For those who don’t yet know me, I’m Marla Lindner, founder of Bufo Healing Sanctuary, an entheogenic church nestled in the sacred East Piney Woods of Texas. My path has been one of deep transformation, devotion, healing, and remembrance—one that has prepared me to serve others with integrity, presence, compassion, and truth. My journey began through profound personal challenge. After experiencing childhood trauma, I spent much of my life carrying unseen wounds while continuing to hold space for others. In 2020, a series of life-altering events brought me to a breaking point—serious health challenges, emotional collapse, and the end of my marriage. What appeared to be an unraveling became the doorway to my awakening. I chose to take full responsibility for my healing. I began addressing the deeper imbalances within my body, mind, emotions, and nervous system—including behavioral patterns, addiction cycles, lack of self-love, emotional suppression, candida overgrowth, heavy metals, parasitic interference, and chronic stress held within the body. Through disciplined detoxification, nervous system healing, emotional processing, self-study, spiritual practice, energetic work, embodiment practices, and lifestyle transformation, I restored my vitality—releasing over 60 pounds and reclaiming greater alignment in body, mind, and soul. This path was not learned from a distance. It was lived, embodied, and earned through direct experience. Through this process, I healed trauma, restructured internal patterns, rebuilt my relationship with myself, and reconnected with a deeper sense of truth, purpose, and inner stability. This work opened the doorway to expanded awareness, emotional release, spiritual awakening, and a direct relationship with Source. Long before I entered sacred medicine and transformational work, my path was already centered around holding space for people through change, grief, healing, and identity transformation. For many years, I worked as a hairstylist—an experience that taught me how deeply connected self-image, self-worth, emotional pain, and personal transformation truly are. Behind the chair, people often shared the parts of themselves they hid from the rest of the world. I became a witness to grief, heartbreak, trauma, reinvention, loss, healing, and the quiet longing many people carry beneath the surface. Later, through my memorial jewelry business, Studiodragonfly19, I worked closely with individuals and families navigating profound grief and loss. Creating memorial pieces became more than artistry—it became a sacred process of honoring memory, love, transition, and human connection. Along my path, I have also experienced profound grief and loss through the passing of loved ones, relationships ending, major life transitions, and the loss of beloved animals who were deeply part of my heart and journey. Like many people, these experiences changed me. They brought me face-to-face with grief, attachment, impermanence, heartbreak, and the emotional layers that loss can awaken within us. Rather than turning away from those experiences, I chose to walk through them consciously—allowing them to deepen my compassion, emotional understanding, self-awareness, and capacity to hold space for others moving through their own seasons of grief, healing, awakening, and transformation. This is one of the reasons my work today is rooted not only in spiritual growth, but in real human experience. I understand that healing is not always linear, graceful, or easy. Sometimes it asks us to completely rebuild our relationship with ourselves, our body, our past, our grief, and the way we choose to move through life moving forward. My journey into energy work and integrative healing began through my own wellness crisis and healing path. After facing significant physical, emotional, and spiritual challenges, I became committed to understanding the deeper relationship between the body, nervous system, emotional trauma, energetic imbalance, behavioral patterns, consciousness, and healing. This led me into years of self-study, detoxification work, nervous system regulation, energetic healing practices, spiritual study, frequency-based wellness modalities, embodiment work, and ancient teachings focused on awareness, restoration, and human transformation. My work is rooted in both lived experience and formal training. I received Sacred Medicine Practitioner training through United Shamans of the New Tomorrow (USNT) in Texas and completed Transformational Psychedelic Integration Coaching through Being True To You. I also received guidance and training through direct ceremonial experience with two medicine men who introduced me to the path of Huachuma and the importance of grounded, heart-centered facilitation, embodiment, and connection with nature. My introduction to Iboga Total Alkaloid came through mentorship and guidance from a Beond Service coach who helped deepen my understanding of intentional dosing, integration, personal responsibility, and the transformational potential of Iboga within a supportive and structured container. These experiences expanded my understanding of sacred medicine