Antonio Guerrero,

I began my learning path with Ayahuasca and the healing plants in the Amazon. I used to spend some of the time living with the Ayahuasca Masters in their homes (some were located within indigenous communities). I started to learn by doing daily activities such as walking through the forest with the Ayahuasca Masters, picking plants to prepare medicines, cooking Ayahuasca, and purging. As if I were a kid again, I learned again how to use my senses. Through the Ayahuasca, the daily life experiences and a lot of patience, my Masters taught me about the deep and vast wisdom of nature, about the great importance of being connected with the environment, and with the present. Even though they know so much about the Amazon through their traditional knowledge and their many life experiences, the medicines and the Master plants, one of their greatest teachings is how “invisible” they can be through their humble way of being and sharing. They never look proud of all what they know. As they say “We grow like trees, holding onto the teachings with the roots of our traditions, while connecting with the light of understanding, growing and purging”. Thanks to Don Ignacio Duri Palomeque, Don Alonso Del Rio (Popoquatl), Don Lucio Tayakope (Oambaiorokeri), Don Roberto Masia Sehue (Shaejame), Don Edilberto Vargas (Master Bechin), Don Edinson Panduro for your teachings and inspiration during the ceremony of life.

I came to the Amazon rainforest to do conservation of the endangered Amazonian Eagles in 1995. The eagle’s presence brought me to live in different Indigenous Communities, where I had the great opportunity to learn from my masters. It was amazing when understanding how everything in nature is connected and so well related in spite of all their differences. When living with nature and the Amazonian traditions, Ayahuasca is always close. I continue learning through Ayahuasca, healing myself, opening my consciousness to the mystery and wisdom of the rainforest to clarify my visions. Ayahuasca helps me to create integral projects that allow the promotion of the welfare between society and the Amazon environment.

The Sowewankeri Amazon Healing Centre staffs are local people who live as a family group. We offer the experience of living the way we live here in the Amazon, such as being able to interact with us during the daily work activities, and also with our neighbours in the local community where the Centre is located.

The Sowewankeri Family evolves with each new life experience that we are privileged to be a part of. Every person who comes and shares their own change with us; every effort given to the healing process at each of the ceremonies, is our motivation to keep on walking in health and peace.

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