Meet Us

Meditation Teacher ✧ Plant Medicine Facilitator

Ron Nikel

Ron is a Certified Meditation Mindfulness Teacher. He trained as a Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program (MMTCP) with western meditation pioneers, Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. He has also had the privilege to study under other talented well known teachers such as Vinny Ferarro, Sean Feit Oakes and Pamela Weiss in the San Francisco Bay Area.

He came to the practice of working with sacred plants as medicine after his own journey of healing from PTSD. Ron's transformation and healing came from his mindfulness practice in concert with the support of sacred plant medicines. Bringing these two practices together he saw immediate improvement in his daily life and rapid recovery from his traumatic past, while simultaneously coming into contact with the beauty of his divine being and seeing with more clarity the world around himself. 

Ron's eagerness to learn about this path lead him to work and study with a teacher in North America who has 30 years of experience holding space and training facilitators. Ron's training and practice is rooted in the traditions of the Vedic and South American Traditions of holding ceremony space. Ron is trained in plant medicine facilitation using various plant based medicines to help others heal from PTSD, trauma and other mental health disorders. He found this maximizes the opportunity for positive transformational healing and expanded consciousness for all those who participate in the journey space.

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Ron is continuing his education and working towards a teacher certification with Gabor Maté, renowned addiction expert, speaker and author sought after for his expertise on trauma, addiction, stress and childhood development. The Compassionate Inquiry certificate focuses on using mindfulness to resolve PTSD and trauma.

Somatic Educator ✧ Trauma Therapist ✧ 

Medicine Woman

Natalie

Natalie is a somatic teacher, a certified somatic educator and a certified trauma therapist. She is passionate about teaching women about menstruation cycle wisdom, misogyny and sick imprints of patriarchal spirituality. She is an activist of discovering the meaning of being human, drops down words and trusts in the wisdom of body language. Natalie graduated with well-known teachers and is dedicated to shame and shadow work. Her approach is letting the body, the soma talk, in connection with other beings. Therapeutic dance, group work and 1:1 somatic / bodywork sessions for example are tools she works with.

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Natalie is certified in different breathwork schools and dedicated to in-water rebirthing breathwork experiences. Over the years she developed her own way of breathwork facilitation and called it shamanic bioenergetic breathwork/bodywork.

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Another passion of hers is “re-parenting” the being and re-setting old childhood patterns through working with the nervous system, so a big part of this is the Belly2Belly meditation practice she teaches internationally, which we will be blessed to experience.

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On a long way to herself and overcoming many childhood traumas, Natalie discovered Kambo and after countless treatments and the resulting physical and mental detoxification, she was given a new life, with a universal consciousness. Even her acquired diseases such as Lyme disease and Epstein-Barr virus were no longer detectable after Kambo. It made her distance herself from the outdated concept of western medicine in the industrial world. The frog energy fascinated Natalie so much that it became a passion.

Natalie completed several Kambo training courses in Costa Rica, Poland and Thailand, among others, and she is part of the International Association of Kambo Practitioners (IAKP). As a certified IAKP Kambo Advanced Practitioner, she is grateful to be able to work internationally with the frog energy.

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Natalie’s mission is to help as many people as possible by working with the frog. She is sure that you will discover your enthusiasm for this spiritual energy as well. The advantages of a Kambo session can be explained by her or her team in a non-binding preliminary talk.

In a personal consultation we will clarify together whether Kambo is right for you. Treatment is only given if the indications are correct and there are no contraindications.

Kambo is not a savior – not conventional medicine, not a recognized healing method according to the views of western recognized medicine. Your help is required during the Kambo session, as this is the only way to ensure a holistic approach that ultimately results in your well-being.

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Amphibians were always Natalie´s passion; when she was a child, she felt in love with frogs and toads and until now they always find her wherever she goes.

A couple years ago Natalie has heard the first call to sit with Bufo so she followed. Over the years the call went louder and louder and the more she´s been working on herself the nearer and louder the medicine invited her to work with. Natalie trusted Spirit and followed the call. She worked in a feminine deep way with her teacher and the medicine in Colombia and has been initiated by the medicine itself and her teacher.

