Jason’s journey has led him around the world in search of questions he has had about life. Early in his twenties, he began to develop a keen interest in plants: as food, nutrition, life, and medicine. He began learning holistic systems of medicine such as herbalism, Traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, and nutrition. That curiosity eventually led him to the Amazon where he began to work with plants to learn traditional ways of healing. Jason came to work at the ayahuasca healing center Temple of the Way of Light in 2012 where he would stay for nearly a decade. After having worked with ayahuasca quite extensively, he began the process of dieting plants in the Shipibo tradition. In 2013 he began working with maestro Ernesto Garcia Torres, delving deep into the world of dieting. Through a prolonged apprenticeship and training, involving prolonged isolation, fasting, and dieting of plants, he was given the blessing to begin working plants and the title of tabaquero. He currently runs plant medicine retreats/dietas in Peru and travels abroad regularly. Jason works through the medium of the master plant tobacco and with tree medicines from the Amazon rainforest and increasingly with trees from North America and Europe. Jason created a podcast called The Universe Within Podcast. Plants truly are our food, our life, our medicine, and they are alive and here to help us learn from them. They can open us to a world that we perhaps never could have imagined: the world of who we are. When we approach them with respect, honor, humility, and a genuine desire to learn, they can open the doors of life and heal us on all levels. Jason is deeply grateful to all of his teachers and students who have and continue to teach him, and to everyone that has helped him on his journey to where he is, and to wherever it may lead. Jason is also an Eagle Scout and in his free time, he enjoys practicing Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (he is a brown belt and also in Lute Livre), riding his motorcycle, and enjoying some peace and quiet..