TEAM MEMBERS
Irena Marin
Wellness, Health and Beauty Alchemist | Integration Coach | Psychedelic Educator & Advocate | NextGen ReGen Biohacker
Irena is an Educator, Public Speaker, Life and Psychedelic Integration Coach who lectures on topics related to psychedelic science and education, integration, self-care and harm prevention.
She is an NLP Practitioner and a student of Gabor Mate’s Compassionate Inquiry Program. Irena draws on her versatile background in sciences, training in Psychedelic education, her lineage of plant medicine healers, and her personal experience with depression, PTSD, sexual trauma and sex addiction recovery, yoga therapy and breath work to facilitate healing of personal, institutional, cultural and collective trauma.
Irena is also a Wellness, Health, Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine Advocate. She is an Instructor of the Cosmetic Sciences program at UCLA Extension, an acclaimed product innovator, and co-founder & partner in several groundbreaking skincare lines sold globally. She has made frequent appearances as a featured guest on a multichannel video retailer platform, published dozens of articles in the professional skin care magazines, science journals and popular beauty magazines.
She is a highly organized and diligent professional who has dedicated over two decades of highly accomplished career to beauty and wellness innovation and increasing the awareness of scientific advancements in the Cosmetic Sciences in academic, professional and commercial product forums. Energetic, motivational lecturer, respected educational leader and trend-setting product innovator with expertise in product development, sales and marketing, curriculum development, team facilitation and project management.
Irena is a co-creator of Psychedelic Integration for Couples program Holding Space for a Loved One, which helps guide couples in adopting new sets of behaviors and values in the area of intimacy, vulnerability and communication.
Instagram: @mycostoic
Facebook: Irena Reina Marin
LinkedIn: Irena Marin
Kasper van der Meulen
The Breathwork Biohacker
Kasper van der Meulen is a Breathwork specialist, Biohacker and Science Teacher. He went from being overweight, burnt out and unhappy, to developing extraordinary focus, fitness and personal freedom. He has taught the principles of self-optimisation to thousands of people across the globe. He has personally coached some of the most elite performers – Olympic athletes, special operations, high-power CEO’s and the likes – to hack their performance with conscious breathing. He now runs a cutting edge “Breathwork Masterclass” where he teaches health coaches, breathwork facilitators, physiotherapists, doctors, personal trainers and other professionals to harness the power of breathing and the nervous system in their practice.
Instagram: @kaspersfocus
Website: kaspersfocus.com
Corey Beasley
Strength and conditioning coach
Corey has 20+ years experience in the fitness world. He started as an intern outside of Chicago, worked as an independent coach in small studios and health clubs, opened health clubs, taught workshops for NSCA & NASM, opened two private facilities, developed Fight Camp Conditioning and continues to find new ways to add value to his industry.
Website: fightcampconditioning.com
Stefan Kasian
NMD, PhD
Conscious Capital Curator
Evolutionary Medicine Whisperer
Dr. Kasian is a visionary badass entrepreneurial healer. After infusing his Wall Street stint with value alignement, he innovated breakthroughs by transacting “Conscious Real Estate” while earning a Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology: the self-actualization of body-mind-heart-spirit via the full spectrum of states of consciousness. After a Near Death Experience (NDE), he discovered best practices to bring himself back from the dead to regain functionality; his quest included receiving transmissions from a renowned health mentor born 1901 yet looked half his chronological age, transcendent encounters in India with the “Mother of Millions” Hugging Saint, and culminating in his training and residency as Licensed Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine focusing on best evolution of the whole person in a thriving environment. A curandero apprentice since 2012, he regularly leads courageous sincere students into cross-cultural experiential plant medicine immersions deep into the Amazonian Rainforest.
A Conscious Capital Curator specializing in health and brain technology, psychedelic medicine, and conscious communities he helps revolutionaries and game changers incubate their dreams and raise substantial capital along social spiritual economic and enviromental bottom lines in concert with a knowledge firm and investment bank that truly “gets it”.
To address the greatest home/health/security crisis in our lifetime, Dr. Kasian attracts conscious collaborative partnerships with like-minded investment/equity partners who want to grow capital with a mission, landowners who seek to build sustainable communities, municipalities seeking affordable housing with a green twist, and individual clients seeking home-health-security makeovers and solutions to crises.
His elements include responsible plant medicine ceremonies, brain and health technologies, and innovative frontier therapies. His virtual concierge practice is based out of an energy medicine research lab in North County San Diego where he serves as CLIA Director and Chief Innovation Technology Officer to pursue leading edge publishable research for emergent innovations and market life-saving applications.
His groundbreaking work has earned him print media recognition culminating in an appointment as Chair of Transpersonal Psychology inside the American Psychological Association with a key role to contribute to the evolution of consciousness.
Sea Telez
Self-Love Coach
I mentor others through their journey with self love here at The Big Amigo. My journey to self love began 4 years ago when I had a series of unfortunate events unfold while my time in the fire service as a firefighter II. I fell through a roof during a training, had a miscarriage because of the injury, and then about 3 months later was sexually assaulted by my coworker who was also a firefighter. This put me into such a deep dark hole of pain and suffering that I thought the only way out of my misery was to end my time here on earth. I had no idea which way to go, nowhere to turn. I felt so alone and misunderstood. Months after the tramas I endured while continuing to work, I slowly began to lose the ability to move due to my back injury. The emotional trauma made my spine twist like a DNA strand. Losing the ability to walk caused me to lose my career as a Firefighter. Spiraling down even more than where I was before, I didn’t think I’d make it out alive. 8 months of bed rest is where I ended my suffering and began my healing. I was graciously saved by Angels. They awoke me one mystical day and I felt a great desire to stay alive and fully live my life. I was ready to accept where I was on my journey and create a change in my mindset, ready to do the work and figure out how I was going to move forward. Self love and forgiveness came to mind,and this truly saved my life. This was the hardest and biggest pivot point in my life. I learned to find tremendous gratitude for my journey, turning my nightmare into a blessing in disguise because it led me to create The Big Amigo. A space to gather, learn, share, and feel love so that you may heal and find love for yourself fully and everlasting. Self love allows us to give and receive love unconditionally, which is why I believe Self love will change the world we live in today. Making it a better place to live for us all, however this healing and change begins with me and you. If you are ready to create change in your life, and love yourself fully, you have come to the right place. Thebigamigo.com will help you find a coach that is best suited for you to help give you the tools you’re looking for to succeed in your journey to fully loving you. If you are already on your journey to Self love and just need some daily inspiration or reminders check out our Instagram @the.big.amigo to get tips and tricks on loving your full being.
Website: Thebigamigo.com
Robert Forte
Scholar and Researcher
Forte is a scholar and researcher of psychedelic drugs. He first studied with Frank Barron, who started the Psilocybin Project at Harvard with Timothy Leary in 1963. In 1981 he moved to Esalen to study with Stanislav Grof, then attended the Divinity School, University of Chicago. During this time Forte conducted independent investigation of MDMA. Robert continued his studies underground for several years before becoming a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1991. He became a director of the Albert Hofmann Foundation in 1993. From 1993 to 1996 he spent a lot of time with Dr. Timothy Leary while working on his next book, Timothy Leary, Outside Looking In, (also published in Czech by Volfox Globator). From 2003 – 2009 Robert investigated the effects of ayahuasca on cancer patients in Peru. Currently adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He is the editor of Entheogens and the Future of Religion.
Website: beyondpsychedelics.cz