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Ayahuasca - Spiritual Healing, Plant Medicine & Integration - An intimate dialogue with Dr. Joe Tafur, Rachel Harris & Sitaramaya Sita.
Ayahuasca - Spiritual Healing, Plant Medicine & Integration - An intimate dialogue with Dr. Joe Tafur, Rachel Harris & Sitaramaya Sita.
Please join us for this special opportunity to be in conversation with authors Joe Tafur - Fellowship of the River, Rachel Harris - Listening to Ayahuasca and PlantWisdom Practitioner Sitaramaya Sita.
We will be gathering in the beautiful Sunrise Room at La Maida Institute. Come with your questions, comments and curiosity. Joe, Rachel and Sita will each give a brief introduction and offer comments on how healing happens before, during and after a ceremony. All three of us deeply acknowledge the mystery of ayahuasca healing. The session will then be open for questions and dialogue. The group size will be limited to 30 people. Floor seating, yoga style. We will have bolsters and blankets. Feel free to bring pillows or back jacks.
Rachel Harris, PhD is the author of Listening to Ayahuasca: New Hope for Depression, Addiction, PTSD, and Anxiety. She was in the 1968 Esalen Residential Program and had a private psychotherapy practice for thirty-five years. Rachel received a National Institutes of Health New Investigators Award and has published more than forty scientific studies in peer-reviewed journals. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine and winters in the SF Bay area. Visit listeningtoayahuasca.com
Sitaramaya Sita, who has traveled and worked in the Amazon for the past 17 years, is a spiritual herbalist and plant wisdom practitioner formally trained in the Shipibo ayahuasca tradition. Founder of PlantTeachers, dedicated to cultivating entheogenic awareness, and Producer of the Visionary Convergence conference, she lectures, teaches, and works with individuals and groups in ceremonies and stewarding plant dietas. She currently trains, teaches and practices to heal personal, institutional and cultural trauma. Visit PlantTeachers.com
Joe Tafur, M.D., is a Colombian-American family physician originally from Phoenix, Arizona. After completing his family medicine training at UCLA, Dr. Tafur spent two years in academic research at the UCSD Department of Psychiatry in a lab focused on mind-body medicine. After his research fellowship, over a period of six years, he lived and worked in the Peruvian Amazon at the traditional healing center Nihue Rao Centro Espiritual. There he worked closely with master Shipibo shaman Ricardo Amaringo and trained in ayahuasca shamanism. In his new book, The Fellowship of the River: A Medical Doctors Exploration into Traditional Amazonian Plant Medicine, through a series of stories, Dr. Tafur shares his unique experience and integrative medical theories. Visit drjoetafur.com and modernspirit.org.
Contribution - $20
Authors will also be available to sign books after the session.
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LocationLa Maida Institute (View)
11159 La Maida St.
North Hollywood, CA 91601
United States
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