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The Nature of Ayahuasca (2019) Documentary
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A documentary exploring the use of Ayahuasca as a holistic medicine.

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Ayahausca is a traditional plant medicine from the Amazon used to treat a variety of physical and psychology illnesses and conditions. This film explores the use of the Ayahausca as a holistic medicine, challenging stigmas around its use and helping people become more conscious and ethical consumers of the plant if that's the path they choose.

This documentary doesn't cover everything you need to be aware of if you are considering work with Ayahuasca. Please do your research.

Gavin Hoffman - Director, Cameraman, Writer, Producer, Animator, Editor, Soundman, etc, etc, etc
Liam Grant - Sound Design and Additional Music
Music - Lee Rosevere, Chris Zabriskie, Pipe Choir

Directors note: This note is to address the many comments about the obvious lack of female and indigenous representation in this documentary. I was at this retreat for my own personal development and happened to have my camera with me. Half way through the retreat I made a spontaneous decision to make this documentary during a conversation. I had never made a documentary before, I had never really thought about what goes into making a documentary and I was too caught up in my own process to really think about what I was doing at the time. I asked several people for interviews who all happened to be men and by the time I realized I hadn't asked any women it was too late. I also tried to get an interview with Don Rober but that didn't happen for several reasons. I made this documentary alone, with few resources and no budget and in the interest of getting it finished in this lifetime I went with what I had and finish the film that I had committed to make. I did my best with what I had.
PS. If anyone is willing to translate the subtitles to any other languages please reach out to me!! Thanks so much

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Best Cinematographer at the Indo-Global International Film Festival 2019
Documentary of Merit at the Impact Doc Awards July 2019
Finalist in Eurasia International Monthly Film Festival 2019
Finalist in Great Message International Film Festival 2019
Finalist in New York Cinematography Awards July 2019
Best Nature/Travel Film in the European Cinematography Awards Oct 2019
Finalist in PICASSO EINSTEIN BUDDHA International Film Festival 2019

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7 Colors Lagoon Bacalar International Film Festival 2019
Prisma Independent Film Awards - 3rd monthly edition 2019
Cittadella Geo Film Festival Second Edition 2019
Down East Flick Fest 2019
Semi-Finalist in VISUALIS Film Festival 2019
Semi-Finalist in Catharsis Film Festival 2019
Dunedin International Film Festival 2019
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Top Comments of this video!! :3

@sandpaper631

4 years ago

Psychedelics have changed my life.. A 5 gram mushroom trip showed me my depression was an identification, it was not me, my true nature under this flesh and bone costume is bliss

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@cdcd4358

3 years ago

I was into drugs, alcohol and in and out of jail for 8 years i was so tired of leaving this way I decided to escape to South America and during my time there I found ayahuasca. Now is been 9 year later and am no longer consume drugs,alcohol and spending time in jail 🙏

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@bizffatar5824

8 months ago

I guess I just want somewhere to share my story. When I was 19 I took shrooms, and it was like I was turned inside out. As a child, I was very extroverted and loved being around people. And after the shrooms, I felt disconnected from everyone and everything around me. I just wanted to alone. I am learning to feel happiness from within myself, not running from myself. It's been a LONG and PAINFUL process but once it's healed, it's healed and beautiful.

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@priorww1

9 months ago

Husband, father of 3, engineer at the top of my field. Was called to visit Shanti Wasi in Costa Rica and sat for 2 ceremonies. This medicine broke me free of so much cynicism. It was indeed grueling as I fought to resist the embrace of the divine but once I “gave in” it was one of the most tender moments of my life. I am forever indebted to this plant and it’s practitioners for reconnecting me to unconditional love.

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@marshalpeters

7 months ago

I did Ayahuasca in 2022 and it changed everything for me forever in a super positive way. it is, indeed, a medicine. 0:11

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@theevolutionofthebear3093

3 months ago

I've sat with ayahuasca almost 100 times. I was involved in a community for years. For one year I sat once a week with an apprentice in my living room. Ayahuasca is not a pill you take that clears up your illness. She can help a lot, it changed my life drastically but it still requires an enormous amount of work on the part of the participant. It requires that you let go of your western mindset that something else, external from you, will fix you. The work after ceremony is as important, if not more, than the ceremony itself. Having said that, I give thanks every day for my experiences with the madre. I love you, thank you, you showed me the way.

