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Takiwasi: Traditional Amazonian Medicine and Mental Health - April 2021
Dr. Rosa Giove participated in the 4th Edition of the International Congress of Integrative Medicine with the presentation: "Takiwasi: Traditional Amazonian Medicine and mental health". Traditional Medicines have been in force since time immemorial and some of them are currently recognized and incorporated into health systems. Mental pathology is an important cause of morbidity and mortality, finding insufficient response in official medicine. This presentation aims to reveal the therapeutic potential of traditional Amazonian medicine for the treatment of addiction and mental health, based on the experience of the Takiwasi Center in the Peruvian Amazon.
Author : Asociación Profesional Española de Naturopatía y Bioterapia
Audio : Spanish
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The Mind of Plants - April 2021
The Mind of Plants brings together a collection of short essays, narratives and poetry on plants and their interaction with humans. An online symposium has been hosted on April 9, 2021, to bring together all the contributors of the Mind of Plants to share their reflections and various approaches to plants. Matteo Politi, scientific director of Takiwasi Center, offered a contribution on Ushpwasha Sanango (Tabernaemontana undulata), a so-called “teacher plant” used in therapeutic practices derived from traditional Amazonian medicine such as the dieta. Another contribution has been offered by research associate and environmental anthropologist Giorgia Tresca on Silver Fir (Adies Alba) an evergreen tree native to Europe and Asia.
Author : The Mind of Plants
Audio : English
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Master Plant Diet Participant Testimonial - Karla - March 2021
Brazilian psychologist Karla Perdigão offers a testimonial about her experience in the master plant diets in Takiwasi. Karla came to Takiwasi as part of her personal professional journey, researching the therapeutic interaction between medicinal plants and psychology. The master plant diets offered her the possibility of working on herself, reaching certain inner contents that she had not been able to deal with during her classic personal therapeutic process, and at the same time the diets gave her greater motivation and direction to continue with her research and with her profession, also allowing Karla to attend to her patients in a more comprehensive way.
Author : Martín Huamán, Gary Saucedo
Audio : Spanish
Subtitle : English, Français, Italiano, Português
Metamorphosis - March 2021
Artist Arno Louis has created some short one minute animations on different types of spiritual healing retreats. One of these animations shows the experience lived by D.S., who participated in a personal development seminar at the Takiwasi Center. A stop-motion that transcribes three different spiritual retreats. We immerse ourselves in a visual universe between collage and painting, these two visual languages have their symbolism and give life to various characters. All of them have their own metamorphoses according to their retreat contexts.
Author : Arno Louis
Audio : French
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Mind-Body Workshop - February 2021
Video presentation of the psycho-corporal workshop delivered as part of a drug use prevention project carried out between 2019 and 2020 by Takiwasi for the benefit of 500 adolescents from three high-schools of the city of Tarapoto. The intervention was carried out with the support of the organization of young leaders Red Interquorum San Martin and thanks to the grant provided by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). With each classroom, a psycho-corporal workshop has been carried out by the psychologist Guadalupe Arana. Some objectives of this workshop are: improve interpersonal relationships and self-esteem, work on the body and affectivity, learn to enjoy life through creative play and that students can recognize their abilities through the different exercises.
Author : Matías Farías y Gary Saucedo
Audio : Spanish
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Nuwa herbal teas - January 2021
Over the past three years, a group of indigenous women from the Awajún community of Shampuyacu transformed two medicinal plants into herbal teas that can be sold to support the preservation of their forest and cultural heritage. Thanks to the alliance with the Takiwasi Laboratory that has provided technical assistance and guidance, in December 2020 the sale of the brand Infusiones Nuwa finally begun at the national level. These are made with Amazonian plants such as ginger, vanilla and clavo huasca. A series of videos tells this beautiful story.
Author : Conservación Internacional
Audio : Spanish
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Tribute to Bernadette Rebiénot - January 2021
In the month of January 2021, passed away in Libreville, Gabon, at the age of over 80, the famous healer Bernadette Rebiénot. This tribute video was produced by Jean-Claude Cheyssial. We also share a tribute written by Dr Jacques Mabit who was fortunate enough to be initiated by her into the Bwiti ritual at her Oyenano Center 20 years ago. This extraordinary 5-day experience under the effects of the sacred plant iboga, equivalent to Amazonian ayahuasca, deeply marked Jacques' path. The link that is established in this context is almost filial. Hommage à Bernadette Rebiénot.
Author : Jean-Claude Cheyssial
Audio : French
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Medicinal properties of coca leaf and cannabis oil - January 2021
Presentation n°1: "Medicinal and therapeutic properties of the coca leaf". By Dr. Selene Manga, infectious disease and epidemiology medical doctor, trained in traditional Andean and Amazonian medicine of Peru, she works in the Doctors without Borders program.
Lecture n°2: "Myths and realities of medicinal cannabis". By therapist Sebastian Strikic, psychology student, University of Buenos Aires, postgraduate in Indo-American Traditional Medicine (Rosario University, Argentina), founding member of Cannapeutas Latinoamerica.
These presentations were made on January 19, 2021 in the auditorium of the Takiwasi Center, Tarapoto, Peru.
Author : Martín Huamán
Audio : Spanish
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Mystical drunkenness or the reunion with western roots - October 2020
Lecture by Dr. Jacques Mabit given during the II Day of Dialogues between Medicines "The spiritual approach to addictions", organized by the GASS association on September 26, 2020 in Barcelona, Spain. The stigmatization of addictions in Western society is related to a concept of drunkenness perceived as a form of pathological and harmful escape from reality, a rejection of our incarnation. However, in Western roots, the essence of Christian spirituality claims not only a right to drunkenness but a duty to a certain spiritual or mystical drunkenness that reintroduces us to our dimension as incarnated spiritual beings. Traditional Amazonian medicines, with their knowledge of induced drunkenness, can teach us the way of a reunion with our deep nature, in coherence with the foundations of Western Christian roots.
Author : Asociación GASS
Audio : Spanish
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A journey to healing - September 2020
Official trailer of the film “The Way of the Plants - A journey to healing” directed by Aurèlie Marques and Louis Bidou. This is the living experience from the point of view of drug addict patients who have chosen an alternative treatment with Amazonian plants. Heartbreaking life stories that intersect in the heart of the Peruvian rainforest. Rehabilitating traditional Amazonian medicines means putting spirituality back at the center of healing.
Author : Aurèlie Marques, Louis Bidou
Audio : Spanish
Subtitle : Français
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