Breathwork or Ayahuasca

For several years, I had the honor of traveling and working alongside a Colombian Taita, an indigenous Yagé shaman from an Amazonian lineage. Each ceremony was different. People from all walks of life came together—individuals, families, couples, entire communities. And every time, I witnessed the same thing: real transformation through surrender.

Much of that transformation came through the medicine itself. Yagé, a powerful variant of ayahuasca found in the jungles of Colombia, carries an immense energetic and spiritual force.

As the Taita’s assistant, my role went far beyond logistics. I translated between Spanish and English, but more importantly, I translated meaning—bridging the Taita’s messages and ancestral wisdom so each participant could truly receive them. I supported people physically and energetically throughout the night: helping them move, find water, tissues, or their bucket, all while holding the ceremonial container.

At the same time, I was drinking the medicine myself, in service. Even while supporting others, there were moments of deep personal transformation. You don’t stand in that field—night after night—without being changed by it.

Over more than 20 ceremonies, held across California, Colorado, and deep in the Putumayo jungle of Colombia, where the Taitas live, this work shaped me profoundly.

From Plant Medicine to Breathwork

Eventually, that depth of healing led me somewhere unexpected: breathwork.

A friend guided me through my first session, and what happened stunned me. I cried. I screamed. My body activated, locked up, and then released stored trauma I didn’t even know I was carrying.

My mind couldn’t understand it:

This came from breathing?

That’s when the question arose:

What if I could facilitate ceremonies with the same intentionality, ritual, and energetic integrity—but without plant medicine?

What if the breath itself was the medicine?

Holotropic breathwork was originally developed in the 1960s as a legal alternative to psychedelic therapy during the War on Drugs. But the practice is far older. Hyperventilatory breathing techniques have been used for thousands of years in Kundalini Yoga, Kriya Yoga, and rebirthing traditions as pathways to expanded states of consciousness.

Suddenly, everything connected.

Breathwork as Ceremony (and Energy Work)

I began facilitating breathwork not as a class, but as ceremony.

Over time, my approach naturally integrated multiple disciplines I had studied and embodied, including:

• Holotropic and conscious connected breathwork

• Kundalini Yoga breath and kriya principles

• Reiki and Pranic Healing, to support energetic flow and safety

• Nervous system regulation and trauma awareness

• NLP, presence, and communication training

• Years of observing master facilitators across traditions

• And the intentional use of voice, cadence, and silence as guiding tools

Energy moves where attention goes. Breath opens the door—but how the space is held determines how deep people can go.

This is where my background in public speaking and facilitation matters. Guiding people through altered states requires clarity, confidence, attunement, and timing. The voice becomes an anchor. The words become cues for safety and surrender.

What Is Breathwork Really For?

The purpose of breathwork isn’t the technique itself.It’s to plant a seed of consciousness.

Breathwork, mushrooms, ayahuasca, San Pedro, prayer, near-death experiences, deep meditation, yoga—these are all doorways. Ways of awakening to energy, awareness, and truth.

Fear of death—and fear of feeling—keeps us trapped. But when we face these edges safely, with presence and the right tools, something opens.

I believe this path can be approached progressively, rather than jumping straight into the deepest waters:

1. Breathwork and yoga

2. Holotropic breathwork

3. Mushrooms

4. LSD

5. San Pedro

6. Ayahuasca / Yagé

7. Bufo (5-MeO-DMT)

In that sense, breathwork is often the first step—accessible, powerful, and deeply transformative, without introducing external substances.

Why I Do This Work

This work began in California, expanded through Europe and Norway, and has now brought me home to Peru.

My calling isn’t just to serve visitors or spiritual seekers from abroad, but to support Latin Americans—especially Peruvians—in reconnecting with their own capacity to heal.

Breathwork is the most direct, efficient, and embodied way I know to do that.

My mission is simple:to contribute to the evolution of consciousness, using the most fundamental tool we all carry—our breath.

Because it helps people.

Because it fulfills me.

And because when guided with integrity, breathing can change a life.