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New blog entries below. If you are interested in reading about my travels, check out my other blog, Among Buddhas & Babas


Rapeh: The Sacred Healing Tobacco
It's hard to describe the love I feel for this sacred medicine and its profound impact on my life. The first time I tried rapeh, I was...
Kristi Saare Duarte
Oct 9, 20246 min read
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When Happiness Comes from a Cactus
My first experience with the medicine of Huachuma (the San Pedro cactus) was one of the best days of my life. The second time, not so...
Kristi Saare Duarte
Dec 5, 202311 min read
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Holy Sananga! This plant medicine stings!!!
At my last Kambô session, the medicine woman suggested I might want to do a 21-day dieta with Sananga. No way, I thought. Why would I...
Kristi Saare Duarte
Mar 31, 20239 min read
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Kambô – Surrendering to the Giant Monkey Frog Medicine
The first time I was given Kambô, I didn’t quite know what to expect. I knew it was poison from a giant monkey frog that is administered...
Kristi Saare Duarte
Mar 10, 20238 min read
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Going Full Throttle: My Third Night of Ayahuasca
On the third night, I decided to go “full throttle.” I wanted to experience what some of the other people had the previous night. The...
Kristi Saare Duarte
Feb 14, 20236 min read
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My First Ayahuasca Experience
On a dark November night, in a ceremony hall somewhere in the hills near Manresa, Spain, I sat down in a circle with seventeen other...
Kristi Saare Duarte
Jan 23, 20235 min read
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When Mama Ayahuasca Comes Calling
I first heard of Ayahuasca during a visit to Pucallpa in the Peruvian Amazon fifteen years ago when my husband and I were traveling...
Kristi Saare Duarte
Jan 6, 20233 min read
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