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Ep. 19 - Nelson Barbaran Gomez - Ayahuasca, Shamanism, Shipibo Culture, and Plant Medicine

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Hey everybody! Episode 19 of the show is out. In this show, I spoke with my friend Nelson Barbaran Gómez. Nelson and I have worked together for a number of years running ayahuasca ceremonies. He comes from the Shipibo lineage of working with plants and brings a joy and openness to his work that is tangible. He also works with a great deal of integrity and has a real desire to help and to share. For these reasons, I think he is a really good example of a great curandero. He is leading the way for a new generation of doctors and he has a lot to share and offer. I think you all will get a lot out of this episode. And a big thank you to my friend Carolina for translating and opening up the conversation to a much larger audience. Thank you! To view bonus material and extended conversations, check out my Patreon page below. Enjoy!

Hola a todos! El episodio 19 del programa está disponible. En este programa hablé con mi amigo Nelson Barbaran Gómez. Nelson y yo hemos trabajado juntos durante varios años dirigiendo ceremonias de ayahuasca. El Proviene del linaje Shipibo en el que trabaja con plantas y aporta una alegría y un entregó a su trabajo que es tangible. Nelson también trabaja con mucha integridad y tiene un verdadero deseo de ayudar y compartir. Por estas razones, creo que es un muy buen ejemplo de lo que es un gran curandero. El está liderando un camino para una nueva generación de médicos y tiene mucho que compartir y ofrecer. Creo que todos sacarán mucho provecho de este episodio. Quiero dar un gran agradecimiento a mi amiga Carolina por traducir y abrir la conversación a una audiencia mucho más amplia. ¡Gracias! Para ver material adicional y conversaciones extendidas, visita mi página de Patreon. ¡espero que lo disfruten!

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“Nelson is native of the community of Nuevo Paraiso. His Shipibo name is Isasina, meaning “a bird who takes care of others.”

Nelson comes from a family of curanderos; both his father and grandfather practiced medicine. His parents died when he was very young, and very early on he started sitting in ceremonies held by his older brother, who is also a curandero. Lacking parental guidance, Nelson learned from the medicine “how to be a good human being.”

Nelson drank ayahuasca for the first time at age twelve and was immediately fascinated by the medicine world. Soon afterward, he asked his brother to open his first dieta for him. Following the advice of his older brother, Nelson mentally prepared over the course of one full year, strongly setting his intentions to become a healer at the service of others. After a year, his brother agreed to initiate Nelson on the path to become a Shipibo Onanya.

Over the course of the next two years, Nelson dieted and learned from the plants, crafting his own pipe and learning how to control and direct the mareación. During this period, he went through many of the challenges and tests that the plant spirits presented him in order to learn. At age 15 he started treating patients, and one year later started learning more closely with his grandfather Francisco. Nelson started working with western patients when he was 16. For Nelson, these encounters have been good opportunities to exchange ideas and knowledge between different cultures, and he has a deep appreciation for western psychotherapy and psychology.

Nelson is passionate about his work and craft and is committed to helping others with his medicine. He is also passionate about his own culture and sees his work as a vehicle to recover and preserve traditional practices and knowledge in a rapidly changing world. He enjoys seeing schools in some native communities teaching the Shipibo language again, encouraging kids to dress in their traditional clothes, address each other in their Shipibo names, and is proud of his role in the current revitalization of the Shipibo culture.”

For more information on Nelson, his website will be up soon at: [will add when it comes out]

Or on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/nelson.barbaran.7

If you enjoy the show, it would be a big help if you could share it with your own audiences via social media or word of mouth. If you’re watching on YouTube, if you could, take a second and Subscribe to the channel, turn on the Notifications (little bell next to the Subscribe button), and like the video. And if you’re listening on Apple Podcasts, leave a starred rating and a short review. That would be super helpful with the algorithms and getting this show out to more people. Thank you in advance!

