PT493 – Laura Reeves – Sacred Sites, Ayahuasca, and Connecting With the Rhythms of the Earth
Psychedelics Today
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4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Johanna interviews Laura Reeves: Glastonbury-based facilitator and medicine woman trained in craniosacral therapy, somatic experiencing, breathwork, and more, who holds retreats at sacred sites in the U.K. and Peruvian Amazon.
She tells of her journey from serendipitously booking a trip to Ecuador just as she first heard about ayahuasca, to the early ayahuasca experiences that showed her our true interconnectedness, to a heroic dose of psilocybin and a trip to the hospital, to being accepted into training with an Indigenous shaman in the Amazon. With a lifelong love of nature, paganism, and ancient traditions, she stresses the importance of connecting to the natural rhythms of the Earth and harnessing its energy.
She talks about:
- Self-initiated shamans and the dangers that can come from bad actors operating out of integrity and respect for the lineage
- Ayahuasca as a purgative and the power of energetic clearings
- Her experience with shamans using Icaros to channel the sounds of plants
- Shadow work and its role in personal growth and healing
- The energy of Glastonbury, feeling deep connections to sacred places, and how ley lines inspire places of pilgrimage
and more!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Psychics today. My name is Kyle Biller. I am not the host for today's |
| 0:17.7 | episode. Johanna Hill is. In today's episode, Johanna interviews Laura Reeves, |
| 0:24.1 | who is a Glastonbury-based facilitator, medicine women trained in cranial sacral therapy, |
| 0:29.7 | somatic experiencing, breathwork, and more. Laura holds retreats at sacred sites in the UK and also in the Peruvian Amazon. |
| 0:39.3 | And in this episode, Laura tells of her journey from booking a trip to Ecuador, just as she first heard about ayahuasca. |
| 0:46.3 | So talking about her early ayahuasca experiences that also showed her true interconnectedness and to heroic dose of psilocybin and a trip to the hospital |
| 0:55.0 | and also being accepted into training with an indigenous shaman in the Peruvian Amazon. And also in |
| 1:02.0 | this episode, Laura talks about self-initiated shamans and the dangers that can really come from |
| 1:07.4 | bad actors that are operating out of their integrity and respect for the lineage. |
| 1:12.9 | Also, ayahuasca as a purgative and the power of energetic clearings. |
| 1:18.4 | And there's an interesting quote that maybe I'll read from the episode that kind of highlights this. |
| 1:24.1 | And quoting here, the way in which other traditions work with the medicine is to drink ayahuasca |
| 1:29.2 | without DMT active substance. You still have visions, but it's different. And then you drink |
| 1:34.8 | warm water and you literally are just purging for two hours. And the way I felt about this, |
| 1:41.4 | it was like medicine went down in the deepest part of my bodies into my |
| 1:45.3 | cells and just pulled out any toxins, any negative thoughts and anything at all. And it felt |
| 1:52.2 | completely cleared and energized. My nervous system felt really reset at this point. And I was like, |
| 1:58.6 | how can we create experiences just with the body |
| 2:02.0 | where we can feel this depth of liberation and openness? And I thought this was an interesting |
| 2:06.2 | quote because Jeremy Narby also talks about how a lot of traditions may actually drink |
| 2:12.5 | ayahuasca with just the vine without the DMT component of it, the chakruna, and how maybe the Western kind of narrative |
| 2:21.1 | around ayahuasca is very DMT-centric versus, say, very vine-centric. So I just thought that was |
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