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My Story

Maxwell Honey

Maxwell has been working with indigenous and psychedelic medicines for over 15 years. Having experienced a past of drug addiction and debilitating sickness in his late teens, he eventually found Kambo medicine and healed himself of these afflictions at the age of 21. Not long after, Max attended Grand Valley University to study Chinese and philosophy, with the hopes of one day becoming a doctor of herbal medicine, and spent many years traveling to China, Japan, and all over East Asia. After several experiences with Ayahuasca and a trip to the Amazon rainforest however, Max eventually decided to change course entirely and instead focus on the exploration and integration of indigenous medicines into the modern context, gradually becoming a prominent teacher and guide for inner healing work over the next decade.

Maxwell continues to study and train in indigenous medicines, experiencing several rites of passage initiations with the African plant medicine Iboga in the last 5 years, as well as living with the Katukina people in Brazil – where he continued learning and integrating the indigenous approach to working with Kambo, Ayahuasca, Rapeh, and Sananga medicine. Today, Maxwell focuses much of his time to the ongoing development of a therapeutic, practice based, and trauma informed model of personal development and spiritual healing.

 Additionally, later this year, Maxwell and a small team of providers and therapists will be bringing iboga sessions to Thailand, with the focus initially being on 1-1 rebirthing and therapeutic sessions, but with the hopes of eventually offering addiction resolution and detox protocols with the medicine in the future as well.
 

In addition to his work with indigenous medicines, Maxwell is also a certified Breathwork and TRE practitioner, a practicing Psychedelic Integration and Eudaemonic Wellness Coach, and the author of several books. Maxwell offers weekly classes for the public in Chiangmai, as well as monthly Kambo Warrior Immersions for those looking to more deeply explore the indigenous medicine path as a personal lifestyle. Maxwell currently lives in Chiangmai, Thailand.

 

Expertise

Kambo

What is Kambo?

Kambo is a traditional Medicine used by many indigenous tribes in the Amazon basin for (at least) several hundred years, most likely longer. It is the venomous secretion of Phyllomedusa bicolor (the giant leaf or monkey frog) – a bright green tree frog, and is traditionally used to detoxify the body, cleanse the mind, open and connect with nature, improve hunting abilities, vaccinate against and treat various diseases, and ultimately, to connect with Spirit. Today, Kambo is being used for many of these same reasons in the modern world.

How Kambo is Used

Kambo is applied to the body via small burn marks made to the skin, often called Kambo dots or gates, and elicits a wide variety of “cleansing and detoxing” symptoms. These often include some amount of purging (vomiting), as well as sweating, crying, or tremoring. Whatever the experience however, Kambo ultimately works on everything.

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Rapeh

Rapeh or Rap’e is a traditional snuff made from dried and powdered Tobacco rustica, along with a variety of medicinal plants and ashes from all over the Amazonian rainforest. There are hundreds of types of Rapeh, and each has their own very unique effects. 

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Sananga

Sananga eye drops are made from the Tabernaemontana undulate shrub, and is present throughout many countries in South America. They take the bark from the roots of the shrub, grind it into a fine powder, and then strain the mass several times through a mesh filter using spring water. The active ingredients of Sananga have not all been scientifically investigated or proven, but the medicine is said to contain trace amounts of both ibogaine and other potent alkaloids, which are known to have many neurological and psychological benefits, as well as eliciting a wide variety of psychoactive effects.

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Breathwork & T.R.E.

TRE – Trauma Release Exercises

TRE® is a self-care technique based on the understanding that in stressful and traumatic situations, the human body is genetically wired to both protect and heal itself. The TRE practice assists the body in releasing deep muscular patterns of stress, tension, and trauma, by safely activating the body’s natural reflex mechanism of shaking – or vibrating – thus reducing muscular tension and bringing the entire nervous system back toward homeostasis.

This process is not only unique to humans but it is also present in the nervous systems of all mammals in the wild. However, as most of us in the modern world have been unconsciously conditioned to inhibit this natural healing response typically since childhood – to fit in, maintain face, and/or not show signs of physical, mental, or emotional weakness – we have essentially suppressed this adaptive mechanism of our own nervous system.

Fortunately, TRE® was precisely created to help us turn back on this natural healing response! Like a program on your computer that you forgot about for a while, yet it still runs perfectly… our own tremor mechanism simply needs to be re-opened and given permission to do its work. The practice of TRE® helps to reactivate this dormant healing response.

Breathwork:

Breathwork is perhaps the most potent transformative tool we have available to us: it costs nothing, it is always available, and it can shift us in profound, beautiful, and lasting ways in a relatively short period of time. It has the power to move us away from living from the fight, flight, and freeze programming of our biology, and into state of consciousness which is more grateful, empowered, centered, healthy, courageous, and resilient.

