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Darpan — Teacher · Musician · Guide
"Awaken to the calling of the Spirit in the Sacred Valley"
DarPan is a musician, healer, and counsellor. He travels extensively around the world delivering concerts, sound healing seminars, and shamanic retreats. He is an inspirational speaker who has a natural flair for embellishing talks with stories, anecdotes, and rich personal experience.
Born in the Netherlands, DarPan was raised in South Australia, where he graduated with first-class honors at Flinders University in Psychology and the Dramatic Arts. He spent his early years working as a professional actor in theatre, TV, and film, and was the founder/singer/songwriter for the seminal rock band Die Laughing in the 80s.
He studied Shaolin Martial Arts and Taoist Spiritual Tai Chi under Dr. Tennyson Yiu in Sydney and went on to spend several years in Pune, India, studying the art of Tantra and Meditation at Osho Commune International. Further studies include Transpersonal Psychology and the teachings of Dr. Stanislav Grof. He is deeply influenced by Buddhist, Advaita, and Taoist philosophy.
In the late nineties, he met author, raconteur, and ethnobotanist Terence McKenna, who introduced him to Ayahuasca. In the years that followed, he lived and worked with various shamans and curanderos in South America, notably Yatra Silveira de Barbosa (Brasil), Don Jose Campos (Peru), and Don Casimiro Mamallacta (Ecuador).
He is renowned throughout Europe and Australia as an accomplished teacher, musician, and healer, and for pioneering the ceremonial use of Ayahuasca in the West.
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