Founder of Ayahuasca Ayllu, Alonso Del Rio expresses through his work what he considers the three most important manifestations of humanity: science, art and spirituality. Life-long student of the ancestral American and worldwide traditions, to this date he is one of the main referents on the West in regards to the work with master plants and ancient cultures. He was born in Lima, Peru in 1962. In 1977, after he started reading about the use of Peyote and master plants, he felt the calling to experience with Wachuma, a cactus also known as “San Pedro ''. Later on he assisted at the Catholic University of Peru to study Literature, but his university studies ended after an experience that would transform his life entirely: Journeying to the Peruvian rainforest where he would have his first Ayahuasca experience and meet who would become his first and most important teacher, Don Benito Arevalo, from the Shipibo people. Alonso spent the next thirteen years of his life living in the different places of the Peruvian Amazon, receiving the traditional training of a "curandero" (healer). He soon realized that the classic use of the Ayahuasca could be expanded to also serve as an instrument of self knowledge and the expansion of consciousness. In 1992 he came back to Lima, and with permission from his master, started leading Ayahuasca ceremonies with people from the city who were oriented to self-exploration and evolutionary work. He later met the north-american native traditions, which led him to Mexico to participate in different ceremonies and complete his training and knowledge in that traditional school. One of his very early conclusions about the work with sacred plants and the development of consciousness, is that one must actually become an agent of change and manifest everything that has been learned for the common good. This is how in the year 2000 he founded the Center of Healing and Consciousness Studies Ayahuasca Ayllu, where he welcomes people from all over the world to share the teachings he received. In 2004, after being aware of the serious deficiencies in the educational system, he decided to create together with Waltraut Stölben, the educational association Wiñaypaq whose main project is a primary intercultural free school for the children of farmer families in the area around Pisac, Perú. Alonso's work started gaining international recognition thanks to the Ayahuasca songs he had composed and started publishing in the year 2000. This is when he coined the musical genre term "Medicine Music", which soon grew in popularity across the world. As a writer he has published two books: Tawantinsuyo 5.0 and The Four Altars. Both books are based on the ancestral knowledge that shows the correct use of sacred plants for the development of consciousness. At the same time he developed as a documentarist, shaping the teachings from his master Don Benito in the documentary The forgiveness medicine. And after that, putting the lessons from a Q´uero master: Martin Paukar, on another documentary called Urpillay Sonqollay Kokamama. Later on he shared his understanding of the divine origin through his documentary God. In his permanent search of grinding better ways to spread the knowledge, he developed a feature film entitled The Four Altars: A professional-quality film funded entirely by the sacred medicine community. In this feature film he exposes the knowledge of the “Four Altars”, while denouncing the ecological crime caused by the extraction of gold in the Amazon. Active promoter of a healthy and sustainable lifestyle for humanity and the whole planet, he takes care of a conservation area in the peruvian Amazon, while develioping agro ecological projects and natural medicine.