The Not So Shaman Show: Recent Episodes
The Not So Shaman Show
From journalism to Huachuma in the mountains of the Valley and some of the wisdom he has found along the way, a beautiful talk with Miguel Mendiburu
Please have a listen to this super interesting discussion with Adrian Rivas. Adrian has over twenty years experience working with various healing modalities. In this episode, we discuss how his healing path began, his experiences with various healing traditions, his work with Yoga, Meditation, MDMA, Yopo, Kambo, Bufo and some of his views on medicine use today. Super interesting chat, well worth your time.
If you want to know where Sacred Sushi and Thursday Kirtan all got their origins have a listen to this chat with Brian McAdams, the guy who founded them. We speak about how those things began, experiencing the tail-end of the hippie movement, a passion with percussion, living in Pisaq today among a whole host of other interesting things. This was a really nice chat, I hope you enjoy it.
There was a name before Seven, but that name is no longer spoken as it has been let go. Please have a listen to Seven telling us the fascinating story of how she was given her current name as well as her views on and experience in acupuncture, birthing, living and leaving Pisaq, the ancestral side of The US among other cool things. I really loved this chat, I hope you do too.
This was a beautiful discussion with my friend Paul Temple where we explored how his journey with plant medicine began, his philosophy on serving medicine, his views on the importance of meditation and also how he has seen Pisaq change over the time he has been there as well as the changes he has seen in the world of sacred medicines. Please have a listen to a talk I found fascinating, insightful and thoroughly enjoyable.
Following a spiritual awakening at university and then a disillusionment with an academic approach to mysticism, Dante found himself going from Yoga training to facilitating cacao ceremonies to channeling extraterrestrials. Have a listen as he tells us about these alien entities, what it is like to channel them and where we are headed as a species in the greater galactic amphitheater of existence.
In a time when so many talk about transcending and astral traveling and letting your spirit soar, Jessica has embraced a philosophy of embodiment bringing us back to the full aliveness of our bodies. I found this to be a super interesting talk; listen as she tells us about her embodiment philosophy, her take on the masculine vs the feminine, the style of yoga she practices and even about her name! You can find out more about her and what she offers on her website: www.rivermoonyoga.com
This was a beautiful talk with Miriam Altounji about her journey from the rat race world of marketing to a place where she is now helping people take their first steps into a spiritually driven life. Along the way she has been developing a plethora of tools that to aid in this regard including yoga, meditation, Tarot, reiki and others.
In this episode of the show, Fer Pal tells us about the water he provides - Kangen water - and the special process it goes through and he tells us about the coaching work he does to help people live a life more connected to their personal values. But what I found most interesting are the reasons behind why he has chosen to do what he does: his take on global consciousness and the state of the planet right now. So please have a listen to what I found to be a fascinating discussion.
Kerry's life has taken what I found to be a super interesting and quite inspirational path. Have a listen as she tells us about her time in Kathmandu studying Tibetan Buddhism and how this world view led her to studying depth psychology in the US and then how she has now found her way here to Peru where she brings all this together to help people integrate their medicine experiences.
Ryan began life as a Jehovah's witness, managing to 'escape' it at 18, a journey that eventually led him into depression which led him to a therapist which led him to earning a PhD in psychology and becoming a psychotherapist. In our interview, we speak about this journey and then how he wound up here in the Sacred Valley, helping people integrate medicine experiences into their daily lives. This episode features music by my friend, local artist, Nacho - Ignacio Rodriguez.
Once upon a time, Hetty was an accountant ... But starting with a fairly innocuous ad to help clear out 'blockages' she began down a path that has made her a Theta healer, a Theta healing teacher and an initiator of the Munay-Ki. Hear all about it - and how she got her Australian accent - right here.
Reiner is usually the tall foreigner you will see towering over the locals as they parade down the streets of Pisaq during the fiestas. have a listen here as he tells us about his take on local culture, the family constellation work he does and the book he has just published - inspired by a dream and all about self responsibility.
Sean has been living and offering his services here in the Sacred Valley for over seven years. He tells us in this interview about how he got here and the healing work he offers and his personal philosophy behind these. Have a listen as he discusses his famous deep (deep) tissue massage and the intense long dances he facilitates. As well as the how's and why's to his facilitation of two of the Sacred Valley's largest Facebook pages.
Nalaya's work helps people fully embrace and embody their intuitions by connecting to their powerful, sensitive, emotional, feminine natures. She does this using all sorts of shamanic tools she has collected over experience across the world. Take a listen as she tells us about how she works with people, how she uses the four elements in her work, how this particular path began for her, AND how she got her name!
Honovi is somewhat an expert on extraterrestrials and their interactions with us humans here on earth. I spoke to her about who they are and why they are here and what those who are contacted by them should do with the information they receive. Honovi speaks at conferences around the world on these sorts of topics and offers life and purpose coaching for people who have been contacted by these beings. Have a listen, interesting stuff.
Our very first episode - an interview with Laura Macdonald speaking about her background in film making, the fantastic book she helped put together collecting Andean cosmovision stories from school children around The Sacred valley and her current work with the NGO Suyana.
The Venezuelan crisis is now considered the worst refugee crisis in recorded Latin American history. Cesar Eret came into the studio to provide us with some context with his perspective on how Venezuelan history unfolded to this point.