Each year, a small group of entrepreneurs from around the world joins Entrepreneurs Awakening in Peru, where ayahuasca is legal, to partake in a traditional ayahuasca tea ceremony. About 50 people ...

A new wave of spiritual tourism is reshaping sacred ayahuasca practises in Peru ...

Growing numbers of tourists are travelling to the Peruvian Amazon to drink ayahuasca, a traditional plant medicine said to bring about a higher state of consciousness. Foreigners come looking for ...

Most of the animals have been hunted out. Even ayahuasca vines are harder to find—Mayantuyacu now imports them from other parts of Peru or Brazil. In 2013, the year the road was built ...

Ayahuasca ceremonies don't always take place near hospitals, Embassy officials noted. "These incidents often occur in remote areas near or within the Peruvian Amazon, far away from modern medical ...

But in recent years, a boom in Western interest in psychedelics has started to reshape ayahuasca ceremonies and practise.

From January 25 to 30, 207 members of 34 ethnic groups from Brazil and seven other countries (Colombia, Peru, Mexico, ...

Ayahuasca is in vogue at the moment. As one of the most interesting and unusual trends to pop up as part of the global wellness phenomenon in the last decade, this psychedelic medicine is both ...