Jason’s journey has led him around the world in search of questions he has had about life.  After moving to New York he began to dive into religion and spiritual teachings, learning as much as he could.  He began reading as many books, texts, and esoteric readings as he could find.  He began practicing yoga in its many forms and eventually was certified through Yoga Alliance and in Ashtanga with Richard Freeman.  He learned Qigong from Jung-Ping Yuan and went to Wudang, China to learn Taiji.  He has practiced many martial arts such as Judo, Aikido, and spent time in Thailand learning and fighting Muay Thai from Master Pi Kob.  Returning to New York from two years abroad he became an avid practitioner of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu learning from Victor “Shaolin” Ribeiro and Marcos 'Loro' Galvao. 

Early in his twenties, he began to develop a keen interest in plants: as food, as nutrition, as life, and as medicine.  He began learning holistic systems of medicine such as herbalism, Traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, and nutrition.  That curiosity eventually led him to the Amazon where he began to work with plants to learn traditional ways of healing.  His experience combines many different modalities of working with plants.  The plants of the Amazon, and the ways in which the peoples of Amazon work with them, have had a revelatory effect on his life.  

Jason came to work at the ayahuasca healing center Temple of the Way of Light in 2012 where he would stay for nearly a decade. After having worked with ayahuasca quite extensively, he began the process of dieting plants.  He has dieted in the Shipibo tradition and began working with maestro Ernesto Garcia Torres in 2013, delving deep into the world of dieting.  Through a prolonged apprenticeship and training, involving prolonged isolation, fasting, and dieting of plants, he was given the blessing to begin working plants.  After working for some time as a tabaquero, he was eventually given the ability to administer diets; to share in the tradition from which he had learned and which has taught him so much. He has been living, learning, and working in Peru for the last ten years. He currently runs dietas in the Sacred Valley of Peru and abroad. Jason works through the medium of the master plant tobacco and with tree medicines from the Amazon rainforest and increasingly with trees from North America and Europe. Jason created a podcast called the Universe Within Podcast, available on all major platforms. In the past decade, he has helped guide over a thousand people in ceremonies.

Jason sees himself, in part, as a bridgekeeper. Inspired by one of his teachers, Imika, and the Tubu nation of the Colombian Amazon, who have a tale of a new breed of people called the Diroamassä. The Diramassä, or Children of the New Dawn, are a Tubu prophecy of a next-generation of people who are able to bridge the medicines of the Four Directions to create a new maloca, the Amazonian word for a house or a ceremonial space. And on a deeper level, the maloca symbolizes the world or universe.

Plants truly are our food, our life, our medicine, and they are alive and here to help us learn from them.  They can open us to a world that we perhaps never could have imagined: the world of who we are. When we approach them with respect, honor, humility, and a genuine desire to learn, they can open the doors of life and heal us on all levels.  Jason is deeply grateful to all of his teachers and students who have and continue to teach him, and to everyone that has helped him on his journey to where he is, and to wherever it may lead.

Jason is also an Eagle Scout and in his free time, he enjoys practicing Brazilian jiu-jitsu (he is a brown belt and also in lute livre), riding his motorcycle, and enjoying some peace and quiet..