Juan is a dedicated student of Miguel Kavlin, recognized for his creative vision, intellectual depth, and compassionate nature. Through steady effort and sincere apprenticeship, he has learned to bring shamanic practice into a contemporary context with clarity, brilliance, and heart. His path has been shaped by commitment, sacrifice, faith, and discipline, and he strives to live these values so the tradition remains vibrant and alive. A lifelong seeker with an insatiable curiosity and a strong devotion to study, Juan meets each subject with a rare blend of knowledge, patience, and intuition.
Each week, Juan leads Andean Offerings, Amazonian Ayahuasca Ceremonies, and Native-American Sweatlodges. During every full moon, he also guides fellow seekers through an all-night Wachuma Ceremony. He facilitates retreats with the intention of creating genuine connection and sharing the most transformative experiences from his own journey in a deeply meaningful way.
Within Andean-Amazonian shamanic traditions, Juan has found a way to apply the spiritual insights that have reshaped his life. His studies in Hermetica, Advaita Vedanta, Alchemy, Madhyamika Buddhism, Judeo-Christianity, Zen, Tantra, and Sikhism come together in his ceremonies, where Truth, the Absolute, the Philosopher’s Stone, Shunyata, Faith, Prajnaparamita, Rigpa, and the mystical union with the Beloved are understood as expressions of the same Supreme Source, which he simply calls “Mystery.” Through hymns and invocations drawn from different doctrines, he seeks to awaken a sense of universal sacredness that embraces all religious thought, resolving its apparent contradictions through practice rather than theory.
Juan’s path has been profoundly influenced by the lives and teachings of saints and sages including Hermes Trismegistus, Mahavira, Zarathustra, Patanjali, Siddhartha Gautama, Laozi, Pythagoras, Parmenides, Heraclitus, Socrates, Zhuangzi, Yahoshua, Nagarjuna, Vasagupta, Shankara, Padmasambhava, Bodhidharma, Hui-Neng, Dogen, Thomas Aquinas, Milarepa, Giordano Bruno, Guru Nanak, Ramakrishna, Ramana Maharshi, Gurdjieff, Chogyam Trungpa, Carlos Castaneda, and Aleister Crowley. Together with his mentor, he has taken Babaji Baldev Singh as his personal Guru, seeing in him a fitting vessel for the manifestation and transmission of the Supreme Source. In Juan’s view, the ancient masters who live among the stars all speak through his voice, for their hearts are One.