Mikis Hasson was born in Greece. After spending a life of trying to gain acceptance through business, creating a family and various achievements, his cozy life was demolished in 2002 through serious life threatening illness, divorce and financial collapse. After a period of deep, suicidal clinical depression he decided to live and dedicate some time to his growth, disengaged himself from his workaholic business interests and started a sabbatical to explore the world, both inside and outside.

To the surprise of his cynical, analytical mind he suspiciously encountered Shamanism through Dr. Alberto Villoldo and the Four Winds’ Light Body School, a program of workshops designed to teach and familiarize westerners to the wisdom and practices of indigenous Earth traditions and Shamanism in a palatable and understandable way. His sabbatical extended from one year to practically permanent and after completing the Light Body School started traveling extensively through the Americas delving ever deeper into the study of ancient and contemporary spiritual practices. He studied with many wise men, shamans and sages, learning tools such as Soul Retrieval, Shamanic ceremony and healing, Yin and Yang, guided voyages and learned about medicine plants, seeking knowledge and light. In the process he lived amazing, magnificent adventures and healed childhood wounds and family relationships, becoming a very very happy man.

He was one of the initial dreamers of the Mythic Voyage and the founder of TierraMítica as well as the main guide and leader of the Mythic Voyage. Through his search for knowledge and understanding of the human psyche and the magic of the universe, as well as his extensive experience, he has developed clear, practical ways to assist people in navigating the Ayahuasca experience so that specific barriers are broken down, specific questions or dilemmas are resolved. His work on human nature proves conclusively that our divinity is actually in our humanity, and that every single thought and emotion we have is the result of an intricate web of universal and personal truths, a belief system designed for safety and protection from emotional or physical hardship rather than happiness, greatness and adventure. Furthermore, he found overwhelming proof that any disagreable or painful emotion or thought is the result of a paradox: believing two or more contradictory things at the same time. This work has led him to find, weaken and demolish the walls of fear and suffering that keep us from being happy and in consequence is practicing and teaching others the art and practices for happiness, enthusiasm and inspiration. He is now also sharing his happiness with his wife, Lies, together practicing enlightened sexuality and relationship as well as the continuing opening of the heart : The Art of Being One With, The Art of Love.

He provides clear and precise sets of practices, for those who want them, that mathematically lead participants into creating through their personal art a new belief system that serves their happiness, pride and open heart. A belief system encompassing the serenity, the peace and the trust in that everything, absolutely everything around us and everything that we are, is exactly, deliciously as it should be. And he repeatedly proves it in every single Mythic Voyage beyond any doubt to anyone who completes it. The practices he teaches are not of the kind that say ´do that for 40 years and you might get something at the end or in another life¨ but real, practical paths to things like enlightenment, understanding the soul and our role in the universe woven seamlessly into beautiful, creative lives.

Born in 1978, Sara Villeneuve is one of the founding members of TierraMitica. She decided to interrupt her career as an actress in France in 2010, longing for more, for a life of meaning. She wanted to understand what she was doing on this earth, why she felt like a misfit, why she seemed not to be able to be happy. She wanted to find people with whom to belong, with whom to create, people who would see what she saw, felt what she felt, looked for the same things. And more, she wanted to understand the universe, what are the worlds that some describe in some books, what is real and how it works, and what she could do with it.

She explored herself in various therapies and workshops, was initiated in sufism and the dance of the spinning dervishes, trained as a leader of Dances of Universal Peace. But the most important encounter for her was shamanism, that she embraced with awe, from the sweat lodges of the lakotas to the magical ceremonies of peyote, and finally ayahuasca. With ayahuasca she fell in love. The magic of this powerful medicine that opens both the mind and the heart led her to Colombia, and then to Greece where she met Mikis, who invited her to her first Mythic Voyage on a cruise on the Amazon river.

