“I was born in a country but found my life in another. Later it happened again, I was reborn in midlife through yet another country. From the first time I set foot in Peru I knew this country would somehow be part of my destiny.

I found many human teachers that made that life possible. They were the People of the Anaconda for me. And I met many plant teachers. It was a bit like entering a time machine that takes you back to a time of wonder, a place I should always have been in, and maybe was, unbeknownst. Being in a tambo with a mere roof, no walls and a mosquito net over my bed and hammock, I felt at home.

The wind of destiny swept through my life many times and I was granted a view into the window of the future, the world of spirit that was just beyond my grasp, and a healing journey unlike any other.

Returning to the forest, the sound of monkeys and birds around me, reminds me of the possibility to find this space inside myself, when I perform my shamanic  work, taking others into this forest of the soul. I have a deep sense of gratitude for finding this path within me and turn it into the purpose of my life, as I discover pristine places of myself, undiscovered territories and possibilities, unchartered maps of the soul in humanity.

The dark brown waters of the jungle come alive with the icaros of the Anaconda, Yacumama, Ronin ewe, challenging us to become better human beings.

The Amazon transformed my life, inside and out. I’ve learned to operate on different levels of reality. It is a challenge but also the journey I long for with all my heart, while I also care for my loving family.  I have evolved to work with the four elements and animal kingdom though later initiations in the Andes.

The simplest things are also the most difficult in the troubling times we live in.

Gracias Madre, Gracias Padre, Gracias Ancestritos”

Sankan Usna