Getting Started With Dinacharya and Panchakarma Reflecting on the last few years, I have been thinking about how I started learning about Ayurveda to begin with. I had a series of health issues that seem to be compounded by the state of my mental health. A friend had given me an Ayurvedic cookbook, years before, […]
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I have sat with Kambo multiple times now and each time I document what is happening for me and have wondered when exactly, I will feel inspired to write about this medicine. Technically it’s not a plant medicine, though it lives amongst the trees. Kambo is a bright green tree frog native to the Amazon
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This is the story of Psilocybin Cubensis–also known as, Magic Mushrooms: what they are, where they came from and how I made it to the mountains in Oaxaca, Mexico to take part in this communion with the sacred. Through my own transformation process, I am seeing the potential to heal deep trauma in our local
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Entering the Space of the Sacred Mushroom Time to enter into the womb of Mother Earth in this ancient indigenous tradition of physical detoxification, prayer, fire and the symbolic rebirth. Enter in my own detox to prepare for the sacred cleansing of my spirit in the coming days. This ceremony enveloped physical, mental and spiritual
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Breathing: it’s something we do every day, habitually and on auto-pilot, and one of the few vital bodily functions that can be controlled consciously, as well as, unconsciously. With many steps leading up to my mushroom journey, we also had a breath workshop. Even though I have had some experience with breathing practices and like
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It’s funny to me that a widely abused substance in our modern world can have so many healing properties. Both my parents were smokers and I remember trying one of my moms Kool cigarettes when I was eight years old. I quickly barfed and ran home to tell my mom how gross smoking was. She
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Ayahuasca Series Part 4 When the time came for my Ayahuasca experience, I spent the day with my intentions on the beach and in the water. I felt ready to release what has been holding me back from the light of who I am. Nothing could have prepared me for what happened once I actually
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Ayahuasca Series Part 3 “A deep sense of love and belonging is an irresistible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb.
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Ayahuasca Series Part 2 I am told the minute you hear the call to do Ayahuasca the medicine starts doing its’ job. I first learned about Aya almost twenty years ago, in the months and days following my mother’s death. One could say that the call came to me then and it took me all
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Ayahuasca Series Part 1 I have been asked a lot lately what led me to the plant medicine world? I would have to say it really started with a return to myself. I think I needed help remembering who I am–really. I lived my life with the assumption that knowledge is power. Play to your
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