The goal is to preserve the knowledge of ancestral indigenous medicines and study new therapy modalities with them.
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Fabrizio Beverina
Fabrizio Beverina's background is in biomedical research. He was an expert in brain-computer interaction and emotional computing. He fled the scientific world and studied meditation in Asia. He spent 12 years in China and then travelled to Tibet and India to study with Tibetan Buddhist monks.He is currently conducting research on folk cures while maintaining a scientific perspective. He lived with several shamans in Colombia, Peru, and Brazil, where he learned a great deal about therapeutic herbs. Here, he also teaches meditation, chi-kung and helps make a variety of ancestral medicines.
Don Gardel angulo vasquez
Don Gardel is from a family of curanderos: his grandfather was one, and his two brothers are shamans as well. He learned ayahuasca from a Shipibo woman (la maestra Alicia) deep down on the river Momon. Now it’s 40 years that Don Gardel has been practicing this medicine. When he was a young man, he had the chance to go to work near Brasil where the Matses people live. There he learned to use kambo. This in combination with his experience and studies as a nurse make of Gardel one of the most famous Kambo healer of Iquitos.
Maestra Alicia
he term "Maestra" (which in this context refers to the teacher) is used to refer to Alicia, who was once Gardel's teacher. Her grandfather was a "tabacchero," a type of curandero who specialized in using tobacco for medical purposes. She was initiated when she was quite young. She has a lot of allies from her years of long-term dieting and extensive knowledge with plant-based therapies. People from the neighbouring villages travel to her for traditional treatments. She is a strong, yet tender woman who acts as a big mama to all of the patients.
daniel & rodrigo
Daniel and Rodriguez are two shipibo brothers from Pucallpa. They come from a traditional shaman family. Daniel was for few year a policeman, then he received the call from ayahuasca and joined his brother in his mission. They come to the center once or twice a month. Their ceremonies are very powerful because the power of the icaros that has been passed on and charged with good intentions for generations. They are young shamans, they know a little bit a bout meditations and other spiritual practices like yoga.