I would like to tell you a story of a young promising shipibo shaman who tragically passed away, his struggling family in need of support and a song collaboration that we made between the spirit and physical realms. 

When I came to Peru I experienced 4 powerful ceremony with Shipibos. I really connected energetically with one of the shamans, the youngest and most energetic one - Felipe Segundo. He had a great stamina and his Icaros were really powerful, at the same time he was a very gentle soul. I still remember when the big dose of Ayahuasca totally blew me into the fractal womb and I didn't want to come back to reality, but when I finally hearda voice telling me that he wants to sing for me and if I want to sit up and receive it. Just because of my respect for him I knew I need to be reborn into my body and so, all covered in my purge, barely seeing with one eye up and holding my self up into balance I got up and received his Icaro. Those ceremonies became the main reason why I continue to live in Peru and work with plant medicine and sound. 

After the ceremonies we promised to make a song together but I've never felt ready. Almost a year later he died tragically in a moto caro accident... I've felt I forever lost the chance to honor him with our promised song. Recently I was having a solo mushroom journey in the music studio of the Sacred Valley in Peru, I listened to some track and when it finished the next song that came on with shuffle was the recording of his Icaro from the ceremonies we shared. I wasn't aware I had it on my macbook among gigabytes of music. I understood this is no coincidence so I started working on my sound promise. 2 days ago the beother of Felipe Segundo wrote me that the family is struggling because of the COVID, they're sick and need financial support. They offer their handicrafts and need help. I understood again that these synchronicities are not an coincidence.

I am sharing the finished song to reach more people, a collaboration between the spirit and physical world, the jungle and the Sacred Valley, between me and a beautiful soul that won't sing again in the ceremony but his voice will always stay in the energetic body and DNA of the people he helped. Our promise is now complete brother. 
This is his last Icaro...

RAQ - The Last Icaro (feat. Maestro Felipe II)

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Ecstatic Dance Sacred Valley/Festival Sagrado

RAQ (pronounced RAKU 楽 jap. Comfort & Music)
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Creator, dj/producer & host of the Ecstatic Dance sessions in the Sacred Valley of Peru. Shaman at Inca Shipiba Healing Center. Hosting plant medicine retreats and sacred site expeditions in Peru. Written for Graham Hancock & Dennis McKenna.

Tour:

PAST:
30.06 Ecstatic Dance Sacred Valley feat. UJI / PERU
4/5.07 Dreamersland Festival / POLAND
14-19.07 Medicine Festival / UK
Ecstatic Dance Sacred NYE with Liquid Bloom /PERU

'23/'24 season of Ecstatic Dance Sacred Valley with Lagartijeando, Chancha Via Circuito, Rodrigo Gallardo, Lemurian & UJI

19.06.22 Hedone Seminar, Leipzig, Germany🇩🇪
25.06.22 Dreamersland.eu, Warsaw, Poland🇵🇱
30.06.22 Ecstatic Dance, Berlin, Germany🇩🇪
03.07.22 Ecstatic Dance, London, UK🇬🇧
07.07.22 Bagienko, Wrocław, Poland🇵🇱
08.07.22 Podróż, Wrocław, Poland🇵🇱
09.07.22 Projekt Lab, Poznań, Poland🇵🇱
22.07.22 Retreat, Athens, Greece🇬🇷
23.07.22 Retreat, Mykonos, Greece🇬🇷
26.07.22 TBA, Karphatos, Greece🇬🇷
30.07.22 Ecstatic Dance, Constanta, Romania🇷🇴
25-26.02.23 Sacred Valley, Peru w/ Mose & Rodrigo Gallardo
14.03.23 Zunya, Costa Rica
17.03.23 Holos, Costa Rica
19.03.23 Awake, Costa Rica
02.04.23 Mazunte, Mexico
06.04.23 Ikal, Tulum, Mexico
09.04.23 Playa Del Carmen, Mexico
14.04.23 Sacred Valley, Peru
09.07.23 Ecstatic Dance Sacred Valley, Peru w/ Miki Gonzales
18.07.23 Summer Contrast Festival, Poland w/ Mose ∞
23.07.23 Stacja Wolimierz, Poland 
29.07.23 TOTEM Amigos, Gdansk, Poland
05.08.23 Dreamersland, Poland w/ Poranguí, Ape Chimba, Liquid Bloom
06.08.23 WIR, Warszawa, Poland w/ Dengue Dengue Dengue 
17.08.23 E Dance Festival, Poland
21.08.23 Ecstatic Dance 3city Beach Edition
27.08.23 Kocham Cię Festival Closing Ceremony 
07.09.23 Sacred Soul Music Festival, Portugal w/ Mose ∞, Sam Garret, Mushina


During over 13 years of his musical involvement, from the Norwegian Fjord Rave, underground Tokyo venues, through the legendary Berlin Tresor, best polish clubs, to finally the Amazon Jungle and the Sacred Valley of Peru, as one of the very few in the world, he managed to avoid genre labeling and shared the line up with different artists like MOSE, Ape Chimba, Rodrigo Gallardo, Janax Pacha, Laboratorium Pieśni, Dengue Dengue Dengue, Flume, Teebs, Lapalux, Low Leaf and many more. He brought his plant medicine music selection to Ecstatic Dance Sessions in London, Berlin, Romania, Greece, Poland, Peru, Costa Rica and Mexico.  

Nowadays he focuses on rising collective consciousness, producing ritualistic sounds, djing and designing mystical experiences in Peru. In the Amazon Jungle he created an online educational donation based course called 'The Alchemy of Self' and evolved it into a spiritual retreat design agency. He was invited to co-create the McKenna Academy, a modern mystery school of natural philosophy carrying the work and legacy of Terence and Dennis McKenna.

San Snova is a sonic alchemist, a cosmic shaman, weaving together the primal pulse of tribal techno and the soul of devotional ecstatic dance.

What began in Melbourne is now rooted in the lush Northern Rivers. San Snova curates immersive musical journeys that invite deep connection — with self, with community, and with the Earth. His sets are not just for dancing, but for remembering.

With a background in sound healing, guided meditation, and cacao ceremony, San Snova bridges the worlds of the sacred and the contemporary — creating spaces where rhythm becomes ritual and music becomes medicine.

From sunrise sets in the forest to candlelit dancefloors, each offering is a prayer in motion.
My book is available on Wattpad now!
https://www.wattpad.com/user/SanSnova