The teaching arm of the Huachuma Foundation
Ten days in Peru with nine people, and the calls before and after are online.
The structure
Owned by the Foundation
Huachuma Works LLC is wholly owned by the Huachuma Foundation, a 501(c)(3) registered in Arizona.
| The Foundation | It works on habitat, propagation and preservation. The Huachuma Sanctuary is that work on the ground, and any profit this company makes is returned to the Foundation. |
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| Huachuma Works | We teach and we travel. The retreat is the one thing this company sells, and the ten days are built around teaching and the planting at the Sanctuary. |
Why we teach
Huachuma has been in continuous use in the Andes for about three thousand years, and most of what circulates about it today is one person’s paraphrase of another person’s. Meanwhile the wild plants are being cut faster than they grow back.
A plant that people understand is a plant people protect. So we teach the history, the science, the cultivation and the ceremonial practice together, to small groups, in the place where the plant grows, and we put everybody’s hands in the ground while they are there.
Preservation
The Huachuma Sanctuary
The Foundation’s conservation project in Peru: habitat for mature plants and propagation of new ones, so that the medicine people travel for is still there in thirty years.
Every group visits, is taught what is growing and why it matters, and plants. Several hundred cacti are already in the ground and the hillside will hold five thousand.
Who runs this
Hamid Jabbar
He founded Huachuma Works and teaches on every group.
Music came first. He went to NYU on a scholarship and it is still how he thinks, in phrases and intervals. Law came next, a degree at UCLA and several years practising in Los Angeles. Then yoga and meditation, practised since 2005 and taught since 2013, and huachuma and the people who hold it in Peru since 2017.
The law degree shapes how he reads a study, how he thinks about what a practitioner may honestly claim, and where the line sits between guidance and diagnosis. It is also why this company is built the way it is: owned by the Foundation, operating only in Peru, and reviewing health and medication in writing before it takes a deposit.
He founded the Huachuma Foundation and serves as its director. The conservation work every group visits is the Foundation’s, and any profit this company makes is returned to it.
The ceremonies are guided by Miguel Mendiburu, who has offered huachuma ceremonies in the Sacred Valley for more than twenty years.
- Minerals, health and lab testing, at mineralshaman.com.
- Sound and contemplative music, at hamidjabbar.com, and sound has run through his life since childhood, which puts it before every date above.
Where to go next
In person
Huachuma retreat in the Sacred Valley
Ten days in Peru, July 1 to 11, 2027. Two ceremonies, four subjects taught properly, and planting at the Sanctuary.
Online
Huachuma Wisdom
The Foundation’s six month online course. The suggested donation is $108 and nobody is turned away for lack of funds. Start there if you want the history and the science first: huachumafoundation.org.