Our team
Guides
The team
These are some of the people you will meet at Motherland.
We have different backgrounds and different ways of working, but we know each other well, and we guide the retreats together.
Some of us you will meet when you arrive, others perhaps first in the quiet of a ceremony. Whoever is beside you, the aim is the same: someone is close when you need them, and there is room to be left alone when you do not.
Margriet
Founder & guide
During my first Ayahuasca journey, I saw that the best way to reach people is not with my words, but with my silence.
That recognition felt like a continuation of a path I had already begun through Kashmir Yoga and Rebalancing. Later, I travelled to the Peruvian Amazon to deepen my understanding of Ayahuasca within the Shipibo tradition, where I entered a dieta with the master plant Noya Rao and was traditionally initiated as an Ayahuascera.
Since then, I have guided more than 3,000 people in Ayahuasca ceremonies. Again and again, I see that what matters most is not what I do, but the safety and space in which people can meet whatever is there.
Marnix
Guide & Integration Coach
Marnix guides retreats together with Margriet and brings attentiveness, curiosity and groundedness to the work. He is interested in what can happen when we stop trying to control or immediately explain our experience, and in creating an atmosphere where depth does not have to become solemn and seriousness and lightness can comfortably exist together.
Ilco
Guide & Brewer
Every retreat is different, because every person who walks through the door brings something different with them. For me, guiding begins with paying attention: to what is being said, to what is not being said, and to what the moment seems to ask for.
Over the years, my own path has taken me through different forms of inner work, meditation and plant medicine. Each of them has shaped the way I am present during a retreat, but none has given me a fixed method or a map that everyone should follow.
What matters to me is creating enough space for people to have their own experience. Sometimes that means being close. Sometimes it means doing very little. And sometimes a cup of tea is the most profound intervention available.
Pita
Guide
Emmeline
Guide & Owner of Motherland
Suzanne
Guide & Head Guide San Pedro
Amina
Assistant Guide
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