Our story
Francisco's journey from suffering and despair to sacred ceremony in Hermosillo — and the church that grew from it.
“I wasn't prepared for what happened inside that ceremony. Nothing could have prepared me.”— Francisco, Founder
How we came to be
Everything Failed
By his thirties, Francisco had tried it all — programs, communities, willpower, inner work. He wanted to change. But no matter how many times he tried to climb out, the pattern pulled him back under. Relationships dissolved. His career collapsed. What remained was a version of himself he barely recognized.
Hermosillo
Not hope — surrender. With nothing left to lose, Francisco traveled to Hermosillo, Mexico after someone told him about a ceremony that had changed their life. He didn't believe it would work. He just believed he had run out of other options.
First Ceremony
When the medicine met him, his ego — the part that had carried decades of shame, self-destruction, and pain — simply dissolved. What remained was something he had no name for. A presence. A light. An intelligence that was vast and unconditionally loving, and somehow knew him completely. For the first time in his life, he did not feel broken. He felt seen.
Years of Study
Healing rarely happens in a single ceremony. Francisco returned to the medicine again and again, letting the transformation root itself layer by layer. He trained under lineage holders in Hermosillo — learning not just the mechanics of ceremony but the ethics, the contraindications, the integration work, and the responsibility that comes with holding space for people in their most vulnerable states.
The Singularity Church of the Toad and Breathwork
The Singularity Church of the Toad and Breathwork — doing business as The Singularity Church of the Toad and Breathwork — was born from that journey. Francisco started this church because he knows what it means to have tried everything. He knows what it means to believe, somewhere deep down, that you are beyond saving. And he knows what it means to be wrong about that.
A letter from Francisco
I lost everything before I found the one thing that actually worked.
By my thirties, I had tried it all. Programs. Communities. Willpower. Inner work. I wanted to change — I genuinely did. But no matter how many times I tried to climb out, the pattern pulled me back under. I watched my relationships dissolve. My career collapsed. The money ran out. What remained was a version of myself I barely recognized, held together by the only thing I had left: a desperate, quiet sense that there had to be something I hadn't tried yet.
That's what took me to Hermosillo, Mexico. Not hope — I had very little of that. It was more like surrender. I had nothing left to lose, and someone told me about a ceremony that had changed their life. I didn't believe it would work. I just believed that I had run out of other options.
When the medicine met me, my ego — the part of me that had carried decades of shame, self-destruction, and pain — simply dissolved. Gone. What remained was something I had no name for. A presence. A light. An intelligence that was vast and unconditionally loving, and somehow knew me completely. For the first time in my life I did not feel broken. I felt seen. I felt forgiven — not by someone outside me, but by something that was both greater than me and inseparable from me.
I saw my life with absolute clarity. The wounds that had driven the pattern. The beliefs I had carried without knowing it. The person I actually was beneath all of it. I wept. Not from grief — from recognition.
It didn't happen in a single ceremony. Transformation rarely does. It took returning to the medicine, sitting in that sacred space again and again, letting the light root itself layer by layer. But something had fundamentally changed after that first encounter. The pull — the hollow, relentless pull that had ruled my life for years — began to lose its grip. Not through force of will. Through understanding.
This church exists so that you don't have to travel to another country to find it. So that the healing that saved my life might save yours too.
Francisco
Founder, The Singularity Church of the Toad and Breathwork · San Antonio, Texas
“The ceremony is not the healing. The ceremony is the opening. What you do with that opening — that is the work.”— Lineage Teaching, Hermosillo
Our founding principles
Lineage Over Trend
Our ceremonies are rooted in living traditions — not reconstructed from books or weekend trainings. The lineage we carry was transmitted in person, over years, by people who received it the same way.
Safety as Sacred Obligation
We screen every applicant personally. We turn people away when it is not safe to proceed. We do not treat safety as an obstacle. It is the foundation of everything we do.
Integration Is the Work
The ceremony opens a door. What you do in the weeks and months after determines whether you walk through it. We are with you for that entire process — not just the ceremony itself.
We serve those the system has not reached
Those who have tried everything the system offers and still feel something essential is missing. People in recovery who have run out of other options. Those carrying invisible wounds that conventional treatment has not reached.