Ayahuasca and Menstruation: Navigating Traditions and Personal Choices
Different traditions have different approaches to whether women should drink or even be in the Ayahuasca ceremony spaces while they are in their menstruation cycle. Some of these approaches come from the belief that a woman in her period can affect others, and not because she might experience medicine differently in that period. Which eventually can feel exclusionary, leading many women to question the reasoning behind them.
Article published on Women on Psychedelics platform.
The Role and Importance of Women’s Circles in Psychedelic Integration
It is not a coincidence that in recent years, women’s circles have increased as there is a shift in women’s collective consciousness. We seek personal growth, deep self-awareness and connection more than before. Maybe it was easier in the past to connect with the women around us and to be in a community but our modern lives now are more individual-based, we spend more time on our own.
Article published on Women on Psychedelics platform.
How Ayahuasca Affects Couple Dynamics and Intimacy in Relationships
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” – Carl Jung
When we embark on a healing and awakening journey, we start with getting to know ourselves better, and eventually, the dynamics of our relationships with others naturally start to change too.
Nuad Phaen Boran or how to unblock the energy in your body
As my dear teacher Bob Haddad says, Thai Massage, or Nuad Phaen Boran, as it is known in the Thai language, is not the ‘massage’ that we know in Western culture. Instead, it is better to call it a ‘ritual’. Let’s start with this: what I share here is not about the massage you might be familiar with; where tables and oils are used or the goal is to work on muscles or tissues to encourage physical relaxation.
