What would happen if you could help others with your art and be successful in life by doing what you like?
In this wonderful and fraternal conversation with Manuel Villaescusa, we inquire about how Ayahuasca leads to release your potential and find your life purpose. He also tells us about his about 20 year´s journey with Ayahuasca in learning from different traditions of Latin America, his work with drug addicts in the jungle of Peru and his development as a musicologist applying mantras and Ícaros to his patients. Also, for the first time in this podcast, I had the opportunity to share views with a colleague on the new participation of science in the world of Plan Medicine, the entry of pharmaceutical companies and the challenges presented to us as healers and ambassadors of this medicine in the western culture.
A brief bio about Manuel Villaescusa: he is a clinical psychologist and researcher of the use of ayahuasca, an amazonian visionary brew, as a practice for psychospiritual growth. As a musician, he has learned from the many spiritual traditions that use music as a way of celebrating life and experience the divine within us, as mantra chanting and shamanic singing from all over the world. He has recorded 5 albums with the bands Ocno and Freedom Café. He has received teachings from many different ayahuasca traditions, amongst them the Santo Daime Brazilian church and the amazonian Shuar indians, with whom he was initiated in the Natemamo rite of passage. Since 1998 he has been working with and learning from curanderos and healers from Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia. He has 20 years of experience leading plant medicine retreats internationally.
Find out more about Manuel´s amazing work:
Youtube LINK / Facebook LINK
Email: manuelvillaescusa@gmail.com
His Medicine Music on Spotify
Listen to Freedom Café / Listen to Ocno
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