I am incredibly grateful for the profound experience I had with Mucho during my Ayahuasca ceremony. After 30 years of struggling with alcohol, I stopped drinking completely after just one session with him. The shift was nothing short of miraculous.
What makes Mucho truly special is his deep understanding and care. He creates a safe, supportive space where you feel truly guided, not just during the ceremony, but in the integration process afterward as well. His approach is thoughtful and grounded in both wisdom and experience, helping you make sense of your journey long after the ceremony ends.
The ceremony itself was powerful and transformative. Mucho blends traditional practices with a personal touch, making the experience feel unique and deeply healing. I am forever grateful for his guidance, and I highly recommend his work to anyone ready for real transformation.
Steven (Australia)18th November 2022, Chrouy Changvar Villa,Phnom Penh. The ceremony with Mucho was a very unique and pleasant experience, he helped dive into past lives and other inhibitions that are currently affecting my creativity and personal growth. He always made sure of my wellbeing throughout the ceremony and is clearly an expert in this field.
Laurie (United Kingdom)17th February 2023. Old Market Flat, Phnom Penh. This was my first time partaking in a psilohuasca ceremony and I was expecting the same results as ayahuasca. I was wrong. The ceremony opened closed doors of suppresed emotions and painful pasts which have been eating me from the inside for years but I didn't know how deep it went. With Mucho, i knew I was in a safe place, which allowed me to open even more. I confronted my demons and I... let ..them...go. It was an extremely emotional event but I truly needed it. It was unexpected and welcomed. Looking back it was a beautiful experience.
Rory (USA)23rd November 2024, Maya Garden, Phnom Penh. For anyone that is navigating a deeper understanding into their humanness, or how to untangle life’s mysteries of conditioning and traumas then undertaking a medicine journey is one of the ways I chose to investigate why I was stuck in a loop of neurosis.
I started to investigate who was the right fit for me, and came across quantum-vines.com and came to meet Mucho. We had many conversations on how to prepare my body and mindset for the experience. Building trust with the person I was sitting with had to have excellent knowledge and experience with the medicine. That is my number one box to tick.
I felt supported before, during and well after our session which helped me process the information that unfolded threw my journey. Mucho was able to hold space and guide me through an extremely confronting spiritual expansion, one of which I am still unpacking a year later.
My whole life has changed since that evening spent with Mucho and Aya. I feel as though many lifetimes of oppression has been unravelled and now I have the ability to sit in pure awareness. It wasn't an instant shift but it opened a door that I could not close and sent me on a quest to uncover who I am.
I wouldn’t say that Aya and I are the best of friends but my respect for Mucho and his assistant are beyond words.
Would I do it again? Yes, but only if Mucho is holding the space.
Mary (Australia)8th April 2023, Chrouy Changvar Villa, Phnom Penh. At the pharmahuasca ceremony, what started to set me off initially was a sinking feeling of dread, especially when Mucho started lighting the incense. I felt like he had done it an infinite number of times; I got this sickening sensation of déjà vu multiplied by thousands of iterations, each with a minor difference, as minor and imperceptible as the table in the room being a millimetre to the left, or having a nail color of a slightly different shade; each of these constituting one in countless strands, bands, levels and pathways of reality. They were frames of the same instant on an infinite array of parallel timelines, and in so many of them the collective fucked it up so everything was aborted. The earth experiment had to be restarted from scratch, so the creators of our universe run the simulation countless times, until, like in that episode of Hang the DJ in Black Mirror, there is some kind of quantum breakthrough and the couple finally make it out. One takeaway from that session was that we all need to make it out together this time hopefully, with all our loved ones and with as many people we can reach and bring with us to the New Earth.
It’s part of the mission of starseeds and lightworkers, and the bodhissatvic aspect of it, if one chooses to go that way, is to remain in this dimension until every soul has ascended, until every connection has been bridged and all the synapses in the mind of God light up - until there is no separation, discord or karma between any one or anything and we are all one whole healed unity of sat-chit-ananda once more before being birthed into the wild unknown of the next octave of reality...
