Tony Natem Duku, an artist dedicated to healing, grew up distinct amongst his community in Iquitos. With his heightened sensitivity, he developed telepathic skills and telekinesis since the age of nine.  At the age of 16, following a near-death experience, Tony's healing capabilities fully materialized with the need to save his own life. He learned to work with energy, sound and color, in connection with and aided by the Amazonian maestro plants, his spiritual guides — unique in that he did not learn from a human maestro. With channeled therapeutic systems and diagnosing using mathematical calculations, he theorizes that anything and everything in ones environment is capable of assisting anyone’s healing process, and therefore there exists infinite ways to develop therapies to support an individual to align most harmoniously with their essence and life force.

“I have always sought new ways of healing, and this is why I was interested in terminal illnesses. I noticed when terminally ill patients were on their deathbed — yet still with life in them — that their path was not death.

They needed to find their own strength, to find love and reconciliation with themselves, for themselves. My biggest intention in all of my work is to help people encounter their inner strength — this energy that lives within each person, learn to love themselves, and encounter the love that exists in each person.”

In the early 90's, Tony founded an organization of Curanderos, native healers with the objective of preserving the lands, knowledge, tradition and language of the healers. At this time, he was also teaching and working with foreign scientists and students visiting the National University of the Peruvian Amazon and the Institution of Investigations of the Peruvian Amazon. Since the early 2000's, Tony has visited several European countries as a speaker, therapist, curandero and artist in painting expositions. In Chile, he has also taught courses on healing with plant medicine ceremonies and alternative therapies to psychotherapists at the University and various psychiatric clinics. In 2007, he founded his center outside of Iquitos, Trocha Amazonica. In recent years, he spoke at several conferences for the McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy and collaborated with Dennis McKenna in his Journey of the Soul ayahuasca retreats. Tony continues to study, experimenting with his own experiences, searching for faster and more efficient ways to help people, on a more profound level.

"Every day I try to perfect my work. It's another form of art — the art of healing — a profound introspection of the being."