“Prosperity and Abundance” Ayahuasca Retreat with Taita Querubín Queta Alvarado

✦ Mama Ana Jamioy

Mama Ana is a traditional doctor and herbalist with more than 50 years of experience with Ayahuasca medicine. She is part of the Inga tribe, and has inherited her vocation from the family lineage since childhood, continuing her apprenticeship with numerous masters until the moment of her "coronation". She is truly blessed to receive medicine through the depths of feminine energy, something not very common in Colombian tradition.

✦ Taita Humberto Díaz

he trained with Taita Querubín Queta in the Cofán Jardines de Sucumbíos reserve for more than 25 years. He was his yagé cook and accompanied him for several years on his tours of different communities and cities in the country. His ceremonies are very powerful and strong, guided with great wisdom. The Taita (and his assistant) plays the guitar during the ceremony.

✦ Taita Querubín Queta Alvarado

El Taita Querubin is the main indigenous leader and curaca of the Cofán indigenous community of the Colombian Amazon. Born in the Colombian Amazon in 1929 in San Antonio del Guamuéz in the department of Putumayo. This year will celebrate 109th birthday. He has served as spiritual leader of his community for many years and taught many students the shamanic mastery of the Yagé (among his best students are Taita Humberto Diaz and Taita Gavino Gareta). He has extensive international experience, just to mention a few of them: Seattle partecipation in a human rights conference; Bolivia to advise the Aymara Indigenous Communities on institutional strengthening; United Nations meeting in Seville, Spain, on article 8-J on biological diversity; Geneva, on health policies prepared by the world health organization in 1999 and was a special guest at a meeting of experts on traditional knowledge ( UNCTAD ) in 2000. He also participated in the conference conference on the topic of Peace, Human Rights, and International Humanitarian Law for Colombia, in San José, Costa Rica.

✦ Taita Victoriano Piaguaje Yaiguaje

Ancestral physician of the Siona tribe of lower Putumayo. He was instructed by his father Laureano Piaguaje (now deceased at the age of more than 107 years). Taita Victoriano has a deep connection with nature and its guardian spirits, dedicating his life to studying the university of the jungle (as he calls it) through the science of Yagé. He is a very powerful shaman who through Yagé's visions is able to analyze his patients. The ceremonies are conducted only through his Icaros.

✦ Taita Gavino Garreta Chindoy

Taita Gavino is a shaman and indigenous authority of the Inga tribe. He was born into a family of doctors and herbalists and as a child he began his apprenticeship with his father, and then continued with the greatest Cofan masters of Putumayo including Taita Fernando Mendua, Taita Guillermo Lucitante and finally he bacame one of the best student of Taita Querubin Queta Alvarado. He celebrates his ancestral ceremonies together with his life partner mama Fanny.