Our Team
Our team is composed of highly experienced practitioners with years of experience in working with plant medicines, facilitating and guiding ceremonies, and practicing yoga, meditation, and embodiment techniques. Our work is trauma-informed and rooted in ethics and compassion.
Yugo
Born in Melbourne, Australia, Yugo Feather’s lifelong fascination and deep connection to the natural world is what inspired him to study plants and work professionally as a botanist for more than 10 years specializing in indigenous seed collection. Yugo’s journey with plant medicine began in 2008 and after countless solo ceremonies in the Australian bush Yugo has cultivated an intimate and personal connection with the spirit of the Acacia tree. Called by intuition and Ayahuasca he first traveled into the Peruvian Amazon in 2014. This decision changed his life forever and Yugo has been returning to the jungle every year since, drinking Ayahuasca with many Shipibo maestros and developing a close relationship with this sacred medicine. Yugo is now honored to be helping introduce the world of plant medicine to others after receiving so much magic himself and has been working as a facilitator and musician since 2017.
Passionate about plants, Yugo has volunteered in several permaculture projects across the Amazon basin utilizing his nursery skills working with the NGO Alianza Arkana. A musician and artist, Yugo loves being outside and close to nature, hiking in the mountains, playing in his veggie garden and now lives in the Sacred Valley in Peru with his beautiful wife Janeth.
Yugo
Born in Melbourne, Australia, Yugo Feather’s lifelong fascination and deep connection to the natural world is what inspired him to study plants and work professionally as a botanist for more than 10 years specializing in indigenous seed collection. Yugo’s journey with plant medicine began in 2008 and after countless solo ceremonies in the Australian bush Yugo has cultivated an intimate and personal connection with the spirit of the Acacia tree. Called by intuition and Ayahuasca he first traveled into the Peruvian Amazon in 2014. This decision changed his life forever and Yugo has been returning to the jungle every year since, drinking Ayahuasca with many Shipibo maestros and developing a close relationship with this sacred medicine. Yugo is now honored to be helping introduce the world of plant medicine to others after receiving so much magic himself and has been working as a facilitator and musician since 2017.
Passionate about plants, Yugo has volunteered in several permaculture projects across the Amazon basin utilizing his nursery skills working with the NGO Alianza Arkana. A musician and artist, Yugo loves being outside and close to nature, hiking in the mountains, playing in his veggie garden and now lives in the Sacred Valley in Peru with his beautiful wife Janeth.
Janeth
Janeth is an Ecuadorian medicine woman, retreat manager, plant medicine facilitator, and mindfulness practitioner. She has extensive knowledge of plant medicine and has worked closely with indigenous Shipibo people from Peru for over a decade.
After studying Marketing & Business Management for 5 years in Ecuador and New York City, Janeth felt the call to shift her career direction. She studied permaculture at Hancock Permaculture Center in NYC before traveling to Peru in 2010. It was during that time that she first encountered Ayahuasca, the Medicine changed her life! For 3 years, Janeth lived and worked at a well-known Ayahuasca healing center in Iquitos-Peru. During that time, Janeth participated in many Ayahuasca ceremonies, learning about medicinal plants from the Amazon region, and doing traditional plant dietas.
Since 2014 Janeth has organized and facilitated Ayahuasca retreats in Peru supporting the healing of hundreds of people. Janeth helped to establish the organizations Sacred Spirit Journeys and Lotus Vine Journeys and has been the manager, retreat coordinator and facilitator of this organization for 7 years.
Janeth has continued to deepen her understanding through countless plant medicine ceremonies not only with Ayahuasca but with other Sacred Medicines, having expensive experience with San Pedro cactus, psilocybin mushrooms, DTM and kambo. Her main lineage is Shipibo but she has also sat in ceremony with mestizo people from Peru and Yawanawa people from Brazil.
Janeth is a passionate Buddhist practitioner, she has been part of several silent, multi-day meditation retreats, including a 3-month silent meditation retreat at IMS in Massachusetts and a 2-month retreat in Yangon-Myanmar. She is a certified Mindfulness Teacher and studied under the direction of the well-known teacher’s Jack Konrfield and Tara Brach. Janeth is also passionate about Yoga, nutrition, and healthy lifestyles, she has been practicing yoga since 2009 and is a 200-hour yoga certified Yoga teacher. She loves nature, permaculture, environmental and social-oriented projects.
JESÚS COCA
Jesus was born in the Mantaro Valley of Peru, where he embodies the role of protector of the Ancestral Wisdom of the Andean Medicine people. He is the sixth generation of the Shanan Cori Coca family lineage, an esteemed lineage known for its unique legacy of female Inca warriors.
For over a decade, Jesús has passionately immersed himself in the Sacred Valley, exploring its mountains and native communities. His journey has been a quest to reconnect with his indigenous roots, learning the ancestral traditions of the Incas from revered masters and elders.
