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Support Team
Paullo Q'ente
Paullo is dedicated to sharing his ancestry and sacred knowledge with the world. He believes it is our mission to understand and accept the presence of the divine energy in every one of us, and in doing so we will inherit the great presence of this energy in our being, our home, our daily affairs, and in our world. He knows Peru profoundly and is well versed in guiding people from all over the world along the powerful sites of the Andes, while detailing the rich history of the Incan Empire. He is an Andean Master of many sacred rituals and spiritual ceremonies and is a true blessing to both his students and his heritage.
Jo-El Nahual Altair
Jo-El is a Taino spiritual mentor, experience alchemist, entheogen researcher and psychedelic plant and fungi guide, empowering others to transform their lives for the better. Founder of The City of Light Evolutionary Journeys and Kawsaytika Vegan and Vegetarian Restaurant, both in The Sacred Valley of Peru, his mission is to share the ancient knowledge and cultures of the world and bring light and awareness to global issues. His passion lies in creating evolutionary and life changing experiences for humanity and is a true example that the Universe smiles to those who see the beauty in all things.
Marcial Isamani
Maestro Marcial Isamani is a Shipibo Conibo elder who shares the indigenous Shipibo healing traditions of dietas with many healing plants and Ayahuasca. The Shipibo have a long history with shamanism. Through many years or even decades of training and intensive plant dietas, master curanderos emerged from the tribe. Working with energy, they are able to cure a wide array of ailments from physical to psycho-spiritual. Using focused energy work and icaros, they access the spirit world during ayahuasca ceremonies to create a harmonized environment to facilitate healing. As a result, patients in their circle are able to gain self awareness, self-actualize, do shadow work, and heal trauma.
The Shipibo believe that our overall health is the result of a balance of body, mind, and spirit. Each plant they work with contains a specific and unique healing energy, which they channel vibrationally into the healing songs or icaros. These songs act as a conduit to facilitate the plant medicines in their ability to heal.
Antonio Cuevas
Antonio is Cacique (chief) of a Yucayeke (an Afro-Taino village) in New York City. He is a medicine man with a strong Taino lineage, originally from the island of Puerto Rico. He is best known for his passion for truths and for his hands-on involvement in helping awaken his own community by helping uncover their resilient strengths. Antonio believes in the power of the plant medicine Spirits and the empowering messages they bring to the people of his communities. He highlights the integration of the lessons given by the medicines during ceremonies. He works with people one-on-one, in group settings, social and sacred medicine circles - locally, nation-wide, and internationally. His soul’s quest is to continue to be a humble and dedicated vessel for the insights and knowledge of Divine sacred medicines in all communities around the globe.
Ivalisse Rozon
MS, LMHC
I am a NYS licensed psychotherapist of Afro-Caribbean and Taino ancestry. My graduate education and professional background is in health psychology and clinical mental health counseling, and trauma-informed clinical practices. I work with adults and couples who are struggling with depression, anxiety, trauma, chronic stress, overcoming substance abuse and addictions, chronic medical conditions, relationship difficulties, and challenging life transitions. For over a decade I have been serving as a clinician in behavioral health research at NYU Grossman School of Medicine working with patients from Veterans Affairs hospitals, Bellevue Hospital Center, and NYU Langone Medical Center.
My approach is integrative and collaborative with an emphasis on cultural competence. I draw from insight-oriented interpersonal therapy, client-centered, CBT, MI, and attachment-based therapy. I also facilitated 1:1 preparation and integration for entheogenic medicine journeys. I personalize my work to best suit each individual’s needs. I incorporate principles that foster ancestral healing, self-awareness, resilience, mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and self-efficacy.
The right therapeutic relationship can be a powerful experience. It provides people with opportunities for gaining self-knowledge that can lead to living a more reasonable life, with a renewed sense of freedom and fulfillment.
Renée Burwell, LCSW, MPA, CST-S, CSE
Renée is a skilled psychotherapist and educator with specializations in couple’s work, sex therapy and trauma. Her goal is to help individuals, families, and communities heal and become more authentically themselves. She has studied psychedelic assisted therapy with the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. She believes strongly in the power of plant medicine and other forms of psychedelic medicines in healing current and generational trauma.
Renée holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Spelman College, a Master of Social Work and Master of Public Administration from the University of Southern California, a Post Graduate Certificate in Sex Therapy and Education from the University of Michigan, and is AASECT certified as a sex therapist, supervisor and educator.
Vanessa Hannah Bright
L.Ac, L.P.
I am a licensed therapist and spiritual mentor and I have been exploring the realms of Plant Spirit medicine both personally and professionally. I see this as accelerating the therapeutic process like a rocket ship compared to talk therapy alone. It is often said that the real work begins after you return home from the ceremony, and this is very true -- yet that work can be difficult or impossible to do on one's own. These Master Plant Teachers (such as Ayahuasca, Huachuma, and others) require many layers of integration work following the ceremonies, and my work includes helping people with that deep, rich, and often massively challenging process. As someone who holds these medicines close to my own heart, I am honored to work with those who have had the courage to sit with them in ceremony and receive their teachings.
This healing process unfolds in a safe space that includes careful exploration of your feelings and experiences, and learning to read the volumes that our body-mind-soul communicates to us that we often don't know how to interpret. I also use my background in holistic healing (I am a licensed acupuncturist) and energy work as part of my therapeutic practice.
Evelyn Viviana
Evelyn is a renowned life coach, healer, and spiritual light energy worker born in Peru and driven by the calling of inner light in her spirit. She is committed to her own awakening as well as to the calling of Spirit to help humanity awaken to their own powers and inner wisdom, one person at a time. Evelyn is a certified teacher of Awaken the Illuminated Heart (ATIH) and has completed dozens of Vision Quests with guardians of Indigenous knowledge as a seeker and student of spiritual truths for healing, and psychic transformation. She is a leader in imparting shamanic wisdom and esoteric knowledges, much of which are found in Indigenous traditions, through her decades of teaching and leading retreats, meditations, shamanic breath-work, workshops, spiritual and mystic journeys to sacred sites throughout the world. She now works with a dynamic team of shamanic light workers, spiritual teachers, healers, and humble servants of the Divine Spirit to expand on the journeys of many spiritual seekers.
She is a direct student of the world-renowned author and esoteric teacher Drunvalo Melchizedek, and is a certified student of his “School of Remembering” She credits the honor of learning directly from him to gaining a deeper understanding of her synergistic gifts and abilities of imparting the teachings learned in her own life’s spiritual journey onto her students. Evelyn is a highly intuitive and sensitive eternal student of the light, who has become finely attuned to the voice of inner wisdom and of Spirit. She is a rare teacher of shamanic wisdom and the art of esoteric knowledge. Her greatest delight is in being a witness to the growth of her students as they remember who they really are, and embrace their path of ultimate fulfillment in experiencing the divine rapture found in Spirit, life, and love.
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