Ayahuasca Workshop - Shamanism
Medicina Ayahuasca - Amazon of Perú - shamans Shamanic
Ayahuasca
- The use of ayahuasca pervive like knowing still goes back to 5000 years and magical - religious and therapeutic
- Preparation of the Ayahuasca
- Banisteriopsis Caapi
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- Diet of the Ayahuasca
- Shamanism Ayahuasca
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Manu Biosphere Reserve
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Shamanic Amazon Perú - Cusco
The Wanamey Medicine Center organizes an experience that combines spirituality, amazonian shamanism, flora and fauna. Participants will have the chance of learn and know the tradicional amazonian medicine (medicinal plants, spirituality, shamanism, ayahuasca, personal growing) for the armony and healing of body, spirit, mind and emotions.
The Wanamey Medicine Center, place of the Workshop, is located in the Cultural Zone in the Biosphere Reserve of the National park of Manu – Cusco – Perú.
FIRST DAY:We leave from the city of Cusco at 8:00 a.m. The distance is 180 km (8 hours aprox. to reach the city of Pilcopata). In the way we`ll observe beautiful andean valleys, quechua native communities and visit the “Chullpas de Ninamarca”, funeral center of the Lupaca culture (Pre Inca). At midday, we’ll have lunch in the city of Paucartambo,ancient colonial town. Later we`ll go on to the place called Tres Cruces (Three Crosses), gate of arriving to the Biosphere Reserve of the Nacional park of Manu, where we will offer a purification ceremony to the Mother Nature: at dawn we`ll arrive to the Wanamey Medicine Center.
SECOND DAY: At 6:00 a.m, we will do a purification ceremony- cleaning. In the Tono river, five minutes far from the center. Alter breakfast we´ll have a lecture about amazonian shamanism and it`s relation with the fourbasic elements: earth, water, air and fire. Then we willdo the different therapies of purification – clearing – armonization throw brews of medicinal and master plants. At evening we`ll sit around a fire to exchange spiritual experiences.
THIRD DAY: after breakfast, we`ll visit the ethnobotanical garden of the WanameyCenter, where we`ll talk about the use of medicinal plants and their spiritual relation with men. We`ll have also a lecture about the use of Ayahuasca in medicinal therapies and in the magic-religious rituals. In the afternoon we´ll prepare ourselves for the ayahuasca session, tha will be in the evening-night.
FOURTH DAY: Relax and thinking about the experience of the night before. In Parallel we`ll do individual conversations to help to understand the purpose of session; if is neccesary we`ll prepare another ritual with Ayahuasca.
FIFHT DAY: At 8:00 a.m. we`ll go for a walk in the jungle for two and a half hours to visit a ceremonial center (Intoro river) where we do a ceremony of purification, armony, protection and thanks living to the four elements. In the afternoon we`ll go back to the WanameyCenter.
SIXTH DAY: Alter breakfast we`ll beguin the jourmey back to Cusco where we`ll arrive in the afternoon.
Price: Please contact us.
Information about Ayahuasca
The master plant Ayahuasca (banisteriopsis caapi) is a liana of the amazonian forest. It is well known and used by the amazonian tribes, they consider it a sacred and master plant; it is the basis of shamanism, taditional medicine and indigenous cosmovisión. It is called Caapi in Brasil, natema in Ecuador, Yajè in Colombia and Ayahuasca in Perù. In the quechua language, ayahuasca means “liana of heaven”, so is called Mihi, Dapa, Pindè, Kamarampi, etc.
The use of ayahuasca goes back from 5000 years ago and still lives as a magical, religious and therapeutic wisdom. When the drink ayahuasca is made, it is often supplemented with other plants that provide hallucinogenic properties to the drink. There are many species of plants, stretching across genera, that are added. Some of the plants included in these various admixtures are Diplopterys cabrerana, Psychotria viridis (chakruna), and Psychotria carthaginensis. There are also members of the Solanaceae that are commonly used, Nicotiana species, Brugmansia species, and Brunfelsia species These plants bring different chemical constituents to the drink.
B. caapi alone in ayahuasca has limited hallucinogenic affects, but it is sometimes fashioned this way. More likely though, the prepared drink is composed of more than just B. caapi. When these other plant species (listed above) are used in the preparation of the drink they bring along their own chemical compounds and enhance the psychoactive affects of the drink. The active chemical compound of these plants is N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT). It is believed that this provides most of the hallucinogenic effects of the drink.
