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RÉMI

There are those who are called to lineages, and those who arrive to them. Though Rémi arrived as a friend first, they stayed to learn.

Rémi came into contact with The Dragon Lineage through Ayahuasca ceremonies held in the U.S. and Argentina. The calling deepened in pilgrimages through India, and saw the fruition of community in long retreats in the Amazon basin.

These individual and shared journeys brought the kind of fire that reveals who people truly are. Having purified the link to other communities, and finding that this one had a different view of authority, Rémi understood they could belong without betraying their nature.

All these adventures deepened friendship into kinship, so that when the invitation to join The Dragon Lineage team came – naturally, as all great things do – Rémi found themselves agreeing effortlessly also.

After more than a decade in one of the world’s noisiest machines, refining and sharpening their mind, Rémi now walks the path of Wachuma, carrying with them something simple to name, yet difficult to hold – honesty.

This comes not as doctrine or direction, but as a living presence that seeks to clarify everything it touches. Their practice lies in the alchemy of dualities into ever evolving geometries of consciousness, finding the middle way through integration rather than compromise.

Their role is still becoming, and they are not in a hurry. They’re just vibing.

SARA

Sara is a spiritual guide, medicine woman and counselor devoted to awakening the sacred within human life. Her work bridges the visible and invisible realms, inviting deep transformation through the balance of spirit and structure. Drawing from psychology, energy work and ancient ritual she creates grounded yet mystical spaces for authentic shadow-work.

From childhood, Sara felt attuned to subtle energies and unseen worlds. Her sensitivity matured into a lifelong study of mystical traditions, inner alchemy, and intuitive perception. This journey revealed her vocation: to help others remember that the sacred is within them, mirroring their growth through clarity and presence.

Her meeting with the Dragon Lineage deepened this path. Recognizing in its mission the same practice of divine remembrance she had long followed, for many years she joined retreats in Europe, India, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia and the United States – first as a student, later as a facilitator and finally as an Initiate.

Her refined awareness anchors the group field, harmonizing energies and supporting participants to surrender into the vast intelligence guiding each experience. An essential presence in each ceremony, her role in retreat focuses in embodiment and integration both within and outside ritual spaces.

Sara currently runs her own ceremonies in the United States as well as joining for retreats around the world. While Shar Khan remains the source of both shamanic and yogic empowerment, her function is fundamental in allowing each participant to weld the loftiness of all teachings into the fabric of daily life, helping people to live in tune with their own visions.

FOUNDER OF THE DRAGON LINEAGE

Shar Khan is a bridge between worlds — a pilgrim, healer and visionary who has spent his life studying, practicing, and transmitting the ancient sciences of spiritual transformation across the world. His path wove together the disciplines of yoga, mysticism and shamanism into a unified living tradition we call the Dragon Lineage.

In the Amazon, he undertook various initiations with the Shipibo people of Peru and the Kamanawa tribe of Brazil. The shamanic lineage he inherited, however, stems from the tradition of Mestizo shamanism he first learnt in Bolivia under Miguel Kavlin, a student of Don Agustin Rivas Vasquez, who later became Shar Khan’s shamanic Master.

His journeys through the Andes both revealed and expanded his mission. Across its mountains Shar Khan lived for many years, learning from Don Lucas Choque, leader of the Council of the Wise of Tiwanaku, as well as from the native people of the Island of the Sun to whom he came in humility often.

More than a decade before traveling first to India he encountered Babaji Baldev Singh, who has remained all these years as his root Guru and source of refuge. Traveling every year to meet him and his Sangha around the world, this eventually brought him to India where he apprenticed under yogis and sadhus of multiple sampradayas.

Though a student of all religions, Shar Khan’s main scriptural studies have been in the vast school of the Vajrayana, the tantric branch of Mahayana Buddhism. Having trained before in both Dzogchen and Mahamudra, eventually in meeting Khentrul Rinpoche Shar Khan found both his buddhist Guru and lineage, the Kalachakra.

