ELISA FUSI is an Italian molecular biologist with a research focus on human pathology and neuroscience. Raised early as a visionary herbalist and writer, she graduated in Herbal Medicine in London and worked in laboratories in Europe, Madagascar, and Cambodia before beginning an ongoing investigation into folk medicine, ancestral rituals, and indigenous culture worldwide.
She studied and lived with different ethnic groups, including the Malagasy and Merina of Madagascar; the Kunas and Naso of Panama; the Quillacinga of Colombia; the Q’eqchí and other Mayan groups of Guatemala; the Mazatecs and Mixtecs of Mexico; the Kichwas of Ecuador; and the Shipibo Conibo of Peru. She later earned a diploma in Mayan Medicine from the Mayan Medicine Institute of Guatemala, with a focus on sharing ancient Mayan knowledge.
She was recently trained in Kambo by the Matses people and has promoted several initiatives to protect the rights of the land and the people of the Amazonian basin.
After a near-death experience, her quest for a more complete understanding of human consciousness became stronger. She founded an environmental organisation and, in 2012, created Alquimia, an educational Centre and intentional space promoting alternative teachings on herbalism, shamanism, and alchemy, located in the Guatemalan rainforest.
With an active team of volunteers and teachers, she moved the Centre to Costa Rica, where she formed a deep connection with the land and local communities and continues to promote conservation projects.
Elisa is also a Certified Somatic Therapy Foundations Practitioner (CSTFP) and Clinical Trauma Professional Level II (CCTP-II), she blends evidence-based trauma modalities with somatic awareness to help patients process deep-seated distress, regulate their nervous systems, and reclaim their authenticity.
Author of two books, she happily teaches herbalism and somatic therapy, leads training programs, psychodrama sessions, and experiential retreats.
“… to retrieve the Shaman within us is to find back our ancestral vitality and the inner ability to self-heal. It is essential to resolve humanity’s collective madness and reconnect with the archetypal world, clearly visualising our place in the biosphere. A courageous step into wider comprehension demands navigating the entire spectrum of states. It’s a journey within multiple journeys of reminiscence, finally bringing us into lucidity.”
DAVIEL aka Davide Giannotti is an Italian visionary artist, music-producer and sound therapist.
Since an early stage he dedicated himself to investigate the profound connections between frequencies, body, mind, nature and later gave birth to a music style called Psy–Dream, deep trance sounds made with harmonics scales often tuned with A=432Hz/C=256Hz inducing brainwave entrainment and change in state of consciousness.
He began his inspiring journey as a music therapist performing at healing centres and joining transformational festivals worldwide.
He also practiced sound therapy in a private clinic located in Italy, in order to assist people in vegetative state. Article here.
He is currently teaching several workshops at Alquimia and dedicating his time to experiment with the effects of sounds, thoughts and emotions,
“…I think the most important part in a musical composition is the intention behind it, the intention and feeling while making music are imprinted and transmitted through the sound wave, creating different effects in the listener…
…because Sound is a wave bearer of consciousness… “