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Core BreathJournal

About Core Breath Consulting

We start with the whole person, then treat the concern.

Our approach

We plan for you, not for a diagnosis. Each client gets a plan built from their own history, body and goals. No two plans look alike.

Why harmony?

We use fruit as medicine, herbs for support, and one clear target for each concern. Give the body what it needs and it settles.

Our center

Our center sits in the mountains of Ecuador, close to Quito, the capital. We have space to host up to 15 people, with food, water, medicine and lodging all on site.

The mountains around Quito

The medicine keeper

A native of Quito, he has been planting, harvesting and preparing the medicine of Aguacolla, Wachuma and San Pedro since a young age. He cooks the medicine alongside his wife and children, and for many years he has shared it with Taitas in Ecuador and beyond, bringing healing to everyone who comes to sit.

Portrait of the medicine keeper

The land around the center

Mountain scenery in Ecuador
Andean landscape near Quito
Mountain scenery in Ecuador
John Hasan Khadiyev

Founder and writer

John Hasan Khadiyev

We work with counselors, therapists, shamans, curanderos, herbalists and doctors. Together we cover the full range of healing.

Core Breath is the journal, the book and the practices of John Hasan Khadiyev: plant medicine knowledge, preparation and integration from Quito, Ecuador. Retreats are run by our partner, Harmony Retreats Ecuador.

See the place

A short look at our center and the land around it.

Come meet the medicine in person.

A conversation is the quickest way to understand this work. Write to us.

Write to us