These four masters with their traditions comprise the elemental inheritance from which the Lineage arose. Don Agustin and amazonian shamanism for water; Don Lucas and Andean pantheism for earth; Babaji and Sikhism for air; and Khentrul Rinpoche and the Kalachakra for fire. Their union teaches something simple: that truth is not to be believed, but embodied.

SWALILA

Swalila is a ceremony facilitator, sound practitioner, and visionary artist walking the path with the Dragon Lineage since 2019. Originally from the United States and currently based between Argentina and Minnesota, Swalila has spent the last decade in devoted service to sound, ceremony, and the healing arts. Initiated as Murayiya under the guidance of Shar Khan and the extended lineage of Don Agustin Rivas.

Her journey began from a seed of curiosity at a Buddhist meditation retreat in Thailand, and continued to grow when she moved to India, where she lived for three years. Immersion in mantra, yoga, and meditation opened the gateway to altered states of consciousness and a variety of spiritual practices. Over a decade living in South America led to her world of sound and ceremony merging. She has lived across this great planet in over eight countries, learning from various teachers and cultures, weaving their ancient wisdom into her offerings.

With a deep, lifelong respect for nature and care for all living things, Swalila has spent much of her life in service to nature. She has worked with a variety of traditions, and has spent time in dieta within the Peruvian Amazon, weaving Shipibo traditions with wisdom from the jungle. She also has a strong connection and heartfelt love for the people of the Kamanawa tribe in Acre, Brazil, whose beautiful songs and ceremonial traditions inspire her, reinforcing a devotion to honoring and preserving Indigenous knowledge.

With over ten years of experience in sound healing, Swalila also holds Yoga Alliance 100-hour certificates in both yoga teacher training and sound medicine training. She is a Reiki Master, a certified Sound Touch practitioner, and has various certifications in Nāda Yoga, mindfulness, and singing bowl trainings.Initiated as Murayiya under the guidance of Shar Khan, she leads both intimate one-on-one sessions and large-scale sound ceremonies, assisting retreats in India, Brazil, the United States, and Argentina.

MARTHA

Martha is a poet, teacher, theatre artist and lifelong spiritual practitioner. She is a certified yoga instructor, integration coach and therapist, holding a Masters in Counseling Psychology. Her life’s work happens at the merry confluence of ritual art-making, embodiment practice, Buddhist psychology and ceremonial healing.

Her first conscious healing modalities were music and theatre, as it was in this community that she was given the tools to expand herself into fuller expression. Following the artist path led Martha to Los Angeles, where she deepened her spiritual journey by discovering yoga, Buddhist philosophy, ecstatic dance and medicine work.

The narrative of her own transformative process led her to the Dragon Lineage. After years of community work among medicine circles in LA, Martha knew that to understand anything at all she needed to go to the source. After making her way into the Peruvian Amazon, she met Shar Khan in the Bolivian Andes, joining for a training retreat back in 2019.

Martha gained there a profound respect for the teachings of the medicine as well as for the lineages of the human stewards of its wisdom. Upon returning, she realized that her path lay in becoming another link of the transmission tapestry, connecting the Dragon Lineage to the modern “American” world and mindset.

This task has put all her capacities in the various realms of art and therapy into use. As a member of the Dragon Team, Martha leads the East Coast community, providing organizational, psychological, and emotional support. As her training deepens, we will see her excel not only in work outside ceremony, but inside it, too: a seed fate planted in her a long time ago.

SIMON

Simon is a seeker and follower of the signs of the Universe. He has dedicated his life as a professional humanitarian aid worker, serving people in need in some of the most affected regions worldwide. His first encounter with the Dragon Lineage occurred in Holland, and the ceremonies held there led him to begin a process of surrender.

Following this experience, he joined the Dragon Lineage in their pilgrimage to India, immersing himself in Sikh, Sufi, Hindu and Buddhist culture and learning core spiritual values and techniques. This included participation in the world’s largest spiritual gathering — the Maha Kumbh Mela in February 2025.

