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Cat's Claw Harvest - July 2016
Kilder, a member of the Chirik Sacha indigenous community and representative of the association of producers of medicinal plants Ampik Sacha tells us about cat's claw and the sustainable management plan that they have been developing.
Author : Laboratorio Takiwasi
Audio : Spanish
Subtitle : English, Français, Italiano
The Last Council - July 2016
On 11 October 2004, thirteen indigenous grandmothers from several continents meet in New York and created the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. For over ten years they will each year take counsel from one of them to share their knowledge of traditional medicine.
July 2015: We are in Gabon visiting grandmother Bernadette. This is the thirteenth meeting... This is the last council. Through this last meeting, the film retraces the portrait of Bernadette Rébienot, priestess of female initiation societies and healer of the Gabon Forest. A movie by Jean-Claude Cheyssial.
Author : Jean-Claude Cheyssial
Audio : French
Subtitle : -
From one medicine to another - February 2016
Jacques Mabit has studied western medicine, but also has been trained in traditional Amazonian medicine. He founded in 1992 in Peru the Takiwasi Center that treats resident patients suffering from addictions and organizes "personal development seminars" for non-addicts interested in self-improvement.
Author : Julien Boyer - Harmoniepsy TV
Audio : French
Subtitle : -
Poison Plants or Remedy Plants? - February 2016
Addictive substances in their origins are all medicinal plants. Coca is a plant that allowed the construction of Machu Picchu and is the fundament of all Inca culture, but coca is also the basis of basic cocaine paste. A look at the treatment of addictions in Takiwasi with testimonies from patients and Dr. Jacques Mabit.
Author : Eduardo Gutiérrez
Audio : Spanish
Subtitle : Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Italiano, Português
Takiwasi, House of Healing - November 2015
This movie presents the work of the Takiwasi Center in which traditional Amazonian medicine combined with Western psychology is used to achieve a high success rate in the treatment of drug addiction, depression and other psychological disorders.
Author : Ricardo D'Aguiar & Christopher Zahlten
Audio : French
Subtitle : English, Español, Portugues, Cesky, EAAnviká
International Meeting of Indigenous Leaders on "Addiction and Culture" - November 2015
The meeting was held in Tarapoto, Peru on November 2015. Indigenous representatives from Australia, South Africa, Uganda, Canada, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Guatemala met in Takiwasi to address the issue of alcohol and drug abuse.
Author : Eduardo Gutiérrez
Audio : Spanish
Subtitle : English, Français
VIII CISEI Forum - November 2015
Recap video of the VIII Forum of the Inter-American Council on Indigenous Spirituality, organized by the Peru Chapter, from November 25 to 28, 2015, in Tarapoto, in the High Peruvian Amazon. In the forum it was considered that indigenous spirituality, which native cultures conceive and live as part of their daily, individual and communal life, can contribute, with its millenary wisdom, to a harmonious development of society. This event brought together 150 participants from Latin America, North America, Australia, and Africa. Read the book: Foros Internacionales: Espiritualidad Indígena y Mundo Occidental
Author : Eduardo Gutiérrez
Audio : Spanish
Subtitle : English, Français
Rituals of Life, From the Day-To-Day to the Sacred - November 2015
Conference by Dr. Rosa Giove, co-founder and biomedical head of the Takiwasi Center, presented during the VIII Forum of CISEI - Inter-American Council on Indigenous Spirituality, “Healing, Rituality and Daily Life”. Organized by the Takiwasi Center and held from November 25 to 28, 2015, in Tarapoto, Peru.
Author : Martín Huamán
Audio : Spanish
Subtitle : -
Dr. Jacques Mabit and the “Sovereigns” - October 2015
Accompanied by his wife, Dr. Rosa Giove, with great availability Dr. Jacques Mabit heard the testimonies of the "Sovereigns", who with words and songs have opened their hearts to a doctor who sings. "Sovereigns Anonymous" is a radio program created in December 1989. It is produced, directed and animated by Mohamed Lotfi with a group of prisoners from the Bordeaux prison in Montreal.
Author : Mohamed Lotfi
Audio : French
Subtitle : -
The contribution of traditional Amazonian medicine to the treatment of addictions: the example of the Takiwasi Center - September 2015
The approach to dependencies raises the question of the validity and dangerousness of modified state of consciousness induced. Ancient medicines, especially in the Amazon, show a thousand-year-old use not only without damaging consequences, but with clear individual and collective benefits, and without provoking any dependence.
Author : Risq - Québec
Audio : French
Subtitle : -
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