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Hey everybody! Episode 193 of the show is out. In this episode, I spoke with my friend Jessica Begin. I have known Jessica for many years since we met working together at the Amazonian Shipibo ayahuasca center, The Temple of the Way of Light. Jessica has dedicated her life to a deep spiritual curiosity and calling. For many years, she has apprenticed with a well-known and respected family of Shipibo maestras, where she also helps to run their center. She has a deep and experiential knowledge of the plant medicine world, and we spoke about her journey into Santo Daime, the Shipibo lineage, the Tubu, ayahuasca, dieta, wisdom, and visions of the future. It was really a pleasure for me to reconnect with Jessica, and I know you all will gain much from her wisdom. As always, to support this podcast, get early access to shows, bonus material, and Q&As, check out my Patreon page below. Enjoy!

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“Jessica Begin is a multidisciplinary artist, facilitator, and cultural bridge who has spent the past two decades living and working across Latin America. Fluent in four languages, her passion for Indigenous rights and the protection of ancestral wisdom has led her to support Indigenous leaders and medicine keepers as a translator and cultural interpreter, bridging language, culture, and cosmology. Since 2015, she has been a dedicated student of Shipibo plant medicine, working closely with the López-Sánchez family of healers in the Peruvian Amazon, where she serves as Program Director and lead facilitator at Niwe Rao Xobo, a Shipibo-founded master plant dieta center, overseeing facilitator training, guest education, screening, and integration. She is also a co-steward of the Living Wisdom Fund, supporting access to healing spaces for marginalized communities. Her work centers on the right relationship with plants and their Indigenous guardians, and on expanding ethical access to these traditions, weaving art, healing, and cultural exchange in service of personal and collective transformation.”

To learn more about or contact Jessica, visit her website at: https://www.waking-lucid.com & https://www.niweraoxobo.com & https://www.sovereignxnature.com/thearc

To view the recent documentary, Sacred Tobacco, about my work, visit: https://youtu.be/KB0JEQALI_w

I will be guiding our next plant medicine dietas with my colleague Merav Artzi (who I interviewed in episode 28) in:

June 7-14: Remote Online Dieta

June 29-July 5: Practitioner Training - Portugal

July 10-27: Westport, Ireland

September 1-8: Remote Online Dieta

November 2-30: Sacred Valley of Peru

If you would like more information about joining us and the work I do or about future retreats, visit my site at: https://NicotianaRustica.org

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