About Solomon
Find out about my journey to actualise and embody Energy Mastery as a conscious mentor and be the invitation to others who are ready to expand and shift worlds.
Hello and welcome to my website. My name is Solomon Russell. My interest in spiritual and personal development began in 1996 when I joined my first Zen retreat while living in Japan. Later on, I practised Vipassana meditation for some years, before entering ten years of intensive psychoanalysis. Some years after this ended, my search for answers brought me to the jungles of Peru to experiment with plant medicine and Ayahuasca. This quickly led to radical changes in my understanding of reality and in due course to the long, solitary and sometimes arduous training necessary to become a Shipibo curandero (healer).
In 2017, I began training to become an onanya in the tradition of indigenous medicine master Don Pedro Sinuiri.That’s me pictured on the left, next to Don Pedro.
In the Shipibo language onanya means someone ‘with knowledge’. Although many western people serve Ayahuasca and have undertaken dietas to connect with master plants, there are very few who have attained the level of onanya in the Shipibo tradition.
Korin Meni (the name of my business) means ‘Giver of Gold’ and is a name bestowed upon me by Pedro’s wife Anita – the name of her late father who was in his day a great healer.
The training I went through with Don Pedro is very rare. Ayahuasca tourism is big business and fashionable these days. There are many Westerners who are involved in the business of Ayahuasca, offering ceremonies and retreats. But there are very few who have come to understand how deep this medicine goes and to develop the skills and qualities necessary to put it into authentic practice.
For those who are truly ready and instinctively called, plant medicine can be a powerful tool for self-investigation and purification when applied responsibly. On the flip side, when not understood and used without integrity, it can be extremely risky. A capable and well-intentioned guide is absolutely essential to safely experience the benefits of Ayahuasca – so do be careful to whom you entrust your wellbeing.
Walking my own path
While the healing power of many master plants lives inside me owing to my years of dedication to traditional authentic Shipibo plant dieta, spiritual growth is based in humility, integrity and personal sovereignty. All practices and wisdom paths must bring one to true self-knowledge if they are to serve their highest purpose. And all have to be relinquished eventually if one is to be free.
Even after so much work in the jungle, I still felt something was missing. To this end, I looked again outside the medicine world to receive guidance from one who I intuitively recognised was living from true insight into the nature of reality; from a non-dual Self-realisation. The work we did together led me to deeply question my self-concept. I was thirsty and ready, and paradigm shifts came rapidly one after the other, to uproot and purify my perception of the world. There is no need to chase exotic spiritual highs – true, consistent contentment is available in the every day, when you take up your space in the world and let life itself be your teacher.
No amount of spiritual endeavour, whether plant medicine, meditation, yoga or an endless list of other practices can make one iota of difference to your life if it is built upon unconscious limiting beliefs. This is why identity work is so crucial. You attract the reality that aligns with your own most fundamental self-concept and beliefs. Period.
My (ongoing) journey has helped me discover my own gifts to lead, inspire and point those who are ready to wake up more and more to the truth of who they are. And if you are ready and willing to activate your own unique contribution, click below to see if my offers of service resonate with you.