During this extraordinary experience she found her first reference points, discovered the power of intention and focus to find clarity, and the gift of being guided through it. This experience was a life changer, and when Mikis announced the creation of TierraMitica, a land in the high jungle and community to be, the home of the Mythic Voyage and the search for real happiness, she took the opportunity, came and made it her home and purpose. There she blossomed, making happiness her number one priority. She became an assistant to Mikis during all the workshops for many years, leading the ayahuasca ceremonies, holding a safe space for people and helping them go as deep as possible to find their answers and their happiness. She became a trusted leader for ayahuasca retreats. She dreamed of singing the icaros, the chants that can touch the heart and the subconscious, and create magic, and her intention and her trust made it a reality: Since 2015 she holds the rare honor of being one of the few westerners to be ever fully accepted by the Shipibo as a Maestra in her own right, and invited to sing the Icaros. She found her calling, the place where she is the most open and the greatest she can be (yet). She has since been developing the art of accessing, through her singing and with no need of any substance anymore, the magic of the universe and the universal human heart. She connects people to their own heart, for them to be able to fully explore and feel its yearning, its memories, its truth, and make new choices for a life of happiness, love and pride.

In her search for herself, Sara had also for many years been exploring the feminine, from women ceremonies to energy work, anthropology and psychology. She felt the power of the ritual, the joy of sharing and sorority, and the importance to honor this dimension of herself, of her nature and its gifts. She is now guiding a group of women in the community to embrace their feminine, explore the different energies they can play with, feel and enjoy, and relax their bodies and their hearts into the pleasure of trust and surrender. Trust in the masculine, trust in their own nature, trust in life. She had so much success that she is now giving also sessions online and dreams of creating her own workshop. And she has learned in TierraMitica how to make dreams come true...
She is assistant deputy leader in TierraMitica and in charge of communication, an artist in painting and sculpting, she is in love with her home and with her life, a mythic life of magic, of art, of love, of belonging, of beauty.

Lies Demets-Hasson is 35 years old and was born and raised in a beautiful quiet family in the quiet town of Rumbeke in Belgium. This place, although beautiful and peaceful, was too small for this small girl with big dreams. She went on to study English Literature and held various managerial and administrative and public relations jobs, but her big dreams full of excitement pushed her to start travelling the world in search of magic and clarity. From Asia to South America, she eventually found in TierraMítica what she was looking for: inspiration, true love, her art, and a life and destiny she can feel proud of. She is Mikis' wife and companion in life (they were married both shamanically during the first Mythic Party on their common birthday and in a civil wedding early 2015).

She created this website, the first website she ever built, deciding that she could do it, since there is nothing she cannot do. She is now the webmaster of TierraMitica and manages all of our websites, having taught herself how to code and program. She is also an amazing painter, sculptor and writer, creating magical worlds, sculptures, songs, gardens and stories (www.magicalstoriesofsense.com). She is a great woman, a proud queen of her magical kingdom, and just like the characters in her stories, she lives happily ever after, because she discovered that fairytales are not too good to be true after all and happily ever after does exist, if you know how to look.

Leanne Pupeza came from Australia where she always had a big love for being social and working with people and spent many years growing her skills in event management and the hospitality industry. These skills made it easy to travel the world and for many years she was never in one place for too long before itchy feet would call her off for the next big adventure. Leanne joined the community after her first Mythic Voyage in April 2014 after being so inspired and blown away by everything she learned and experienced that she knew she had found her final destination and found the greatest adventure of them all: discovering who she was and diving deep into the magic and yearnings of her heart.

Over the years and through this path Leanne has managed to change and reinvent herself into the woman she always dreamed she could be. She is now an artist and member of Misfits Unified and a singer/songwriter which was one of her big dreams as a little girl. She is working towards her dream to one day guide and help others find their happiness and inspiration in the ChoiceOS workshops just like she did.

She is well on her way to making this dream come true whilst making her life one giant adventure of fun in paradise.

Simon Kingsley, Australian, 38 years was previously leading a successful career in a high-profile multinational professional services company. Although he was quickly climbing the promotional ladder, and enjoying all the benefits in lifestyle that his career was bringing him, he always felt something was missing. After the breakdown of his first marriage at the age of 30, and the resulting impact this had on his life, he took a sabbatical with the intention of discovering the world and an alternative to the only life he knew. During this period he came to TierraMitica for a Mythic Voyage because he realised that throughout his adult years he had lost enthusiasm for life, no longer found fulfillment in his corporate career and had no direction, or vision for what the rest of his life would entail.

