo
Bobinsana & Rose Dieta 2024

My deepest gratitude for our time together, for the amazing and deep healing session, for the rapé lesson and simply for sharing conversation.
Colleen gives from her heart in her healing sessions. Her style of body work is physically and spiritually uplifting, truly a heavenly gift in her hands.
-Rev. Dr. J. Gilchrist
June 2024
I have waited so long to get some words together, it is a difficult task for me as my gratitude for this woman Colleen, and this medicine she carries is so great it cannot be put into words, it's a feeling deep inside to the core of my soul.
I remember the first ceremony I attended with this beautiful woman. She saw me, my soul, who I am, who I was, who I am supposed to be. The profound healing I received from La Madre Grandmother & Colleen I could never give back anything close to what I received.
Colleen welcomed my family, my friends, and I had the joy to heal with my mother and my daughter. I know that I should have written a testimonial years ago, as I’ve known Colleen for 13 years now. I am so blessed to know her. She became my friend, my Sundance sister. I survived being stolen from my mother during the baby scoop, childhood trauma, physical abuse, domestic abuse, sexual assault because of this medicine Colleen works with.
Again I feel the pull to sit. I have sat with her over 25 times. I have referred many of my friends and family to Colleen, she has traveled long distances to sit with my friends, family and I.
This medicine has also taught me to connect to her and travel. She gives me choices on what I would like to heal, she answers my questions & she shows me the future.
This medicine is so beautiful…Miigwetch AYAHUASCA. I love Colleen with all my being and I am forever grateful. Colleen, you make the world worth being in.
Love, Lizanne LeClair
April 2024

Dear Colleen I would like to express my gratitude for your holding the sound healing Meditation this past weekend. I will keep it brief as possible.
I didn't understand the weight of what I received from last weekend until I integrated and spoke with my partner. I had no idea what divine masculine/feminine had to do with me. Nothing, I thought.
I realized as I was speaking to her that during the sound plant medicine meditation, I felt a deep connection to and admiration for divine femininity during the time that you, Shannon and Shika were singing together. Something I hadn’t felt in the same way since I was a young boy.
The last time I cried that deeply was when my mother left when I was 8 years old. I was in touch with that sad little boy during the meditation, and the divine femininity that you three displayed comforted me in a way that my mother didn't and couldn't at the time.
I realized that I hadn't respected my partner as a woman because I lost respect for my mom as a woman when she left. I realized I haven’t been able to respect, admire Or connect with feminine energy since then. And in turn, I haven’t been able to connect to my own masculine energy and thus myself.
The physical drug addiction I had for years is simply gone. Cured. I feel that in my heart. I have absolutely no desire to use drugs. My addiction was a symptom of my sickness, and disconnection from myself and to life, based on this skewed connection to feminine energy.
Since the meditation, I have been present almost every moment. I see my partner in an entirely different way and I’m able to appreciate and uplift her as the incredible woman she is. We are connecting deeper than ever before and I can feel our relationship healing.
My days have been vibrant and full. I have energy like my 5-year-old son. I am still running and doing handstands, simply for fun. I feel closer to my friends and to everyone around me because I feel closer to me.
People are more attracted to my energy. I’ve had conversations with total strangers. I am excelling at work. Things are falling into my lap.
I also had some chronic inflammation that has healed almost completely, and an injury in my back that we are working on.
I felt and saw in the meditations peeling back layers of programming and literally rewriting neurotransmitters in my brain.
You, Shannon, and Shika quite literally showed me how to fall in love with women again. And I mean that in the most respectful, uplifting and genuine way.
Simply by being such incredibly powerful women and people, you’ve changed my life entirely. I’m now able to connect with myself as a man and value, support and lift those around me. That will ripple out into the world and make it a better place to be in a powerful way.
Thank you so, so so much Colleen. This past weekend and the other Meditations I have attended may have saved my life. It certainly saved the course of my life as it was. Thank you.
One other thing, I feel I did a disservice to my partner when you asked me about our relationship and what she’s like. She is a fantastic, incredibly vibrant person. She has expressed interest in joining these sound healing retreats you hold as well.
Going forward I will be exploring how to unlock my full potential as a person rather than how to dig myself out of the hole I was in. I truly feel that I can now focus on growing into the person I’m meant to be.
~Evan Briere
2023
I met Colleen in 2016 and after speaking with her felt inspired to work with sound healing & plant medicine again. I was familiar with the rare healing potentials plant medicine offers and had a history of many transformative experiences. These sacred medicines carry healing properties regardless of the environment one consumes them in, however, it was after working with Colleen I understood how important the nature of the facilitator amplified or distorted the fullness of this healing potential. Colleen’s natural gifts of music, intuition, and an uncanny ability to get out of the way of spirit make for an impeccable sound healing ceremony. Colleen opens her home and her heart to her participants in a way that allows you to drop any armour, and simply feel safe in her hands. This work has healed many parts of my physical, emotional and spiritual bodies. I have personally found that listening to Colleen’s music post-ceremony allows the medicine to continue deepening your experience. I encourage anyone who wishes to overcome maladaptive patterns to consider working with Colleen, for it is a rare opportunity to connect with such a clear channel of divine grace.
