Posts by Lorna Liana

Uncensored Review of Soltara Ayahuasca Retreat Center

Soltara Healing Center is an all-inclusive plant medicine retreat center in Costa Rica that offers ayahuasca ceremonies grounded in the Shipibo tradition, and led by resident Shipibo healers. Located on the southern tip of the Nicoya peninsula, just 90 minutes away from the beach town of Santa Teresa, Soltara offers seclusion from the hustle and…

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Is My Gringo Ayahuasca Shaman / Ceremony Facilitator Any Good?

The globalization of ayahuasca has produced a wave of unqualified gringo shamans serving an ever-growing audience of neophytes who have little to no perspective of what a “good ayahuasca shaman” or what a “good ayahuasca ceremony” is. In a manner not so different from the West’s co-opting of the ancient Indian discipline of yoga and…

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Noku Mana Medicine Song Lyrics & Music Video by Curawaka

It’s been truly a delight to bear witness to the expansion of Huni Kuin culture around the world, through the ever weaving nomadic tendrils of the global medicine tribe… through those of us from the Global North who have the good fortune of visiting their villages in Acre, Brazil, through the pajes that have increasingly…

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‘Oso Blanco’ Medicine Song Lyrics & Music Video by Diana Carr

This version of the sublime medicine circle song Oso Blanco by Bóveda Celeste is sung by Diana Carr of the Birds in Paradise by the Bird Tribe music collective. Other artists in the song include Brian Taylor on guitar, Danny Pritchett on bass, and Tëté Bero, Sunny Solwind, and David Daniel Brown on percussion. The…

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‘We Are’ Medicine Song Lyrics & Music Video by Ravi

“We Are” by Sweet Honey in the Rock,  is one of my favorite medicine songs to hear in ceremony, because the words are so powerful and empowering, connecting us to the support and protection of our ancestors, teachers, and spiritual allies, lifetime after lifetime, in each new life incarnation and soul journey. It’s rare that…

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