Your Instructor
Alonso Delhas 45 years of experience working with entheogenic master plants and ancient cultures. Born and raised in Perú, he participated in ceremonies from a young age and spent thirteen years living in the Peruvian Amazon undergoing the traditional training of a curandero, mostly in the Shipibo tradition through the teachings of his master Don Benito Arevalo. In the year 2000 he founded the Center for Healing and Consciousness Studies "Ayahuasca Ayllu", where he has led hundreds of Ayahuasca and San Pedro ceremonies as well as offering dietas for people from all over the world. In 2004 he co-founded a free school called Wiñaypaq for the rural-farming population of the sacred valley, where kids learn from an indigenous-quechua perspective. He's the author of two books on ancestral knowledge and entheogenic work: Tawantinsuyo 5.0 and The Four Altars. He has also directed documentaries regarding medicine work and most "The Four Altars" movie, denouncing the ecological crime caused by the extraction of gold in the Amazon.
Francisco Rivarola is from Argentina, Buenos Aires, and is Co-Founder of Sunflower Sutras, a multimedia educational platform based on Berkeley, dedicated to documenting the work of indigenous elders and consciousness researchers to help bridge the paradigms of ancestral knowledge and modern-western science. Francisco is currently filming and producing courses with indigenous masters aimed at psychedelic practitioners and guides, hoping to make their voices and cosmovisions accessible for the stewarding of the psychedelic renaissance, in a reciprocal and non-extractivist manner.