Many of the guests that come through our doors often comment how lucky that they feel that they found us as they were somewhat overwhelmed and confused about how to choose an ayahuasca shaman or an ayahuasca retreat center.  They usually say that they ran through each internet site saying “no, no, no, no,….yes!” upon [...]

As many of you might already know Gumercindo and I have decided to leave The Way Inn near Huaraz and return to our original jungle camp near Jenaro Herrera (about 4.5 hours outside Iquitos).  In fact I returned to the jungle permanently back in November of 2012 and Gumercindo will be at the La Familia [...]

Ayahuasca and YOUR Consciousness The team at Ayahuasca Satsangha has become huge fans of David Hawkins Phd. and his books such as “Truth vs. Falsehood”, “Power vs. Force”, “The Eye of the ‘I’, Which Nothing is Hidden”, etc…  These books are focused on raising consciousness by teaching about the following: Humans have no ability to [...]

For the past several weeks I have been focusing on ego.  In fact it may turn out that I may be focused on ego and learning to controlling it and starving it for the rest of my life.  Based on comments by Alex Good, reading several books like the Upanishads, books by David Hawkins and [...]

This post is to augment my previous post.   It occurred to me the other night in ceremony that my previous post may have been perceived by some as discounting the work that peruvian shamans do with ayahuasca and other plant medicines.  This is not the case at all, and I apologize to those who [...]

In a previous post I talked about the importance of starting or continuing a spiritual practice upon re-entry.  The idea is to maintain the energetic cleanliness, and/or continue to clean your energies once you return home from Peru as access to quality ayahuasca ceremonies in the western world is quite limited.   Funky energies abound [...]

Many of you may already know that I am a huge fan of shamanic dietas.  A shamanic dieta simply cleans you out more and allows the medicine to go deeper faster than if  you were just to drink ayahuasca without a dieta.  Maestro Gumercindo says ” You can drink ayahuasca 100 times without a dieta [...]

La Familia Medicina is in need of some volunteers.  We are looking for volunteers with experience in the following areas: -Kundalini Yoga  and meditation instructor.  Needed immediately. -Organic permaculture.  Expertise regarding farming in a tropical environment required -Organic chef.  Spanish required. We request a minimum of three months commitment.  In exchange for your time and [...]

Now that we have had several guest through our new camp I feel it is important to describe in greater detail our philosophy here and exactly how we work at La Familia Medicina.  We have discovered by talking with our guests that there are some significant differences between La Familia Medicina and other ayhuasca centers [...]