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Community and Relational Healing
September 7, 2023 MayaAbouChedid
Community, as I came to understand it, was not just a physical place or a group of people tied by geography or blood. It was a state of…
Shamanic Dieta – From the Amazon to the Sacred Mountains of Mexico
April 6, 2023 MayaAbouChedid
As shamans commonly express, the plants were the ones who told them. They know the poisonous plants as well as the antidotes, which usually grow near the latter.…
Show Me The Way
February 5, 2023 MayaAbouChedid
She looked up and felt engulfed by a pure wave of care. Time stopped and brought her tears to a halt. Frozen, she started melting in the…
The Return of Light
October 29, 2022 MayaAbouChedid
As we are living the longest darkest days of the fall season, the winter solstice day is when there is a meeting point, an exchange, a gateway opening…
Egypt and the Blue Lotus
October 1, 2022 MayaAbouChedid
Both Papyrus and Blue Lotus were deeply embedded in ancient Egyptians ways of living and dying. The first in their language and communication in one reality and the…
The Eye and The Spell
August 30, 2022 MayaAbouChedid
When someone “loses it”, as we commonly say, there is always a reason and this reason falls into the unknown. It is usually a crisis. We don’t know…
A Journey in the Mazatec Tradition
July 31, 2022 MayaAbouChedid
Another experience on the path of medicine had started. In the southern mountains of Mexico, several leaves of freshly picked Niños Santos (Derrumbes: Landslide and San Isidro Mushrooms)…
Reimagining Community
May 31, 2022 MayaAbouChedid
Let us go on a journey together to explore community and let us feel through the guidance that comes through as we go.
The Plant Teacher and You
May 1, 2022 MayaAbouChedid
The plant teacher and you. Granted, two worlds that are energetically connected as parts of this web of life. Yet, the physical ingestion of a well-intended preparation of…
When One Medicine Calls
March 31, 2022 MayaAbouChedid
A need to feel whole, accepted and belong to a clan or a tribe, a yearning for a passage through unfathomable difficulties, wanting to be and sometimes to…
The Holy Children Speak
February 28, 2022 MayaAbouChedid
The sun is shining bright this morning and the gentle breeze is cuddling the bamboo leaves across my window. The world outside this sheath is inviting me to…
Summoning Innocence
January 24, 2022 MayaAbouChedid
The build-up was felt as soon as I opened the medicine space in a private Ceremony on the night of the New Moon. I was feeling the intensity,…
What Are You Wishing For?
December 18, 2021 MayaAbouChedid
When we say that every ticking moment is an opportunity for a new start, we possibly couldn’t have touched on this truth more vividly and more viscerally than…
In Quest for Truth
November 25, 2021 MayaAbouChedid
One of my biggest trials as my tiny feet were taking me into a path that is known as spiritual was the self-satisfactory fantasy of thinking I was…
Opening Up to Spirit
October 26, 2021 MayaAbouChedid
One of my biggest trials as my tiny feet were taking me into a path that is known as spiritual was the self-satisfactory fantasy of thinking I was…
Untangle
August 3, 2021 MayaAbouChedid
A state of ongoing death and birth.
A state of feeling it all.
A state of love.
And love becomes life
And life becomes love.
Every step of…
Dismembering and Remembering
June 27, 2021 MayaAbouChedid
We have the experience of birth in our body memory. From the moment a seed was planted in our mother’s womb, our own creation started manifesting in form.…
The Language Of Spirit
June 2, 2021 MayaAbouChedid
Every form of life has a spirit to it, be it still or mobile to the naked eye. The shape of the physical form can translate the shape…