It is with profound sadness that we announce the death of Maestra Olivia Arévalo. She was killed on Thursday 19th April, shot multiple times allegedly by a Canadian man near her home in Victoria Gracia, a community close to Pucallpa in Peru’s central Amazon region of Ucayali. We hope that the authorities in Pucallpa will now lead […]
Bringing the Jungle to the Conference Room
Dear Family of the Temple, I wish you a happy new year and a wonderful new journey around the sun. Many of you have joined us at our rainforest home in the Peruvian amazon, and are aware of the multi-faceted nature of the healing work that we offer to our global ayahuasca family. Besides the […]
The Temple of the Way of Light and the Chaikuni Institute at Breaking Convention 2017
This summer, The Temple of the Way of Light and the Chaikuni Institute proudly partnered, once again, with Breaking Convention, a multidisciplinary conference on psychedelic consciousness, featuring more than 150 presenters from around the world, including our Research Coordinator Adam Andros Aronovich. This amazing conference took place at the University of Greenwich, Old Royal Naval […]
Yoga and Ayahuasca Integration by Brian James
“You gotta have some practice. Otherwise, it’s just going to become a memory. And practice means daily — doing something that evokes something of that experience, connecting to what you saw there.” — Gabor Maté, on integrating the ayahuasca experience into daily life Ayahuasca Integration As I see it, there are two aspects of […]
Congress of the Latin American Association of Anthropology, June 2017, Bogota, Colombia.
Earlier this month, the Temple of the Way of Light was represented in an historical event: an academic symposium focused on the social uses and the political economy of ayahuasca. This gathering took place during the V Congress of the Latin American Association of Anthropology, from June 6-9 2017 in the beautiful city of Bogota, […]
Ayahuasca Retreats in June with Maestra Lila and Maestro Damian
We are happy to announce that Maestra Lila and Maestro Damian will be running both our 13-day and 3-week Deep Immersion Ayahuasca Retreats in June. Both retreats offer a combination of traditional Amazonian plant-spirit healing with Shipibo healers complemented by a comprehensive program of progressive therapeutic and Eastern psycho-spiritual practices to support effective processing and […]
The Temple of the Way of Light and the Chaikuni Institute at Psychedelic Science 2017
The largest psychedelic conference in history took place at the end of April in Oakland, California, bringing together luminaries and researchers in all fields of psychedelic inquiry and practice, including a whole track devoted to plant medicines. And what an amazing week it was! The Temple of the Way of Light and the Chaikuni Institute […]
Welcoming Adam Andros and Sophie Pinchetti to the Team
We are very excited to announce that we have been joined by two fantastic and highly talented new long term volunteers – Adam Andros and Sophie Pinchetti Adam Andros Adam is now working both as a communications coordinator for the Temple and research coordinator for the Chaikuni Institute. He is based at the Temple and will […]
Introducing Miles Sherts – Conscious Communication and Insight Meditation Teacher
We are excited to present Miles Sherts and to announce that he will be joining us at the Temple in January and February 2017. He is the author of Conscious Communication – a Language of Connection, and Beyond Perception – a Guide to Meditation, and is a teacher / trainer with over three decades of […]
Introducing Our New Integration Director – Dr. Tanya Maté
We are very excited to announce that we have been recently joined by Dr. Tanya Maté as the new Integration Director of the Temple. Tanya is an exceptionally gifted translator of plant medicine teachings. She is trained as a naturopathic doctor, and is in an ongoing apprenticeship with her father-in-law, Dr. Gabor Maté, learning and practicing his […]
