Retreat/Diets at Takiwasi 2021

Dear friends, the dates of our Retreats/Diets for 2021 are now available online:
• 13 - 23 January
• 17 - 27 February
• 14 - 24 April
• 12 - 22 May
• 16 - 26 June
• 14 - 24 July

Check our website to see all the dates for 2021 and also the last two dates available for this year 2020. See full calendar

The Retreat/Diet (commonly referred to as "dieta" in traditional medicine), is the deepest therapeutic practice of traditional Amazonian medicine. It consists of a 8-day retreat in isolation, in a very simple hut in the jungle, with the ritualized ingestion of the so-called "master plants", accompanied by a special diet and strict physical and psychological norms.

This process allows to expand perception, re-connect with repressed emotions, cleanse and strengthen the body, and connect with the holy dimension. It favors dream production, remembrance of past situations and experiences that weren’t well-processed and deep introspection.

For more information and to start the registration process please write to: terapia@takiwasi.com

Therapeutic Uses of Tobacco
in Peruvian Amazonian Medicine

“Tobacco Is the Chief Medicinal Plant in My Work”: Therapeutic Uses of Tobacco in Peruvian Amazonian Medicine Exemplified by the Work of a Maestro Tabaquero. Article published in Frontiers in Phamacology. Authors: Ilana Berlowitz, Ernesto García Torres, Heinrich Walt, Ursula Wolf, Caroline Maake and Chantal Martin-Soelch

Harmful usage of tobacco is a public health problem of global concern and, in many countries, the main risk factor for non-communicable diseases. Yet, in the Peruvian Amazon, the geographical region believed to be tobacco’s historical birthplace, this plant is associated with a strikingly different usage and repute: Tobacco (especially Nicotiana rustica L.) in this area is described as a potent medicinal plant, used topically or via ingestion to treat a variety of health conditions. The goal of this transdisciplinary field study was to investigate clinical applications of the tobacco plant as per Amazonian medicine exemplified in the practice of a reputed Maestro Tabaquero, an Amazonian traditional healer whose medical specialization focuses on tobacco-based treatments.

How You Can Help

If you wish to support the activities of the Takiwasi Center, there are several ways to do it.

You can choose to give your contribution to the protection and conservation of Amazonian teacher plants through the Project Adopt an Ayahuasca, by adopting an Ayahuasca vine or another teacher plant that we have been planting and caring for in our Botanical Reserve, a protected area of 54 hectares located inside the Cordillera Escalera conservation area, on the outskirts of the city of Tarapoto.

Other ways to support us are by contributing to cover for the cost of the treatment and rehabilitation of our drug addict patients with limited economic resources, to finance the groundbreaking research Project ATOP - Ayahuasca Treatment Outcome Project, or to support other social projects such as the CIANAH orphanage for indigenous children located in the remote native community of Yutupis.

Takiwasi Center Prolongación Alerta 466, Tarapoto, Peru Tel: +51 (0)42 522818 / +51 (0)42 525479 www.takiwasi.com takiwasi@takiwasi.com

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