Plant medicine lessons
With Don Gardel, Fabrizio and Maestra Alicia
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You will be introduced to the vast universe of Amazonian medicinal plants in a month.
Don Gardel will accompany you as you search the jungle for plants while teaching you about their name, characteristics, and uses.
You’ll learn how to prepare ayahuasca as well as how to use the different add-mixtures.
You’ll discover how to prepare rapé the Brazilian way.
Your own Yopo will be made.
You will search for Kambo frogs and discover how to remove the poison from their skin.
The nearby tree will yield dragon blood for you.
You will discover the various bark and root tinctures produced in Peru.
At the conclusion, you will depart with your personal collection of medicines (ayahuasca little bootle, Kambo stick, sangre de drago, plants and bark).
You’ll be a kambo practitioner with all the basis for safely healing people.
About the Leaders
Don Gardel
Don Gardel is from a family of curanderos: his grandfather was one, and his two brothers are shamans as well. He learned ayahuasca from a Shipibo woman (la maestra Alicia) deep down on the river Momon. Now it’s 40 years that Don Gardel has been practicing this medicine. When he was a young man, he […]
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Fabrizio Beverina’s background is in biomedical research. He was an expert in brain-computer interaction and emotional computing. He secured a patent for the creation of a brain computer machine and a number of his articles have been cited more than 1000 times as a result of this ventures. He fled the scientific world and studied […]
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The term "Maestra" (which in this context refers to the teacher) is used to refer to Alicia, who was once Gardel's teacher. Her grandfather was a "tabacchero," a type of curandero who specialized in using tobacco for medical purposes. She was initiated when she was quite young, but it was a major crisis, a traditional […]
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