We recently connected with Camila José Marini Prieto and have shared our conversation below.
Camila José, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Was there a moment in your career that meaningfully altered your trajectory? If so, we’d love to hear the backstory.
During my birthday month, I was in the mountains of Machu Picchu participating in a Huachuma pilgrimage with an elder and my family. At this point I had been serving Kambo for almost 2 years to friends and folks that had been recommended to me by word of mouth. Up to that point, I had a deep connection to Kambo but wasn’t trying to put myself put there. I was unsure of the direction to take this practice. While I was trekking up the mountain side, my partner turned to me and said “I have a vision that you should dedicate yourself to this practice and make it known that you serve Kambo”. I thought about it for a minute and kept walking up the Machu Picchu. When we get to the top that overlooked the ancient temples, it became clear that this needed to be a focal point in my life. The nature and plants communicated the importance of this work for healing my community.
As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?
I had known about plant medicines and ancestral medicines since I was 19 and did everything to learn about these sacred ways. It took me a while to be financially capable to travel out to the Amazon. In 2020 I was booked to go to my first Ayahuasca dieta in Peru but my travels were canceled due to the pandemic. In that same time period, I was laid off my tech job and found myself at a crossroad. I could continue to look for tech work or I could take a chance and dedicate my life to being of service.
When I decided to take this opportunity, Kambo presented itself. In a week, I found a practitioner and had my first encounter with Kambo. Through the whole session, I was smiling and felt incredibly empowered. The practitioner said she had never seen somone so happy during a session and that I should consider serving Kambo. I sat with a few other practitioners and they all had the same encouragement. I took it to heart and went to get my certification to serve Kambo.
Once I completed the course, I traveled all over the states sharing this new found love with my friends and family. They saw and felt the benefits of Kambo and were very encouraging for this new venture.
Shortly after, Ayahuasca and Peyote came into my life. It’s been a beautiful experience that has transformed my life.
I serve Sananga, Kambo, and Hapay as part of the Kambo Session. I provide Holographic Sound Healing practice and teach ceremonial songs for a variety of plant medicines.
Clients that come for a session usually want to realign themselves in their physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies. They come for trauma wounds they want to understand and heal, Lyme Disease, addiction, and mental health disorders. Kambo’s beauty comes from the peptides that help the body come into homeostasis. They want to feel a balance in themselves.
I myself have healed a variety of aspects from using Kambo and can relate to clients when they take the first step to heal themselves.
I’m most proud of being able to provide Kambo in the highest integrity. Through my travels and time spent in Brazil with the Yawanawa tribe, I learned that their style of ethically extracting the secretion for the frog. I’m one of the only practitioners in Austin who serves Kambo from the Yawanawa people. I’m also a committed follower of the Red Road, the Beauty Way. I just completed my first Vision Quest in the Lakota tradition and this has provided me great insight and healing and in return I’m able to show up for my clients and serve them in high integrity and in synchronicity with Natural Law.
Any stories or insights that might help us understand how you’ve built such a strong reputation?
The diversity in my work with the master plants (Iboga, Ayahuasca, Peyote, Huachuma) and ways that I dedicate my life to the Native Ways. I’m not just a Kambo practitioner, but a student of master plants, the Red Road, a bridge to brining people into the ancestral ways.
What’s been the most effective strategy for growing your clientele?
Sitting in ceremony with people and being vulnerable together, healing as a collective. Getting to know various communities and partnering with different circles that serve different medicines. Also, my work with the sound community and DR. Paul Hubbard using esoteric knowledge from ancient Egypt.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.camikambo.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/camikambo/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/CamiKambo/100064073773475/
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/camila-josé-marini-prieto-64734113a
- Other: https://g.page/cami-kambo?share