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The Healing Potential of Ikaros during Ayahuasca Ceremonies - December 2024
The research conducted by Owain Graham, PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of California, Riverside, has focused on analyzing the therapeutic importance of the ikaros, recording how these chants used during Ayahuasca ceremonies provoke healing experiences by modulating the patients’ emotions and the modified state of consciousness induced by the brew. It has been possible to observe how the ikaros help patients feel safe while guiding them through difficult memories and emotions, and facilitate healing and learning experiences about their substance use problems. Something interesting that emerged during the research is that the ikaros accompany the patients as echoes also after the Ayahuasca ceremony, for example, during the retreats-diets and even after finishing the treatment, keeping the person connected to the process of taking plants.
Author : Martín Huamán
Audio : Spanish
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Sustainable community forest management of Cat’s Claw - November 2024
Anne Jahnkow's research for her graduation thesis in Forest Ecosystem Management at Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Germany, has examined sustainable community forest management of medicinal plants, focusing specifically on wild harvesting of Cat's Claw (Uncaria tomentosa) in the Chirik Sacha native community located in the San Martin region of Peru. The research has sought to identify factors that hinder successful management of Cat's Claw, suggest improvements for sustainable harvesting and commercialization, and explore the potential of a community-managed cultivation system. The research has also explored the importance of valuing and integrating traditional knowledge about medicinal plants not only into forest management, but also into the methods of modern science.
Author : Martín Huamán
Audio : Spanish
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Cultural roots and traditional uses of diet plants used at the Takiwasi Center - October 2024
With the support of the Takiwasi Center research team, anthropologist Tommaso Dondoli has developed this research project focused on 3 main objectives: to carry out the botanical identification of 10 specific plants used in the ritual process of the diet at the Takiwasi Center; to identify the historical chronology of the implementation of each plant in the dietary process at Takiwasi, investigating the local origin of the remedies, the history of the indigenous or mestizo teachers who introduced their use and possible adaptations over time; to analyze the production and supply chain of the master plants and the associated biotrade practices.
Author : Martín Huamán
Audio : Spanish
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The Master Plant Diet to Reconnect and Learn from Nature - September 2024
In this conversation between Matteo Politi, Research and Development Manager at the Takiwasi Center, and Laura Monteagudo, Research Assistant, an overview of the diet is provided based on the research carried out at the Takiwasi Center in recent years and we focus on analyzing the potential that this therapeutic tool has to modify the relationship between human being and nature.
Author : Martín Huamán
Audio : Spanish
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Ayahuasca, relationality, and transformations to sustainability - August 2024
Matteo Politi, Research and Development Manager at Takiwasi, and David Manuel-Navarrete, Associate Professor at the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University, present the main results of the research developed in conjunction with Serena DeLuca and which has led to the publication of an article in the academic journal Ecosystems and People.
Author : Martín Huamán
Audio : Spanish
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The therapist's body: a reflection on the work of those who accompany therapeutic processes - July 2024
Psychologist Uriel López, member of the therapeutic team of the Takiwasi Center, talks about the importance of being able to understand with the body the theoretical models and cultural matrices that therapists need to become aware of, in order to be able to accompany people with the resources of Traditional Amazonian Medicine.
Author : Martín Huamán
Audio : Spanish
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Traditional Amazonian medicine for the comprehensive health of the Western World - November 2023
Interview with Rosendo Gualima Padilla, Bolivian indigenous with studies in philosophy, theology, pedagogy and anthropology. Born in the middle of the Bolivian Amazon jungle, Rosendo Gualima became ordained a Catholic priest and was sent as a missionary to the Peruvian jungle with the Ashéninka. He spent ten years with them and there he rediscovered his indigenous soul and his healing family affiliation. He is a friend of Takiwasi where he has been visiting us since 2019. Rosendo represents in his person the synthesis of the indigenous world and the Christian faith, although this happy articulation has been perceived by some of his superiors as something inadequate or contradictory. In a radio interview from a recent trip to Spain, he tells in a slow voice his personal itinerary and the reflections that arose from his particular life experience. A life lesson and an example.
Author : Casa Espiritualitat Sant Felip Neri FVH
Audio : Spanish
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Without civil rights there can be no health - November 2023
Interview in two parts with Eduard Casas, social educator for 30 years and president of the Associated Group for Health Services (GASS). Eduard is a long-time friend and collaborator of Takiwasi who has been interested in traditional medicines applied to addictions for 20 years. Currently, he accompanies people with addictions and their families in Catalonia. In this audio document (1h) he insists on the desacralization of Western society and its consequences both in addictions and in the loss of freedoms through the restrictions imposed by the Covid fallacy. In the last three years, he has organized various lawsuits in defense of fundamental rights, compromised as a result of the management of Covid. He places spirituality as the first factor of health and the need to leave Western mentalization to reconnect with nature and the body, outside of the mirages of New Age.
Author : Casa Espiritualitat Sant Felip Neri FVH
Audio : Spanish
Subtitle : -
Cartography of the invisible – Interview with Jacques Mabit - April 2023
Interview with Jacques Mabit, founder of the Takiwasi Center, by the Gazette de l'Abîme, a project that deals with the exploration of consciousness, in particular through the psychedelic experience.
Part 1 – Cartography of the invisible.
Part 2 – Spiritual Beings.
Part 3 – Modern Knowledge, Archaic Knowledge.
Part 4 – Towards spiritual reconciliation?
Author : La Gazette de l'Abîme
Audio : French
Subtitle : Español
Takiwasi - 30 years of healing - September 2022
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Takiwasi Center, we propose this documentary that offers a retrospective of these three decades of intense clinical work and research on traditional Amazonian medicines that have allowed the institution to become a national and international reference.
Author : Thibault Luycx
Audio : Spanish
Subtitle : English, Français
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