Sincerely,
Cheryl Lewin, RMT, RPQ
(Registered Psychotherapist Qualifying)
2022
My experience volunteering on Colleens Lands for two months~
I feel truly blessed and incredibly inspired to have had the opportunity to spend 2 months volunteering on Colleen’s land. It’s so magical and powerful that words can’t describe it, but I will do my best. My intention was to remove myself from the matrix of being in the city by allowing this experience to stay deeply connected to the nature that exists on her land. During my time spent there, I was rising early to spend time taking care of the outdoor space.
This allowed me to continually be connected to her land, as I worked hard to manicure her property. I felt the smell of fresh grass each day, the clear winds blowing in my face, the ray of sun beaming as the various animals presented themselves as a friendly hello as I passed them. Each step, each breath, each moment was felt in my heart and soul.
When I had some time to myself, I swam in the fresh lake water to cleanse my body after a hard day’s work. I had the privilege to sit in silence on the soft grass as I slowly observed this special land during my meditations. The energy is powerful in the best way possible, and the only way to know this is to come and experience it for yourself. It’s incredibly unique and special.
Colleen is a gentle and beautiful soul and it was a pleasure to get to know her through conversation. Her singing voice carried and was heard by me as she sang her heart out. I was fortunate enough to catch some moments of this, which put a big smile on my face.
She takes the work she does very seriously, with honour, dignity, respect and the most love imagined. During the meditation retreats I had very profound visions, clear messages about my past, the now and the future. Asking for forgiveness for all the people I hurt in life and the self-inflicted damage I caused. Downloads came through from all the inner work I was fortunate enough to experience that I took note of in my journal. I highly recommend taking time to write after the nightly meditations so you can have it to remember to look back on. Do this the next day, alone and in silence. You will be glad you did.
I was there to also heal, release specific things that don’t service me anymore. This allowed myself to open up for my expansion and growth by using my personal experience to evolve in the most powerful way all through the depth of my heart.
Colleen holds a very safe container for all members to participate and the way she is able to channel her energy by using various tools to help heal is something I have never seen before, and I sat in various meditations the last few years. I got to witness this on many occasions and this was truly a gift.
After my time was done volunteering on her land and sitting in her meditation retreats, I knew that something radical had changed in me in the most positive and powerful way.
I left feeling fulfilled, with my cup overflowing with joy to take life on with precise and clear intention. If you’re thinking of immersing yourself in nature, helping with the land, doing preparations for any retreats, and most importantly doing inner work, I would highly suggest it. This experience will always hold a special place in my heart and will always be remembered.
Thank you, Colleen, for all your dedication to help me understand more about my potential, remove layers from myself to get deep into my soul and give me space to know who I am to create a clearer path for my future. It’s been an honour to experience what I went through.
I’m beyond grateful for the tears that shed, the release of negative energies, taking control of my life with respect and love to live my best life. Thank you for the movement that came through in my dance that allowed me to flow and explore with my body as the music played so perfectly. I was like an eagle with my wings open wide, swaying so gently above the open sky. Grateful for the sound healing ceremony to bring out my voice that I knew existed but this verified it. It was such a treat to be able to participate by playing my drum and shaker. It really connected me to the experience more than ever.
One takeaway I won’t forget and I was blessed to experience was the power of prayer. I dug deep to really pray for my prayers and it was so magical to feel this. I’m feeling truly alive that all of this came through and I could not have done it without spending this special time on your land. The work you do is not only for me, the participants that choose to come, but I learned quickly it’s for the planet and the next many generations to come. Colleen, you are a powerhouse of a human and the world needs more humans like you to exist to help us all rise.
Monty Zonis
2022
" When I was divinely led to Colleen almost a year ago, the pain within my heart was overtaking me and I found myself falling into complete despair. Having exhausted many avenues and various healing modalities, finding Colleen and her beautiful gifts has completely realigned my life and shifted how I walk my path. Since childhood I have struggled with crippling shyness, so much so that I was mute until the age of four and could barely speak in public as a young adult. Through Colleen, I have literally found my voice and am healing a deep wound I thought was impenetrable. The space she holds enables you to discover and reclaim your power and ignite your own path of healing.The unwavering devotion she holds for the sacred unlocks the memory of your own divinity and this deep remembering leads you to a place where trauma and pain is transformed into love and reverence for all that is. You are left knowing that you are so much more than the pain and sorrow and are loved beyond comprehension. If your path has led you to Colleen, know that you have been blessed. And so it is"...
Sarah 2022