My Story
My life is a story of two halves. The first chapter - which lasted 34 years - was a pretty grim read: bleak depression, crushing anxiety, and a Herculean dedication to hedonistic self-obliteration.
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The second chapter began in 2014, when I took a rash decision to travel to the Amazon jungle to try ayahuasca. What I experienced there began to change every aspect of my life. Gradually, I quit the wild partying, changed my job, overcame the anxiety, and pulled myself out of depression. Life began to seem, not bleak, but rather beautiful.
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Finding healing through kambo
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My mind may have been clearer, but after so many years of abuse, my body was still not happy. As well as the heavy fatigue I had been experiencing for many years, I had started to experience joint pain, ulcers on my corneas, sudden hearing loss, tinnitus, and numerous other problems. Sometimes it felt like I was at war with my own body.
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Doctors diagnosed me with an autoimmune condition, thought to have originated in a bout of heavy flu, but seemed unable to offer any relief. So I turned once again to the medicine of the Amazon jungle - this time, in the form of kambo, a frog secretion used by many tribes there to clear sickness and bad luck, and bring clarity, energy and stamina.
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Within three treatments, my fatigue and other physical symptoms were gone. For the first time in my life, I felt like a normal human being, able to live to my full potential. It was nothing short of a miracle.
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That was over three years ago - since then, I have lived healthy, happy and disease free. I decided to dedicate my life to bringing these amazing medicines to others, so they can be helped as I was.
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A six-year apprenticeship
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Over the past six years, I have spent nine months living in Peru, undertaking lengthy master plant dietas in the Shipibo tradition. I have undergone a grueling Bwiti initiation in Gabon via iboga. I have trained as a registered kambo practitioner with the IAKP (International Association of Kambo Practitioners). And I have participated in - and helped facilitate - hundreds of ayahuasca, San Pedro and kambo ceremonies.
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Each of these medicines offers something slightly different, but all work to clean the layers of grime that we accumulate over a lifetime of trauma and suffering, bad choices and unhealthy lifestyles, bringing our hearts, minds, bodies and souls back into balance.
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What I offer
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I offer private one-on-one kambo ceremonies in and around London - I can come to your place, or you can come to mine in Waterloo. I also offer small group retreats to Peru, to work with my maestros in the jungle (offering ayahuasca ceremonies and master plant dietas), as well as working with the San Pedro cactus in the Andes mountains. And I can also offer one-to-one life coaching (I am an ICF-trained coach) to help you overcome blocks and reach your goals. I can also offer advice on meditation, which I believe is essential to ensure long-term maintenance of the gains given to us by plant and frog medicines, as well as helping us achieve true self-realisation and an end to suffering.
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If you feel called to do any of that work with me, I would be honoured to be part of your journey. Please do get in touch at alex@foolishsoul.org.
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My Approach
I believe that your healing starts within. You and no one else have the power to change your life.
You are a being of infinite potential, whose characteristics are what the ancient Sanskrit texts describe as sat, chit, ananda - truth, consciousness, bliss. During our lives (perhaps many lives) this true nature becomes hidden by layers of grime, meaning we no longer identify ourselves. Instead, we think we are our suffering, our trauma, our pain.
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As a servant of the plants and of the beautiful kambo frog, as well as of the divinity in every single one of us, my role is to help to peel off these layers and find your way back to who you really are. I am not a shaman, a mystic or a healer - I offer myself as a companion, a practitioner and a guide, here to help you walk the path to your own healing and completion.
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It's not always an easy journey - sometimes it can feel like the toughest thing you have ever done - but it is a beautiful one, and I know from my own experience that the destination is so incredibly worth the challenges along the way.
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