Meet The Team

For the past decade Byron has worked with Indigenous Nations and NGO’s, planting medicinal and food gardens, small scale agriculture projects and co-developing initiatives with communities across the globe.

Byron is a Herbal Doctor that has been studying indigenous medicine for ten years under the guidance of Yawa Bane and various other indigenous healers, he is initiated into the Huni-Kuin lineage.

Byron, with the guidance of elders has developed a foundation called SunMoonSeed, helping to preserve, protect and integrate indigenous wisdom and medicine into our modern times to help find solutions for the global health and cultural crises we collectively face.

His practice is dedicated to following guidance from the teacher plants and the Pajès (elder shamans) through ceremony, consultation and multidimensional initiatives. Byron guides ceremonies with loving dedication to the teacher plants, the participants and Indigenous Nations across the Planet.

Byron’s dedication to the Yuxibu Alliance is to help further share the wisdom of the Huni-Kuin Nation and to bring awareness and consciousness for the communities that oversee the sacred eco-systems which our planet and all life depend upon. The Yuxibu Alliance represents the co-creation of solutions for humanity and the planet, solutions which assist in healing, transformation and evolution for a greater consciousness and connection with our earth and each-other.

Rochelle “Rharha” Nembhard (b.1989) is a creative director and multidisciplinary artist born in the United Kingdom to British-Jamaican parents. She relocated to South Africa in 1994 at the dawn of the post-apartheid era. In 2018, Elle Magazine recognized her ambition by naming Rochelle a future leader in art, design, and technology in a cover feature. In 2019, the Noirwave Manifesto was included in the Cambridge Literary Review. Later that year, Rochelle gave a TEDx talk in Geneva on the “Disruptive Power of The Third Space”

Rochelle is currently producing an independent body of work spanning performance art, photography  and sculpture. Her work is based on energy and rooted in process and the cyclical nature of time –  healing and connecting the generative creative femine spirit to the body and the land. Rochelle’s work has been featured in Harvard’s Cooper Gallery, Nowness, Duke University, Central Saint Martins, New York Times, Sunday Times, Vogue, I-D, DAZED, NATAAL, British Journal of Photography and many other esteemed publications.

Rharha’s dedication to the Yuxibu Alliance is to protect, preserve and share the indigenous knowledge of the Huni-Kuin nation through inter-dimensional artistic practices and cosmic modalities that merge spirituality, quantum healing and art. By incorporating these sacred weavings she aims to be an active agent of change for the birthing of a new consciousness.

Jana is a psychologist, trained body therapist and psychotherapist in training, specializing in depth psychology. She works in the treatment of substance related and addictive disorders and facilitates workshops for the integration of psychedelic experiences.

Born in 1990 in a large City in Germany, she grew up detached from ancient naturalistic forms of knowledge and so reclaiming those rites of passage have become her passion in life. As a member of the yuxibu alliance, Jana wishes to support Yawa Banes mission and spread the knowledge of the Huni-Kuin, to reach wider audiences and help others understand and heal their strained connections to natural wisdom. It is her belief that by education and reconciliation with the ways of indigenous life, we return to a healthier relationship with ourselves and our planet.

Nikolas was born in an environment where he chose to explore the connection between body, mind and soul and how these aspects of and beyond self-relate to the world around him.

Like many he at times was nurtured by the fact of being alive and at times he was challenged by it. Today he perceives this as a divine stimulation which blessed him with the option of doubt so he may explore possibilities to overcome his doubt that life may be a random coincidence.

Currently he is participating in a project named Phakalane, a Holistic Centre for Healing and Wellbeing based in Cape Town, South Africa. Phakalane means Hawk in the Swahili language. Symbolically the name stands for the ability to rise above oneself and feel the bigger picture of life just like the hawk feels himself up in the sky above the world being one with all.

Phakalane also is a home to the Nixipae and the ways of the Huni-Kuin represented by Yawa Bane, Byron MacLean and their Team. Together they have started to guide, inspire and connect students of self to the breath of life. Their collaboration through the Yuxibu Alliance is gently shaping itself and is based on friendship, authenticity, healing and education

Richard is the founder and CEO of FuzzyLogic Technologies. His company develops business management systems to large corporates in Southern Africa.

Richard is also an initiated curandero in the Shipibo lineage.

“I am very passionate about the indigenous wisdom and medicines.  I have devoted my life to passing this knowledge into the western culture.  I received a strong message in the medicine that to bring about real change, that the top decision makers need to be introduced to these practices.  My pragmatic approach and corporate experience serve as a strong bridge between these worlds.  I am to provide technological and governance assistance to the project.  I am also very keen to assist in the building of the initiation school.  Having experienced a western-oriented initiation school, I feel I can provide some insight into how we can balance authenticity with practicality.”