But healing is evolving. Newer generations have opened the door to therapy, to shadow work, to nervous system regulation and ...

Colombian shaman Taita Pedro Davila leads an ayahuasca ceremony with Hummingbird Church, in Hildale, Utah, on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2022. (Jessie Wardarski/The Associated Press) ...

Cacao, the main ingredient in chocolate, has been showing up at an increasing number of wellness events in the L.A. area in recent years. In March alone, Angelenos can attend a Women’s Circle and ...

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In 2021, I was sitting in a dark room in the depths of the Andes, listening to the steady chanting of a Peruvian Shipibo shaman guiding me through a wildly personal and intense ayahuasca ceremony. I ...

Peruvian Shaman Gilber Réategui conducts an ayahuasca ceremony for tourists in Caserio Nueva Luz de Fatima, Peru. Image: Manuel Medir/Getty Images ...

Alex Marangon, 26, was one of about 20 people taking part in a two-day shamanic ayahuasca ceremony at the desecrated Abbey of Santa Bona in Vidor, Italy, on June 29.

Dying to awaken Anthropologist of shamanism Michael Winkelman describes ayahuasca as a “psychoindicator,” a substance that integrates emotion and thought processes.

Indigenous peoples in South America – primarily in Peru, Brazil and other parts of what is considered the Upper Amazon – have been using ayahuasca for medicinal and religious purposes since at least ...

Healers of the Indigenous Siekopai ethnic group take part in an ayahuasca drinking ceremony in Peru. Pedro Pardo/AFP via Getty Images Typically, purging begins after 20 minutes to an hour.