In the process of the Mythic Voyage, he reconnected with his enthusiasm for life and chose a new identity and a new path. He has found inspiration and passion at TierraMitica and after bringing all of the knowledge and experience developed in his business career to transform the way TierraMitica runs he found his passion and his true calling as a sculptor. Not only did he start creating his own personal sculptures but he inspired the entire community to do the same which resulted in Simon being a pivotal influence on the creative direction of TierraMitica, the discovery of Collective Art and subsequently the birth of Misfits Unified.

Simon is the leader for all Misfits Unified projects and is energetically pursuing the Collective Art movement and has aspirations to inspire the Collective Art movement all over the world.

Dorin Pupeza always had a thirst for knowledge and adventure. His curiosity about how things work led him to become an industrial mechanic and curiosity about how life works drove him to emigrate to Canada where he worked successfully as an industrial mechanic. But becoming capable of understanding how things work did not quench his thirst in his search for the holy grail: true happiness. Embarking upon a mythic motorcycle trip from Canada to South America, found him the holy grail and a home at TierraMitica. He is now the Construction Manager of TierraMitica overseeing and directing projects in our jungle paradise. He is involved in all the art projects we do in TierraMitica,sculpting, music, theater and is a prime example that magic exists and happiness is attainable.

Mathilde Kingsley was born in the South of France in 1983, the daughter of an accomplished international sound engineer and editor, who dreamed of being a reporter. Following her father’s footsteps, she learned audiovisual arts and started a career in the TF1 news department in Paris. She travelled the world pursuing her passion to turn stories into pictures and sound but never felt that she had a story of her own to tell. Because of this she never truly applied herself and never truly felt she was doing something valuable so she remained on the superficial, a stylist rather than true creator. Same as her father, she felt that regardless of how well she did true creativity was eluding her.

Since coming to TierraMitica in March 2016 she has rediscovered her passion and her love for art and is one of the most prolific sculptors in TierraMitica. Her proudest accomplishments include sculpting the face of La Mama (our giant pregnant goddess statue) and also being heavily involved in the creation of La Mente, our giant brain-shaped recording studio, the egg our amphitheater and Umbala! our most monumental collective art project where she was the team leader who guided her team to sculpt the continent of North America.

She is also in charge of Pueblo Colorado, our brand new retreat venue, a spectacular place on the top of our property to facilitate our workshops and to also be rented privately to groups looking for a hidden Shangri-La for their own events.

Always looking for new avenues of creative expression, she has recently discovered her passion for writing and is pursuing it her main creative focus. Although she has been an English speaker for many years she has never formally studied the language and always felt intimidated by reading and writing English literature. She is now overcoming this fear and taking the steps to not only read English literature but also write and is well on her way to realizing her dream of becoming a writer of beautiful stories that have something to say.

She wants to turn TierraMitica into a haven, so that amazing stories to be told are created here by many people around the world, and by herself. She is in love and married to Simon and she no longer needs to look for stories anywhere else.

Jackie Wilchuck, born May 31st, 1988, was born and raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (yes, it's a real place!), the prairies of Canada. Art was an intuitive part of her life growing up, then in her 20's she found herself inspirationless. After 12 years of waitressing and many failed attempts at choosing a career path, she started to search for meaning to her life. This is when she stumbled across TierraMitica’s website and inherently knew the intensive workshop was what she was searching for.

She was instantly captivated by the description of the Mythic Voyage, craved the clarity it guaranteed to deliver if completed, was extremely interested in the volunteer program, and signed up with her ex-partner and best friend, Eli Ray, for the intensive life transformational workshop. Since her March 2016 Mythic Voyage, Jackie has undergone some of the grandest transformations she could have ever imagined! Through the process of being a TierraMitican, she is finally aligning with her true self and embracing the feminine, powerful, and gorgeous woman she so naturally is. She has discovered a deep passion for working with wood, is an incredibly talented wood and cement sculptor, is finally unleashing her sexy soulful voice, and is now incorporating her personal journey through song writing and sharing her heart in the process. She gets involved with as many workshops as possible learning how to feel more deeply each time, aspires to guide Choice OS workshops in the future, and is soaking up all the beauty of evolving and opening her heart wider each day. Jackie knows now that there is absolutely nothing she can’t do, is dreaming larger and more mythically than ever before, and is incredibly proud to call TierraMitica her home.

