Don Alverto Taxo is a master Iachak of the Atis people from the Cotopaxi region of Ecuador. During a gathering of Andean Elders in 1989, he was given the responsibility of sharing the ancient Andean wisdom with the United States and Europe. He has since traveled to the US and Europe several times where he has taught and lectured. We met with Don Alverto in the village of Membrilla in the high Andes where he lives with his wife and children.