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Why Dive into the World of Ancestral Medicines? Embarking on an Entheogenic Adventure:
In a world filled with stress, monotony, and a longing for something more, many adventurous souls are daring to explore the realm of ancestral medicines. Picture this: a wild and transformative journey with substances like Ayahuasca, Huachuma, and Bufo Alvarius, where personal growth meets ancient wisdom. In this article, we’re diving head first into the quirky world of entheogenic experiences and why you might just want to take the plunge!
How to benefit from integration after your Ayahuasca experience?
You’ve completed your Ayahuasca retreat and you’re feeling great. The experience was everything you hoped for, and then some. But what now? How do you make sure that you continue to benefit from the experience long after you’ve left the retreat center? The answer is integration.
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 socialising consists of being taught or forced to repress certain...
Psychedelic Renaissance — Fad or Fab?
Plant and Earth medicines are on the rise.
Whilst this must be a good thing, the profound respect that imbues all ancestral medicines practices seems to be desecrated.
And some questions need to be asked:
Is the Psychedelic Renaissance a good thing?
What is the best way to prevent operators to adapt millennial practices into practices that address the self-serving interest of a few over the many?
My Personal take on: San Pedro
This sacred cactus holds a very special place in my heart. It has taught me possibly more than any other entheogen. It is the most particularly lucid of all the teachers I’ve worked with. It seems to provide it’s lessons in a very clear way…
4 Things to Consider Before joining a Plant Medicine retreat with SpiritRivers
San Pedro (Huachuma), Ayahuasca, Peyote, Bufo Alvarius, Yopo and other plant medicines offer a depth of knowledge and power that are best accessed only in the right environment and with adequate mental and physical preparation beforehand.
Rapeh- Sacred snuff. Experience, benefits and side effects
Rapé is a fine, light-colored powder containing tobacco and other medicinal and sacred plants, including tree bark ashes, leaves, seeds, and various herbs. Once collected, the components are pulverized with a pestle and filtered, The result is a fine powder blown into the nose.
Rapé brings you into a state of acute attention and awareness. The mind becomes calmer, negativity clears and emotional tensions are released.
Participants often feel more grounded during the experience, allowing them to clear up confusions. Your mind is purged and can let go. The body often follows the movement. The purgative properties of rapé force a release of toxins, mucus and other unwanted things in the body; Rapé helps purify your system. This boosts your immunity and especially helps with congestion issues. Along with this, the body can release physical tension, resulting in a relaxed and peaceful state.
Cacao Ceremony, Heart Medicine
Also known as the ancestral medicine of the heart, the cacao ceremony encourages you to accelerate your evolution by letting go of everything that does not serve you anymore. During the ceremony, you will enjoy a delicious organic chocolate drink, a plant that is said to open your heart and increase your vibrational energy. This allows for great healing, both physically spiritually….
Temazcal — Mayan Sweatlodge
A Temazcal is a mud or brick dome-like construction and is used to house people while they undergo an ancient Aztec cleansing ritual. The intention of this is to balance …
What Is Ayahuasca? Experience, Benefits & Side Effects
The Grandmother Ayahuasca is certainly to be respected as its strong spirit unfolds our minds and hearts to other realities and otherworldly experiences. It is a bright and convoluted teaching that will take you on a radiant journey. The teaching is also focused on the powers of the Intangible, it’s residing spirits and the alliances we can make within those realms — The mission and personality of Ayahuasca is to educate and broaden our perception, to reform old limiting patterns — Ayahuasca is now almost a staple of traveling anecdotes, especially in the ever-growing psychonaut community. Typically, these anecdotes tend to focus on the immediate effects that take place during an Ayahuasca “trip,” some of which are enlightening, while others are downright distressing. However, scientists have uncovered several long-term health benefits of taking Ayahuasca. This article reviews Ayahuasca, including its negative and positive effects on health.
What Is Kambo? Experience, Benefits & Side Effects
Kambocito, Kampu or Kambo has the propeties to reset your entire Immune system. It is very useful in our current times. It will also help you recode DNA
It works beautifully in preparation or as an adjuvent to other medicines. It’s use is to be approached with respect, and trust in your Practitioner is paramount.
We currently offer Kambo in almost all our retreats as it works well with the other teaching medicines and allows a deeper and more rewarding journey.
The list is very long of the modern illnesses that Kambo can improve dramatically if not alleviate altogether, due the vast array of the powerful biopeptides it contains.
One of these peptides also interacts with the body’s own opiate receptors, so it can dramatically help with pain. It’s also known for its detoxifying and purgative effects — Kambo is a powerful frog medicine used by the indigenous people of the Amazon. As well as having healing and detoxing qualities, Kambo medicine gives a massive boost to the immune system and brings renewed vitality to the body.
What Is Bufo Alvarius? Experience, Benefits & Side Effects
Sapo (Bufo Alvarius) is the master of non-duality. It will show you what holds the cosmos. With practice it will also lead you to realise the mystical yet revealing link there is between the ‘void’ and the use of it in our daily living. The experience of non-duality is very practical and useful in the sense that it allows us to live from the source, free from the hindrances of mundanity.
Bufo simplifies, magnifies, empowers. It is a regal medicine to reach the detachment needed to live a vibrant and empowered life.
It is also known to work very efficiently with hard core addictions, be they drug (pharmaceutical or synthetic) related or other behavioral and cognitive limiting patterns. We love and cherish Bufo for it’s depth, it’s kindness and healing powers.
What Is Huachuma or San Pedro cactus? Experience, Benefits & Side Effects
Because it is a bit gentler than many of the other plant teachers, Huachuma has earned the nickname “The Grandfather” around the medicine community.
Make no mistake though, San Pedro can produce as deep visions as any other entheogenic, Ayahuasca, Buffo Alvarius or Psilocybin mushrooms. However it is overall less intimidating, less jarring and more loving than many other plant teachers.
His main personality is two-fold: heart-opener, and nature reconnection. He will also show you the foundation of the cosmos and what holds the universe.
4 Things to Consider Before joining a Plant Medicine retreat with SpiritRivers
San Pedro (Huachuma), Ayahuasca, Peyote, Bufo Alvarius, Yopo and other plant medicines offer a depth of knowledge and power that are best accessed only in the right environment and with adequate mental and physical preparation beforehand.
What Is Yopo? Experience, Benefits & Side Effects
Yopo is known to be one of the most sacred medicines of all the Americas. One of Yopo’s remarkable powers is that it momentarily obliterates the mask or ego that we interpret everyday life with. It also immerses one in an immeasurable feeling of gratitude and understanding — Due to the variety of the compounds it contains, Yopo is also touted as good bridge between Sapo, Toad Medicine and Ayahuasca — Yopo unmasks the truth and acquired limiting patterns that are not easily visible with other medicines. Its benefits are wide ranging from the detoxification of different drugs, combating addiction and alcoholism, lowering anxiety, and reducing depression — Yopo is a true medicine of both spiritual and physical healing.
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, Shamanism is one of the main cultures that use spirit animals in order to enhance spiritual growth and development. They believe that animals hold special wisdom that we can learn from.