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Yawar Panga Ritual Ceremony - October 2006
The ritual ceremony of Yawar Panga is a specific healing act originally from the High Amazon Basin of Peru, designed to operate a deep cleaning of the body of the participants. It consists in the ingestion of juice from the fresh leaves of a climbing plant identified as Aristolochia didyma S. Moore (family Aristolochiaceae), complemented with a ritual environment made of sacred chants (ikaros), vitalizing blows of black tobacco smoke that the shaman directs towards his patient and the rhythmic sound produced by the beating of the shacapas. Yawar Panga proves to be a very useful plant in the treatment of all types of intoxication, particularly in the first phase of the treatment of drug addiction.
Author : François Delonnay
Audio : Spanish
Subtitle : English
The contribution of chamanism in psychotherapy - July 2006
Lecture by Jacques Mabit, Physician. Since 1986 he has been in touch with Amazonian healers and, after his own initiatory process, he founded the Takiwasi Center in the Upper Amazon, where he proposes a therapeutic protocol based on the interaction of indigenous ancestral knowledge and practices of contemporary psychotherapy, associating in a multi-disciplinary team healers, doctors and psychologists. IRETT, Paris, July 2006.
Author : François Delonnay
Audio : French
Subtitle : -
The ritual of master Ignacio - 2006
Master Ignacio acts with different instruments: perfumes, tobacco and the spirits of water. His ritual work involves preparing the person by eventually making him ingest tobacco or perfumes or plants associated with them, then take him to the river where he is asked to lie in the water, with his head under water, to do a process of cleansing, purification and reinforcement.
Author : François Delonnay
Audio : French
Subtitle : English, Español, Français
Traditional Amazonian medicine and western psychotherapy in the treatment of addictions - 2006
Documentary recorded in 2006 at the Takiwasi Center. It presents the innovative protocol for the treatment of addictions that combines traditional Amazonian medicine and Western psychotherapy. With testimonies of Dr. Jacques Mabit, of the Psychologists Jaime Torres and Gonzalo Brito and of the resident patients of the Takiwasi Center.
Author : François Delonnay
Audio : French
Subtitle : -
Heir - transmission of traditional medical knowledge - 2005
Master healers consider the art of healing as a gift that comes from God through the spirits of plants. What we have observed in the Takiwasi Center, based on our experience and contacts with master healers, is that the gift manifests itself at the precise moment when they are being curem from an illness. Therefore, first they are patients, who have gone to the doctor to be treated for some physical or spiritual evil. When the gift manifests itself, masters often say that "the plant loves you", and invite the person to continue taking the teacher plants, this time not to cure the illness, but to start the learning process. Through the process of healing-learning the person will discover his art, method and specialty. Throughout the process he will be accompanied by his master, because in the Amazon it is not conceivable to take the teacher plants without a guide that help us re-find our way. In this video we can appreciate the testimony of Don Solón Tello Lozano, beloved master healer from Iquitos. Read the article: Transmission of traditional medical knowledge
Author : Jaime Torres
Audio : Spanish
Subtitle : English
Dieta in Takiwasi - 2005
The Retreat/Dieta (commonly referred to as “Dieta” in traditional medicine), is the deepest therapeutic practice of traditional Amazonian medicine, stronger and more effective than ayahuasca itself, and necessary when taking ayahuasca to reinforce its effect. It consists of a 7-day retreat in isolation, in a very simple hut in the jungle, within the Botanical Reserve of Takiwasi, with the ritualized ingestion of the so-called "master plants", accompanied by a special diet and strict physical and psychological norms. The aim of the diet is a deep physical, psychic and spiritual cleansing starting from a deep energetic cleansing due to the intake of plants and the context of preparation, accompaniment and follow-up.
More information: Retreat/Diet in Takiwasi
Author : Centro Takiwasi
Audio : Spanish
Subtitle : English, Français, Italiano
Ayahuasca, the Snake and I - 2003
French documentary about ayahuasca, written and directed by Armand Bernardi in 2003. This documentary shows the use of traditional Amazonian medicine in a drug addiction recovery pilot program at the Takiwasi Center.
Author : Armand Bernardi
Audio : French
Subtitle : English, Español
The Spirit of Ayahuasca - November 2001
In Tarapoto, a small town on the borders between the Andes and the Amazon rainforest, healers who come from all over the Amazon basin come together to exchange their knowledge about the master plants of the jungle. All these healers use Ayahuasca, a psychoactive sacred plant, called vine of the dead because it allows to get in touch with the invisible world. Thanks to this plant, healers try to heal drug addicted patients, allowing them to explore the psychic contents of their unconscious.
Author : Jean-Claude Cheyssial
Audio : French
Subtitle : -
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