Satori Breathwork™ is a concise, scientific, easy to learn, and easy to integrate into your daily life, and can be tailored to people with a wide variety of health and wellness goals as well as to those with pre-existing health conditions. It is not just about breathing better, but about reconnecting to your body, emotions, desires, as well as in learning how to authentically connect with other people in a safe and therapeutic way.

Additionally, as you become more experienced in breath and embodiment practices, including listening to your own body, your intuition will eventually become your guide in this practice! It may take some time to develop, but that process can be greatly expedited with guidance from an instructor, as well as with a proper understanding of the primary physiological mechanics, which is always the primary goal in the Breathwork system that I teach.

Meet Maxwell's Extended Team

Marbella
MarbellaASSISTANT SHAMAN

Marbella is a latina curandera. Her healing specialty is working with Rapecito, Kambocito, Shamanic Mushrooms, and Iboga medicinas.
She is a gentle and strong feminine force in ceremony.
Marbella also reads tarot in sacred space, and hosts conscious
micro-dosing workshops for people globally.

Melinda
MelindaAssistant Shaman

Melinda delights in loving presence, holding space in ceremony
for healing energy to flow easily and effortlessly. She has a ten year relationship with Kambo and Rapeh, and serves these medicines
with a deep love, reverence, and care.
Melinda has also communed many times with Ayahuasca , San Pedro, Mushrooms, and Bufo Alvarius. She loves facilitating breathwork and meaningful movement practices in support and preparation for
deep plant medicine journeys, and is here to embrace and
celebrate the full dance of life with you.

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Participants' Feedback

“I’ve had profound experiences working with Kambo, Rapeh, Sanaga and Maxwell Honey. I started this journey with Indigenous Plant Medicine a year ago as a client healing from emotional blockages and dissociation from childhood trauma. These medicines changed my life. And now I have developed a grounded and deep connection with these medicines that I am starting to facilitate ceremony under the training and apprenticeship of Max. I highly recommend him as a facilitator and teacher. He hold a beautiful container for deep healing and personal empowerment.”
Marbella Barajas
Participant
“I am very picky when it comes to healing sessions and plant medicine work, just because this work is so easily influenced by our personal journey and "baggage" we may be aware or unaware of. I immediately knew I could work on the sessions and plant medicines with Max and his team. For me, it was clear that Max has faced so many of his own issues that he's able to hold a very safe space, and keep his own things contained. He's humble, attuned and grounded. This created a space where I could go deep into my healing, which I find rare. I am very grateful for that opportunity. He and his supporting guides worked really beautifully together in holding a space for healing in all of the sessions. While I had done breathwork and TRE before, as well as other plant medicines, it was my first time to sit with kambo, and all the sessions were profound, very healing, and of extremely high quality. Thank you Maxwell, I truly appreciate the work you do and see the light you bring to this world."
Ilana M
Participant
“After that initial day after of going through heavy detoxing, my energy returned and I felt so good. Since then I have advanced alot in my meditation practice, and to a point I felt that I was at least a year away from. I don't really believe in coincidences like this, so for sure I believe the kambo played some role in helping me! I also had some really strange dreams, which I guess is related, as well as really intensified synchronistic events in my life, and at a much higher probability than normal. So for me this is all very good news and very exciting times. Thank you again Maxwell!”
George Baird
Kambo Experiencer
"Hello, I’m Caspar, 31 years old and I live in Germany. I have never tried anything spiritual. After getting to know Maxwell, I finally wanted to do something good for my body with Kambo! In my 20s I celebrated a lot, among other things often and drank a lot of alcohol. Without exaggerating I was a little alcoholic. Maxwell and Melinda looked after me lovingly from the first second and I tolerated Kambo very well. Immediately afterwards I spat out green liquid, which indicates cleaning the liver; I felt very strong and focused, and now I eat very healthy unlike before! I haven’t seen any alcohol since then. I am very happy to have Maxwell by my side and I felt so safe at all times. Thank you Maxwell, you helped make me a healthy person now.”
Caspar
Kambo Experiencer
“I had the pleasure and to attend the 3 day warrior protocol and self-application training with Max at the Mae Rim meditation space run by the wonderful Marbella. It was a full-on week together with the preparations, breathwork, Rape and Kambo ceremonies and theory of the medicine. Max himself spent a significant amount of time with the indigenous people to study Kambo in depth among other plant medicines. The ceremonies itself have been deep and intense but never felt overwhelming or unsafe. On the contrary. Having had experiences in the past with traditional medicines I can say with great conviction that Max’s vast knowledge, the way he holds space and his personality makes him one of the best providers in this area. I can’t recommend his program and services highly enough and I am looking forward to continue my work with him.”
Michael Foilka, from Germany
Kambo Experiencer
“Satori Breathwork with Max was such an amazing experience of expansion, healing, and a renewed sense of total reliance on the self. Max is so deeply dedicated to what he's doing that it feels very safe being guided by him. Thank you, Max !"
Nargisse Saadi
Breathwork
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