Si disfruta el programa, sería un gran ayuda si pudiera compartirlo con su propia audiencia a través de las redes sociales. Si esta mirando en YouTube, si pudiera tomarse un segundo y presionar el botón Suscribirse y activar Notificaciones (la pequeña campana al lado) y Like el video. Y si esta eschucando en Apple Podcasts, deje una calificación con estrellas y una breve reseña. Sería genial para que este programa llegue a más personas. ¡Gracias!

If you would like more information on plant medicine and the work I do, visit my site at:

Si desea obtener más información sobre la medicina de plantas y el trabajo que hago, visite mi sitio en:

https://www.NicotianaRustica.org

And finally, with the pandemic, most people doing this work have been without access to work since March and the future is uncertain.  If you are able to and would like to donate to the show to help out with new content that would be deeply appreciated.  For just a few dollars a month you can subscribe through Patreon and it gives you some really nice added benefits like early access to shows, bonus episodes, and a chance to ask personalized questions.

Y finalmente, con la pandemia, la mayoría de las personas que realizan este trabajo no han tenido acceso al trabajo desde marzo y el futuro es incierto. Si puede y le gustaría donar al programa para ayudar con contenido nuevo, sería muy apreciado. Por solo unos dólares al mes, puede suscribirse a través de Patreon y le da algunos beneficios adicionales realmente agradables, como acceso temprano a programas, episodios adicionales, entrevistas completas y la oportunidad de hacer preguntas personalizadas.

To support this podcast on Patreon, visit:

Para apoyar este podcast en Patreon, visite:

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To donate directly with PayPal:

Para donar directamente con PayPal:

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Another way you can support the show is if you are ordering anything from Amazon.com, and you use this link, the show will get a small commission with no additional cost to you:

Otra forma en que puede apoyar el programa es si está comprando algo en Amazon.com y usa este enlace, el programa obtendrá una pequeña comisión sin costo adicional para usted:

https://amzn.to/2Gw51PS

Music courtesy of Nuno Moreno. See his work at: https://m.soundcloud.com/groove_a_zen_sound and https://nahira-ziwa.bandcamp.com/  

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This will help me with ideas for future shows. Thanks and until the next episode!

Esto me ayudará con ideas para programas futuros.  ¡Gracias y hasta el próximo episodio!

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Thursday 10.22.20
Posted by Jason Grechanik
 

Ep. 18 - Safa Roberts - Yoga, Pranic Healing, and Plant Medicine

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Hey everybody! Episode 18 of the show is out. In this show, I spoke with my friend Safa. Safa is a yoga instructor, pranic healing and plant medicine practitioner who I met at the Amazon healing center The Temple of the Way of Light, where she led worked as a teacher and facilitator of ceremonies. She spent a long time living in India studying deeply yoga and pranic healing and eventually came to the Amazon to learn in-depth the traditional Shipibo lineage of working with plants. She works in the Sacred Valley of Peru with her partner Felix, who I interviewed in episode 14. Safa has a lot to share and I think you all will very much enjoy this conversation. And check out Patreon for the full interview. Best!

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“Safa (Soi Kete in Shipibo) brings a wide variety of skills to the team and has been dedicated to the medicine for over twelve years. Residing in India for several years, she trained in yoga, specializing in breathwork and study of the subtle or energy body. She ran her own yoga school and lead yoga trainings worldwide from 2011-2015. Through this work she gained extensive experience facilitating groups through deeply personal and transformational experiences. 

Safa has been deeply involved in the study and practice of energetic healing for over fifteen years. Originally certified in Pranic Healing, she has since studied with many teachers of various modalities to broaden her repertoire of skills. She has been working with the Shipibo to learn energetic healing directly from the plants and brings this highly specialized work into the ceremony space.

Facilitating for various medicine centers in Peru, she has acquired a strong repertoire of emotional/mental processing tools that help to bridge western pathology and understanding with the Shipibo paradigm of healing. Honoring the Shipibo lineage, she continues to study and diet with her maestro Soi in his community of Nueva Betania.”

