20 December 2024

Participant experiences of icaros during ayahuasca ceremonies at Takiwasi

New paper by Maya Sherwin, MA in Music Therapy, in collaboration with our research team published in Journal of Psichedelic Studies. This study offers a medical ethnomusicological contribution to the phenomenological mapping of musico-healing experiences of Amazonian curative songs under the altered state of consciousness produced by ayahuasca.

03 December 2024

Webinar on the icaros and their role in Ayahuasca ceremonies

We continue with the presentations of our research team. The next appointment is on Tuesday, December 17, 2024 at 11:00 am, to present the research carried out in Takiwasi by Owain Graham, PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of California, Riverside.

19 November 2024

Healing Heroes: A Unique Retreat for Veterans & First Responders

Starting in 2025, Takiwasi is offering dedicated retreats for Veterans and First Responders. These transformative programs address mental health, trauma, and substance abuse using our effective, low-cost therapeutic protocol with proven results. We will host three exclusive retreats each year, with the first sessions in June, July, and August 2025.

12 November 2024

Sustainable use of cat's claw in indigenous communities

The new talk by our research team will be broadcast through our Facebook on Tuesday, November 26 at 11:00 am (Peru time).

28 October 2024

Nature beings and the etheric body

In this article we propose to address the little-discussed and confusing subject of nature beings. In the mapping of the invisible world, their place is often poorly defined and wrongly associated with disembodied spirits. For contemporary modernity, they simply do not exist. Knowledge of these beings and their mode of operation is, however, fundamental to explain numerous so-called paranormal phenomena (sleepwalking, the presence of ghosts, etc.) and pathological behaviors in human beings that do not find a conventional medical explanation. These disorders are essentially associated with their etheric body, which we will try to describe succinctly. As an illustrative example of the universality of their presence and their mode of behavior, we will consider in a little more detail the case of mermaids and elves with “uneven feet.”