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Traditional Amazonian medicine for the comprehensive health of the Western World - November 2023

Interview with Rosendo Gualima Padilla, Bolivian indigenous with studies in philosophy, theology, pedagogy and anthropology. Born in the middle of the Bolivian Amazon jungle, Rosendo Gualima became ordained a Catholic priest and was sent as a missionary to the Peruvian jungle with the Ashéninka. He spent ten years with them and there he rediscovered his indigenous soul and his healing family affiliation. He is a friend of Takiwasi where he has been visiting us since 2019. Rosendo represents in his person the synthesis of the indigenous world and the Christian faith, although this happy articulation has been perceived by some of his superiors as something inadequate or contradictory. In a radio interview from a recent trip to Spain, he tells in a slow voice his personal itinerary and the reflections that arose from his particular life experience. A life lesson and an example.

Author : Casa Espiritualitat Sant Felip Neri FVH

Audio : Spanish

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Without civil rights there can be no health - November 2023

Interview in two parts with Eduard Casas, social educator for 30 years and president of the Associated Group for Health Services (GASS). Eduard is a long-time friend and collaborator of Takiwasi who has been interested in traditional medicines applied to addictions for 20 years. Currently, he accompanies people with addictions and their families in Catalonia. In this audio document (1h) he insists on the desacralization of Western society and its consequences both in addictions and in the loss of freedoms through the restrictions imposed by the Covid fallacy. In the last three years, he has organized various lawsuits in defense of fundamental rights, compromised as a result of the management of Covid. He places spirituality as the first factor of health and the need to leave Western mentalization to reconnect with nature and the body, outside of the mirages of New Age.

Author : Casa Espiritualitat Sant Felip Neri FVH

Audio : Spanish

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Cartography of the invisible – Interview with Jacques Mabit - April 2023

Interview with Jacques Mabit, founder of the Takiwasi Center, by the Gazette de l'Abîme, a project that deals with the exploration of consciousness, in particular through the psychedelic experience.
Part 1 – Cartography of the invisible.
Part 2 – Spiritual Beings.
Part 3 – Modern Knowledge, Archaic Knowledge.
Part 4 – Towards spiritual reconciliation?

Author : La Gazette de l'Abîme

Audio : French

Subtitle : Español

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Takiwasi - 30 years of healing - September 2022

On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Takiwasi Center, we propose this documentary that offers a retrospective of these three decades of intense clinical work and research on traditional Amazonian medicines that have allowed the institution to become a national and international reference.

Author : Thibault Luycx

Audio : Spanish

Subtitle : English, Français

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Video tribute to Dr. Rosa Giove - March 2022

Video tribute to the memory of Dr. Rosa Giove, co-founder of the Takiwasi Center. Her activity was developed as a clinical doctor, psychotherapist, healer, researcher, professor, consultant.

Author : Martin Huamán

Audio : Spanish

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Welcome to the Takiwasi center - Those who wanted to heal - January 2022

The Takiwasi Center combines Western psychotherapy and traditional Amazonian medicine. This excerpt, taken from the beginning of the documentary “Those who wanted to heal”, immerses us in the moving story of two of the protagonists, Dio and Fernando, who came to the center to find the path to healing.

Author : Aurèlie Marques, Louis Bidou

Audio : Spanish

Subtitle : Français

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Testimony of a patient of the Takiwasi Center - September 2021

Luis is a 23-year-old from the town of Chazuta in the Amazon region of San Martin, Peru. He came to Takiwasi to get out of his addiction to drugs, mainly PBC and cocaine, and successfully completed a 9-month treatment which combines the use of medicinal plants and psychotherapy. Despite having relatives that are considered healers and use Ayahuasca, he tried this sacred brew for the first time only once he entered Takiwasi. This experience helped him open his eyes to his problem and facilitate certain changes within him, starting with learning to ask for forgiveness and allowing him to approach spirituality again. This is his testimony.

Author : Fabio Friso

Audio : Spanish

Subtitle : English, Français, Italiano

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Cat's Claw - Promoting Sustainable Development in the Peruvian Amazon - August 2021

The chain of sustainable use of the Cat's Claw contributes to conserving the forest where this medicinal plant grows and enhancing the immense heritage represented by the knowledge of traditional Amazonian medicine that is put at the service of the entire Peruvian population. The ancestral knowledge of the indigenous communities has allowed to know and study the great curative properties of the medicinal plants of the Amazonian rainforest. In the San Martín region of Peru, the native community of Chirik Sacha, together with the Association of Producers of Medicinal Plants "Ampik Sacha" and the Takiwasi Laboratory, has been using Cat's Claw, one of the Amazonian medicinal plants best known in the world, through a sustainable management plan.

Author : Lenin Quevedo

Audio : Spanish

Subtitle : English, Français

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Talking about plant spirits and ikaros - June 2021

A conversation about plant spirits and ikaros with Edgardo Tuanama, assistant healer at the Takiwasi Center. In the Peruvian Amazon, it is considered that a certain group of medicinal plants, known as master plants, have the power to teach and heal the individual through their spirit, which is responsible for transmitting to the healer also the ikaros or sacred songs that are used precisely for “call” the spirit of the plant and receive its help. Contribution for the event “Diálogos: Mente de las Plantas” organized by The Mind of Plants.

Author : Fabio Friso, Gary Saucedo

Audio : Spanish

Subtitle : English, Français

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Amazonian plants to help the spirit - May 2021

In the north of South America, the Amazonian people see nature as a higher entity that they call "Mother Earth" and collect plants for healing. The Amazon Basin crosses nine countries and spans seven million square kilometers. It stands on more than half of Peruvian territory and constitutes a huge open-air pharmacopoeia with free access for residents and researchers. A specific documentary on Takiwasi is part of the series "Amazonia, evils and plants". Written and directed by Emilie Grange.

Author : Emilie Grange

Audio : Spanish

Subtitle : Français

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