www.AmazonConvergence.com

July 10 - July 18  2008 - PlantTeachers Presents...Nine Dynamic Days

Ayahuasca Shamanism Seminar, Retreat & Visionary Gathering

~ Pablo Amaringo  ~ Guillermo Arévalo "Kestembetsa"  ~ Eric Avondo  ~ AyasminA  ~ Sonia Chuquimbalqui "Soiyaca"  Frank Echenhofer, Ph.D.  ~ Richard Grossman, Ph.D.  ~ Martina Hoffmann  ~ Jan Kounen  ~ Dennis McKenna, Ph.D.  Jeremy Narby, Ph.D.  ~ Roberto Venosa  ~ Sitaramaya  ~ Maria Valera "Panshin Biri"  

Come to Peru

Join shamans, visionaries, leading edge thinkers, scientists, spiritual teachers, healers, filmmakers, and other artists as we discover common ground in multiple disciplines through presentations, workshops and ayahuasca ceremonies.

Together we will explore our outer and inner worlds, push the limits of our perception and challenge our consciousness through sharing our individual and collective experience, spirited dialogues, leading edge lectures, indigenous art workshops, traditional indigenous and "on the brink" music, visionary art exhibitions and ayahuasca ceremonies in the sensuous, vibrating rainforest of Amazonian Peru.

CONVERGENCE will be a true retreat where we will create a community for nine days.  Not  only will we explore the teachings, use and practices of Ayahuasca and Master Teacher Plants, but we will learn more about entheogens, other visionary plants, non-ordinary states, shamanic practices from around the world and deep ecology.

We will be screening powerful and moving visionary films such as “Other Worlds:  A Journey into the Heart of Shipibo Shamanism”; “Fire on the Mountain: A Gathering of Shamans”; and “Entheogen: Awakening the Divine Within”.

Presentations, workshops and events include sessions with Martina Hoffmann and Roberto Venosa on visionary art and a workshop to guide you in your own artistic creation, lectures by Dr. Dennis McKenna on Ayahuasca and other visionary plants, a guided walk through the medicinal plant garden and body painting.  

You will have ample opportunity to meet with and engage in conversations with the presenters, facilitators and healers.  CONVERGENCE is designed to teach, inspire, facilitate healing, foster awareness of expanded consciousness and deep ecology, develop new friendships and connect with old friends.  Our time together will conclude with a specially prepared banquet and social event.

CONVERGENCE is a co-creation; an exploration; a conversation; a multilevel, experiential, cross-disciplinary inquiry; an interactive, dynamic, evolving relationship.  CONVERGENCE is each of you coming together in body, mind and spirit.

I hope to see you there
                                - Sita


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