The Full Story
About Maestro Moises
Moises was born in Flor de Punga near Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon. His parents used their knowledge from this place, the biggest bio pharmacy in the rainforest, to teach him. His mother’s side followed the shamanic tradition and his grandfather, uncle, and cousin are Shamans in the Cocama lineage.
Mission
About moises:
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Moises was trained as a visionary artist in Usko Ayar Amazon School of Painting in Pucallpa, Perú by the renowned Shaman and Visionary Artist Pablo Amaringo. This was were the vision of Madre Selva Healing and Art Center was born. Moises learned to find beauty in his surroundings by noticing trees, plants, animals, rivers, and rain, and by observing and practicing with people doing their ancestral practices. This changed his life as he developed a new understanding and awareness of the environment. He started to see with the eyes and heart of an artist, loving, respecting, and enjoying every precious moment of life.
Later on, Moises went to study and practice plant medicine, in addition to his artwork. He was taught by well-respected maestros and curanderos. During this process, Moises found his life partner Amy. She had been on a spiritual path of self development for many years and had just started to learn about the shamanistic tools and music that further unite their shared love and dreams. They find value and purpose through this line of life, fueling the flame of inspiration and deepening the intention to help and serve others through the Madre Selva Healing and Art Center.
Plant and spirit medicine have healed deep wounds in Moises physical and emotional body, mind, and spirit, aligning him with the flow of life, igniting his purpose. Moises answered the call to serve others while continuing to help himself through these sacred healing modalities. Moises intention is to inspire people to awaken their greatest potential by helping them believe in themselves, find love and creativity and become cocreators of their own existence. Moises strive to teach people how to be their own healers and empower them to understand a better way of living in harmony with Mother Nature.
The Vision & Madre Selva healing center
The vision was born when Moises was attending the Usko Ayar Amazonian School of Painting, directed by the legendary Visionary Artist Pablo Amaringo and cofounded by the Colombian Anthropologist Luis Eduardo Luna. One of the values of Usko Ayar was to love nature and to show this love through drawing, portraying its beauty in paintings, music, and other art forms, and finding practical ways to preserve the fragile environment in order to help the conservation of the Amazon and the planet. He was taught to find beauty in his surroundings by noticing trees, plants, animals, rivers, and rain, and by observing and practicing with people doing their ancestral practices. These moments changed Moises’ life because he developed understanding while becoming aware and conscious of the environment. He started to see and appreciate what he saw with the eyes and heart of an artist, loving, respecting, and enjoying every moment in its splendor.
Over the years, these visionary lessons reappeared again and again in continuously stronger form, teaching and preparing Moises for the next steps. A milestone change happened about six years ago in 2014 when he decided to immerse himself more deeply in ancestral practices with entheogenic plants and spirit medicine. He had practiced with these plants for 15 years prior with the intention of self-improvement and finding visions to paint, but answered a call to become a maestro curandero that came in the form of a suggestion from his teacher Don Jose. Plant and spirit medicine healed deep wounds in his physical and emotional body, mind, and spirit, aligning him with the flow of life, igniting his purpose, and helping him to deeply face his own shadows and darkness with acceptance and the desire to grow. He learned that in order to truly recognize the love and light that we are, we must consciously allow the Great Spirit to manifest its love and strength, allowing and receiving abundance of the universe. Understanding more clearly how the laws and values of our great universe operate, he answered the call to serve others while continuing to help himself through these incredible healing modalities.
With the knowledge and acceptance of his new mission to share with others, Moises began traveling the world as an artist, life coach, spiritual leader, and plant medicine practitioner. He connected with so many different souls, always with the desire to inspire them to believe in themselves, find love and creativity, and appreciate jungle conservation. He teaches people to be pure cocreators of their own existence by affecting major change through action and being their own healers.
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Moises always says that teamwork makes the dream work, and anyone who is inspired to grow into their full potential and transcend the duality between their human and spiritual experiences on this earth is welcome to join us. We are eternally grateful to all our co-creators, friends, and family for their loving support.
