Recent Musings
How to benefit from integration after your Ayahuasca experience?
Integration is the process of bringing the insights and lessons learned during the Ayahuasca or Ancestral Medicine experience into your everyday life, essentially, to 'make it real'. It's about...
Shadow work and Ancestral Medicines
Being part of the Human tribe To become part of the human tribe, every child born in this world needs to be "socialised," in order to take his or her place among others and to be accepted. Such...
Psychedelic Renaissance — Fad or Fab?
Plant and Earth medicines are on the rise. In the United States only, a growing number of states have voted to move forward with decriminalising psychedelics and legalising adult-use. In other...
My Personal take on: San Pedro
The San Pedro Master Teacher Huachuma — also known as the San Pedro cactus — is a brew made from a variety of cacti mostly found in the Peruvian and Andeans highlands. A thick layer of the skin is...
4 Things to Consider Before joining a Plant Medicine retreat with SpiritRivers
The 4 things to consider for a SpiritRivers retreat All the above medicines also called master teachers are certainly far from recreational and must be approached with the utmost respect, care and...
Rapeh- Sacred snuff. Experience, benefits and side effects
With plant medicine becoming more accessible and supported in our culture, we’re seeing an emergence of new substances. Only they aren’t new — just new to us. Rapé is one of these psychotropic...
Cacao Ceremony, Heart Medicine
What is a Cacao Ceremony ? What many of us in the west have come to know and love as chocolate, is worlds apart from the plant medicine it’s made from; and the ancient history rooted in Central and...
Temazcal — Mayan Sweatlodge
Mexico has understood the benefits of a temazcal ceremony for centuries. Part-sweat lodge/part-sacred ritual, participants have reported feeling physically, emotionally and mentally healthier. What...
What Is Ayahuasca? Experience, Benefits & Side Effects
What is Ayahuasca? Ayahuasca — also known as the tea, the vine, and la purga — is a brew made from the leaves of the Psychotria viridis shrub along with the stalks of the Banisteriopsis caapi vine,...
What Is Kambo? Experience, Benefits & Side Effects
What is Kambo Medicine? Kambo is a secretion from the back of a large green jungle frog, given the name Phyllomedusa bicolor for classification, but more commonly known as the giant waxy monkey tree...
What Is Bufo Alvarius? Experience, Benefits & Side Effects
What is Bufo Alvarius or 5-MeO-DMT? Commonly known as toad venom, the secretion of the Bufo Alvarius toad — also known as the Sonoran Desert toad — contains 5-MeO-DMT and 5-HO-DMT (Bufotenine), two...
What Is Huachuma or San Pedro cactus? Experience, Benefits & Side Effects
What is San Pedro cactus or Huachuma? Huachuma — also known as the San Pedro cactus — is a brew made from a variety of cacti mostly found in the Peruvian and Andeans highlands. The three most...
4 Things to Consider Before joining a Plant Medicine retreat with SpiritRivers
The 4 things to consider for a SpiritRivers retreat All the above medicines also called master teachers are certainly far from recreational and must be approached with the utmost respect, care and...
What Is Yopo? Experience, Benefits & Side Effects
What is Yopo Yopo or Anadenanthera Peregrina, is a tree native to South America and the Caribbean. The seeds of the tree have been used in healing rituals for thousands of years. They contain DMT,...
How to Discover your Spirit Animal
Spirit Animals are believed to hold a particular skill, trait or wisdom that we are supposed to learn or acquire on our earthly journey. While many cultures believe in the idea of spirit animals,...