Eli Saul was born in 1988 in Canada and raised in the prairies of Edmonton, Alberta. Growing up she fully immersed herself in competitive soccer, snowboarding and exploring the great Canadian outdoors. She excelled in her studies and found immense curiosity in biology and the many wonders of the natural world feeling more at peace when in the garden and forest. Before coming to TierraMitica Eli spent the last decade in British Columbia learning the ropes as a Registered Nurse specializing in HIV/AIDs and Addiction, working on the in-hospital unit as well as a multidisciplinary outreach team and was also a RN for a clinical trial for heroin replacement therapy in the downtown east side of Vancouver.

Eli enjoyed the many challenges of working with such multifaceted populations in extreme complex environments and most of all the intimate human connections she developed with many of her patients. Although she had everything she could have ever dreamed of having living in the gorgeous city of Vancouver BC; fantastic job, beautiful partner, adventurous friends, supportive family, a loving spiritual community– she was ALWAYS searching for more! Whether it be thrill seeking on mountain tops, studying naturopathic medicine and holistic nutrition, immersing herself into yoga and meditation, fire keeping at sweat lodge – She never felt accomplished and was completely unsettled finding herself shifting from extremes of alcohol abuse to strict vegan sober “spiritual” living— grasping at but never fully able to manifest a happy life for herself. Thirsting to satisfy her endless existential angst she headed to Peru and participated in her first Mythic Voyage March 2016 with her ex partner and best friend Jaclyn Wilchuck. Slapped with a good dose of clarity, Eli felt from the core of her being that TierraMitica was special— that the work being done here was something she had never experienced before (and could never have dreamed of!) and she could for once, truly change her life. Dedicated to the work and pushing personal boundaries beyond comprehension on the daily— evolving into a more magical, open hearted, show stopping woman, finding her greatness, deep passion and purpose in the creation of her wonderland planters where she combines her exquisite sculpting skills with color through paint and plants to bring beauty and wonder to all. Eli also finds her power through her voice in song writing, band and performance, she has also held many leadership roles in TierraMitica as past deputy leader, marketing and supply management, hosting our legendary Choice OS Mythic Voyage workshops and a major contributor in our large scale art projects while currently holding the role as House Mama of Casablanca (our main social hub and kitchen), Puppy Mama (caring for the best dogs in the world: Happy and Moka), Interior Garden Manager and a rising star in the Misfits Unified Youtube Channel with her very own “Eli's Amazing Planters” series! Eli is married to Damien Saul, the two madly in love since 2017, inspiring and challenging each other each day to be the best possible versions of themselves and she could not be more grateful to have such an incredible (and incredibly sexy) man to call her King. Eli is extraordinarily proud to call the TierraMiticans her family, TierraMitica her home and beyond excited for what the future holds because LIFE IS GOOD!

Aura Todea is born in Romania where she grew up under the communist regime learning to be quiet and keep her opinions to herself. She excelled in school and holds 2 university degrees: one in electronics and one in economics. After studying she went on and created what others would consider a dream life for herself: a nice home, a senior managerial job in a multinational bank, following a successful international career, resources to travel wherever she wanted, but she was still feeling that something is missing, that there is more to life than a job and a house. She was still not daring to have a voice of her own, she was still not feeling good enough, and she was trying to prove to the world and to herself that she was worthy. Looking for more, she discovered the Mythic Voyage in May 2011 and her world changed. 

She fell in love with the work, she felt called to follow a different path and yet she did not dared. Not able to stay away she came back, year after year for another workshop and another workshop seeing them evolve, seeing their power grow, dreaming that one day she will be leading one and hiding that dream deep inside. In 2016, while on a sabbatical leave she decided to stay in TierraMitica for a while and she never left: she became proudly the deputy leader of TierraMitica and discovered strengths she never knew she had, she dared to sculpt for the first time in her life, she dared to sing because is fun. She now knows that this is home, this is her path and that one day (soon enough) she will be leading workshops helping others find a beautiful life full of excitement and pride. Oh, yeah!