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@changethroughpain

2 years ago

I recently participated in a 3 day Ayahuasca ceremony and it changed my life forever on night three. I'm moving to a new city, pursuing a new career in the Holistic Healing field and healed many childhood traumas I had been carrying for over forties years in same cases. I feel as if I have a new lease on life and the possibilities are limitless. I'm not afraid of death and look forward to what the Universe delivers for me next. I will definitely pursue future Ayahuasca ceremonies to continue to beautiful journey. Great documentary! Thank you

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@cartooneyed

2 years ago

I saw warm and welcoming shapes in everything. I became one with the music. Looking down, it felt like I was in clear reality. Looking up the ceiling, it felt like I was invited to join a trip. She made me feel like I am in control, like I can choose if I want to be part of her mystical ride or to resist it. But she was so alluring that I couldn’t resist to she what offering to show me. Ayahuasca introduced herself to me and it felt like an epic musical scene from a Disney movie. With the difference to not watch it on tv but to be part of the experience. I felt the connection of all things, the divine dance of all that is in the space of all that isn’t. I saw a sacred pattern connecting everything. Ayahuasca told me that the only way to experience her full potential is through the dance inside a human. She says that she is always and infinit present. That many souls have entered her realm before me, yet still she shows up unique for everyone. It is a dance between her and you. I surrendered to her, trusted her, talked to her about my concerns and she responded wisely with thoughts, visuals or feelings. Even though she is in the field of infinity, she needs to be felt in order to be alive. She loves to heal. Within her lay millions of years of wisdom. The divine feminin resides in her, waiting to be activated. She wants to be felt, she wants to be danced with, she wants to share wisdom, she wants to heal. She knows the rhythm of life and death, but at this moment she only introduced me to the bliss of life. I saw all those souls, all those potential human beings, being courageous and brave to volunteer on earth - the mission is love. And for me it translates through writing. I saw and I felt the poem I wrote 2020 - about what God is to me, and I discovered a deeper layer of this poem. It all made even more sense. I was reminded that I was deeply attached to earth, because it made my experience seem more real. I saw me as a child, dreaming of flying to high and going into different realms, too scared to explore outer space, but still not feeling home on earth either, that’s why I tried to make it my home through those attachments. I saw the divine in my mundane life, saw how sacred the not so conscious way of living is. How liberating it is to live life like it felt safe for me. But I also saw what was blocking my blessings: the fear of my potential. The fear of my potential. Because to face my potential meant more responsibility for this human experience. It would leave me even more vulnerable. I came here to love and to be loved. I came here to share my light. And I have been hurt so many times, Aya felt this pain with me. She said that the pain I’m feeling is the pain felt by God, the love that I’m feeling is the love felt by God. She made me believe that I’m a warrior and how my spirit is built different. I learned through trial and error. I’m resilient. Now I am ready to take responsibility for my human experience. I felt like to live and to die is a huge responsibility that you can’t escape from once you signed up to show up on earth. I discovered the place of endless infinity. It was the big electromagnetic field of all that is and all that isn’t. I grasped the concept with my being: to live means to die every second - and to rise from it again and again. I saw the ouroboros (snake that bites it’s own tail, but not stagnant, it was rushing) and saw that God was trying to look for itself through humans, but by looking for God, it separated itself more from God - the ego was born. It wants to become someone in relation to something else, to be a wave in the ocean - not the ocean itself, but the wave is still not separated by the ocean. But the wave still claims to be the wave, just to enjoy its uniqueness and to explore itself in relation to the rest of the ocean. But the truth is, the ocean is experiencing itself through those waves.

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@andyacoustic3

3 years ago

The very first time I used DMT, I met mother Ayahuasca, and she led my soul to an old gothic style temple with pale green stained glass. My spirit was cleansed in a fountain of yellow liquid in the centre and the love I felt was unlike anything words could describe. When I came back, my depression was gone and my whole perspective had shifted to a much more positive one. I cannot express how grateful I am for the experience.

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@Raccoonov

4 years ago

I did Ayahuasca in 2013 and it changed everything for me forever in a super positive way. it is, indeed, a medicine .