beyond formal education alone, allowing me to learn through direct relationship, ceremony, observation, integration, and lived experience. While my psychedelic integration coaching provided an important foundation in supporting others through transformational processes, the deeper essence of my Soul Integration work emerged through years of personal healing, embodiment practices, ancient spiritual teachings, bio-spiritual studies, ceremonial experience, energetic awareness, and direct lived transformation. Over the years, I devoted myself to intensive study in Bio-Spiritual Integration, Keylontic Science, and the ancient teachings of the Law of One, exploring the relationship between consciousness, emotional healing, energetic architecture, nervous system regulation, frequency, human behavior patterns, multidimensional awareness, and the body’s original energetic blueprint. These teachings deeply shaped my understanding of embodiment, transformation, spiritual remembrance, and the integration process that follows expanded states of consciousness. Part of my work includes supporting the restoration and activation of the body’s natural energetic and multidimensional architecture through light, sound, symbols, frequency, consciousness-based practices, and the understanding of the original 12-Strand DNA potential rooted within ancient Law of One teachings. My approach to Soul Integration is not rooted solely in theory, certification, or peak spiritual experiences. It was born through walking my own path of healing—confronting trauma, rebuilding my life, restoring physical health, navigating grief, learning emotional regulation, integrating profound spiritual experiences, and embodying transformation in everyday life. Through years of ancient teaching studies, ceremonial practice, self-inquiry, and lived experience, I developed a grounded understanding that true healing is not about escaping life, but learning how to fully return to it with greater awareness, honesty, presence, compassion, and self-responsibility. I have also completed the AUREA Leadership Program with Jackson M. Strong and continue expanding my facilitation and leadership capacity within an advanced mentorship container under Dr. Samuel Lee, working in a focused pod of twelve facilitators. My background also includes: – Sacred Medicine Practitioner Training through USNT – Transformational Psychedelic Integration Coaching through Being True To You – Huachuma ceremonial mentorship and facilitation guidance – Iboga Total Alkaloid mentorship and integration guidance – PEMF (Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy) training through Swiss Bionics – Five + years of intensive study in Bio-Spiritual Integration, Keylontic Science, and the Law of One teachings – Ongoing mentorship within ceremonial and integrative spaces – Owner of Studiodragonfly19 Memorial Jewelry Beyond formal training, my deepest education has come through direct experience—healing trauma, rebuilding my life, restoring my health, navigating grief, and developing the capacity to hold grounded, regulated, compassionate, intentional space for others. Today, I walk as a guide, facilitator, Sacred Medicine Practitioner, Transformational Psychedelic Soul Integration Coach, and Energy Medicine Practitioner—supporting individuals as they navigate healing, awakening, emotional transformation, and the integration that follows. This work is not about the peak experience. It is about what is embodied afterward. I guide others in grounding insight into real, lasting change—supporting emotional release, nervous system regulation, spiritual clarity, self-awareness, embodiment, and the return to greater self-trust and authenticity. Bufo Healing Sanctuary is part of a growing movement of sacred spaces devoted to healing, remembrance, transformation, and reconnection. We offer private, high-integrity containers for deep personal transformation, sacred medicine ceremonies, integration support, mentorship, and curated retreat experiences designed to support lasting change at the level of mind, body, and soul. I am also the creator of a Sacred Medicine Facilitator Training Program, guiding those who feel called to walk this path with stewardship, discernment, integrity, responsibility, and deep respect for the sacredness of this work. This training is rooted in a three-part framework known as the Mind, Body, Soul Protocol—a structured approach to transformation that honors the full spectrum of human experience. I remain connected with facilitators and practitioners across different countries and continue to mentor and support those who feel called to this path of service. As an intuitive guide, I serve where I am called—holding each experience with presence, discernment, compassion, and deep respect for the unfolding process. This work is sacred. It is raw. It is real. It is not for everyone—but for those who feel the call, it can be deeply life-changing. If something within you is stirring, I invite you to reach out. We begin with a Discovery Call, where we explore alignment, intentions, and readiness. From there, you will be guided every step of the way.