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Come to our 5-day Amazonian medicine program.


Trip description:

Come on our 5 day program to Ecuador, to learn about traditional amazonian medicine. The journey explores the ancient healing practices using plant medicine and other shamanistc techniques in the amazonian Rainforest. You will have the opportunity to learn from experts in the field, make medicine and experience with all of the teas, fruits and other foods from the amazonian rainforest. Meditation and yoga in the forest will also be part of this program. Following all of the biosecurity measures the program mostly takes place outdoors in the forest and mountains.

In this program we will focus on some of the best known and used plants of the region. We will also figure out ways to connect your knowledge to your life back home: figuring out what plants can grow in your home geography, what plants in your region have similar uses as the local plants in the amazon, and what amazonian plant medicine is sold in your country.


Day 1: Travel at night and arrive outside of Quito (capital city) to spend the night in a cozy Highland hotel.


Day 2: Early in the morning we will travel for one hour and go on a short hike at 11,000 meters from sea leavel to visit the paramo (Highland ecosystem) surrounded by snowcap volcanoes, lakes and intricate plants. For lunch you will experience the Andean healthy foods followed by a soak in the volcanic wáter springs in Papallacta. Make medicine of the highlands for altitude sickness and taste all of the delicious teas of the highlands. There will be a Highland traditional healer to talk about their knowledge and have a cleansing with this healer.

Continue on to Tena for 2 hours. In that short time, you will pass hundreds of ecosystems going from freezing cold environment into the Tropical Rainforest.


Day 3: On that first day we will introduce the main concepts of traditional amazonian medicine. We will visit a healer and their traditional amazonian medicine garden, we will learn how to make rape (tobacoo based medicine) and and obtain our first shaman cleansing. 

Day 2: Early in the morning we will travel for one hour and go on a short hike at 11,000 meters from sea leavel to visit the paramo (Highland ecosystem) surrounded by snowcap volcanoes, lakes and intricate plants. For lunch you will experience the A…

Day 2: Early in the morning we will travel for one hour and go on a short hike at 11,000 meters from sea leavel to visit the paramo (Highland ecosystem) surrounded by snowcap volcanoes, lakes and intricate plants. For lunch you will experience the Andean healthy foods followed by a soak in the volcanic wáter springs in Papallacta. Make medicine of the highlands for altitude sickness and taste all of the delicious teas of the highlands. There will be a Highland traditional healer to talk about their knowledge and have a cleansing with this healer.