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
Mirian Janeth Jaramillo is an Ecuadorian medicine woman, mindfulness teacher, and trauma-informed plant medicine facilitator. She is the founder of Vida Wellness Center in Pisac, Peru, and Pachanoi Earth Medicine Retreats, where she weaves together plant medicine, somatic awareness, and Buddhist wisdom to support deep healing and embodied integration.
With over 15 years of experience working with sacred plant medicines, Mirian Janeth has walked closely with Indigenous Shipibo healers from the Peruvian Amazon for more than a decade. Her path into this work emerged after studying Marketing and Business Management in Ecuador and New York City, followed by training in permaculture at the Hancock Permaculture Center in NYC. In 2010, she traveled to Peru, where her first encounter with Ayahuasca profoundly transformed her life and redirected her purpose.
She lived and worked for three years at Temple of the Way of Light in Iquitos, Peru—one of the world’s most respected Ayahuasca healing centers. During this time, she participated in numerous ceremonies, learned extensively about Amazonian medicinal plants, and undertook traditional plant dietas within the Shipibo lineage.
Since 2014, Mirian Janeth has organized and facilitated plant medicine retreats in Peru, supporting the healing journeys of hundreds of people. She has played a key role in establishing and managing organizations such as Sacred Spirit Journeys and Lotus Vine Journeys, serving for seven years as retreat manager, coordinator, and facilitator.
Her experience extends beyond Ayahuasca to other sacred medicines, including San Pedro (Huachuma), psilocybin mushrooms, kambo, and DMT. While her main lineage is Shipibo, she has also sat in ceremony with mestizo healers from Peru and Yawanawa elders from Brazil.
In addition to her retreat work, Mirian Janeth maintains a private practice as a somatic mindfulness guide, offering one-on-one sessions that support people in reconnecting with the wisdom of their bodies. Her work gently integrates somatic inquiry, mindfulness, and nervous system awareness to help individuals deepen their meditation practice, understand their emotional and relational patterns, and navigate life with greater clarity, compassion, and embodiment.
Mirian Janeth’s work is deeply trauma-informed and grounded in somatic awareness. She studied Somatic Plant Medicine Integration with Atira Tan and integrates principles of Polyvagal Theory, supporting nervous system regulation, safety, and integration before and after ceremony.
A devoted Buddhist practitioner, she has completed several long-term silent meditation retreats, including a three-month retreat at Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Massachusetts and a two-month retreat in Yangon, Myanmar. She is a certified mindfulness teacher, having studied under the guidance of Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. The Buddha’s ethical teachings are the foundation of her personal life and professional work.
She has practiced yoga since 2009 and is a 200-hour certified yoga teacher, and is passionate about conscious living, nutrition, permaculture, and projects that honor the Earth and uplift local and Indigenous communities.
Through her work, Mirian Janeth creates grounded, ethical, and heart-centered spaces that support people in reconnecting with their bodies, their inner wisdom, and the living intelligence of nature.
Cristina
Creator of “Espacio Suyai,” I have trained as a Yoga facilitator in India, Spain, Peru, and the United States.
One of the most powerful tools I have discovered is Trauma-Sensitive Yoga methodology, because I know how harmful it can be to remain silent. Unfortunately, trauma is still a taboo—something we often do not talk about for many reasons. However, the less we are willing to speak about trauma, the greater our individual and collective pain becomes.
What we do not repair and heal tends to repeat itself. That is why, when I encountered, studied, and integrated Trauma-Sensitive Yoga into my life and the spaces I facilitate, I realized how powerful this methodology is as a tool for healing, both individually and collectively.
Cristina
Creator of “Espacio Suyai,” I have trained as a Yoga facilitator in India, Spain, Peru, and the United States.
One of the most powerful tools I have discovered is Trauma-Sensitive Yoga methodology, because I know how harmful it can be to remain silent. Unfortunately, trauma is still a taboo—something we often do not talk about for many reasons. However, the less we are willing to speak about trauma, the greater our individual and collective pain becomes.
What we do not repair and heal tends to repeat itself. That is why, when I encountered, studied, and integrated Trauma-Sensitive Yoga into my life and the spaces I facilitate, I realized how powerful this methodology is as a tool for healing, both individually and collectively.
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.