News

01 August 2020

Dates Retreats/Diets 2020

Dear friends, we want to inform you that the dates scheduled for the retreats/diets for the coming months have been confirmed, respecting the calendar published in our web page. We hope that the soon re-start of national and international flights will allow us to resume normal therapeutic care. People interested in booking their space can go through the regular registration process, with eventually the possibility of postponing the participation in the retreat/diet to a subsequent date in case it is not possible to travel immediately due to a lengthening of the period of border closure.


22 July 2020

Canta la Ayahuasca - Healing Ikaros

Ikaros recorded live during an Ayahuasca ceremony held at the Takiwasi Center in 2020. It includes alternative versions of Takiwasi’s ikaros, sometimes sung in groups by two or more healers, while other are presented in extended versions, which follow the rhythm and intensity of the ceremony. It includes as well an unreleased ikaro traditionally used during ritual plant baths.


20 July 2020

Adopt an Ayahuasca

A big thank you to all the people who decided to join our project for the protection and conservation of Ayahuasca vine and other Amazonian teacher plants. Our goal now is for 50 new Ayahuasca seedlings to be sponsored and planted and thanks to your support we are halfway there! Join our conservation actions by adopting an Ayahuasca vine or another teacher plant.


30 June 2020

ALA2020 Congress - Symposium "The narcotization of the world"

Psychologist Uriel López will represent Takiwasi at the VI Congress of the Latin American Association of Anthropology that will be held online in November 2020. Uriel will participate with an oral presentation entitled "The positive dialogue between the Western and the Indigenous World regarding drug use as a consequence of existential emptiness and neoliberal carelessness”.


25 June 2020

Medicinal aromatic plants and ancestral knowledge for the empowerment of indigenous women

Through a BioTrade model developed in alliance with indigenous communities of the Kichwa-Lamistas and Awajún ethnic groups in the San Martin region, the Takiwasi Laboratory promotes the participation and socio-economic empowerment of women producers of medicinal plants. In this way, people and nature are benefited, combining the sustainable development of native communities and the regeneration and conservation of the forest and Amazonian biodiversity.