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Retreats/Diets at Takiwasi in 2022
Dear friends, these are the dates of our Retreats/Diets for the year 2022:
• 12 - 22 January
• 16 - 26 February
• 16 - 26 March
• 20 - 30 April
• 11 - 21 May
• 08 - 18 June
• 13 - 23 July
• 17 - 27 August
• 14 - 24 September
• 12 - 22 October
• 16 - 26 November
• 07 - 17 December
For more information and to start the registration process please write to: terapia@takiwasi.com
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New research article on the experience of participants in a master plants dieta in Takiwasi
The medicinal plant diet is a healing process used in traditional Amazonian medicine (TAM), and it is poorly described within the scientific literature. This work analyzes the experience of seven participants in this therapy performed at the Takiwasi Center in Peru. Semistructured interviews were performed before and after treatment, documenting participants’ motivation, psychological experience, and perceived personal changes (physically, psychologically, socially, and spiritually), as well as the role played by each medicinal plant. All the interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Reasons to participate in the plant diet included self-discovery, personal development, interest in plant medicine, and professional realization. The experience was perceived as intense and allowed participants to experience self-acceptance, self-discovery, mental balance, rest, cleansing, and connection with nature. Three months after the experience, participants felt physical changes (n = 6), psychological changes (n = 7), social changes (n = 5), and spiritual changes (n = 5).
Rumlerová, T., Friso, F ., Torres, J., Kavenksá, V., Politi, M. (2021). Participant experiences on a medicinal plant diet at Takiwasi Center: An in-depth small-scale survey. Anthropology of Consciousness. First published: 27 October 2021. DOI: 10.1111/anoc.12143
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Takiwasi Center Online Courses
We want to invite you to enroll in our online courses:
- Introducción al modelo terapéutico Takiwasi:
11 pre-registered classes taught in Spanish by the therapeutic team of the Takiwasi Center. Topics such as Traditional Amazonian Medicine are addressed, including the presentation of specific techniques such as plant baths and purges, and the application of Western psychological approaches in the treatment of addictions, such as existential psychotherapies and the analysis of trans-generational inheritances.
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Coherencias entre la iniciación cristiana y la iniciación amazónica: taught in Spanish by Dr. Jacques Mabit, course based on 5 pre-registered videos. The experience of the Takiwasi Center shows us that there are numerous and surprising points of coherence and convergence between the Christian faith and Amazonian shamanism (when correctly understood and practiced). This course attempts to highlight the relevance of bringing these two paths of knowledge closer together and articulating them appropriately in favor of opening new paths for the healing of the body, mind and spirit.
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Visiting CIANAH in the native community of Yutupis
The Takiwasi Center has supported for some years the project CIANAH: Indigenous Support Center for Abandoned and Orphaned Children, promoted by José Petsa in the Awajún native community of Yutupis, located in a remote area of the Peruvian jungle. The purpose of CIANAH is to welcome children who are abandoned and orphaned from an early age and to support them in services such as basic health, education, food and clothing. The project also wants to promote among the native population values of solidarity, responsibility and justice and favor the expression of the cultural values and traditions of the Awajún and Wampis peoples.
In order to carry out this project and build the orphanage, CIANAH receives support from foundations such as Terre de Vie and Fondation Vermont and from private donors who, being fascinated by the place and the project, have decided to contribute their little grain of sand to this initiative. The orphanage, in addition to donations, also receives people interested in volunteering.
Since 2019, the collaboration with Fondation Vermont allows CIANAH members and more generally the young people of the Yutupis community, once they finish high school, to receive scholarships to continue their higher studies in the cities of Lima or Iquitos, thus entering the university or technical institutes to specialize in careers such as nursing, education, accounting, administration and fine arts. During our visit last October, we had the opportunity to see the progress of the construction of the second floor of the orphanage and start a selection process so that next year other young people from Yutupis will be benefited by the scholarships granted by Fondation Vermont.
If you wish to support CIANAH, you can do so with a donation through our website or by contacting directly its director, José Petsa.
E-mail: jyaunpetsa@yahoo.es
Phone: +51 945175497
Web: https://cianah.weebly.com/
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Anniversary of the Meeting of Ayahuasca Doctors
20 years ago, in November 2001, the Takiwasi Center organized the International Meeting of Traditional Ayahuasca Doctors in which some 40 healers from different regions of Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, and a representative from Gabon, Africa, participated to share the same spiritual dimension around the wisdom of sacred and medicinal plants.
An important result of this meeting has been the participatory development of a Code of Ethics for the practice of Traditional Medicine: “Declaration of Tarapoto, Traditional Medicine and Sacred Plants”. The documentary "El Espíritu de la Ayahuasca" by Jean-Claude Cheyssial was also originated from this event.
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Synergism between Catholicism and Indigenous Spirituality within the Drug Addiction Rehabilitation Program of Takiwasi
The association between spirituality and medicine is unfolding as a research theme that may have increasing practical implications in healthcare systems. Both, spiritual and scientific dimensions are present within the treatment protocol for addiction applied at the Takiwasi Center, a pioneer therapeutic community that combines western approaches, including psychotherapy, biomedicine, and Catholic practices, with traditional Amazonian medicine. Through a series of open-ended and semi-structured interviews conducted on nine workers of the center during fieldwork research and comparison with the information obtained from literature review, the present article aims at testing the existence of an effective synergy between Catholic religiosity and indigenous-mestizo spirituality within the therapeutic process performed at the Takiwasi Center and puts in evidence some stimulating and problematic issues that arise from this synergy.
Dubbini, A., Gallizioli, M., Friso, F., Torres, J., Mabit, J., & Politi, M. (2020). Synergism between Catholicism and Indigenous Spirituality within the Drug Addiction Rehabilitation Program of Takiwasi, a Therapeutic Community in the Peruvian High-Amazon. Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 49 (3): 432-448. doi:10.1177/0008429819885615
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Help us with your Donation
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, or contributing to cover for the cost of the treatment and rehabilitation of our patients that suffer with drug addiction and have limited economic resources
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