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10 June 2019
As part of the tour in Alto Mayo, they met the Awajún indigenous community of Shampuyacu where they visited the Bosque de las Nuwas, an initiative for economic development in harmony with indigenous culture and conservation, promoted by the women of the Shampuyacu community together with the Takiwasi Laboratory and Conservation International Peru. As a result of this initiative, a line of infusions will soon be launched on the market that highlights the identity of the indigenous woman and her knowledge of the Amazonian medicinal plants.
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.
