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health& wellbeing • • • •<br />
Integrate<br />
5<br />
Bhadrena Rose<br />
Interview with Becca Dakini<br />
Becca Dakini is a cultural creative & artist actively<br />
participating within the Australian and international<br />
conscious arts community as a: writer, holistic therapist,<br />
counselor, dj, project manager, event coordinator,<br />
truthseeker, consciousness explorer and visionary. Her<br />
hometown is Byron Bay, Australia but she perceives herself<br />
as a global citizen of the currently emerging conscious<br />
& creative culture. She recently returned from living and<br />
working with shamans in Peru. <strong>InJoy</strong> caught up with her to<br />
find out what gifts she has brought back from her time in<br />
the Amazon jungle.<br />
You’ve just returned from a year of living and working<br />
in the Amazon Rainforest in Peru<br />
Through a few strange yet uncanny twists of fate I was<br />
hired as a Retreat Coordinator for a shamanic retreat in<br />
the south of Peru in February 2010. I moved on from this<br />
initial retreat quite quickly due to the “shaman” being a<br />
“sham-man” and landed in Northern Peru where I was<br />
offered a new job at a centre that focused on working with female Shipibo shamans. I lived in the heart<br />
of the Amazon jungle, with seven Shipibo shamans. My role was to coordinate workshops & the retreat<br />
itself, directly supporting guests at the retreat through 12 day ayahuasca intensives. I worked side-by-side<br />
in ceremonies with the shamans and supported hundreds of guests from all over the world through their<br />
healing process in the role of counselor and support person.<br />
Overall, it was an amazing experience living and working with shamans as the Shipibo themselves<br />
are such a beautiful people. So humble, playful and authentic they are. Quite often I would refer to the<br />
Maestras and Maestros as “ancient children”. They display such wisdom yet such innocence in every<br />
moment. Laughter and joy was a common theme each day when living with them, as well as open<br />
affection and tribal living. I came to learn that they are like the “keepers of the vine” as their lineage<br />
has worked directly with Ayahuasca for thousands of years. The Shipibo people’s connection with the<br />
plant spirit realm is mystifying and powerful. Their healing abilities when working with the plants, not only<br />
Ayahuasca, are powerful and genuine. It is like these beautiful people themselves sprang from the roots<br />
of plants and trees. That is how at one they are with the plants and the wisdom they contain. It was an<br />
honor to work with such amazing beings, and to support them in sharing their healing abilities with people<br />
from all over the world.<br />
What was most rewarding about your time working in these healing centres<br />
One of the most rewarding aspects of my experience was<br />
working with all of the people from all over the world who<br />
came to the jungle to move through their core issues, which<br />
is what Ayahuasca is prime “medicine” for. Ayahuasca goes<br />
deep and digs out childhood trauma and core wounding<br />
and brings it to the surface to be released or purged. It’s<br />
also a great tool for overcoming addictions and negative<br />
life patterns and behaviors.<br />
Sometimes the process is very difficult for people<br />
and they really need a lot of support to understand what<br />
they are going through. I found that the deep work of the<br />
medicine, coupled with intensive counseling and support,<br />
produced rapid and amazing results. I saw lives transform,<br />
deep wounds heal, and people die and be reborn again.<br />
I feel very honoured to have experienced what I have<br />
through supporting intensive self-development and healing<br />
in so many others this work has been mirrored in myself.<br />
After all, I believe that we are all just mirror reflections of each other.<br />
This really was some of the best work I have done in my life; being there as a rock for people<br />
in such a personalised and powerful way. Nothing is more rewarding to me than being of service to<br />
humanity’s healing & evolution, on an individual as well as global scale.<br />
injoy<br />
Evolutionary Impulse