Facilitators & Medicine Guides

Rooted in the Wanka Nation of the Central Andes, Puka brings a profound connection to Peru's ancestral wisdom and the Andean Cosmovision passed down through generations. With academic expertise in music therapy, philosophy, archaeology, and psychology, he blends traditional Andean-Amazonian shamanism with modern therapeutic practices. Having trained in Amazonian plant medicine and healing chants (Ikaros) under a master healer, Puka has spent years facilitating transformative retreats across Europe and Latin America. With a deep commitment to honesty, respect, and humility, Puka will guide participants through profound journeys of healing and personal growth, offering a unique opportunity to experience the ancient traditions of Sumak Kawsay ('The Good Living') in the heart of Mexico.

Pablo is the founder of Yawarapu Non-governmental organization for the preservation of medicines, customs, and life of the Piaroa tribe of Venezuela.

Pablo studied extensively under the tutelage of Grandfather José Antonio Bolivar, the senior shaman of the Piaroa people, since 2011. Since then, Pablo has been carrying medicine as his healing service to create an experience of consciousness expansion.

Amina Tezkatlahuiz a Mexican native with more than 13 years of experience in both service and study on the Ayahuasca path.  She is a dedicated moondancer, temazcalera, and a practitioner of El Camino Rojo, a respected lineage of Toltec healing and wisdom ways.

In addition to her experience in Amazonian healing, she is trained in Structural Energy Awakening, Chi Nei Tsieng (Taoist abdominal massage), and holds a Masters of Psychotherapy from the University of Salamanca, Spain.

With her diverse skill set and wealth of experience, Amina works at the intersection of both shamanic and western healing ways.

John is a lifelong student, citizen scientist, and human performance coach. His experience as a personal trainer, massage therapist, and health coach, allow him to integrate a wide range of knowledge and skills into his work.

John is continuously developing unique methods for helping people harness flow and experience peak performance, unlimited creativity, and self-mastery. He is dedicated to finding the most effective training tools, techniques, and technology for optimizing the mind, body, and spirit.

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Kat’s passion is to create experiences that spark connection, joy and growth. She is an ecstatic dance facilitator, movement & medicine teacher, singer, and modern mystic.

Kat has spent the last 10 years teaching yoga, studying eastern philosophy, performing energy work, and incorporating other therapies. She discovered that what people seek most is connection.

Luke is a wellness retreat facilitator and ceremonialist with over 10 years experience in creating safe spaces for group and individual healing.  He serves his community as an Integrative Health Practitioner, Kambo facilitator, ceremonial musician, massage therapist, breath-worker, QiGong & meditation guide.  His passion for the sacred healing arts have led him to immersive studies in Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Nepal, Costa Rica, Mexico, and the United States.

Joy is a medicine woman with over 30 years of experience in facilitation with sacred medicines, Joy has walked the path of many sacred traditions of the Colombian, Peruvian, and Brazilian shamanism. Along with her extensive experience in serving Bufo Alvarius, she brings a wealth of wisdom of esoteric Buddhist practices, and teaches from a place of gratitude, kindness, and care.

Charlotte’s life mission is to support you to live your deepest truth and potential,  and to guide you through the transformative processes that lead you there.  For 15 years she has created and facilitated programs for inner growth, spiritual growth, conscious relationships, healing and transformation.

Charlotte is a dedicated facilitator and integration counselor for psychedelic experiences and her own journey with altered states of consciousness, healing,  and energy work makes her an experienced guide for the integration of your journey into everyday life. Charlotte is also a leadership trainer and entrepreneur in the corporate world for 20 years.

Depending on your needs and situation, Charlotte guides you through the process with a holistic approach, which can include: Transformational coaching and soul listening, healing and energy work, body-sensing, NLP coaching  and hypno-coaching.

Elisabetta is a versatile guide and therapist with a multidisciplinary approach. She has been guiding seekers on their journey to self-discovery for over a decade, weaving together various practices, modalities, and esoteric traditions, offering a wealth of experience in personal and spiritual development.

Drawing from more than twenty years of devoted personal growth and spiritual exploration, along with extensive studies and training, she serves as intuitive guide, psychotherapist, psychological astrologer, educator, and medicine integration guide, with particular attention on trauma awareness and focus on the embodiment of authenticity.

