News
21 September 2026
Last year, we welcomed a group of 20 young education students from three Indigenous Nations —A’i Kofan, Siekopaai, and Waorani— to participate in a therapeutic seminar as part of the Community-Led Education Program promoted by Amazon Frontlines and Alianza Ceibo. The program aims to recover ancestral memory in order to preserve cultural identity for future generations. This is a journal of their experience.
01 September 2026
Ayahuasca: Revelaciones de lo Sagrado – new release from Editorial Takiwasi
Víctor Lucia Sánchez is a psychologist, PhD in Social Anthropology, and psychotherapist. In this book, he shares a journey that brings together two sources of wisdom that, at first glance, may seem far apart: biblical symbolism and the master plants of the Amazon. For many, these worlds would appear to be opposites. Yet experience shows that, beneath their differences, deep resonances can be found, like two rivers that spring from different sources but eventually meet in the same sea.
17 August 2026
Invitation to the IV Dialogue Between Medicines Conference – Dr. Jacques Mabit
Invitation from Dr. Jacques Mabit to participate in the IV Dialogue Between Medicines Conference, organized by the GASS Association in collaboration with Takiwasi Center. Theme of the meeting: “Spiritual Illnesses, Traditional Medicines and Christianity”. Saturday, October 17, 2026, Barcelona, Spain.
05 August 2026
Takiwasi’s Contributions to the World Ayahuasca Forum 2026
Our research manager, Matteo Politi, together with several collaborating researchers, will participate in the upcoming World Ayahuasca Forum 2026, organized by ICEERS in Girona, Spain, from September 9 to 13.
30 July 2026
Ayahuasca and Traditional Amazonian Medicine
Dr. Jacques Mabit was invited to participate in the Universe Within Podcast to speak with Jason Grechanik about his personal journey and more than four decades of experience integrating Amazonian traditional medicine with Western biomedicine and psychotherapy in the treatment of mental health.