For more information on Safa and her work, visit:  https://bodyofprana.com/

Instagram: @bodyofprana

Facebook: Safa Roberts

If you enjoy the show, it would be a big help if you could share it with your own audiences via social media or word of mouth.  If you’re watching on YouTube if you could take a second and Subscribe to the channel and if you’re listening on Apple Podcasts to leave a starred rating and a short review. That would be super helpful with the algorithms and getting this show out to more people. Thank you in advance!

If you would like more information on plant medicine and the work I do, visit my site at: https://www.NicotianaRustica.org    

And finally, with the pandemic, most people doing this work have been without access to work since March and the future is uncertain.  If you are able to and would like to donate to the show to help out with new content that would be deeply appreciated.  For just a few dollars a month you can subscribe through Patreon and it gives you some really nice added benefits like early access to shows, bonus episodes, and a chance to ask personalized questions.

To support this podcast on Patreon, visit: https://www.patreon.com/UniverseWithin  

To donate directly with PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/jasongrechanik 

Music courtesy of Nuno Moreno. See his work at: https://m.soundcloud.com/groove_a_zen_sound and https://nahira-ziwa.bandcamp.com/  

And please leave any questions or comments in the comment section or email at:

https://www.UniverseWithinPodcast.com

This will help me with ideas for future shows.

Thanks and until the next episode!

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Thursday 10.15.20
Posted by Jason Grechanik
 

Ep. 17 - Carlos Tanner - Plant Medicine, Education, and Research

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Hey everybody! Episode 17 of the show is out. In this show, I spoke with Carlos Tanner.  Carlos is the founder and director of the Ayahuasca Foundation, one of the leading ayahuasca retreat, education, and research centers located in Iquitos, Peru.  I really enjoyed this conversation.  It’s always good to speak to someone who has a depth of knowledge that comes from years of experience working in this field.  I think you all will get a lot out of this episode as Carlos really expressed lucidly and beautifully this work on many different levels.  Enjoy!  And starting next episode I will begin releasing extended interviews of most of the episodes exclusively on Patreon, so check out more on that below.

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“Carlos Tanner is the director of the Ayahuasca Foundation, where he organizes healing retreats, educational courses, and plant medicine research led by Shipibo curanderos in the rainforest of Peru. His journey with ayahuasca began in 2003 with his own profound healing experience, leading him to move to Iquitos, Peru in 2004 to live and apprentice with a curandero named don Juan.  Four years later he came up with the idea for the Ayahuasca Foundation, which has helped over a thousand retreat participants as well as over five hundred students of the Shipibo healing tradition. Along the way he got married, had a child, and built a research center that hosts ayahuasca medical research. He supports the decriminalization of plant medicines on a global scale and looks forward to a new era of medicine that centers around a consciousness based understanding of health.”

For more on Carlos, the Ayahuasca Foundation, and his work, visit:

https://www.ayahuascafoundation.org/

https://www.instagram.com/ayahuascafoundation/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMhs4h2WMbYZ1_d58I4j8Dw

If you enjoy the show, it would be a big help if you could share it with your own audiences via social media or word of mouth.  If you’re watching on YouTube if you could take a second and Subscribe to the channel and if you’re listening on Apple Podcasts to leave a starred rating and a short review. That would be super helpful with the algorithms and getting this show out to more people. Thank you in advance!

If you would like more information on plant medicine and the work I do, visit my site at: https://www.NicotianaRustica.org    

And finally, with the pandemic, most people doing this work have been without access to work since March and the future is uncertain.  If you are able to and would like to donate to the show to help out with new content that would be deeply appreciated.  For just a few dollars a month you can subscribe through Patreon and it gives you some really nice added benefits like early access to shows, bonus episodes, and a chance to ask personalized questions.

To support this podcast on Patreon, visit: https://www.patreon.com/UniverseWithin  

To donate directly with PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/jasongrechanik 

Another way you can support the show is if you are ordering anything from Amazon.com, and you use this link, the show will get a small commission with no additional cost to you: https://amzn.to/2Gw51PS

Music courtesy of Nuno Moreno. See his work at: https://m.soundcloud.com/groove_a_zen_sound and https://nahira-ziwa.bandcamp.com/  

And please leave any questions or comments in the comment section or email at:

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This will help me with ideas for future shows.

