About

In his early twenties, Jason’s path turned toward plants—as food, medicine, and living teachers. He studied herbalism, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, and nutrition, which ultimately led him to the Amazon to learn traditional plant-based healing. The plants of the Amazon, and the cultures that work in relationship with them, profoundly transformed his life.

In 2012, Jason began working at the ayahuasca healing center Temple of the Way of Light, where he remained for nearly a decade. He apprenticed in the Shipibo tradition for a number of years with two teachers. Beginning in 2013 he began tutelage and dieting under maestro Don Ernesto Garcia Torres. Through years of isolation, fasting, and disciplined plant diets, he was eventually authorized to work with plants and to administer diets himself. He has lived, learned, and worked in Peru for over a decade and now facilitates dietas in the Sacred Valley of Peru and internationally.

Jason works primarily with the master plant tobacco as a bridge, alongside Amazonian tree medicines, and increasingly with trees from North America and Europe, inspired by Celtic wisdom traditions. Over the past decade, he has helped guide more than a thousand people through ceremonial work and is also the creator and host of the Universe Within Podcast.

He understands his role as that of a bridgekeeper, inspired by his teacher Imika of the Tubu nation and their prophecy of the Diramassä—those who unite the medicines of the Four Directions to create a new maloca, a ceremonial house symbolizing the world itself.

Deeply grateful to his teachers, students, and the plants, Jason approaches his work with humility, integrity, and a lifelong devotion to learning. He is married and has a son. An Eagle Scout, he enjoys Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (brown belt), riding his motorcycle, woodworking, and spending quiet time in nature.