Where mastery meets mystery,
and new worlds are born
What is Casa Comadres
Casa Comadres is a generative portal that serves skillfull leaders in deep transformation and expansion, as they build a new world.
Arising in the overlap of Kristin Cerda and Lauren Pappas, Casa Comadres blends ancient wisdom with futurist systems building. From this energetic matrix, the creators of a more aligned and regenerative Earth are fully activated into joyful abundance and skill through education, healing, and master-level vibrational medicines.
In this inaugural year, Casa Comadres’ offerings include the Consciousness Salon, Expansion Retreats, and
The Expansive Leaders Council (launching early 2026)
Through these containers of transformation, we are activating systems-level visionaries, builders, and artisans who are ready to rise and meet this dynamic moment.
Our Containers
The Expansive Leaders Council
The Expansive Leaders Council brings together WorldBuilders and field-tested visionaries who have been hungry to climb the next mountain. Through high-impact retreats, teachings, and activations, we forge the operating systems needed for a life of true freedom and impact. Are you ready to build a new world?
Consciousness Salon
Building on the European tradition of intimate gatherings focused on enjoyment and education, the Casa Comadres’ Consciousness Salon serves as a place to gather and grow together. We will nourish body, mind, and soul while cultivating the garden of rising consciousness in our ventures and on our planet.
Expansion Retreats
Casa Comadres Expansion Retreats are designed to provide space for illumination and amplification. Informed by site and season in celebration of the Ceremony of Life and focusing on nourishing all levels of the being, Expansion Retreats serve as an invitation into our biggest, juiciest, most authentic selves.
Casa Comadres’
Co-Founding Stewards
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… is a visionary conduit, a polymath, and a teacher of teachers. Her work as a spiritual wayshower has been followed by tens of thousands of individuals worldwide. With diverse training and experience in shamanic practice, energy healing, herbalism, and various global cosmological traditions through time, Kristin has guided over 500 people through potent initiation experiences and coached dozens through seasons-long whole person, whole life transformation through her high-touch mentorship containers.
Her skill in translating complex aspects of mysticism into accessible 21st Century scientific language has made her sought after by founders, physicians, and philanthropists alike.
Kristin is a direct descendant of Mapuche healers and a bilingual Spanish speaker raised on the Texas-Mexico border by ex-Mormon missionary parents. Her pedagogical orientation extends from her work in Religious Studies at Naropa University, decades of Buddhist practice, a 7 year apprenticeship in Amazonian curanderismo/vegetalismo, years as a multidisciplinary artist, and her teaching on Experimentalism at both graduate and undergraduate levels.In all of her endeavors, Kristin is motivated to use her build as multidimensional conduit to activate leaders in creating entirely new systems of power that center personhood beyond what seems possible within current social, economic, and political constructs.
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… is an activator and builder serving at the intersection of psychedelics and conscious leadership. With a BA in Political Science from Yale University and a Dartmouth MBA, Lauren has examined how public and private sectors may convene for social progress. She carries deep expertise in systems of finance, business strategy, and entrepreneurship. She has shaped billions of dollars in dozens of Wall Street transactions, and has launched and led multiple enduring 500+ person scale social enterprise ventures in agriculture, hospitality, transformational coaching, and public policy.
Lauren is a certified Reiki master with grounding in wisdom traditions that include Yogic and Tibetan Buddhist practice and South American shamanic traditions. Serving as a bridge between spiritual consciousness and on-earth leadership, Lauren has guided over 250 leaders through transformative awakening experiences across spiritual and psychosomatic dimensions of growth.
As a queer single mother, Lauren is uncompromisingly oriented toward reshaping leadership paradigms and economic systems to drive equity and planetary wellbeing. She serves as Board President of Deva Collective, a nonprofit reimagining women’s health through integrative psychedelic practices and research.