I have been making some changes to the Foundation this year, improving the website as well as the retreats and courses that we offer.  A new era is quickly approaching and I would like the Ayahuasca Foundation to be ready for the changes that are coming.  One of the most important improvements we've made to our organization is the new Initiation Course with don Enrique Lopez.
This  course is intended for people  who want to take their study of  the Amazon healing more seriously.  Students will spend 40 days straight  with the shipibo curandero   don Enrique at a remote jungle camp,  drinking up to 18 times.  We will be following  true plant diets with  two sacred and powerful plants in solitude.
Students will be  following a traditional, authentic shipibo  initiation, except that the  accommodations in the jungle have modern  amenities like running water and  a gas stove.  The food will be  prepared by the curandero don Enrique’s  wife, Wilma, who is also a  healer and has studied the science of  curanderismo for many years.   Students will receive initiate’s clothing  made by Wilma, according to  the shipibo tradition.  The curandero don  Enrique leads this course  with total attention to the students and to  the teachings of the  science of healing so that everyone sees, hears,  experiences, and  understands plant spirit medicine to the most profound  level possible  in their 40 days in the Amazon Rainforest.
The course consists of doing plant diets, vapor baths, and taking plant  remedies, learning icaros, remedy preparation and administration,  massage therapy, soplaying, chupando, prayer, and ceremony procedure.   Students take part in making the ayahuasca used during the course, as  well as other plant remedies.  In just six weeks students learn enough  to begin treating patients and holding ceremonies.  When I lead my first course with don Enrique, I honestly learned more in those six weeks than I had learned in the previous two years of study.  It is an incredible opportunity to truly study with an authentic shaman in the Amazon Rainforest.  If you are serious about learning ayahuasca healing, then you should take a look at this course.

 
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