Benito Arévalo is an onaya: a traditional healer in a Shipibo-Konibo community in Peruvian Amazonia. He explains something of the onaya tradition, and how he came to drink the plant medicine ayahuasca under his father's tutelage. Arévalo leads an ayahuasca ceremony for Westerners, and shares with us something of his understanding of the plants and the onaya tradition.
The Shipibo-Konibo people of Peruvian Amazon decorate their pottery, jewelry, textiles, and body art...
Documentary about the most popular music of the Andes -- Huayno music -- and explores the lives of t...

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