Simon took the initiative to invite Shar Khan to the Western Balkans to share his teachings there for the first time. He assumed his role would be mostly organizational, but, having been instructed by the Medicine to help people on their path, he considered taking a more experimental apprenticeship also.

He then joined the Dragon Lineage team for a month-long retreat in the Peruvian Amazon, encountering the spirits of Ayahuma, Renaco, and, of course, Mother Ayahuasca. Continuing his exploration, he accepted an invitation to the Kamanawa and Nukini tribe, learning about their connection to nature and the spirit world.

Simon regularly practices meditation, breathwork, and Reconnection Healing. He believes that we all originate as sparks from, and ultimately return to, the Creator. His wish to continue this work is to expand his capacities and put them into service always, hoping to be worthy of whatever role he takes in humility and longing.

MOHINI

Mohini Devi is a sacred chant facilitator who weaves ancient traditions into present soundscapes. For over two decades she has walked alongside Indigenous elders and spiritual teachers from various cultures ranging from India to the Amazon, learning from their songs, rituals, and ways of communion with nature.

From these schools of bliss and wisdom she has forged her own art, a vocal current that binds each listener to the primordial remembrance: the mirror of their awakening. Her ritual chants ceremonies are gatherings of power where vibration becomes the vessel of prayer, manifested through the languages of different times and races.

Year ago, when Mohini first encountered the Dragon Lineage, she knew that meeting foreshadowed a deep turning, not in her destiny, but in her growth. Since that time she has walked keeping the gist of its intent, offering her voice and presence in their ceremonies as well as retreating into her own roots both in the coast as in the jungle.

She organizes and assists ceremonies in Croatia, her current dwelling, as well as in Brazil, her motherland. Her role in each event is to keep the sanctuary of resonance, and beyond in-rite guidance, she also helps people to live better tuned in with nature by teaching how the breath turns to rhythm, rhythm turns to memory and memory turns to truth.

Mohini Devi stands as a unique mystic artist of the Dragon Lineage. Her song is not performance but invocation; her art not creation but a return to the uncreated. Through her chants and gentle guidance all participants of sacred rites come to witness the Dragon in its feminine principle, showing how power and compassion are not opposed, but complementary.

KHENTRUL JAMPHEL LODRÖ RINPOCHE

Shar Khentrul Jamphel Lodrö is a lineage holder of the Jonang school of Tibetan Buddhism. Born in the Tsorong region near the border with China to a nomadic family, he was raised among the high grasslands of Kham in an environment steeped in devotion to Buddhism but far removed from monastic centers.

From early childhood, he showed a natural inclination toward spiritual practice and an exceptional memory for prayers and teachings. His Eminence Katog Moktsa Rinpoche formally recognized him as the reincarnation of Katog Dazang. He later studied in multiple monasteries of the Nyingma, Sakya, and Gelug traditions.

Having learnt from over forty masters, Khentrul Rinpoche always followed the Rimé, or non-sectarian, movement within the Vajrayana. He hadn’t, however, connected with any lineage deeply and was still haunted by ideological confusion – by his own admonition – until he met his root guru, the revered Lama Lutrin.

Lama Lutrin belonged to a sect of Tibetan Buddhism in which he had, as of yet, no teacher: the Jonang. In this little known and much surpassed school the cycle of the Kalachackra teachings have been preserved most purely, and it was by these teachings that Khentrul Rinpoche came to posses the undying eye of dharma.

In a similar fashion, Shar Khan had many previous Buddhist teachers, but it was in Khentrul Rinpoche in whom he found both his master and tantric lineage. Having taken various empowerments before, Shar Khan has aimed his focus towards the teachings of the Wheel of Time, practicing the Vajra Yogas under his tutelage.

DON LUCAS CHOQUE APAZA

Don Lucas Choque is the leader of the Coincil of Amautas of Tiwanaku, the elder gathering of the ancient Andean mystery school. In him the pre-colombian culture of the Aymaras and the Tiwanakotas reaches us through the ages, as he has dedicated his life to the service of both men and the Apus – the spirits of the holy mountains.

