Tag: aya
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living in an ayahyuasca community for 2 months: my experience
The beginning of 2026 started with me moving from the busy hectic Lima to a community in the Andes in Ecuador. This community was based in nature and uses plant medicines for healing. Read here my experience of volunteering at Gaia Sagrada healing center. It was perfectly aligned with my manifestation of the Leo moon…
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ayahuasca ceremony: symbols and methapores
When we sit with ayahuasca, we often expect “her” to speak directly to us, to deliver crystal-clear answers and instructions. But most of the time, ceremony is not a conversation with a separate being. It’s an intimate journey into our own inner world, our subconscious mind. Yes, sometimes it feels like she speaks. And yes,…
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the shipibo and ayahuasca
The Shipibo-Conibo people are an indigenous group residing along the Ucayali River deep in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest. Once two distinct groups: the Shipibo (“apemen”) and the Conibo (“fishmen”). They gradually merged through intermarriage and shared rituals to form the unique Shipibo-Conibo culture we know today. Most live in scattered villages across a vast jungle…
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visiting the shipibo tribe in the amazon
I got the wonderful opportunity to spend a month in the amazon learning from a wonderful linage of shipibo maestros. The father Sina and 3 sons: Emilio, Huber and Limber. This specific linage has been maestros for several generations. It was the most magical experience to sit in plant medicine ceremonies and do a plant…
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ayahuasca is hard work
When we work with plant medicines it’s not just fun and games. You go to the center to do the work. To learn, to release and to evolve! When you come to chase visions and enjoy: ayahuasca is not the plant for you. It’s deep healing, hard working and intense energy. When you accept this,…
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ayahausca ceremony: I feel nothing…
Sometimes when we join a plant medicine ceremony such as ayahuasca we think nothing happens. But this is not true. By feeling “nothing” the channel is being opened. The connection to the plant world is being established. When there are “just” physical sensations this is a detox and a nervous system resets and release. Then…