How Yoga Demystified My Psychedelic Experience, Part 2

I found myself in the Andean highlands with a small group of pilgrims, getting ready to do huachuma (known in Spanish as San Pedro), a visionary plant medicine that is one of Peru’s master healers. (Haven’t read part 1 yet? Go here) I saw the retreat as...

Unexpected Places

Continuing from my last post, the heavy energy known as hucha is created in any setting where humans have been.  Including a field of flowers or by the shore of a wide sea, or the ridge of a mountain. In DC, condos grow like bamboo, each crane feeding on the...

Lima, day 8

Since we’ve been in Lima, I’ve been reading up on the energy practices of the region, playing a bit of that compare-and-contrast game we all learned so well in school. In Andean Shamanism, there is no positive or negative energy per se, but rather a...

How I got hooked on Reiki

The first time someone laid her Reiki hands on me was after a harsh breakup. (Feh! I know:  they’re all harsh.  This one was sudden, and though I knew I wasn’t in love with the person in question, that this wasn’t the relationship I wanted to be in...