Born among the high plateaus near Lake Titicaca, he grew up within the culture and faith he now upholds. He was designated the successor of Don Policarpio Flores Apaza, a great master of Andean lore that famously received his powers from being stricken by lighting – twice.

He speaks in terms of the great Heart of the Sky (Pachatata) and the love of Mother Earth (Pachamama). To sanctify their love in the minds of all people that come to him, he makes elaborate offerings paired with honest prayers. These acts are never mere ritual; they are the ways in which his people entered into conversation with the living cosmos.

Don Lucas lives by the teachings of vacuity (taypi), reciprocity (ayni) and harmony (suma qamaña), honoring the cycles that stretch back to the original time (chamak’ pacha). These concepts he taught Shar Khan, as well as the way to appease the spirits with the traditional Andean offering (mesa).

Although Shar Khan had many teachers from the Andean tradition, including Roger Choque, Mario Quispe and others from the Island of the Sun, Don Lucas is the man to whom the Dragon Lineage owes the most. In his humility we see all good offerings reflected, as he taught: for anything offered with a pure heart is received by the heart.

DON AGUSTÍN RIVAS VÁZQUES

Don Agustín Rivas Vásquez is known throughout the Upper Amazon as the most prominent shaman of our age. He is a Banco, and perhaps the last one: the final stage recognized in Amazonian curanderismo. Born in the jungles of Loreto, Peru, he was called from youth to the plants and their wisdom.

He apprenticed under various healers who taught him the art of mestizo vegetalismo – the path of communion with plant spirits through dieta, song, and vision. Don Agustín’s mastery lays in his ability to translate the ineffable worlds of ayahuasca into song. Currently in his nineties, Don Agustin is one of the last bridges to the shamen of old.

He was also one of the first Ayahuasca masters to teach Westerner seekers. From one of these students, Miguel Kavlin, Shar Khan came first into contact with his Lineage. Having apprenticed and worked in Miguel Kavlin’s retreat centers for years, eventually Shar Khan came to recognize in Don Agustin his real teacher.

The story of how this came to happen is a beautiful tale that Shar Khan reserves for the committed, not the curious. Suffices to say that whatever he received from Miguel and from his many other shamanic teachers – from cultures as diverse as the Takana, the Shipibo or the Nike Koi – Shar Khan sees embodied in Don Agustin.

Don Agustin conferred on Shar Khan the title of Alto Muraya, or “Great Shaman” in 2025. Having sung his songs for over a decade, Shar Khan has now become a lineage holder of his tradition, teaching others not only Don Agustin’s icaros but also the power contained in other, more secret practices of shamanic healing.

BABAJI BALDEV SINGH

Babaji Baldev Singh is a radiant and pure embodiment of the mystic path of union with the Beloved. Born into the Sikh tradition, his early years were those of a devoted family man; yet when his predecessor appointed him as a successor, the divine swiftly transformed him into the beacon of love we see today.

To those who meet him, Babaji is both mirror and light. He is most humble, sweet, and filled with love and compassion. He can see through us and give guidance directly from Source, often without words. Sitting in silence with him feels effortless, like catching a wave that carries one home to bliss.

He teaches not from ideology but from pure being. His method is devotion, his temple is the heart and his practice Jaat Pahara, a special transmission of reciting the Divine Name. It was under his gaze that Shar Khan realized the meaning of
transmission. They both agree that the spiritual direction of the age is one of integration of religions beyond prejudice.

In Bulandpuri, India, Babaji’s gurdwara has become a living mandala of this teaching. There gathers a community of Sikh devotees from all over the world, who pray without hypocrisy, who worship with sincerity and who serve with joy.
They treat one another with respect and love; every person who arrives feels welcomed, cared for, and uplifted.

In recent years Babaji has expressed a clear calling: to open this path to seekers from all nations. In conversation, he has spoken of his dream to dissolve the barriers of prejudice and unite cultures, religions, and peoples in “Humility, Kindness and Love”. By this name he has inaugurated a movement which unites people across faiths and cultures.