As a Wisdom Keeper of ancient knowledge, Jesús has delved deep into the realm of Master Plant Wachuma and alternative medicine, drawing insights from herbs, master plants, and holistic therapies.
He is the visionary founder of Willka Coca, a groundbreaking project committed to ecosystem conservation, permaculture, and social inclusion. Willka Coca’s journey began five years ago, with a mission to reforest the lands of the Sacred Valley of the Incas and its surrounding communities with native trees.
Jesús has led various support programs aimed at empowering the most vulnerable communities of the Andes through fair trade initiatives, permaculture education, and inclusive employment opportunities.
JESÚS COCA
Jesus was born in the Mantaro Valley of Peru, where he embodies the role of protector of the Ancestral Wisdom of the Andean Medicine people. He is the sixth generation of the Shanan Cori Coca family lineage, an esteemed lineage known for its unique legacy of female Inca warriors.
For over a decade, Jesús has passionately immersed himself in the Sacred Valley, exploring its mountains and native communities. His journey has been a quest to reconnect with his indigenous roots, learning the ancestral traditions of the Incas from revered masters and elders.
As a Wisdom Keeper of ancient knowledge, Jesús has delved deep into the realm of Master Plant Wachuma and alternative medicine, drawing insights from herbs, master plants, and holistic therapies.
He is the visionary founder of Willka Coca, a groundbreaking project committed to ecosystem conservation, permaculture, and social inclusion. Willka Coca’s journey began five years ago, with a mission to reforest the lands of the Sacred Valley of the Incas and its surrounding communities with native trees.
Jesús has led various support programs aimed at empowering the most vulnerable communities of the Andes through fair trade initiatives, permaculture education, and inclusive employment opportunities.
Uli
Intuition, adventure and flow have been guiding Uli’s life ever since he began making his own decisions. Growing up in Vienna, Austria he soon began exploring the world.
It was during a year-long trip between school and university that he crossed paths with a shaman in the Brazilian Amazon. A few months later he began his studies at the London School of Economics. At the same time, the seeds that were planted in those first ceremonies in the Amazon began to open. As a result, he started exploring various religious and spiritual traditions from Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, and Vedanta philosophy to C.G. Jung and Christianity. Shortly after finishing his degree, he signed up for a yoga teacher training course in Canada and then committed to a year in the Sivananda yoga organization.
Feeling the need to follow his own intuition he left the organization to do a yearlong solitary retreat on the islands of Hawaii. Besides spending long periods in silence and seclusion he was introduced to the science of manifestation. A 3-year training based on the ancient Hawaiian Huna System to learn about the conscious, subconscious and superconscious aspects of our being and their role in trauma resolution followed.
In order to pursue his calling to learn and share with others he opened up to a wide range of life experiences.
Some of those were Pilgrimages to Santiago di Compostella in Spain and Mt. Kailash in Tibet, numerous Ayahuasca retreats in Central- and South America and Europe, a solo medicine retreat in the rainforest, working with cancer and terminal care patients, immersion in C.G. Jungs Shadow Theory for conflict and trauma resolution to name a few.
Uli has been teaching Sivananda, Ashtanga, and Kundalini yoga for more than 25 years.
Today his passion and his experience flow into his work of cultivating mind-body awareness and as a facilitator in plant medicine retreats.
Uli
Intuition, adventure and flow have been guiding Uli’s life ever since he began making his own decisions. Growing up in Vienna, Austria he soon began exploring the world.
It was during a year long trip between school and university that he crossed paths with a shaman in the Brazilian Amazon. A few months later he began his studies at the London School of Economics. At the same time the seeds that were planted in those first ceremonies in the Amazon began to open. As a result he started exploring various religious and spiritual traditions from Zen Buddhism, Hinduism and Vedanta philosophy to C.G. Jung and christianity. Shortly after finishing his degree he signed up for a yoga teacher training course in Canada and then committed to a year in the Sivanada yoga organisation.
Feeling the need to follow his own intuition he left the organization to do a yearlong solitary retreat on the islands of Hawaii. Besides spending long periods in silence and seclusion he was introduced to the science of manifestation. A 3-year training based on the ancient Hawaiian Huna System to learn about the conscious, subconscious and superconscious aspects of our being and their role in trauma resolution followed.
In order to pursue his calling to learn and share with others he opened up to a wide range of life experiences.
Some of those were Pilgrimages to Santiago di Compostella in Spain and Mt. Kailash in Tibet, numerous Ayahuasca retreats in Central- and South America and Europe, a solo medicine retreat in the rainforest, working with cancer and terminal care patients, immersion in C.G. Jungs Shadow Theory for conflict and trauma resolution to name a few.
Uli has been teaching Sivananda, Ashtanga, and Kundalini yoga for more than 25 years.
Today his passion and his experience flow into his work of cultivating mind-body awareness and as a facilitator in plant medicine retreats.