Our Team
Meet the practitioners behind Datura Spirit Medicine.
Carlos Nelson
Founder and Shamanic Practitioner / Curandero
Carlos began his own healing and studies with plant medicines in 2008 under the late Javier Reguiero, and completed his first dieta in 2011 with his current maestro, Don Francisco Montes Shuña, a renown Capanawa curandero from the Ucayali region of the Amazon with over 50 years of experience healing and training students from all over the world.
Carlos apprenticed and worked alongside Don Francisco in the Amazon since 2021, becoming adept and proficient with Ayahuasca, Huachuma, Tobacco and carrying on the tradition of Perfumero Toecero, specializing in work with Datura Brugmansia.
Having worked with several other curanderos and medicine centers, he endeavors to keep his view as broad as possible while staying loyal to the practices of his tradition and lineage.
He currently practices plant medicine and curanderismo in the Cusco Valley area and brings several groups per year to the Amazon for shamanic dietas and healing retreats.
He is also founder and steward of the Ayaruna Gardens project, taking over the care of his teachers ethnobotanical gardens where all of our medicines are sustainably grown and prepared in a way that maintains the continuity of lineage passed down from Don Francisco to Javier, Carlos and other future generations of students.
Javier Regueiro
Plant Medicine Practitioner & Advocate
In Memoriam · Passed October 2021
Javier Regueiro was a widely respected plant medicine practitioner and advocate practicing out of Pisac, Peru who passed on to the other side in October of 2021.
A Spanish national born and raised in Switzerland, Javier moved to Peru in 2004 to study Amazonian plant medicine and shamanism. He apprenticed with various teachers across the Iquitos and Pucallpa regions, but settled into and was deeply committed to the lineage of Sachamama and Don Francisco Montes Shu\u00f1a, undergoing more than a solid year of shamanic diets with ayahuasca, tobacco, and datura.
His commitment was to make sacred plant medicines available to all people called to use them for personal healing and spiritual guidance. He touched thousands of lives worldwide through his work and teachings.
He is the author of several well respected books on plant medicine, including Datura / Toé. His books and podcast can be found on our Content page.
Ayaruna Gardens is where Javier began his plant medicine pilgrimage and is kept and dedicated to the memory of this beautiful teacher who still lives on in the hearts and songs of his friends and students worldwide.
Want to know more about where our lineage and medicines come from? Check out Ayaruna Gardens, our ethnobotanical preserve in the Amazon!
Want to learn more about our team and approach? Schedule a free consultation.
Schedule FREE Consult