About Marbella Barajas

The Path of Service

For the last 6 years, I’ve had the honor of working closely with plant medicines like Kambo, Bufo, Iboga, and Ayahuasca. Each one has humbled me, healed something I didn’t know needed healing, and shown me new layers of what the body and subconscious are capable of when given the right conditions to release.

Serving Kambo specifically for the last 4 years has become one of the great privileges of my life. There’s something sacred about sitting with someone as their body remembers how to let go — of toxins, of old patterns, of pain that was never even theirs to carry in the first place. I’ve now held space for hundreds of people in ceremony, and every single one of them has left a mark on me too.

My training and practice run deep — through years of ceremonial work alongside my partner Max at Entheos Retreats in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where I helped grow a retreat center devoted to Iboga, plant medicine facilitation, and trauma-informed healing.

The Path of Teaching

Alongside ceremony, teaching has become just as sacred to me. For the last 5 years, I’ve taught mushroom therapy — covering everything from microdosing protocols to how to safely hold a solo journey, to the deeper trauma-healing models that work with the subconscious to actually rewire the brain. I recently released a book sharing this work more widely, and I’ve led over 8 facilitator trainings, helping others step into this path with the integrity and care it deserves.

I believe healing work like this only stays sacred if it’s also responsible — which is why education has always mattered to me as much as ceremony itself. Knowing the medicine isn’t enough; you have to know the person in front of you, their nervous system, their history, and what they actually need in that moment. And to take it even further, the only way you do that is by knowing yourself. It’s a gift to discover who you are, and an even greater challenge to discard everything you are not. Your unique path is not written, but birthed. So invite death with a smile, and hold your transformation with grace. It matters. You matter.

Why This Work Matters to Me

I’ve come to believe that most of us aren’t actually broken — we’re just carrying things that were never ours to hold: inherited pain, old stories, emotions we absorbed long before we had the tools to process them. This work — Kambo, plant medicine ceremony, breathwork, bodywork, trauma-informed support — exists to help people find their way back to what’s actually theirs. Their own body. Their own clarity. Their own life, lived on their own terms.

This isn’t just what I do. It’s who I’ve become.