Mountain Medicine Team

Mela Mariposa

Mela is a trauma-informed mentor and breathwork guide who creates supportive spaces for healing through somatic practices, breath, connection to nature. With over a decade of experience in the healing arts, she supports individuals in navigating life transitions, reconnecting with their bodies, and cultivating clarity, presence, and inner trust.

Yari Bonilla

Yari, born in Peru, has been guiding ceremonies since 2014, with a focus on native medicine plants and sustainability. His major arrow leads to the Wachuma cactus, and he walks the bridge between two continents, South America and Europe, analysing how the calendar wheels align and complement one another.

Yari plays multiple instruments and composes his own music.

From a young age, he has been expressing the full cycle of a simple existence via gardening, growing a fruit forest, natural building, raising his daughters, co-creating a community, and studying the wisdom of his homeland's elders.

Paula Katharina

Paula is a student of nature, its songs and its memory, as well as a ceremonialist, walking her prayer of simplicity and preparing the ground for varied seeds of joy to sprout.

She lives a simple life in a community in southern Portugal, where she built her own home. In addition to tending to vegetable gardens, fruit trees, and a natural forest, she is an artist, alchemist, musician, painter, and composer of her own songs.