Traditional Amazonian Diets
Some things only go
this deep.
You've built something real. You've done therapy, mindfulness, the right books, the hard conversations. You're self-aware enough to know something hasn't moved yet — a pattern in how you lead, how you decide, how you show up in the relationships that matter. There is a layer that thinking alone cannot reach. This is what traditional Amazonian diets do when everything else has reached its limit.
The diets
Plant diets — sanango, Capirona, Bobinsana, the palos — are the core of this work. They are not psychoactive. They are protocols: a strict combination of plant preparation, isolation, dietary restriction, and behavioral discipline that the Amazonian tradition has refined over centuries.
Each plant works differently. Sanango roots out what is lodged at the cellular level — memory, pattern, chronic tension. Bobinsana opens what has been closed, particularly around the heart and the capacity to receive. The palos, the tree barks, work slowly and structurally — they are Don Alberto's specific lineage as a Palero, a master of tree medicines. What they have in common is that they are not an experience you have and return from. They build something in you that wasn't there before.
Any ceremonial work, if a client chooses it, comes afterward — as a conclusion to a process already well underway. Some do. Some don't. The diets carry the transformation either way.
What actually changes
The people who come to this work are not broken. They are entrepreneurs, executives, and high-performers — self-aware, high-functioning, and have already done more inner work than most people ever will. What they are looking for is not repair. It is access to a layer of themselves that thinking alone cannot reach.
Traditional Amazonian diets, when approached properly, do not give you answers. They give you direct access to questions you didn't know you were carrying. The patterns running your business decisions, your relationships, your sense of what is possible — they become visible in a way they simply aren't in ordinary life.
What you do with that visibility is the work. And that work doesn't happen in the Amazon — it happens in the twelve months after you come home. For most people who do this seriously, it changes something structural: how they make decisions, what they're willing to stop tolerating, what they finally give themselves permission to build.
My role
I have been working with the same indigenous family in the Peruvian Amazon since 2018. Over eighteen ceremonies — not as a tourist, not as an observer, but as someone who has done the diets, sat alone in the jungle, and returned to do it again. I know what this work demands and I know what it gives.
I go with you. From the first planning call through the journey and back home. You are never navigating this alone. The ceremonies are held by the indigenous family — that is their tradition, their knowledge, their authority. My role is to make sure you arrive prepared, stay grounded throughout, and come home with clarity rather than confusion.
I also bring over two decades of business and technology experience — I started in tech at fifteen. Most of the people I work with are entrepreneurs, executives, and high-performing professionals. The integration work we do together after the retreat is not separate from your professional life — it is directly relevant to how you lead, how you decide, and what you are actually building.
This is not for everyone
It may be right if
- You feel a genuine, considered call — not curiosity or trend
- You are prepared to do real preparatory work
- You are stable enough to integrate a deep experience
- You understand this is a process, not an event
- You are ready to look at what you have been avoiding
It is not right if
- You are in acute psychological crisis
- You are looking for an experience, not a transformation
- You are unwilling to commit to integration afterwards
- You have certain medical or psychiatric contraindications
- You are not ready yet — this year or at all. That is fine.
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Application
I am not interested in the tourism of this. There are plenty of places for that.
What I care about is what happens in the twelve months after you come home. How the patterns that ran you start to shift. How that shows up in your business, your relationships, the decisions you stop avoiding. The long arc of it — that is what I am here for.
The application exists because this work requires a real match. Not credentials. Not the right background. Just genuine readiness and a commitment to doing something with what comes up. If that's not where you are yet, I'd rather you come back when it is.
Application received.
I will read this carefully and be in touch within 5 days if I believe this is the right fit. Thank you for trusting me with this.