DMT is not orally active. This is why B. caapi is such an important component of the drink. The chemical compounds in B. caapi are believed to guard the DMT from being destroyed, and thus rendered inactive when taken orally. Since the DMT is not destroyed it can then elicit an effect.
Ayahuasca is a method of inner healing that Works simultaneously in the phisical, energetic and psiquic bodies, allowing us to clean ourselves in those levels; it is too a gate to altered states of consciousness, therefore we can observe realities that are usually hidden in normal circunstances. This situation will allow us to understand and to be reconciled with life, with others, with nature, universe, us and God; in words of the shamans that drink ayahuasca: “you are going too see and understand “- This fundamental contribution to a brave change of consciousness deserves a special and serious consideration because allows people to feel and re-think about their limits and their infinite spiritual possibilities.
Ceremonies and rituals with ayahuasca.
They cause a deep action in body, mind, emotions and spirit, allowing us to confront and conquer our deepest fears, to revitalize life energies and to wake up a higher level of consciousness with the purpose to open us to our “Inner Master”. The Ayahuasca Ceremony opens a relation with the Spiritual World that will last your whole life
Ayahuasca is not addictive
The magical plant ayahuasca containsnatural chemical compounds capable of give intense visions andmake our senses sharply awake. This and other effects guide the human consciousness to rare, inexplicable and misterious mental states that are at the same time revealing and wonderfull. The master plant ayahuasca is not addictive, rather expands our mind and serves us as a key to obtain a spiritual-mistical-personal experience.
Ayahuasca as a medicine.
Ayahuasca is used as a psicoanalitic and psicotherapeutical resort for the people to obtain consciousness of their problems in its truly meaning. Drinking ayahuasca, that is, planning a whole mistical experience, we can influence by our will in the essence of our most intimate inner personality, and improve it.
Uses - Information of Ayahuasca in shamanism.
Psicological states caused by ayahuasca.
As detailed bellow, these are some mistical-spiritual status caused by the master plant Ayahuasca:
Introspection. Inner examination of the soul (Inner watching. Recognition ofthe evolution of our inner being)
Regresión: You can psiquically re-experience past stages of your life or former lifes to solve problems. It allows to connect us and recognize ourselves in a better way. The contents of forgotten or suppressed experiences come bak to consciousness as a true revival. Conflicts and stress in human psique are so diluted and it occurs a reestructuration and healing of personality.
Mistical religious experience. Ascension to heaven (to Divine World) due to a spiritual recognition.
Trascendental experience that makes receptivity and mistical comunión with universe grow.
Astral Journey: Out-of-the-body experience of the soul.
Super cosmic consciousness. Omniscient illumination (satori).
Psico-activity. Manisfestation of brain functions usually aesleep, sharp senses, intense memory, deep analisys, developing of intuition.
Exalting of extra-sense faculties. Thelepathic, clairvoyant and pre-cognitive manifestations and aentrance to a divine dimension..
Amplification of consciousness. Freedom of spirit to raise consciousness and knowledge to higher levels and perspectives.
This mental manifestations (introspection, regresión, etc.) take place even simultaneously, but with the accent in one of them. Each experience with ayahuasca is totally different of former ones.
Stages of Ayahuasca session:
First and second hours: Inconfortable sensations of nausea, vertigo, fears and repressed paranoia
First and second hours: Resolution of conflicts, peace and armony.
Third and fourth hours: deep thinking, exhaustive analisis and introspection
Due to Ayahuasca is a sacred and purifying plant, it can cause vomits, diarrea, sweatings and other purification effects; this is the way master ayahuasca heals, teaches and guides. Nevertheless all this proccess is relative; many times we reach “magic” in a single session, as we can also do differenr sessions with vomits and diarrea without understand and find anything.
There is no good or bad ceremony, but bad understood ones. It is easy to drink ayahuasca, the difficult thing is to understand what comes next…The challenge of the person is to understand the true meanings of the visions that the plant shows us and be capable to use this trainingship in our daily life, therefore before doing a session, we always reccomend people not to create false expectations of “wonder and magic” experiences of others, because it not always happens that way, due to each people has its own experience. There is nothig more wrong than to be waiting for that or such thing of a session, because if we mantain our attention fixed in a mental hope, it won`t leave place for what it might come in the hour of truth….Before doing an ayahuasca ceremony, it is recommended to keep mind free of prejudices and fears, and to be open-hearted; as well you should prepare yourself mental, phisical, emocional and spititually.