Thanks and until the next episode!

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Saturday 10.10.20
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Ep. 16 - Marta Wanderlust - Yoga and the Path of Mind-Body-Heart

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Hey everybody! Episode 16 of the show is out. In this show, I spoke with my friend Marta. Marta is a yoga instructor and plant medicine practitioner who I met at the Amazon healing center The Temple of the Way of Light, where she led workshops combining yoga and plant work. She draws on a lot of different traditions and modalities and bridges them together in a beautiful way. She is currently working on a book and offering one-on-one mentorship. I enjoyed this conversation and if you have any interest in yoga, plant medicine, and connecting the mind, body, and heart, I think you’ll enjoy this conversation as I did. And starting next episode I will begin releasing extended interviews of most of the episodes exclusively on Patreon, so check out more on that below.

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“Marta Wanderlust is a space holder, spiritual mentor, a Yoga teacher and a Breathwork facilitator. Born in Poland with a history of having cities like London, Berlin or Rio de Janeiro as her home, Marta has spent the last six years living between India and Peru. She has studied across diverse traditions, devoted to understanding our human physicality and the pathways to Spirit. Her deep immersions into the realms of Advaita Vedanta, Yoga, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Plant Medicine, high-Andean and Amazonian shamanism have led her to understand that all paths are complementary, and ultimately lead to the very same realization of Unity, which she likes to refer to as 'remembering'. Marta is currently based in Europe, working on self-publishing her first book, sharing her practice with her online community, mentoring private clients, all while looking forward to the day when her greatest love, hosting of small transformative retreats internationally, will again be possible. “

Marta’s links:

www.martawanderlust.com

www.instagram.com/martawanderlustyoga

www.facebook.com/martawanderlustyoga

www.insighttimer.com/martawanderlustyoga

And to purchase Marta's newly released book, Miracles From The Abyss, visit: https://amzn.to/3sR2gvG

If you enjoy the show, it would be a big help if you could share it with your own audiences via social media or word of mouth.  If you’re watching on YouTube if you could take a second and Subscribe to the channel and if you’re listening on Apple Podcasts to leave a starred rating and a short review. That would be super helpful with the algorithms and getting this show out to more people. Thank you in advance!

If you would like more information on plant medicine and the work I do, visit my site at: https://www.NicotianaRustica.org    

And finally, with the pandemic, most people doing this work have been without access to work since March and the future is uncertain.  If you are able to and would like to donate to the show to help out with new content that would be deeply appreciated.  For just a few dollars a month you can subscribe through Patreon and it gives you some really nice added benefits like early access to shows, bonus episodes, and a chance to ask personalized questions.

To support this podcast on Patreon, visit: https://www.patreon.com/UniverseWithin  

To donate directly with PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/jasongrechanik 

Another way you can support the show is if you are ordering anything from Amazon.com, and you use this link, the show will get a small commission with no additional cost to you: https://amzn.to/2Gw51PS

Music courtesy of Nuno Moreno. See his work at: https://m.soundcloud.com/groove_a_zen_sound and https://nahira-ziwa.bandcamp.com/  

And please leave any questions or comments in the comment section or email at:

https://www.UniverseWithinPodcast.com

This will help me with ideas for future shows.

Thanks and until the next episode!

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tags: Plants, plant medicine, spirituality, alternative medicine, wellness, religion, thankyouplantmedicine, curandero, curandera, curanderismo, sacred, therapy, ayahuasca, psychedelic, spirit, shipibo, healing, plant spirit, medicine, retreats, Peru, Amazon, Holistic, Holistic health, Integration, Universe Within Podcast, Universe Within, Podcast, YouTube, Jason Grechanik, divine, god, shaman, shamanism, chamanismo, Facilitator, psychology, psychotherapy, Marta Wanderlust, Episode 16, yoga, mind-body-heart
Monday 10.05.20
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