Jason’s journey has led him around the world in search of questions he has had about life. Early in his twenties, he began to develop a keen interest in plants: as food, nutrition, life, and medicine. He began learning holistic systems of medicine such as herbalism, Traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, and nutrition. That curiosity eventually led him to the Amazon where he began to work with plants to learn traditional ways of healing.
Jason came to work at the ayahuasca healing center Temple of the Way of Light in 2012 where he would stay for nearly a decade. After having worked with ayahuasca quite extensively, he began the process of dieting plants in the Shipibo tradition. In 2013 he began working with maestro Ernesto Garcia Torres, delving deep into the world of dieting. Through a prolonged apprenticeship and training, involving prolonged isolation, fasting, and dieting of plants, he was given the blessing to begin working plants and the title of tabaquero.
He currently runs plant medicine retreats/dietas in Peru and travels abroad regularly. Jason works through the medium of the master plant tobacco and with tree medicines from the Amazon rainforest and increasingly with trees from North America and Europe. Jason created a podcast called The Universe Within Podcast.
Plants truly are our food, our life, our medicine, and they are alive and here to help us learn from them. They can open us to a world that we perhaps never could have imagined: the world of who we are. When we approach them with respect, honor, humility, and a genuine desire to learn, they can open the doors of life and heal us on all levels. Jason is deeply grateful to all of his teachers and students who have and continue to teach him, and to everyone that has helped him on his journey to where he is, and to wherever it may lead.
Jason is also an Eagle Scout and in his free time, he enjoys practicing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (he is a brown belt and also in Lute Livre), riding his motorcycle, and enjoying some peace and quiet..
Integration
The word integration comes from the root meaning to make whole. Essentially all medicine work is a journey into wholeness, a shedding away of what no longer serves, moving closer to the essence of who we truly are. During ceremonies we can have very profound experiences where a tremendous amount of insight, learning and healing can occur. These experiences can deeply alter ourselves and our lives, opening us to new ways of seeing and of being. For many people who go through these ceremonial or initiatory experiences, some of the hardest work comes after the ceremony, once they reemerge back into their lives. The insights and healing must be practiced and integrated back into their lives, for if they are not, then the ceremonial experience was just a fleeting moment. While change and insight can be seen in oneself, often there is difficulty in feeling that the outside world is still the same. Also it can be difficult to find people who understand our experiences and are able to listen to and aid us on our journey. This can leave us feeling very alone.
In more traditional societies, this medicine work was often woven into the fabric of their people’s lives. So integration was a natural part of life. One was surrounded by the medicine people, the elders, the community which supported them during their process. So there was a more seamless process of integrating their experience into their lives. For many of us who come from different cultures where that support is not abundantly surrounding us, this sense of aloneness and a desire to communicate and to ask for help, guidance, and encouragement is lacking. Working with someone who has done this work themselves and helped to guide many people on this journey can really help to aid in the process. Often just a short conversation with someone to listen to what is arising and offer perspective and guidance can be a tremendous help. The role of an integrator isn’t necessarily to decipher or to give concrete advice, but to help us to see things in a light and perspective that empowers us to move into wholeness. Insight, perspective, guidance, experience, and wisdom can help to guide and integrate in very powerful ways.
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