Michelle W. (Singapore)14th November 2024. Old market flat, Phnom Penh. When Mucho first suggested I join him for ayahuasca, I hesitated. Despite years of experience with magic mushrooms, something felt different about this invitation. Mucho wasn't the stereotypical South American shaman I had imagined for my first ayahuasca journey, just a French guy in his 60s claiming connection with the medicine.
I decided to try it anyway. Mucho creates a remarkably welcoming environment. From the moment you arrive, his warmth and genuine desire to serve is obvious and comforting. Most ceremonies take place in a stunning modern bamboo house just 20 minutes from Phnom Penh, where open-air walls are surrounded by forest and pristine modern bathrooms add to the comfort. As the medicine works, Byron Metcalf's world-class shamanic music fills the space, creating the perfect container for deep journeying.
During my first ceremony, I sat with three other participants. Two hours in, a woman began sobbing, not ordinary tears, but the kind of deep, primal cries that come from wounds buried deep. As Mucho and others moved closer to offer support, something strange happened. Mucho's expression changed. His face contorted with effort as he began describing images appearing in his mind, speaking hesitantly, visibly confused by what he was seeing.
"I see... babies. They're dying inside of you," he uttered through clenched jaw. Something was gripping him and putting these images in his head. I had no idea what he was talking about and frankly neither did he. It made no sense to the rest of us. Then she spoke through her tears, revealing multiple abortions from years ago, and the grief and trauma she'd carried silently since then.
This is Mucho's gift. If the ayahuasca decides to speak through him, something shifts. His voice softens. You can hear the moment Mucho disappears into a vessel and the ayahuasca begins speaking. He delivers insights impossible to know through ordinary means. It's unsettling, powerful, and impossible to fake. My skepticism was gone.
Over thirteen ceremonies in three years, my relationship with Mucho evolved to one of deep alliance.
Last year, feeling stuck, I booked three ceremonies in close succession with a specific intention: to finally break through years of resistance to writing, which I recognized as my life's deep spiritual calling.
The medicine surprised me. Instead of addressing my issue, the first ceremony unexpectedly targeted my long-standing physical dependence on a tea-like beverage I'd consumed daily for years but had put off quitting. The dependency was gone overnight. Grateful but confused, I wondered why ayahuasca had ignored my primary concern.
During the second ceremony, Mucho's voice changed as ayahuasca spoke directly through him: "You don't use your heart enough."
I didn't understand, but I pulled the thread. Mucho helped me see that I'd been navigating life entirely through intellect. The guidance I needed to overcome my resistance actually resided in my heart, which had atrophied from years of neglect. Vipassana meditation, he explained, precisely trains up this capacity. (He's done over 30 silent 10-day vipassana retreats since the '90s!). I found this an interesting idea, but the resistance was still unresolved.
The third ceremony revealed the final insight: ayahuasca confirmed that my answer lie in Vipassana practice, and that it had deliberately cleared my dependency in the first ceremony to prepare me for a 10-day silent Vipassana course, removing what would have been an excuse in attending. An indescribable energy surged through me as I realized ayahuasca, like a chess master, had orchestrated the entire three-ceremony sequence from the beginning.
For years, I'd vaguely known I "should" attend a silent 10-day retreat. Overnight, ayahuasca transformed this distant "someday" into an urgent necessity: develop my heart, the very tool I needed to overcome my resistance to writing. The next day I booked the course, and two weeks later, I was sitting in a silent meditation hall, on the path that ayahuasca and Mucho had guided me to.
Mucho has his quirks, as all deep practitioners do. During ceremonies, his eagerness to share insights sometimes arrives when silence might better serve the moment. His natural enthusiasm for interpreting the symbolic is simply part of his gift. His ayahuasca-attuned awareness notices everything, and while occasionally abundant, it never misses what truly matters.
These human touches actually highlight what makes Mucho extraordinary: his willingness to be simply human while serving as ayahuasca's channel. In a world where questionable spiritual tourism has exploded, Mucho offers genuine connection to ayahuasca without pretense, manipulation, or self-importance. Without his humble approach, I might never have discovered the path that now feels like coming home.
Anthony (USA)3rd April 2023, Maya Garden, Phnom Penh.