Ayahuasca Healing

This week on Illuminated, we're talking with Melissa Stangl, Founding Partner and COO of The Soltara Healing Centre in Costa Rica. Melissa works with psychedelics and plant medicines, starting her journey back in 2015 when she quit her corporate job to live and work with ayahuasca in the Amazon jungle. This week we share our own personal healing journeys with ayahuasca and how transformative this mode of therapy can be.

In this episode, I share:

Mine and Melissa own personal healing journey with ayahuasca
How Melissa became involved in ayahuasca therapy
The integration of the healing effects from an ayahuasca ceremony
Changing, rewriting, and passing on your DNA through plant medicines
The mind-body connection and what happens when we aren't listening to our bodies
Purging negative emotions and releasing mind chatter
Preparing the body for an ayahuasca retreat and ceremony
Healing dependencies through ceremony
The importance of maintaining the native roots of plant medicines and platforming indiginous voices
How Soltara contributes to the psychedelic movement by bridging science and tradition
Accessibility of plant medicines and giving back to the Amazon
Trauma, ACE scores and how they can lead to chronic illness and disease