Ceremonial Support Team
Miguel Metsa
Miguel "Metsa" Sánchez Rojas is a traditional healer from the Shipibo-Konibo ethnic group, specializing in the use of Amazonian medicinal plants for healing the body. He currently dedicates himself to helping and healing people suffering from various illnesses, both physical, mental, and spiritual. As a master plant-based healer, he offers plant-based diets and teaches his patients about the path of traditional healing. With over 20 years of experience using medicinal plants, his knowledge is invaluable in the field of traditional medicine.
SHIPIBO-KONIBO
Among the Shipibo-Konibo, knowledge of medicinal plants and their therapeutic uses is extensive and sophisticated. Their traditional knowledge system is based on a deep understanding of the healing properties of various plants, which are classified according to their application in curing specific illnesses or achieving other desired effects, such as altering personality or enhancing specific skills.
Jo-El Nahual Altair
Jo-El is a Taino ceremonial facilitator, spiritual guide, and integration mentor with over 13 years of experience in sacred plant medicine work, supporting individuals through deep processes of healing, remembrance, and transformation. His path has been shaped through direct experience, disciplined practice, and long-term immersion in ancestral wisdom traditions, rather than ideology or performance.
His work spans a wide range of sacred medicines and ceremonial traditions, including psilocybin, Wachuma (San Pedro), Ayahuasca, and Yopo (Cohoba / Anadenanthera). Over the years, Jo-El has guided countless individuals through profound inner journeys, always with an emphasis on safety, integrity, humility, grounded spirituality, and true integration.
Jo-El’s approach to medicine work is rooted in respect for indigenous lineages, cultural integrity, and ethical transmission. He views sacred medicines not as tools for escape, but as teachers of responsibility, clarity, humility, and right relationship — with oneself, with others, and with the Earth. Ceremony, in his understanding, is not performance, but practice. Not spectacle, but discipline. Not consumption, but communion.
Beyond ceremony, Jo-El is devoted to building conscious structures for collective healing, regeneration, and remembrance. His life’s work is dedicated to bridging ancient wisdom with modern consciousness — creating spaces where spirituality becomes lived practice, not identity.
Diego Sánchez Rojas
Diego Sánchez Rojas is a traditional healer from the Shipibo-Konibo ethnic group, specializing in the use of Amazonian medicinal plants for healing the body. He currently dedicates himself to helping and healing people suffering from various illnesses, both physical, mental, and spiritual. As a master plant-based healer, he offers plant-based diets and teaches his patients about the path of traditional healing. With over 20 years of experience using medicinal plants, his knowledge is invaluable in the field of traditional medicine.
SHIPIBO-KONIBO
Among the Shipibo-Konibo, knowledge of medicinal plants and their therapeutic uses is extensive and sophisticated. Their traditional knowledge system is based on a deep understanding of the healing properties of various plants, which are classified according to their application in curing specific illnesses or achieving other desired effects, such as altering personality or enhancing specific skills.
