Ayahuasca Foundation

The curandera doña Othelia has a beautiful camp about 50 kilometers from Iquitos where she lives and works with patients and the plants.  Her camp has three private huts, each with simple bathrooms and one or two beds.  These huts are for long term patients and students.  For shorter stays, visitors stay in one of [...]

The daughter of indigenous curanderos (both parents were healers), doña Othelia never had a set initiation, for she grew up in the environment of plant spirit medicine from birth, and thus knew the science her entire life. Her childhood was an initiation. Othelia’s specialty is reading cigarettes, a form of divination similar to reading tea [...]