About us
We are the group of transpersonal practitioners dedicated to the work of holistic transformation and healing. Our team has a comprehensive background of apprenticeship and has practiced with shamanic plants, mindfulness and a range of transpersonal therapies. Our work is built on the intention of serving others by skillful use of natural medicines and sacred plants and giving guidance with efficient and direct methods, relevant to Eastern traditions (Yoga and Dzogchen or Great Perfection). Instead of promoting any particular religious or spiritual ways, we offer the universal values of healing through learning to relate to oneself and the other with openness and connecting to one’s inner teacher.
What is valued the most in our work, is the readiness for personal growth within honesty to oneself and willingness to understand. These aspects are cultivated by the direct experience and insights gained during our journeys in Peru. The essential part of the journeys are the Workshops and Retreats with the Peruvian sacred plants and medicine plants, mainly Ayahuasca and San Pedro.
The main point of the healing work is focused on providing profound and safe experience at first place and then to go beyond the experience itself, emphasizing the value of its integrity in one’s current life.
Edmunds Jakovels
The journey begun in my childhood, when I was given air, food, the family, and the society with its education, its values and its rules. The more information that I accumulated, the more that I found myself questioning it. In witnessing the struggle that so often accompanied one’s standing for his ideas, as well as witnessing the need to conceal certain taboos of society, the more curious I became, to investigate the basis of these ideas and taboos. A significant part of the investigation involved the sacred plants or the spirit plants.
The most meaningful moments in my childhood, that initiated my search in later years, were the frequent experiences of personality surrender and full inner silence. These experiences put into question even more so the common ideas of society and deepened my interest in a search for the essence of life.
This search didn’t give a concrete result in terms of revealing ‘one thing’ or “one path” as the truth or the ultimate answer. While continuously connecting to the wisdom rooted in such traditions as Integral Yoga and Dzogchen (Great Perfection), Amazon tradition of Ayahuasca medicine, the search is resting in the view to all teachings and traditions being valid and relative at the same time. Also I’m deeply thankful for the realizations and teachings coming from Eastern masters like Guru Rinpoche, Loongchenpa, Kalu Rinpoche, Thich Nhat Hanh, Dalai Lama and some others who’s name will be left unknown.
It is clear for me, that all people have in common few simple aspects – we are having some experience, we relate to it, we deeply wish it to be pleasant, but it is not possible to have it in an independent, closed shell of a personality. Hence the continuous, sustainable wellbeing can’t be enclosed in our Self, it is by fact unconfined and interdependent as the awareness. In this light, the focus of my search and work lies in clearing out of the obstacles obscuring the Direct Experience that is by nature available to everyone, but is covered by distraction on the ideas and restless thinking. In the Direct Experience, which can be awakened with the help of special methods of meditation, contemplation and the sacred plant journeys, we enter the clarity and awareness of what is missing for living in healthy relationships with ourselves and others. We uncover the interdependence of the personal realm of individuality and the transpersonal realm of human community and see the unlimited possibilities arising from that awareness.
It is a Direct Path and realization of our Unconfined Nature, uncovering itself as a glue that melts the line of separation between individuality and the other, turning the “limiting shell of Self” from being a prison into serving as a vessel for connecting and relating. This approach allows to see that the “seeds and fruits” from different traditions and paths are all “coming from the same field”. It became a journey along an unconfined path, that is a journey allowing the inexpressible truths to be discovered as I walk, having as a map the fresh unfolding of now. Rather than headed towards some final destination or ultimate goal, it is an expression of continuous apprenticeship of putting down the fence of obstacles for seeing, loving and understanding the other.
Antonio Fernandini
When beginning our learning path with Ayahuasca and the healing plants in the Amazon, we lived at that time for some periods with our Ayahuasca Masters in their homes, some of them living in Indigenous Communities. That is the way I began, engaged in the daily activities of their lifestyle, walking with them in the forest as we gathered plants for the medicinal preparations, then cooking the Ayahuasca, drinking this sacred medicine, and purging.
As a child, I had learned how to use my senses in exploring the wonders of our world. Later as an adult, through the Ayahuasca and the daily living experiences, and through much patience, my Masters were rekindling in me this ability, by teaching me about the deep and vast wisdom of nature, as well as about the great importance of being connected with the environment and with the present. Even though they have so much traditional knowledge from living in the Amazon and through their lifetime of personal experiences with the Master plants and other plant medicines, one of their greatest teachings is how invisible they can be with their humble way of existing and way of sharing. They never display any trace of self-importance nor arrogance despite all that they know.
As they say, “We grow like trees, remembering the teachings with the roots of our traditions, connected with the light when understanding and growing”. Tremendous thanks to Don Ignacio Duri Palomeque, Don Alonso Del Rio (Popoquatl), Don Lucio Tayakope (Oambaiorokeri), Don Roberto Masia Sehue (Shaejame), Don Edilberto Vargas (Master Bechín), Don Edinson Panduro for your teachings, your wisdom and your inspiration during the ceremony of my life.
I came to the Amazon rainforest to do conservation work with the endangered Amazonian Eagles in 1995. The eagle’s presence brought me to live in different Indigenous Communities, where I had the unique opportunity to learn from a great variety of jungle masters. It was astounding to come to the understanding that everything in nature is connected and so deeply related despite their obvious differences. When living with nature and the Amazonian Traditions, Ayahuasca was always close. I work to open my consciousness to the mystery and wisdom of the rainforest, to be able to understand more from the eagles, but also to learn how to reconcile the differences and conflicts within myself.
