On-Site Residents

Sacha Rumi is held and animated by the people who live and work here. Our on-site residents are practitioners who have woven their personal practice, client work, and daily rhythms into life on the land.

Living at Sacha Rumi allows for a slower, more attentive way of working—one shaped by continuity, relationship, and deep familiarity with the environment. The residents below use Sacha Rumi as the primary setting for their client work, offering a steady presence that supports both individual processes and the wider field of the retreat space. Each brings their own lineage, modality, and way of listening, while sharing a common respect for the land, the community, and the long-term unfolding of healing work here.

John Patton

John is an on-site medicine practitioner whose work at Sacha Rumi is grounded in long-term experience with Amazonian plant medicines and disciplined ceremonial practice. His approach is rooted in extended shamanic dietas, which form the foundation of his work with Ayahuasca, Huachuma (San Pedro), and Kambo.

Sacha Rumi serves as a primary base for John’s client work, providing a stable and familiar environment that supports continuity, integration, and depth over time. In addition to his work here, he has facilitated ceremonies and dietas in the rainforest region around Tarapoto and in the Andean landscape of the Sacred Valley of the Incas near Pisac.

His role as an on-site practitioner reflects a commitment to steady, well-held processes that support balance, clarity, and meaningful inner work through plant-based ceremonial practice.

https://johnpattoncurandero.com/

Lucille Ablin

Lucilla is an on-site medicine practitioner, author, and musician whose work is rooted in more than thirty years of lived initiation within forest environments, first in France and later in the Peruvian Amazon. Her approach has been shaped through long-term, direct relationship with the living world, where the forest itself has served as both teacher and initiatory ground.

Her practice is informed by sustained engagement with plants, song, and embodied presence, cultivating a form of feminine medicine grounded in patience, listening, and service. Over time, this path has matured into a deeply relational and compassionate way of accompanying others through processes of healing, transformation, and inner alignment.

Lucilla lives between Sacha Rumi and San Pedro de Cumbaza, where she offers individual accompaniment, women’s circles, retreats, and ceremonial spaces. Her work weaves together spoken guidance, song, and attentive presence, supporting processes that unfold in rhythm with the body, the forest, and the inner world.

Her ceremonies are held in respectful relationship with the Sachamama and living traditions, experienced as spaces of prayer, healing, and transformation. Lucilla’s approach is grounded, measured, and attuned to individual pacing, supporting authentic processes rather than transmitting fixed teachings.

https://www.artselvaperu.com/

Life at Sacha Rumi is shaped by long-term presence, respectful practice, and a deep relationship with the land and its rhythms.