Ayahuasca Shaman

We regularly receive notices whenever ayahuasca is written up in the news, and that is why we learned about a documentary film about the Shipibo people who live in the Amazon basin of Peru. The film, “Woven Songs of the Amazon” is being screened at a documentary film festival in Beaver Creek, Colorado.

There are about 35,000 Shipibo living deep in the Amazon basin, along with 13 other indigenous tribes. Included in the film is a segment about their shamans, mostly females, who receive healing songs from plants and animals after taking ayahuasca. This healing music is interpreted into colors and patterns which are then woven into cloth, as well as recorded on potteries. Other Shipibo can read the patterns and sing them back.

The movie portrays how the Shipibo are struggling to preserve their traditions and pass them along to the next generation.

The director of “Woven Songs of the Amazon” is Anna Stevens, whose credits also include “Green Medicine: On the Path of Herbal Remedies.” She is now in production of “Keepers of the Rainforest”, so we look forward to Ms. Stevens and her future films that may also educate people about the benefits of ayahuasca and how it may be used to gain both inspiration and knowledge of healing.

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