Born into a migrant family with roots in Argentina and the Dominican Republic, Daniel grew up in a home shaped by dictatorship, displacement, and the quiet weight of inherited wounds. That early environment created a constant sense of tension and uncertainty, which later expressed itself in chronic anxiety, depression, and addictive patterns. In 2012, after a period of suicidal ideation and depression, and following a profound awakening experience with psilocybin, he made a one-way journey to Peru. There, he spent more than a year in the Amazon working with plant medicines, especially ayahuasca.
That chapter deepened his understanding of the body, the land, and the unseen dimensions of experience. Since then, his path has been rooted in somatic practice, ritual, and social awareness. His work draws from Amazonian medicine traditions, Buddhist practice, and trauma-informed therapeutic approaches. He also honors the teachers and communities who have shaped his journey, including curanderos from Shipibo, Quechua, and other Indigenous lineages, as well as his training in Biodynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release System®, Somatic Plant Medicine Integration, and Dr. Gabor Maté’s Compassionate Inquiry®, alongside academic studies in Social & Cultural Anthropology.
Today, he supports people in preparing for and integrating psychedelic experiences through the body. His work pays close attention to how history, ancestry, and systemic oppression live in the nervous system, relationships, and everyday choices. As a queer, Latin-American, gender nonconforming practitioner, he is especially committed to creating inclusive spaces for people who may not always feel safe in more conventional settings.
His vision is for psychedelic work to remain grounded, community-rooted, and accountable. He sees this path as a way of remembering our belonging to one another and to the living world. Session by session, he helps people meet their experience with honesty and kindness, so their medicine journeys can become meaningful change in daily life.
His work is somatic, relational, and ritual-oriented. Sessions begin by clarifying what brings you here and what feels most alive in your body and life right now. From there, he maps your history, your medicine experiences, and the current state of your nervous system.
In session, the process may move between conversation, somatic inquiry, gentle connected breath, and simple practices that support regulation and awareness. He often invites you to slow down, notice sensation, and observe impulses, images, and emotions without trying to force anything. From that place, what is held in the body may be expressed through breath, movement, or voice.
Preparation sessions focus on intention-setting, resourcing the system, and naming the psychological and systemic layers that may arise around a journey. Integration sessions support you in digesting and contextualizing your experiences, meeting difficult material with care, and translating insight into concrete shifts in relationships, habits, and daily rhythms. At times, this may include more structured breath journeys when your system has enough support and capacity.
Throughout the process, he stays attentive to pacing and depth, helping protect a range that the body can integrate safely and meaningfully.
Daniel is a certified Biodynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release System® practitioner and has completed Dr. Gabor Maté’s year-long Compassionate Inquiry® professional training and mentorship program. His background also includes Somatic Bodytherapy and bodywork through Dearmouring – The Melting Method, Myofascial Energetic Release® for Trauma Healing, and additional training in Healing Developmental Trauma with Jennifer Mckeever and Somatic Plant Medicine Integration with Atira Tan.
He spent over a year living with Indigenous wisdom carriers in the Peruvian Amazon, participating in Plant Dietas with master plants and working primarily with ayahuasca from 2013 to 2015. Over the past decade, he has facilitated countless breathwork journeys, somatic intensives, and integration spaces in both group and 1:1 settings.
He has also served as a mentor and teacher in facilitator trainings, including multi-style breath and bodywork and trauma-informed programs. His work continues to be shaped by supervision, peer consultation, and his own ongoing therapeutic and spiritual practice.