Sound Treatment Practioner

Paul Jarreau

Paul has been studying and practicing in the field of Sound Therapy since 2015 and graduated from the Global Institute of Sound and Consciousness in San Francisco, CA. He has had the opportunity to study and practice with over 30 unique sound healing masters from around the globe. Paul is pleased to bring this unique vibroacoustic sound experience to Nosara, Costa Rica.

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Paul, with his vast array of sacred sound instruments and his multidimensional voice toning guides participants to transverse into deep meditative states as well as guides journeyers to connect more fully to their energy body. The use of sacred sound instruments during plant medicine ceremonies can open up transformative journey portals like no-other.

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One of Nikola Tesla's most famous quotes states: 

"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration." 

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Paul takes that idea further. If you seek to understand the secrets of YOURSELF, think of your entire physical, spiritual and emotional being in terms of energy, frequency and vibration. 

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The sound treatments offered allow you to traverse beyond the physical to the broader aspect of the self. In short - it connects you to your energy body.

Kambo Facilitator

Wayne

On the way back to himself Wayne overcame personal traumas and behavioral patterns.

Having been very ill with inflammation spreading throughout his body, Wayne visited multiple doctors and inflammation specialists but nobody could determine what was happening within his body and could only recommend medications like steroid injections for the rest of his life as they couldn´t diagnose properly what was happening.

Wayne wasn’t accepting of this and kept looking for answers, this is when he discovered Kambo and after countless treatments and healing his own health physically and mentally, he was now given a new life with a total different awareness of his reality.

A new life made being in deep awe and love for the frog energy so that it became a passion.

Wayne has completed his Kambo training and is part of the International Association of Kambo Practitioners (IAKP). As a certified IAKP Kambo Practitioner, he is grateful to be able to work internationally with the frog energy and hold space for people as they begin their journey with Kambo.

Wayne´s mission is to help as many people as possible by working with the frog.

He is highly dedicated being on service with helping other humans on their own unique way to wholeness.

Kundalini Yoga Instructor ✧ Breathwork Facilitator

Angela Howell

Angela’s Modern Kundalini Yoga classes combine ancient wisdom, modern humor, and a sense of playfulness.

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Angela embodies her passions and believes we can create a life we LOVE. When we honor our gifts, learn from challenges, and embrace our humanity, we come to a healthier, more aligned way of being with ourselves, each other, and Mother Earth.

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Breathwork is a powerful tool that has been used for the process of healing and transformation by both ancient and modern healers. Accessing a deeper realm and ability to receive and give each breath your full capacity can be a change agent in your life. 

Angela will guide you through a variety of different breathing techniques, to support where you are at and what you desire. While you are breathing she will do bodywork and energy healing to support the journey.

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Angela’s healing journey began when she shined a light on the parts of herself that lived in the shadows. Facing her father’s untimely death, familial alcoholism and addiction, her own suicidal ideation, depression, anorexia and the loss of her baby girl at 6 months pregnant, deepened Angela’s compassion and desire to find meaning and connection. No matter what our personal path is, Angela’s work offers illumination, deeper self-awareness, and new perspectives both figuratively (e.g., envisioning what is possible) and literally (asana altering our point of focus).

Fire Keeper

Felipe Arturo Chaves Cortes

Felipe Arturo Chaves Cortes is Costa Rican fluent in English and Spanish. He’s part of the Chicua circle (red road) from San José, Felipe has completed my Sun dance ceremonies (4 years + 1-year support as fire keeper) as well as Vision Quest ceremonies (4 years). 

He has experience working as a fire keeper for Temazcales/Sweatlodge, moon dance ceremonies, and peyote ceremonies and worked for 2 years with Taita from Colombia, holding space and fire keeper for yagé ceremonies. He has experience playing the didgeridoo and harmonica, and is a keeper of North American Wisdom (red road).

Felipe has good connections with medicine men and women as well as musicians and experience in assisting in ceremonies and retreats as a fire keeper.

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“Aguilas de Fuego" or fire keepers, is the role and responsibility of working and carrying the knowledge and wisdom that this element brings to our human memory. Fire keepers take care of the fire energy during medicine ceremonies.

Understanding and reading the fire is a continuous and deep study for a fire keeper that only determination, consistency and humbleness will allow the revealing of the beautiful information the fire can bring helping people remember the fire inside their hearts. 

In our fire circle we introduce copal, the usage of the ancestral ways of using the tobacco medicine, chanting and drumming.