Kaxinawa
“The shaman gives and takes life. To become a shaman, you go alone into the forest and wrap your entire body in embira. You lie down at a path intersection …
Yawanawá
We are like peccaries: always together.” Taking white-lipped peccaries (yawa) as a symbol, Yawanawá discourse reaffirms both group cohesion and a stable relationship with their territory, an area which nowadays …
Ancient Amazonian Healing Tradition
Ancient indigenous tribal cultures have long-regarded plants as sacred medicines and healers. The art and practice of working with plants for their medicinal, psychoactive, spiritual, and transformative properties have been …
What is Rapéh?
Because of this last property they use it also for making Rapeh, he is considered to be one of strongest sacred medicines from the Jungle that are used both to …