Don Gardel
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.
Now in the center he combines all the ancestral medicinese available: mambè, rapè, yopo etc.
Upcoming Programs by Don Gardel
Plant diet (2 weeks)
Also With Maestra Alicia and Fabrizio
Two weeks is the minimum staying for a plant diet. During the first ayahuasca ceremony you will find out your plant to diet. From the following day, you’ll start your day at 5 a.m. drinking your plant. Twice a week you’ll have an ayahuasca ceremony, where your plant will be added to the brew. And […]
Plant diet (4 weeks)
Also With Maestra Alicia, Fabrizio and The shipibo bros
During the first ayahuasca ceremony you will find out your plant to diet. From the following day, you’ll start your day at 5 a.m. drinking your plant. Twice a week you’ll have an ayahuasca ceremony, where your plant will be added to the brew. According to your feelings we can change to other plants. Usually […]
Plant diet (6 weeks)
Also With Maestra Alicia, Fabrizio and The shipibo bros
During the first ayahuasca ceremony you will find out your plant to diet. From the following day, you’ll start your day at 5 a.m. drinking your plant. Twice a week you’ll have an ayahuasca ceremony, where your plant will be added to the brew. According to your feelings we can change to other plants. Usually […]
Kambo teaching
The Kambo course led by Don Gardel offers a distinctive and immersive experience that sets it apart from others: Authentic Training: Under the guidance of Don Gardel, who has over 20 years of experience and learned directly from the Matses tribe in Peru, participants engage in hands-on training, including ethically sourcing frogs in their natural […]
Ayahuasca ceremonies (one week)
Also With Maestra Alicia
Under the caring guidance of Don Gardel or the maestra Alicia, ceremonies take place twice a week. They last from 3 hours to all night depending on the group. Many locals come to join these ceremonies which have successfully helped some of them defeat alcoholism. We prefer to work with small group: maximum 10 people […]
Plant medicine lessons
Also With Fabrizio and Maestra Alicia
You will be introduced to the vast universe of Amazonian medicinal plants in a month. Don Gardel will accompany you as you search the jungle for plants while teaching you about their name, characteristics, and uses. You'll learn how to prepare ayahuasca as well as how to use the different add-mixtures. You'll discover how to […]
Tryptamine Palace
Also With Fabrizio
Early in the morning on the first day, you'll have a kambo cleansing. We'll hold a mambe' ceremony in the evening to set the intentions for the remaining days of the week. Ayahuasca ritual combined with rapè the day after. Following day the yopo ritual. Take a day off. Ayahuasca ceremony follows. Next, you'll give […]