7 Day Kambo Practitioner Training Course in Iquitos, Peru

This seven-day Kambo practitioner training in Iquitos, Peru is designed for those who want to learn traditional frog medicine from the ground up, working directly with the jungle and the frog itself rather than simply receiving treatments. The course is led by Don Gardel, whose knowledge comes straight from the Matses people of the Peruvian Amazon near the Brazilian frontier. That lineage matters here — students are learning a practice rooted in indigenous tradition, not a distilled workshop version. Participants head into the rainforest to find and ethically collect the Phyllomedusa bicolor frog in its natural habitat. You will harvest the secretion yourself and craft your own Kambo sticks, building a hands-on relationship with the medicine from source to application. Instruction covers a range of techniques: dry and wet application, work along acupuncture meridians, and both micro-dose and full-dose protocols. Students practice on themselves and on one another, always under close supervision, so the learning is experiential rather than purely theoretical. Each participant receives a Tamishi vine and a digital guide to Kambo therapy to support continued study. For those wanting to go further, an optional week-long plant dieta is available to deepen the connection with the medicine before returning home. Graduates leave with a Diploma of Accomplishment reflecting their training in traditional Kambo practice. Set deep in the Peruvian Amazon, this course suits aspiring practitioners and serious students of plant and animal medicines alike.