My Story
My relationship with plants began long before I ever sat in ceremony or crafted my first botanical remedy.
I grew up in a beautiful garden tended by my mother. Attached to our cozy family home, it was a place of color, fragrance and life. My mother was raising five children, cooking fresh meals daily, baking bread and cakes, and caring for our family. She rarely had time to stop and play, but the garden was where she could breathe, where she could simply be with the plants. It was there that I learned how to connect with her and with the natural world.
Today, caring for my own garden by the river remains one of my greatest joys. Tending the soil, nurturing life and witnessing the rhythms of nature continue to teach me some of life's deepest lessons.
At eighteen, I encountered one of my greatest teachers: Ayahuasca. I was amazed by the possibility of learning directly from the plants in such a profound and tangible way. Having spent much of my childhood living in my mind, trying to understand experiences that felt difficult to make sense of, the plants offered me another path. They invited me into presence, into feeling, into relationship with life itself.
Since then, plants have remained my most consistent teachers.
A Path That Continued to Unfold
What began with that first encounter gradually became a path.
Over the years, my relationship with plant medicine deepened through ceremony, personal healing and traditional plant dietas. An important part of this journey has been my relationship with the López Sánchez family of Shipibo healers, with whom I have had the privilege of dieting and learning from the plants within their tradition.
These experiences have shaped me deeply. The plants became not simply something I worked with, but part of an ongoing relationship - one that continues to teach me about healing, presence, humility and the ways we meet life.
Eventually, this path also brought me into accompanying others. For many years, I have had the privilege of supporting people through plant medicine experiences and, increasingly, through the quieter and often more challenging work of bringing what was received back into everyday life.
My own healing remains an essential part of this journey. I don't experience this work as something I have mastered, but as a path I continue to walk - one that keeps asking me to listen, learn and live more deeply what the plants have shown me.
Walking with the Plants
Through years of ceremonial work, study, personal practice and plant dietas, I have come to understand that healing is not only something that happens in ceremony.
It unfolds through the ways we meet ourselves and our lives every day. Through ritual. Through prayer. Through conscious movement. Through stillness. Through our relationships with one another and with the living world around us.
This understanding is at the heart of the way I live and the way I work.
My relationship with plants has also continued beyond ceremony. I grow and tend plants in my garden, make botanical preparations, and have become increasingly interested in the ways plants can accompany us through simple, everyday rituals of care.
For me, these are not separate worlds. They arise from the same relationship with nature - one based not only on what we receive, but on attention, respect and reciprocity.