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Heart of the Initiate will be running two ayahuasca workshops in Bahia, Brazil in September, 2007. There are still a few spaces left, so if you are interested, get in touch with them!

These workshops are incredibly powerful, healing, fun and inspirational. The Heart of the Initiate Team works hard to make sure that your work with the medicine is in a comfortable, safe, open, beautiful and friendly environment.

From Website

We offer one and two week workshops in an extraordinarily beautiful setting along the coast of Bahia, located approximately 700 miles north of Rio de Janeiro. This is where modern Brazilian history began. When the Portuguese first arrived in Brazil, April 22nd 1500, they landed on the soil known today as Bahia. In many ways, Bahia could also be characterized as the cultural heart of Brazil. Samba music has its roots in here. Caipoera, both a dance and a martial art is a pure expression of Bahian culture.

We invite you to experience a powerful week of inner exploration and healing. We will spend our time exploring and opening the subtle doorway through the heart energy. This is the path back to remembering your true divinity and awakening of the true self. As we work through our old, limiting patterns, we begin to heal and reclaim our lost power.

Find out more about these ayahuasca healing workshops in Brazil.

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We just put up two new lectures on the Heart of the Initiate website given live last week at the Brazil Ayahuasca Workshops!

The first lecture by Shaman Warinei Wanare is from March 14th, 2007, and is called The Four Sicknesses of Humanity.

The second lecture by Ralph Miller is from March 16th, 2007, and is called Plant-Human Intervention.

Please have a look at these two new lectures fresh and live from our Brazil Ayahuasca Workshops.

The Heart of the Initiate Podcast has been released.

It is quite cool, actually. It is the first podcast I've produced, and some of my music is in there. I used GarageBand to make it.

I set up the Drupal audio module to make it happen. We applied to iTunes but have not yet heard back. Who knows how long it could be...

From Heart of the Initiate:

"In this podcast, we invite you to listen to a lecture given by Ralph Miller on the sacred plant medicine Ayahuasca. Making the assumption that listeners know nothing about this ancient plant teacher, Ralph talks about what Ayahuasca is and tells the story of how it is moving out of the jungle and into the Western consciousness, helping humans create a bridge back to our ancient past, a reconnection to the sacred primal force within us all. In the process, he explains the distinction between what we call "drugs" and the Ayahuasca plant medicine. Ralph also touches on some of the biological and chemical aspects of our brain's inherent connection with the active ingredient in the Ayahuascsa brew, dimethytriptamine (DMT), through our pineal gland."

Check out the ayahuasca podcast.

Since the very first day of my life, I have loved to learn.

I have always been fascinated by language. I studied Linguistics in college because there really wasn't any better way for me to be able to spend most of my college life learning foreign languages.

I have also always been a true lover of learning through travel. I began traveling inside and outside of the US as a young child, and I have never looked back since. The education I get from challenging myself to persist while living and working in foreign cultures, speaking foreign languages, eating novel foods and relating with new people is unparalleled.

Forging and maintaining friendships with people from all over the world is another process that has taught me an amazing amount about myself and the world I live in.

Languages, travel, people...

When I think of my involvement with the ayahuasca workshops in Brazil, there is really no better way that I can do these things - and on multiple levels.

On one level, it means traveling down to Brazil, speaking Portuguese and meeting amazing people from all over the world.

On another level, one that is even more resonant with the work in the workshops, this means discovering the language of ayahuasca, traveling to places both inside and outside of myself that I never could have imagined and getting to know other people and myself for who we truly are.

And this is learning at its most potent.

The English world "univeristy" comes from Latin "universitas", which can mean "all turned into one". For me, some of the most intensely educational and fulfilling experiences of my life have been at the "University of Ayahuasca". This is one university you never graduate from. This is a university of life. And as such, the learning never stops.

From site:

"Heart of the Initiate offers tours to Brazil where we help people make sacred inner journeys through an intensive workshop experience. Our Brazil workshops incorporate shamanic ceremonies using the ancient plant teacher, Ayahuasca.

Ayahuasca has been used in the Amazon for thousands of years both as a medicine and as a tool for transformation. We offer this experience to journey within; to a place beyond space and time; to a place you may have forgotten.

The very serious problems that exist in the world contribute to a growing collective anxiety in the human race. For many, it is becoming increasingly difficult just to cope with life. The tenacity of the human species propels us eventually to break free of the bondage that enslaves us. Our destiny is to return to a harmony with each other and with the natural world... our survival depends on it. This gives me hope.

I am enormously grateful to have met many extraordinary people from 49 different countries who have come to Brazil and to reconnect with a primal life force that is within them."

- Ralph Miller

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• The Complete Video Section
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