WHAT IS KAMBO?

mY JOURNEY WITH KAMBO

Kambo is a profound doctor of the jungle, an amazonian frog used amongst tribes such as the Mastés and the Katukina, whom still work with this frog medicine. Kambo is a multi-use medicine as it effect's the physical body, mind, emotional state and the spirit/energy of a person.
Kambo is extremely effective, diverse and multidimensional in the way it works through it's unique cocktail formula of peptides, secreted from the frogs waxy substance.
A highly revered and well-known use of Kambô is to lift 'Panema' – an indigenous term for negative or stuck energy. In the West, energy is not discussed and addressed in such a way so we often find sickness in the physical materialize, stemming from the energy-body.
Kambô is highly praised to lift stagnant and negative energy while working in ways that are extremely potent for a fast paced, overstimulated, distracted, toxic and ungrounded society. 
Frog Medicine is also known as the ultimate cleanse and an overall amplification of well being, especially when approached in a certain way. As the energy and physical body clears, emotional clearings are reported. Kambô can also help users gain clarity, get unstuck, clear grief, resolve traumas and mitigate self-destructive behaviors. Many experience less anger and resistance to life as well.
Select tribe members will also use Kambô to increase energy (adrenal boost), groundedness, stamina, strength, vitality and sharp focus while hunting at night.
Due to the bioactive peptides found in the secretion, in addition to an “energetic experience”, Kambô will also be a physical experience, a cleansing of the digestive and lymphatic systems, deeply penetrating the liver, while harmonizing the body's organs, endocrine system and immune system.
Many resonate with Kambô as it is a powerful transformative ally from the Amazon yet without the psychoactive (tripping/visual) attributes found in so many other Amazonian or Shamanic medicines. Kambo is not hallucinogenic and you will not trip.

I met Kris Horvath, a wonderful human, at a yoga studio in Long Beach I taught and practiced at. Shortly after meeting him he told me he was off to the Amazon for a month to sit with the mastsé tribe in Peru.

When he came back he introduced me to the medicines he had been working with: Kambo, Sananga, several hapé blends, and other plant medicines.

I didn't know much, but I trusted him and embarked on my first kambo journey when I was about 18 years old.

At this point I had suffered from severe stomach ulcers and heartburn that caused me extreme pain daily. I had visited specialist, went through endoscopies, and got no relief or improvement with my pain. Anything that shocked me, made me nervous, surprised me or made me slightly anxious would trigger extreme stabbing 10/10 shooting pain in my stomach. This was my normal.

During the session, I truly believed I was going to die from the pain that surfaced in the same area I had been struggling with for over a year.

I thought, this is no coincidence. Instead of playing the victim and hoping the pain and experience with kambo would end- I went in. Right into the pain with my breath, full attention and prayer. An ocean of emotions and purging began, and it was over. I thought that was insane - I won't be doing that again.

A week went by, and something that would normally trigger the pain like getting shocked - left me bracing for a pain that never arrived.

I thought, hmm. relief? must be temporary.
Then a month went by and the pain never. came. back.

I was curious to see what happened if I followed Kris' initial suggestion of sitting with kambo as a complete treatment- meaning 3 sessions within one lunar cycle/month.

So, I mustered all my courage to sit again. By the third session, I was a new person and the session was no where near as difficult and intense as my first. I didn't feel likeI was going to die, instead I cried, a lot. I went deep into old stored trauma in my womb and lineage.

At this point of my life, my menstrual cycle was so irregular- and after these 3 sessions my period was regularly arriving every new moon. The second profound and obvious miracle and healing I experienced all within 2 months.

A chronic condition and pain healed forever, and completely regulating my menstrual cycle for years. With 4 treatments. So I began my journey with kambo. I sat several times for the following years and knew then that kambo would be in my life for several different purposes and reasons for the rest of my life.

hOW I GOT STARTED SERVING KAMBO

Around 2019 I opened up a small yoga shala - where I hosted Bryce Draper of Kambo Healing Me to train a large group in self administration with kambo and it's complimentary medicines. I not only took the training, but I assisted Bryce and held space for 30 people within that week with several kambo ceremonies, bufo, hape, integration, and sananga.

One of the biggest pleasures was having my family present, and my mother assisting.

At the end of the training, I served my mother and myself.

I figured this was it, I would serve myself when I wanted to and my family and hold space when needed.

Shortly after friends asked me to serve them, and then their friends, and before I knew it I was serving up to 20 people within one week.
I am absolutely devoted to serving this profound medicine and sharing about its benefits, strong spirit, and the miracles I've been honored to witness.

I currently serve 1-1 sessions in New York, travel to hold group ceremonies and trainings across the U.S, and have integrated kambo into my retreats.