Niloufar Lohrasebi was born in Tehran, Iran in 1988. Her father being dissident to the regime, she was raised with the dream of going to the United States and eventually her family managed to turn this into a reality when she was 9 years old. There she found a dream world full of opportunities but her dream world was shattered by her mother’s clinical depression and the conflict between her parents. She grew up in guilt of her newfound paradise and despite being a spectacular natural performer and a natural songwriter she pursued a life of a waitress, permanently in some kind of depression. After having a Mythic Voyage in 2015, her life improved exponentially. She immediately dared to apply for a manager job and got it, and to her surprise she was super good at it.

She started appreciating herself and about a year and a half later she decided that what she really wanted was to be part of TierraMitica and pursue the effort of bringing this work to the world. She has since turned into a valuable member of the community, has become a superstar performer offering dance and performance classes and contributing to the work in a very meaningful way. She has used her song writing and performance skills in a project to use song as a deep healing tool and she has been contributing in healing people from her own personal demon that she shares with most people in the world, the demon of not being good enough. She is now a proud assistant deputy leader and the Theater and Performance manager in TierraMitica. In this path she has found her calling, the man of her dreams, and a place to call a true home.

Andy Scott was initially drawn to TierraMitica because of his fascination and love for the ChoiceOS system and the Mythic Voyage workshops that TierraMitica offers. He quickly became an assistant in the workshops and is constantly pursuing his curiosity about how people and the world work through philosophy and applied psychology. He is currently the first assistant for the Mythic Voyage and is planning to lead his own workshops in the near future. Andy is also the marketing manager for TierraMitica, coordinating the collective effort to spread the word about the Mythic Voyage and the Collective Art movement represented by Misfits Unified, our Collective Art organization. Andy is also a big nerd who loves taking his friends on a collective storytelling adventure through our regular games of Dungeons and Dragons, loves electronics and technical things and is growing his artistic skills with the Misfits, sculpting amazing pieces of collective art. He is also the pool boy.

Maja Scott is 28 years old and was born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden. She grew up in a creative family and at a young age Maja dreamed of being an artist as she explored the arts of sewing, cooking and painting. As she grew up and finished school however she stopped pursuing her creativity and instead started traveling the world. She left for Australia in 2012 where she discovered Permaculture and the practices of sustainable living. One year of intended traveling turned into five years and she went to Asia, New Zealand, North America and Central America with the intention of learning the systems of Permaculture and living in community. During her travels she met and fell in love with her husband Andy and together they moved to TierraMitica in the beginning of 2018. Since moving to TierraMitica she has rekindled her dream of being an artist and she loves being a part of the Misfits Unified team where she gets to grow and explore her artistic skills and also use her creative knowledge to teach others how to sculpt amazing pieces of art.

She is also pursuing her dream of becoming a fashion designer and she is creating her own brand and business. Beyond that she loves being domestic and for her cooking is yet another of her creative expressions and a way for her to express her love. Because of this she loves hosting the Choice OS workshops which for her is a perfect platform to connect with others, express her creativity and a way to share her big heart.

Damien, 40 years old, joined TierraMitica after a lifelong search for happiness and his place in the world. He always had a drive for self growth and the attainment of true happiness which led him on a journey, investigating and practicing many fields such as yoga, meditation and various ways of subconscious reprogramming to help quench his thirst for lasting happiness. After finding TierraMitica, the Choice OS system and the love of his life, Eli, he joined the Tierramitican family in 2017, finally finding all that he was searching for, all in one place! Damien and Eli are now happily married after a magical wedding in 2020. Damien is an active, energetic and inspiring member of the community involved in all the major creative, constructive and collective projects within the community. 

He enjoys learning new skills and finds creative expression in everything he does. He is learning that by working in a 'step by step' manner, he can achieve anything he puts his mind to. He is becoming more confident, capable, creative and happy by the day and is proud to call himself a Tierramitican. He is the gardening/landscaping manager and is constantly transforming Tierramitica into a colourful and vibrant paradise with his passion, drive and green fingers, endeavouring to create a magical and enchanting wonderland, step by step, plant by plant.