How I came to live with the Maya

After completing studies in anthropology and history of art at the universities of Vienna, Prague, and Munich, I spent six transformative years in Guatemala, deeply immersed in Maya culture. Upon leaving, a vivid dream foretold my return twelve years later—and it came true. By then, I had moved to Manhattan, working as an art critic and artist, when an extraordinary sequence of events led me to a meeting with a prominent Maya leader. 

After assisting him during his time in New York, I received an invitation to the 2012 New Era celebrations in Guatemala. It was a couple of years after this journey that I met my shamanic teacher, and eventually was initiated into Maya shamanism. Today, my mission is to share the profound wisdom of the Maya with communities in the Global North, bridging two worlds and revealing the deep teachings Indigenous cultures offer.

Photo: with a Quichean elder at the Maya administration's official attendance of the ensayo de Baile del Torito.