Minerals, plant medicine, and the long work of becoming.
I am Hamid. I work with minerals, I guide Huachuma pilgrimages in Peru’s Sacred Valley, and I sit with people through the long months afterward, when an insight has to become a way of living.
Labs and hair analysis have a place in that, and it is a smaller place than this field pretends. They point. They do not decide. Come away more capable of running your own health, your own consciousness, and your own relationship with the Great Mystery.
Root Cause Protocol consultant trained under Morley Robbins. HTMA practitioner. Founder and chair of the Huachuma Foundation.
Two of these happen on a video call. One happens in the Andes. One happens in the weeks that follow. They inform each other more than you would expect.
Ten days in Pisac, Peru. Mountain ceremonies poured by Maestro Miguel Mendiburu, twenty years with this medicine. Nine people, held inside six months of preparation and integration.
Ninety minutes on what your body has been doing with its minerals, and what your life has been asking of it. You leave able to make decisions without me.
The weeks after a ceremony are when the change either sets or fades. Turn the state into a trait.
A three month record of what stress has been costing you, read through the electrolytes for patterns that blood work moves too fast to show.
You are in very good hands.
Prayas G.
Sacred Valley retreat
Hamid has mastered facilitating with integrity.
Saba S.
Sacred Valley retreat
It transformed me.
Joel W.
Sacred Valley retreat
I work inside the Root Cause Protocol, so blood comes first. Blood shows whether the copper you have is actually bioavailable, whether your iron is sitting somewhere it cannot be used, and whether magnesium and retinol are in any position to do their jobs.
Hair analysis then adds what blood cannot reach: several months of your stress physiology, read through the electrolytes.
Together they give us a direction, which is what a test is for. The rest is the conversation: your history, what your days actually look like, and what you are willing to change. The numbers are where we start, not where we finish.
Most mineral work in this field begins and ends with a hair test. Mine does not, and when the data runs out I will tell you that it has.
No costly containers here, or long committments. Pay for what you are using, fairly.
Profile 1. Your laboratory results.
Sixty minutes reading it with you.
Ninety minutes. Blood and hair together.
Kits are not refundable once purchased. Shipping restrictions, international orders, and the laboratory’s own written report are all covered on the HTMA page.
We stay at a villa a ten minute walk from Pisac. Ceremonies are held in the mountains and poured by Maestro Miguel Mendiburu, who has worked with Huachuma for over twenty years and who stewards the land the Huachuma Sanctuary sits on. Nine people, maximum.
Two pathways. The Heart Path is the foundational format and welcomes people who have never done this, with two mountain ceremonies and real time to acclimate and rest. The Fire Path is for people who have done significant work before, with three ceremonies including an all night fire, and more time in the mountains than in the markets.
Both sit inside a six month container. Four weekly calls before you fly, four after you land. The ten days are the middle of the process, not the whole of it.
Every group plants at the Huachuma Sanctuary. The cactus is being harvested faster than it grows, and this work pays it back. Plant more, worry less.
Airfare to Cusco is separate, and we leave some meals free so we can eat our way through Pisac together. Registration is an application, because the group matters as much as the medicine. Apply here.
Music came first, on a scholarship to NYU, and it is still how I think. Law came next, in Los Angeles, and it is still how I read a study. Everything since has come from my own health not adding up and nobody being able to tell me why.
I am a Root Cause Protocol consultant trained under Morley Robbins and an HTMA practitioner, and I founded the Huachuma Foundation to protect the cactus the other half of my work depends on. Where the protocol and the evidence part company, I follow the evidence and say so out loud.
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Huachuma is being harvested faster than it grows. The Foundation is a 501(c)(3) building a sanctuary of five thousand cacti on Miguel’s land in the Sacred Valley, so that the medicine outlasts the demand on it. Every retreat group plants there. You can help without ever going to Peru.
I write about minerals, plant medicine, and the parts of this field that do and do not hold up under a second look.
A consultation is ninety minutes and $350. A retreat is ten days and an application. If you do not know which one you need, say so, and we will work it out together.
Not sure where to start? Send me a message and tell me what is going on.
Consultations and reports are nutritional and educational. Nothing on this site is medical advice, diagnosis or treatment, and none of it replaces the care of your physician. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This work is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Integration support is not psychotherapy and is not a substitute for mental health care. Talk to your healthcare provider before changing your diet, your supplements or your medication. Some links on this site are affiliate links.
