Started playing music professionally as a Percussionist in 1973. Member of the core group of teachers at “The great Mother Conference” since 2010. In 2001, in collaboration with Robert Bly, translated and published the first English collection of the poetry of Humberto Ak’abal “Poems I brought down from the Mountain”; second Humberto Ak’abal anthology “In the courtyard of the moon” published by Tia Chucha Press in 2021. He has been a board member of “Shade Tree” a mentoring group in Los Angeles since its inception in 1996, introducing at risk youth to traditional Earth based ceremonies. Miguel is also the Co-Founder and Director of “Western Gate Roots and Wings Foundation”, and was a Board of Directors of “Soldier’s Heart”, an organization dedicated to working with Veterans. He is also a Board of Advisors of “Wolf Connection”, collaborator and panelist with the Institute of Integrated Health and Wellbeing: IIHW; USC and Children’s Hospital, L.A., member of the “Guild of Future Architects”, and an award-winning Supervising Sound Editor for Films and Television since 1984 to the present. ​

Miguel currently works with at risk youth, Armed Forces veterans, people in recovery, formerly incarcerated individuals as well as those in the “normal” segments of the population in a variety of settings, one of the intentions being to reduce the level of fragmentation prevalent in the current culture; not only in this country but worldwide.