Don Gardel

Don Gardel comes from a long lineage of shamans: his grandfather was one, and his two brothers are shamans as well. At a young age, he had the chance to live with the Matses, an indigenous group, on the Brazilian border. There, he learned to work with Kambo and rapé. Later on, he fell ill, and La Maestra Alicia cured him by finding an old spell that his grandfather had put on him when he was just a kid, a spell to become a shaman. Don Gardel started to train, dieting plants with Alicia and has since become a shaman. Working and traveling around Peru, he has worked under the tutelage of other curanderos. Gardel has since founded the Paojilhuasca Amazonian Medicine Camp along with Fabrizio.