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Plant Medicine • Spirituality • Healing. Heartfelt interviews, inspired by freedom, guided by indigenous knowledge, spiritual tradition, & plants. 🐆
🎙️✨ New podcast out now with Machan Taylor. ✨🎙️ W 🎙️✨ New podcast out now with Machan Taylor. ✨🎙️ What happens when we stop hiding the parts of our story that carry the most pain? In this moving episode of *Cura Medicina*, I sit down with acclaimed vocalist, teacher, and author Machan Taylor to speak about trauma, healing, music, and her journey with intentional psychedelic medicine work. Machan shares how an early childhood rupture—leaving Japan at four and a half years old—quietly shaped her sense of identity and belonging for decades, even as she built an extraordinary career singing with artists including Pink Floyd, Sting, Pat Benatar, George Benson, and Hiroshima. She speaks with great openness about the MDMA-assisted session that helped her reconnect with the younger self she had left behind, the importance of integration and skilled guidance, and why medicine work should be approached with reverence, intention, and care. We also explore the healing power of voice, chanting, mantra, music, and telling the truth about our lives. Her memoir, *Naked Out Loud*, is a courageous invitation to release shame, reclaim wholeness, and remember: it is never too late to heal. Listen now on *Cura Medicina*. Link in bio. #CuraMedicina #MachanTaylor #NakedOutLoud #PsychedelicHealing #MDMATherapy
Kat Courtney has sat with hundreds of people in ce Kat Courtney has sat with hundreds of people in ceremony space, and she says the same pattern shows up over and over: people keep going back to ceremony, waiting for it to fix what only they can fix. Her line for it: "most people do their homework on the teacher's desk." You keep showing up expecting the lesson to be done for you. The plant can open the door. Walking through it — the relationship changes, the habits, the hard conversations — that's still on you. 🎧 Full conversation with Kat Courtney — link in bio. #CuraMedicina #PlantMedicine #HealingJourney #PodcastEpisode #SpiritualAwakening
From ballet stages to ayahuasca ceremonies in the From ballet stages to ayahuasca ceremonies in the Amazon — Brandy's story is one of the most unexpected transformations we've featured on Cura Medicina. She sat with the Noke Koi tribe in Brazil, and what she found wasn't just healing — it was permission to finally become herself. 🎧 A favorite from the archive. Full episode link in bio. #CuraMedicina #PlantMedicine #Ayahuasca #NokeKoi #Transformation #SpiritualAwakening #AmazonRainforest #HealingJourney #PodcastEpisode
The advice most people get about plant medicine is The advice most people get about plant medicine is backwards: more ceremony, more intensity, more visions. In this episode of Cura Medicina, host Derek sits down with James—a full-time Iboga facilitator with over a decade of experience—to discuss why the real transformation doesn't happen in the vision. It happens in what you do with your mind, attention, and habits after the ceremony. Here are a few core takeaways from the conversation: Preparation & Discipline: Real change requires out-of-ceremony practice. If your life isn't changing, the medicine isn't the problem—the follow-through is. Reverence Over Ambition: Approaching sacred plants with humility and discipline yields far deeper results than chasing a "big trip." The Power of Sincere Blessings: Shift the energy of a difficult moment or thought loop by offering a blessing instead of feeding fear. Iboga vs. Ayahuasca: Understanding the unique, regenerative hardware-healing nature of Iboga compared to other plant medicines. Head to the link in bio to listen to the full episode! #PlantMedicine #Iboga #CuraMedicine #Mindfulness #Bwiti
Scientists call it crown shyness — look up in an o Scientists call it crown shyness — look up in an old forest and you'll see gaps of open sky between the treetops. No branch crosses into another's space. Jordan Mockingbird put it simply on the podcast: trees follow a natural law we've forgotten — they leave room for each other. Full conversation on tree diets, natural law, and what trees can teach us about power and service — link in bio. 🌳
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