Elisabetta is an initiated medicine woman, bringing extensive knowledge and expertise as a Bufo facilitator, placing special emphasis on safety and therapeutic effectiveness. Leading with a holistic approach, radical acceptance, humor, and a grounded presence, she ensures that every aspect of the journey is meaningful and empowering.

With a highly personalized and heart-centered approach, Alexa will empower you with the tools and practices essential for continued growth and self-discovery. Through both talk therapy and experiential based mindfulness, Alexa utilizes modalities of Depth Psychology, Internal Family Systems, Relational/ Cultural, and Yin Yoga Therapy with techniques of nervous system entrainment, neuroscience-psychoeducation, and the appropriate implementation of mythology, ritual, and ancestral connection.

Alexa serves as a psychedelic integration counselor, creativity coach, grief companion, ceremony facilitator and death doula by implementing her Masters in Holistic Counseling & Eco-Expressive Arts, a Bachelor degree in Humanistic Psychology (Brown University), and ten years on the path of ritual healing, grief processing, and plant medicine.

Paul's mission is to help others maximize the beneficial effects of psychedelic experiences, with a focus on proper preparation and integration. In the late nineties he started organizing sessions with Psilocybin truffles, Salvia Divinorum, Ayahuasca, San Pedro and other psychedelics in small groups.

He completed his Master’s of Psychology, specializing in the field of drugs and addictions at Utrecht University,  where he conducted research around the safety of Psilocybin and wrote his thesis on Ayahuasca in ritual and therapeutic settings.

His coaching style is  based on his background in psychology, coaching, meditation, breathwork and of course his own experiences of using psychedelics for professional, personal, and spiritual growth. He will be there along the way to provide guidance and confidence to help you develop the trust, strength, and feeling of security necessary for an effective and purposeful journey of growth and change.

Philip is a certified life coach through The Life Coach School, and a trained emotional release facilitator with The Sedona Method. His gift is helping others to open their hearts and allow deeper contentment, beauty, and abundance into their lives. He has been blessed with the opportunity to expand his consciousness through Ayahuasca, Psilocybin, Bufo, Changa, and other plants. For the last 2 years, he has focused primarily on coaching others through their own medicine journeys.

Philip’s approach is rooted in radical empowerment and healing the relationship with oneself. Working with him, you’ll learn the essential tools and concepts you need to transform your problems and challenges into fuel for your evolution.

Beyond coaching, Philip is a retreat facilitator, musician, and Kirtan leader.

Justine is an author, speaker and master coach. She combines her therapeutic background with powerful coaching tools to help her clients get the best and most efficient results. Justine mostly works with executives and business owners, helping them in various areas of their life (work, relationships, mental health, body image, healthy living, etc). She works with the body, mind and emotions to support her clients in experiencing a more integrated healing and transformation.

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She facilitates one-on-one and group Ayahuasca journeys as well as supports individuals and couples in the preparatory and integration phases. Over the last 15 years of extensive studies and direct experience she has learned to help people become more embodied, empowered and accountable and live a more fulfilled and meaningful life. Justine also does private couples coaching and runs group programs to help men and women understand themselves and each other so that they can move past their triggers and unhealthy patterns and move into greater love, understanding, and attraction.

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With a long-standing interest in healing an wellbeing, Sean trained and registered as a psychologist in Australia and later as a Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapist in the UK, supporting people working with various common mental health conditions including depression, trauma (PTSD), and various other mood and anxiety problems.

He is known for his compassionate and down to earth manner. After beginning his work with ayahuasca and other plant medicines in 2011 he moved to Peru in 2015 working at one of the most respected ayahuasca centres there along with the facilitating a successful workshop series called Mindfulness and the Medicine.

Samantha Alvarez earned a Master’s degree in nursing in 2009, and worked as a Family NP in an underserved community of Arizona from 2010 to 2017. She then left medicine for a season to heal her own healthcare burnout. She missed patient care too much to stay away, though, and accepted an orthopedic position in her native Wisconsin.

In April 2020, Samantha leapt into the mouth of the dragon - she joined the COVID-19 Pandemic Disaster Relief NP Strike Team in New York City. She worked in Emergency Rooms and Intensive Care Units throughout the following several years in Vermont, Texas and New York.

Samantha adores travel, singing, mindfulness, culture and learning new things, especially languages. She can converse in half a dozen or so languages at any given time. She currently lives in the Caribbean country of Grenada, where she studies medicine and healing.