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The Circle
Your Facilitators
A small, dedicated team who have each walked this path with Don Martín and sat in ceremony with his teacher, Don Howard.
This pilgrimage is co-hosted by a small team of dedicated facilitators who have each walked this path with Don Martín and sat in ceremony with his teacher, Don Howard. Together, we bring decades of experience in transformational coaching, ceremonial support, and plant medicine integration. While Don Martín holds the ceremonial space, we are here to support you logistically, emotionally, and energetically — so you can fully receive the depth of this journey and carry it home with clarity and grace.
Facilitator
Jared Lim
Jared Lim
After building a successful business in his early 20s, Jared hit a quarter-life crisis and left everything behind to travel the world in search of deeper meaning. That journey brought him to the Amazon jungle in 2015, where he first worked with plant medicine at SpiritQuest, and shortly after joined Don Howard's final Huachuma pilgrimage, where he met Don Martín. Today, as a transformational coach, Jared draws on a powerful modality called Accelerated Evolution, which is highly synergistic with plant medicine for emotional clearing, spiritual integration, and reconnecting to one's true nature.
Facilitator
Brad Samuels
Brad Samuels
Brad discovered a passion for business, finance and investing in his early 20's, and started his first business after completing his degree in finance. Business led him to the pursuit of freedom in its various forms and ultimately to the yogic path and the ceremonial way and working with various plant medicines. His first connection with Huachuma took place in 2017 in the Amazon jungle of Peru. These life changing experiences altered his understanding of life, reality and the purpose behind why we are here.
Facilitator
Zachary Adama
Zachary Adama
Zachary's passion for justice and truth led him to a career as a lawyer in his early 20s. Then after passing the bar and beginning his legal career he had a powerful spiritual awakening that ignited his passion for learning and living in harmony with the laws of the universe. His spiritual seeking led him down the yogic path and to working with ancestral medicines. He has been facilitating Huachuma pilgrimages in Peru with Don Martín since 2022.
Hawaii Retreat Guide
James Yamada
James Yamada
James has studied plant medicine with Amazonian teachers for over 20 years and has been facilitating ceremonies for the past nine years. He brings experience in Vajrayana Buddhist practices and has worked as an artist for many years. James makes his medicine on the Big Island with plants from local permaculture farms and resides in Western North Carolina with his partner Nancy.
The Lineage
Honouring Don Howard Lawler
This pilgrimage is deeply inspired by the life and work of Don Howard Lawler, a master Huachumero and teacher of the Chavín Huachuma mesa tradition. With over 50 years of shamanic practice, Don Howard initiated thousands into the sacred ways of plant medicine.
The Teacher
Don Howard Lawler
Master Huachumero and teacher of the Chavín Huachuma mesa tradition. With over 50 years of shamanic practice, Don Howard initiated thousands into the sacred ways of plant medicine and catalyzed a global Chavín Renaissance, reviving respect for one of the oldest and most sophisticated shamanic traditions in the world. He was widely considered one of the most respected Huachumeros of our time, often affectionately called "the White Wizard."
The Guide
Don Martín
Direct apprentice and lineage holder of Don Howard Lawler. Born and raised in Chavín de Huántar, Don Martín has spent decades walking this path. For 24 years, he lived within the ancient temple itself, where his sacred Huachuma plant — now 38 years old — continues to grow. He calls this plant El Guardián del Templo. He has led this exact pilgrimage many times, holding space with a rare blend of quiet strength, reverence, and compassion.
"Work with sacred plant teacher-healers is the freest form of human spiritual consciousness, and also one of the most advanced. It's unconfining. You accept what you experience. And there's no end to it."
— Don Howard