About the Teacher
Why study with them?
Mamoon is the founder of LEARN and a co-collaborator on Quetzal retreats. He’s an artist with a love for music, guided meditation, and creativity. He enjoys playing instruments, composing new songs, and blending music with dynamic breathing exercises.
Over the past 2 years, his guided meditations on Youtube & Insight Timer have been played more than a quarter of a million times by a growing community of daily listeners.
Having spent half of his adult life working at plant medicine retreat centers in Central & South America, Mamoon has come to embody a meaningful bridge for Westerners seeking to experience Ayahuasca in the jungle, where the medicine naturally grows.
Mamoon lives in Costa Rica, where he collaborates with experienced curanderos and supporting facilitators. The medicine family that he chose to apprentice with came after a decade of searching through Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, and eventually Costa Rica... where he unexpectedly encountered the curanderos he had long been seeking.
Mamoon’s medicine teachers (husband & wife ayahuasqueros) carry more than 30+ years of combined experience in indigenous ways of healing. Their path is rooted in the medicine traditions of the Natives from the North... Vision Quest, Temazcal, and Grandfather Peyote—while also skillfully integrating the Amazonian traditions of the South... such as Kambo, Hapé & Grandmother Ayahuasca.
(Research the “Prophecy of the Eagle and Condor” to learn more about the approach of the medicine family Mamoon collaborates with on LEARN & Quetzal.)
Mamoon is not a shaman or curandero. Instead, he works closely alongside them throughout the process, supporting individuals from around the world in preparing for ceremony, navigating the experience, and integrating what arises.
In addition to helping facilitate private retreats, Mamoon also co-creates Quetzal, a 6-day Psilocybin group retreat. Like LEARN, Quetzal is guided by the same trusted medicine family he studies with year-round in Costa Rica.
Mamoon’s life path has been greatly influenced by nearly 10 years of working, apprenticing, and volunteering at Ayahuasca healing centers across the Americas, along with over 12 years of navigating Psilocybin macro journeys.
The art of energy retention has also been an impactful practice for Mamoon. For the past five years, he’s deepened this practice within a meaningful, intimate & committed relationship. Mamoon describes himself not as an expert, but as a fellow traveler... still humbled by how challenging it can be to retain, harness, and guide vital life energy.
Mamoon’s personal struggles with navigating the miseries & the mysteries of energy, give him compassion for the struggles others may be going through... along with gratitude for how Ayahuasca & Psilocybin—when paired with the right support, can transform scattered energy into a creative blessing.