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05 June 2019
Interview with the indigenous leader Santiago Manuin
Ten years after the Baguazo, we propose again this interview to the indigenous leader Santiago Manuin, conducted by Dr. Jacques Mabit, where topics such as the role of plants in the personal and spiritual life of people and the interest of Westerners towards traditional medicine Amazonian are discussed. Image, sound and edition: Ricardo D'Aguiar.
21 May 2019
Takiwasi at the World Ayahuasca Conference 2019
The Takiwasi Center will be represented by a delegation of researchers during the third World Ayahuasca Conference to be held in Girona, Spain, from May 31 to June 2. Among them Dr. Jacques Mabit, founding president of the center, and Matteo Politi, scientific director.
15 May 2019
Conscious Ambassadors Retreat has partnered with the Takiwasi Center to offer a thoroughly designed 7-day retreat accompanied by the intake of Amazonian medicinal plants. Using traditional and modern healing disciplines, the CAR process offers an encouraging, responsible and safe environment for anyone who wish to engage in an authentic quest on their life. This search implies deep work on the body, emotions, mind and also spirit, through techniques and methods of cleansing, purification, regeneration and harmonization.
13 May 2019
Traditional Amazonian medicine: a new approach to healing
Next June, the clinical psychologist and researcher on the integration of traditional Amazonian medicine and psychotherapy, Danae Saenz, former clinical coordinator of the Takiwasi Center, will give a lecture in Paris to present for the first time the results of the research she has been performing for more than 10 years on the psycho-emotional effects of the floral essences prepared on the basis of the master and medicinal plants used by the traditional healers of the Peruvian Amazon to heal the body, mind, heart and spirit.
02 May 2019
Short-Term Treatment Effects of a SUD Therapy Involving Traditional Amazonian Medicine
Research article by Ilana Berlowitz et al. published in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, May 2019. Chronic illness management today commonly involves alternative medicines. Substance use disorder (SUD), as a chronic psychosomatic illness, might benefit from a similar approach. The Takiwasi Center offers such a SUD treatment program involving Amazonian medicine combined with psychotherapy. The current study assessed this integrative program‘s short-term therapeutic effects. Results provide first indications for significantly improved SUD symptoms after the Amazonian medicine-based treatment.
