Professional Training Pathway
Our training pathway combines self-paced online theory with hands-on, in-person practical training. Complete your theory online first, and then choose to complete your practical training either in Tulum or with a certified practitioner from our global network.
Bufo / 5-MeO-DMT Education, Consciousness & Holding Space
Go deeper into the medicine & the responsibility of holding it.
Holding space for this work requires far more than just experiencing the medicine. Develop a comprehensive understanding of what it means to facilitate responsibly. Explore the neuroscience, physical safety, health screening, preparation, ceremonial structure, ethics, and long-term integration. You can complete the self-paced online education on its own, or use it as your essential theoretical foundation before pursuing hands-on facilitator training.
Master the art and responsibility of holding space with Kambo.
Facilitating Kambo requires a deep understanding of safety protocols, health screenings, contraindications, and traditional roots. This comprehensive training equips you with the necessary knowledge to hold space with confidence, ethics, and care. Learn the essential theoretical foundation online at your own pace, or prepare yourself for hands-on, practical facilitator training.
Kambo: Education, Safety & Facilitator Pathway
Meet our Practical Training Partners
Choose where you complete your hands-on training. Students who complete the online theory may continue their practical training with GlendaLee or choose from a growing network of independent facilitators and training partners.
Daniela Gargiulo
Missouri + Select Retreat Locations | Kambo & Bufo Practical Training
Daniela is the founder of Soul to Soul Harmony Church, a sanctuary devoted to sacred medicine, breathwork, trauma-informed healing, somatic work, and community.
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Her path into this work grew from her own healing journey. After years of exploring physical health, psychotherapy, neurofeedback, somatic practices, plant medicine, and traditional healing systems, she began traveling internationally and deepening her studies in embodied and spiritual practices.
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Today, Daniela is a trauma-informed practitioner, ceremony guide, and somatic facilitator with over 1,000 hours of accredited training in breathwork, Tantra, nervous system healing, and related modalities. Her work includes sacred medicine ceremonies, shamanic and rebirthing breathwork, trauma integration, retreats, and somatic embodiment.
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She continues to study and apprentice within sacred medicine traditions, approaching this work with reverence for the lineages, practices, and communities that have shaped her path.
At the center of her work is the belief that healing is supported through safety, connection, embodiment, and community.
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Based in Missouri, she travels and hosts transformational retreats in various locations, offering students the unique opportunity to complete their hands-on practical training immersed within her sacred retreat containers.
Daniela Gargiulo
Missouri + Select Retreat Locations | Kambo & Bufo Practical Training
Anthony Phelan
Brighouse, England | Kambo & Bufo Practical Training
Anthony, is a Kambo and Bufo practitioner, holistic practitioner, sound facilitator, and integration guide whose work has been shaped by years of study, travel, and direct experience with traditional healing practices.
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His path has taken him through Peru, Mexico, and other international settings, where he has spent time learning within Indigenous communities, studying plant and animal medicines, ceremony, and traditional ways of working.
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Anthony has worked as a Kambo practitioner since 2022, including training through the International Association of Kambo Practitioners (IAKP), and also works with Bufo / 5-MeO-DMT, sound alchemy, Iboga, and the Enigma Ketamine Insight Integration Protocol.
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His approach combines traditional medicine work, sound, integration, and holistic support, with an emphasis on helping participants move through these experiences with greater clarity, preparation, and understanding. He continues to deepen his practice through ongoing study, apprenticeship, and direct experience with the traditions that inform his work.
Michael Manion
Sonora, Mexico | Bufo Practical Training
Michael Manion is a 22-year military veteran and former Department of Defense and VA federal employee. After transitioning from service, he recognized the need for more accessible, community-based approaches to long-term wellbeing, personal growth, and reintegration.
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He went on to found Healing Frontline Heroes and MotaVerse, initiatives centered around structured, peer-supported environments, connection, and personal development.
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The immersion begins with a temazcal ceremony, creating space for grounding, connection, and group cohesion before moving into the hands-on practical work.
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Based in Sonora, Michael brings students into a direct, hands-on relationship with the medicine and its natural environment. His practical training takes place during monsoon and toad season and includes experience with toad collection and harvesting, medicine preparation and measurement, ceremony setup, different administration methods, practical facilitation, and learning alongside experienced guest facilitators.
Important Note on Practical Training
Esencia by GlendaLee offers its own in-person practical training in select locations and is fully responsible for the practical training programs facilitated directly by GlendaLee.
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Students may also choose to complete their practical training with an independent provider listed within the Esencia Practical Training Network.
Independent Practical Training Providers operate separately from Esencia by GlendaLee and determine their own pricing, scheduling, location, policies, training structure, teaching methods, and requirements.
All arrangements and payments for practical training with an independent provider are made directly between the student and that provider.
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Esencia by GlendaLee does not collect fees, commissions, or other compensation from independently provided practical training.
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Esencia by GlendaLee does not manage or control the delivery of practical training offered by independent providers. Each independent provider is responsible for their own operations, students, facilities, supervision, and in-person training services.
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Participation in the Practical Training Network does not create an employment, agency, partnership, or franchise relationship with Esencia by GlendaLee.