I have been working as a kambo trainer since 2018. The kambo training is an intense and deeply rewarding process. As well as learning about Kambo from a historical and scientific context you will also go through a healing process yourself. It is as if Kambo is clearing the way for you to be as clean and focussed as possible in your role as a future practitioner. Old programmes and patterns of behaviour, often unconscious are revealed and the space is created for you to work through them. In many ways it is more than just a training in the traditional sense of the word, it is also a deeply healing process for all involved.

This unique course covers both traditional indigenous and modern western Kambo practices

The course is packed and intensive; there will be 13 very full teaching days. On the final day there will be a practical and written assessment.

  • Specialised Kambo Treatment and Example Protocols

  • The Basics of Auricular Kambo

  • Contraindications, Warning Signs, Problem Solving, Kambo First Aid

  • Connecting and communicating with the Spirit of Kambo

  • Holding space and boundaries

  • Kambo Songs and Prayers

  • Working with Rattles, Feathers and Smoke

  • The Kambo Practitioner – Role and responsibilities

  • The IAKP – Code of Practice

  • And Much More

  • The science behind Kambo

  • The Kambo Circle/Ceremony

  • Using Rapé and Sananga/Bechette

  • Burn and point setting techniques

  • Traditional Treatments and Tribal Initiation

  • Self-Treatments

  • Layering Treatments

  • Intensive and Long Term treatment

  • Kambo and Meridians

  • Kambo with Chakras and Marma Points

Course content will include:

It is very important to note that joining the training does not guarantee that you will become a Kambo practitioner immediately. Not everyone who joins the course passes the training.

We want you to succeed and so there are some pre-requisites in place, to help make sure you have the best possible chance of completing and passing the training.

The prerequisites for this first-level course are:

You have experienced Kambo and felt a strong call to work with it. It is important to remember Kambo is an extremely powerful medicine and the decision to work with it should not be taken lightly.

You have received Kambo at least 6 times, or will have done so before the course starts

If possible, you have assisted a practitioner for at least one Kambo ceremony, or will make arrangements to do this before the course start date. This is not mandatory but advised. Please contact any IAKP listed practitioner and request this opportunity. (You can combine assisting with receiving treatment at the practitioners discretion).

You are sufficiently physically fit and emotionally stable to do the work

You are able to put yourself into service and adopt a mindset of gratitude and humility when working with Kambo

You understand that if you have declared that you meet the pre-requisites and are then found to be otherwise, you may be asked to leave the course.

If you do successfully complete of the course, you will have everything that you need to start treating clients. You will also be entitled to a free 1 year membership of the International Association of Kambo Practitioners, www.iakp.org . As part of your membership, your name will be listed on the Worldwide Practitioner list on the website. IAKP membership gives you access to ongoing advice and support for your work through both ourselves, senior practitioners and our legal and medical resources. We run a fairly traded, sustainably harvested Kambo sticks co-operative, produce regular updates on the world of Kambo and also source Rapé, Sananga, Palo Santo, Dragon’s Blood and more for our members.

After 18 months of successful practice, you may gain access to a further one-week Advanced course and then enter the Master Practitioner program.