Saturday, February 16, 2019 at 2 PM – 6 PM
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists
1924 Cedar St,
Berkeley, California
An intimate dialogue with Dr. Joe Tafur, Rachel Harris
& Sitaramaya Sita on Ayahuasca Before, During, and After Ceremony: A
workshop on plant medicine, healing and integration
Ayahuasca works on multiple levels, layers, and
dimensions both in and outside of ceremony. From the worlds of plant teachers,
Western medicine, and psychotherapy, we will share ways of working with
ayahuasca from intentions through navigation and into therapeutic process. We
will explore how healing happens in ways that permeate body, mind, spirit, and
shamanic realms before, during, and after ceremony. Joe, Sita, and Rachel
approach this indigenous medicine from different perspectives, yet we share a
love and respect for what these plants are offering the world at this point in
time.
**The workshop will include mini-lectures, experiential
exercises, small group sharing and brief journaling. Please bring pen and
paper.**
Rachel Harris, PhD is the author of Listening to
Ayahuasca: New Hope for Depression, Addiction, PTSD, and Anxiety. She was in
the 1968 Esalen Residential Program and had a private psychotherapy practice for
thirty-five years. Rachel received a National Institutes of Health New
Investigators Award and has published more than forty scientific studies in
peer-reviewed journals. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine and
winters in the SF Bay area. Visit listeningtoayahuasca.com
Sitaramaya Sita, who has traveled and worked in the
Amazon for the past 17 years, is a spiritual herbalist and plant wisdom
practitioner formally trained in the Shipibo ayahuasca tradition. Founder of
PlantTeachers, dedicated to cultivating entheogenic awareness, and Producer of
the Visionary Convergence conference, she lectures, teaches, and works with
individuals and groups in ceremonies and stewarding plant dietas. She currently
trains, teaches and practices to heal personal, institutional and cultural
trauma. Visit PlantTeachers.com
Joe Tafur, M.D., is a Colombian-American family physician
originally from Phoenix, Arizona. After completing his family medicine training
at UCLA, Dr. Tafur spent two years in academic research at the UCSD Department
of Psychiatry in a lab focused on mind-body medicine. After his research
fellowship, over a period of six years, he lived and worked in the Peruvian
Amazon at the traditional healing center Nihue Rao Centro Espiritual. There he
worked closely with master Shipibo shaman Ricardo Amaringo and trained in
ayahuasca shamanism. In his new book, The Fellowship of the River: A Medical
Doctors Exploration into Traditional Amazonian Plant Medicine, through a series
of stories, Dr. Tafur shares his unique experience and integrative medical
theories.
Cost: $93
