Jungle Medicine:
Amazon Rainforest
of Peru

2007 dates TBA

[The Center for Spirited Medicine is also offering a CE trip to Peru for students, adult learners and health care professionals through the University of Minnesota in 2007—find out more.]

Truly a spirited medicine healing journey!

• Outward Bound: an expedition into the depths of one of the last great frontiers on Earth…the exotic Amazon rainforest
  
  
• Inward Bound: a spirited journey into the depths of your soul to tap into your life's full Passion, Power, and Purpose
  

Deepen Your Spirited Path—Journey to that which gives you passion and feeds your soul. Heal and learn with shamana Connie Grauds on this 10-day intensive journey deep into the heart of the exotic Peruvian Amazon rainforest, la selva.

Learn the Seven Secrets of the Shamans—Access the ancient healing wisdom of the sacred secrets of the jungle shamans. Apprentice to spirit, and learn to harness the living energies of nature to heal yourself and others, just as the jungle shamans have done for millennia.

Experience Living Plant Medicines and Plant Spirits—Participants take part in many ancient shamanic rituals of the jungle. Experience the heart-opening energies of a limpia healing herbal baths, feel the calming healing power of ancient icaros songs, learn how to use sacred copal of the jungle, and listen to the mysterious spirit stories of the jungle.

Live in an Authentic Indigenous Village—Experience the life of the indigenous Amazonians for yourself. Live in an indigenous jungle house in the remote village of Jaldar on the pristine Yarapa River south of Iquitos. In an intimate cultural immersion, live as the jungle indigenous live ... in harmony with the bounty and magnificence of nature. No tourists!

About Your Trip Leader

Constance Grauds, R.Ph., is president of the Association of Natural Medicine Pharmacists; Adjunct Faculty, University of Minnesota, Center for Spirituality and Healing; Instructor, Minneapolis Community and Technical College; and Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy at the University of California at San Francisco. Grauds is also director of The Center for Spirited Medicine, and director of nonprofit efforts for The Spirited Medicine Alliance dedicated to preserving the rainforest's medicinal plants and indigenous healing practices. Having completed nearly a decade of shamanic apprenticeship with don Antonio Montero Pisco in the jungles of the Amazon, she has been appointed to carry on the teachings and healings of his ancient Cocama shamanic lineage. Grauds teaches and lectures internationally on natural and spirited medicines, and offers spirited medicine healing workshops in Peru, Hawaii, Europe, and the United States.