Acknowledgement of Traditional Custodians*
AyaKambo acknowledges the Indigenous and ancestral peoples of the world as the original custodians of the earth's medicine traditions — plant, animal, and elemental intelligences cultivated, protected, and transmitted across generations through ceremony, initiation, and living relationship with the natural world. We pay our respects to the Elders, knowledge-keepers, and lineage holders of known and unnamed lineages that carried this knowledge across continents and centuries, past and present.
*adapted in spirit from the Australian practice of acknowledging Traditional Owners of the Country, but applied here to the tradition itself.
Welcome to the original AyaKambo Kura Project.
AyaKambo began in 2012 after years of immersion in vegetalismo lineages and teacher-plant contexts by its founder Armin Raso as a disciplined exploration of Amazonian frog medicine (known as Kambô or Vacina do Sapo) and the extraordinary intelligence that surrounds it. What followed was a practice of careful adaptation, disciplined facilitation, and deep loyalty to the roots of the work. AyaKambo became known as the first competent, research-led — and above all tradition-respecting — reference point in the German-speaking European sphere, just before the global spread of Kambô has produced confusion, exploitation, and performative appropriation.
Since its revival in 2026 the new initiative stands now to honour the custodians of this medicine, to restore clarity where confusion has spread, and more than ever to uphold the integrity that the original tradition deserves.