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NOYA RAO: WORKING WITH INTEGRITY WITH AYAHUASCA
You may never have heard of this tree, but it is essential to the work we do with Ayahuasca here on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica and provides a guiding hand in every aspect of our lives. Noya Rao is an Amazonian tree once thought to be extinct and shrouded in lore and mystery. Also known as Palo Volador or the flying tree, due to the legend that it bestows the gift of flying. Indeed, tales exist of whole villages ascending into the atmosphere to become part of a different dimension/reality altogether.
AYAHUASCA FOR ANXIETY: A GENTLE , HONEST LOOK
Ironically, Ayahuasca in itself is a huge cause of anxiety for many people. The journey with these powerful plants can seem daunting and foreboding.
Like going on a scary roller coaster, you’re often afraid beforehand but feel exhilarated and a sense of accomplishment afterwards.
Ayahuasca is a healer of trauma and illuminates the path to closing our trauma loops. It heals the mind and reorganises the neurological pathways allowing for more healthy connections. Sometimes reshuffling and reorganising our thoughts altogether.
SOWA SOMA AYAHUASCA RETREATS IN COSTA RICA
Sowa Soma was co-created by husband and wife team, Neil and Fiona Kirwan when they moved to the Caribbean coats of Costa Rica in 2021. They wanted to create a safe environment for people to connect with Ayahuasca, with facilitators who fully respect working with Ayahuasca and other healing plants. The foundation of Sowa Soma is built around four pillars - ritual, respect, relationship and reciprocity, and guides all aspects of their work.
HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT PLACE TO DRINK AYAHUASCA
A real point of contention that will often raise red flags on both sides for more experienced drinkers is the practice of drinking Ayahuasca in your own home Vs drinking in a group with a curandero/facilitator/shaman at a retreat centre.
WHAT IS IT LIKE TO DRINK AYAHUASCA?
After many journeys to the darkness, the abyss, the void I decided to write an article about my experience, What started out as an article turned into a poem, twisting and turning, moving and flowing.
WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN AYAHUASCA & ANAHUASCA?
This analogue version of Ayahuasca is not Ayahuasca, it's a disservice to advertise these plants as such and misinforms retreat participants. That's not to say these plants don't have healing properties and. In many European retreat centres I see that an Analogue version of Ayahuasca is being served.