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Amazonian Wisdom and Health - October 2025
Contemporary Amazonian culture, transformed by globalization, has lost part of its relational and ecological dimension. Among Indigenous peoples such as the Urarina, the use of plants still preserves a wisdom that integrates health, spirituality, and community, encompassing both human and non-human beings. Faced with the advance of extractivism and cultural erosion, there is a call to recover an ecological health based on reciprocity and respectful dialogue with ancestral knowledge. Talk in Spanish with Emanuele Fabiano, a researcher specialized in Amazonian anthropology and in the social and cosmological effects of extractive processes.
Author : Martín Huamán
Audio : Spanish
Subtitle : -
Master Plants & Ayahuasca Retreat Testimonial - Former Captain US Army - September 2025
What does it mean for a soldier to surrender and retreat? In the military, these two words are unthinkable. Yet Trevor, a former infantry officer and U.S. Army captain, discovered at Takiwasi a place where “surrender” and “retreat” take on a deeply healing meaning. In this testimony, he shares his first experience at Takiwasi where he underwent a master plant dieta in the jungle, guided by our therapeutic team with decades of expertise. A sincere and transformative testimony about the transition from military life to the path of self-knowledge, and how Takiwasi offers a unique opportunity for silence, introspection, and truly meeting yourself.
Author : Fabio Friso, Martín Huamán
Audio : English
Subtitle : Español, Français
Ayahuasca & PTSD - September 2025
In this webinar, we explore the intersection of traditional knowledge and modern clinical research in addressing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), with a special focus on military veterans. Michèle Anne Barocchi, director and co-founder of MAPS Italy, is in conversation with Matteo Politi, research manager at Takiwasi, as she shares the latest academic findings on psychedelic-assisted therapies along with her personal insights related to PTSD. Joining them is Arnaud Montagne, therapist at Takiwasi, who presents the outcomes of the therapeutic retreat program for military veterans in the Peruvian Amazon.
Author : Martín Huamán
Audio : English
Subtitle : Español
The Mother-Child Bond in the Development and Overcoming of Addiction - September 2025
Webinar led by María Virginia Erazo, Gestalt Psychotherapist specialized in the treatment of addictions and member of the Takiwasi team, who addresses the fundamental role of the maternal bond in the development and overcoming of this issue. During the talk, clinical case examples are shared to provide a more concrete understanding of how maternal dynamics create processes of dependency and codependency.
Author : Martín Huamán
Audio : Spanish
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Overcoming Depression and Addiction with Medicinal Plants: Maribel’s Story - September 2025
In this courageous testimony, Maribel shares her healing journey at Takiwasi. Her experience reflects the challenges and lessons of a true process of change: leaving behind dependence on medications and alcohol, facing family attachment, overcoming doubts and fears, and finally discovering inner strength and humility as the foundation of a new life. Recently at Takiwasi we opened the possibility of outpatient addiction treatment for women, responding to the many requests we had received. In 2023 we took a first step with a one-month seminar exclusively for women struggling with addiction, with excellent results. In 2025 we went further by integrating women into a mixed treatment, where they participate in plant sessions and therapeutic workshops alongside men, though under a semi-residential format.
Author : Fabio Friso, Martín Huamán
Audio : Spanish
Subtitle : English, Français
Webinar: Purgahuasca, from the initiation ritual to therapeutic applications - August 2025
Inspired by the Awajún traditional medicine, the ritual ceremony of purgahuasca has been incorporated since 1998 in the protocol for the treatment of addiction at Takiwasi. Therapists and patients have witnessed the efficacy and importance of this alternative way of taking Ayahuasca.
Author : Martín Huamán
Audio : Spanish
Subtitle : -
Interview with Indigenous Leader Nemonte Nenquimo - August 2025
Nemonte Nenquimo is an Indigenous Waorani leader from the Ecuadorian Amazon and a renowned defender of the rights, territory, culture, and spirituality of Indigenous peoples. She is a co-founder of the Ceibo Alliance and has led significant struggles against oil extraction in the rainforest. Nemonte first came to know Takiwasi in May 2024, when she participated in a seminar organized in collaboration with the Ceibo Alliance and Amazon Frontlines, aimed at a group of 12 Indigenous women leaders. Following this initial experience, she decided to return to Takiwasi to deepen her personal process with medicinal plants.
Author : Fabio Friso, Martín Huamán
Audio : Spanish
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Defending Nature for Good Living: The Vision of the Wampis Nation - August 2025
The Autonomous Territorial Government of the Wampis Nation (GTANW) is the representative body of the Wampis people, located in the northeastern Amazon of Peru, near the border with Ecuador. Established in 2015 from the collective will of its inhabitants to protect their territory, culture, and autonomy, the GTANW promotes initiatives that defend the territory, conserve the Amazon rainforest, ensure the responsible management of natural resources, and strengthen the local economy. Within this framework, the Wampis Nation maintains a strategic alliance with the Natural Products Laboratory of Takiwasi. Through this collaboration, we aim to develop projects for the sustainable use of biodiversity, integrating traditional and scientific knowledge with the goal of transforming medicinal and aromatic plants into high-quality, value-added products.
Author : Fabio Friso, Martín Huamán
Audio : Spanish
Subtitle : -
Takiwasi's Veterans Retreat Testimonial - July 2025
“I found a lot of clarity after this retreat. It helped me a lot really get past that blockade in my mind and actually work through my problems instead of just pushing them further down and lock them away, throwing away the key like I've always done. I feel like many, many veterans, many people in the service also do that”. Gabriel is 23 years old and spent 4 years serving in the United States Marine Corps. After that he decided to participate in a healing retreat with medicinal plants in the Peruvian Amazon.
Author : Fabio Friso, Martín Huamán
Audio : English
Subtitle : Español, Français
Master Plants Retreat for Veterans and First Responders - July 2025
Military veterans and first responders often carry invisible wounds such as PTSD, anxiety, traumatic brain injuries, hypervigilance, depression. At Takiwasi, we’ve created a unique therapeutic retreat to help them heal through traditional Amazonian plant medicine, held in a safe, structured, and ritualized setting.
Author : Fabio Friso, Martín Huamán
Audio : English
Subtitle : Español, Français
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