Mindfulness and the Medicine: A New Paradigm in Healing

We deeply honor and respect the indigenous healing traditions of the Amazon that have evolved over thousands of years and offer the most effective ayahuasca healing experience. We work with some of the most respected, kind-hearted and powerful healers (Onanya) from the Shipibo tribe, who are experts in ayahuasca healing and plant-spirit shamanism of the Amazon.

In the Shipibo tradition, the healing process is focused on cleansing and purifying the energy field that surrounds us – or niwe in their language – which can pick up toxic energies from the environment and the traumatic issues of our past. The Shipibo healers’ encyclopedic knowledge of medicinal plants (rao) of the Amazon Rainforest allows them to heal a huge range of psycho-spiritual, emotional and sometimes physical conditions. They do this through ancient healing practices involving incredibly beautiful ikaros (songs of the plants), intense perfumes, plant remedies and powerful energetic work.

The Shipibo tradition is a system of plant-spirit shamanism that facilitates healing from a vast number of different plant and tree spirits, who transmit healing energies through the ikaros sung by the healers in ceremonies. The Onanya see ayahuasca as a nexus to the plant-spirit worlds, and it is not the only plant spirit they work with. The key to the depth and efficacy of this ancient healing system is to call in and work with a plethora of other plant spirits in each ceremony to affect deep healing.

While you will receive energetic healing from many different plants spirits in every ceremony, the only plant brew our guests drink in ceremony is ayahuasca. We provide potent and visionary ayahuasca sourced from deep in the rainforest of the Shipibo territories. Our ayahuasca is made from cielo (sky/heaven) ayahuasca and chacruna with no admixtures. The ceremonies led by our healers offer the highest levels of shamanic mastery available in the Peruvian Amazon combined with an exemplary track record in terms of safety, protection, care for and support of our guests.

The healing you will receive will cleanse a tremendous amount of dense energies that have accumulated in your system as well as bring up many fragmented aspects of your past that have been buried in your subconscious. It is important to understand that this process not only takes place during the ceremonies but also often for days, weeks, and months after a retreat. Ayahuasca and the plant spirits will continue to work with you after you leave the Temple, and it is important to bring self-reflection, courage, responsibility, and awareness to your process during this crucial phase.

Ayahuasca helps dissolve the illusory self and significantly increases awareness of self-constructed boundaries, as well as highlights and helps release fear-filled and self-limiting beliefs. Ayahuasca initiates a long-term healing journey that supports overall liberation from the hypnosis of conditioning; shining a light on your shadow and helping you to become aware of unconscious patterns. Ayahuasca helps you become intimate with your fears and embrace your shadow.

This is the slow path towards freedom from fear, resulting in increasingly feeling lighter, brighter, more vital, more compassionate, more in touch with yourself and the world around you. Ayahuasca will support you throughout your process for many months, even years after your retreat. Through regular group discussions and instruction throughout the workshop, followed by the guidance available through individual Skype sessions offered by Sean and our team of integration facilitators after your retreat, we will support you significantly with your overall integration process, which is as important as the treatment you receive during the retreat.

Sean is an Australian born psychotherapist, psychologist, and integration consultant, and has been with the Temple since 2016. He combines the influence of his years of experience working with plant medicines, including in the Shipibo tradition, with his professional training and experience in western psychology and psychotherapy, mindfulness, healing meditation, life coaching and various other forms of trauma healing and spiritual practice.

He spent a year at the Temple of the Way of Light in 2016 doing deep work with the medicine as well as teaching mindfulness and healing meditation, a series of workshops called “The psychology of healing” and offering one-to-one integration sessions to guests on site. As a member of the Temple’s Integration team, Sean also offers retreat preparation and follow-up/integration sessions by Skype.

With many years of personal and professional experience of healing work in various traditions, he understands that there are many ways to heal, but that all start from a willingness to approach rather than avoid what is arising, and to learn to trust in the capacity of our mind to reorganize and integrate what has been hurt or disconnected, and in so doing to move towards an increasing sense of peace, wholeness and joy in being alive.

Sean will help guests understand how to work with ayahuasca and all that this entails: how to process difficult emotions, handle projections, surrender, manage expectations, face challenges, overcome fears, become aware of false core beliefs, embody teachings from the plants, incorporate visionary experiences, and move from the head to the heart.

A Word from Sean following our first Mindfulness and the Medicine Retreat in 2017:

Reviews from our first Mindfulness and the Medicine Retreat in 2017:

IMPORTANT APPLICATION INFO:

**All registrations must be made from a computer – we do not have mobile capability for our medical questionnaires at this time.

Please choose your preferred date below and fill in the necessary information on the following pages in order to complete your application. Once you have submitted the application and we have received your payment and medical information, we will let you know if your application has been approved within about a week. If you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected].

Please do not book flights or make any travel arrangements until your application and medical information has been reviewed and you have been approved to attend.

This retreat will be offered as a 14-Day retreat or a 23-Day retreat. Guests of the 14-Day retreat will join the 23-Day guests for the first 14 days of the 23-Day retreat.

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