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@Spanglish777

3 years ago

" The medicine will only give you what you can handle; no more, no less and if you think you cant handle- it's the ego talking that wants to protect you not allowing the medicine to work " Wise words! 🎯

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@michaeltyndall3879

3 years ago

I had a beautiful experience with Ayahuasca in Kentucky at Ayaquest. I drank 4 servings over the course of about an hour before it kicked in. I spent hours laughing uncontrollably. Not a haha laugh, but a deep body shaking laughter that produced little sound. I pulled the blanket up over my face and just lost it. It was an emotional purging of laughter. There was no puking or bowel emptying like many speak of, just a deep emotional release of laughter. The whole experience was much more profound but I was grateful for a release of joy from the beginning of the journey.

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@BieberFreaket

4 years ago

Imagine a world where everyboby with anxiety or depression got the chance to take these psycoactive things that exists in our nature. I feel such a great big feeling of beauty and fulfillness all because of psycadelics. A big thank you for that, all we need is right here. Amazing documentary

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@ekulda

4 years ago

Im indigenous to the 7 islands of Mobaim - Bombay India with a genetic heritage of 60,000 years. We have seen development and the disconnectedness and its ill effects. You kill Mother Nature and then you get depressed. you live a disconnected life and you get depressed. You have people going to temples and meditating and are still depressed. You do yoga and eat vegetables. But does the foot print have a morality to it? Did the vegetable vendor get their due, did you treat your servants well, did you do a moral deal at work. Did your ego lead the way throughout your life. so many things just one medicine does not fit all. Empathy and love are gifts of the Divine whatever you consider the divine spirit. This continent life where mines are dug for minerals that build the tech in our phones, our vegetables and food grain come from lands that were forests once and only after displacing the indigenous were non-traditional farmers who were given the big ticket to do their business - As in India and the rest of the world - then that food comes to your table. What kind of footprint does it have. The oil and gas have come through wars. The power through dams. dams that displaced other sentient beings for your comfort. The earth is alive and Gaia or Mother as we indigenous call her as our mother. Our people never extracted so much. We must return to our roots, our native roots, that will connect us to Mother Earth. You can go to your wars and come back depressed adn then try substances and yet struggle to find meaning. You can work all day and hustle all you like in a destructive economy with death and deceit as its footprint. No amount of substances will show you your path. Just give it all up. give up the 'Self' you know. Seek love and then your journey will start. no need for substances or psychedelics. Yes you can do psychedelics in a ceremony to connect to the Divine and the universe. But only through a ceremony as one 'body' / community. May you find your peace.

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@naomilb1710

3 years ago

I can't wait to meet you ayahuasca, we have an appointment one day..

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@naturalpsychedelics

1 year ago

Ceremony of Ayahuasca is especially exciting the first time you're full of expectations based on the information you've received about Ayahuasca. But in fact, you have to go through a unique experience and you did not imagine anything even similar to this, no matter how much you read about it and listened to - it is impossible to put it into words

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@Leo-fd6kk

3 years ago

If watching this Documentary stimulate spiritual healing; I cannot even imagine doing the real thing. I feel that I have to experience this at least one time in this lifetime.

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@EricAbroad

4 years ago

A Psychedelic Revolution is underway, and I can't wait! I'm so tired of hearing of alcoholism and tobacco addictions that eventually kill you. We need some pharmaceutical products to survive, but to truly live we need that connection to nature and to ourselves. I'm optimistic for our future following the corona lockdown. I'm optimistic for nature restoration. We first need to learn how to live alongside nature, as it is here to help us. We've been napping for so long as a species. I'm excited to see so many people waking up with smiles on their faces.

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@dorialiu3869

3 years ago

I drunk Aya the end of January this year, and thats when I met my true self, a shining goddess.. This experience always brought me back to whom I really am. However, my Aya journey is only a beginning. In March of 2020, I was called to go to Cambodia with no money and a risk of lockdown. I booked the ticket directly there, expecting a 10-day visit. Unbelievably, I was "stuck" in Cambodia for 7.5 months. During this time, I had my first mysterious experience on an island which makes me totally surrender to the universe. I lived a hippie community life for 5 weeks, joined a yoga community for another 5 weeks, sunk myself to this beautiful fresh green land and highly connected to the nature and lovely travellers from all over the world. I put myself fully to this self-discovery and found my call to be a healer. This exploration takes great courage and it is no easy work for me at all. Yesterday I just flew back to China and I am getting a 14 day hotel quarantine. I am nervous and meanwhile looking forward to the new journey forward

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@Defrisseprins

7 months ago

After watching this documentary, I feel a deep connection to Mother Nature and the message she conveys. Although I've never used ayahuasca myself, the experiences of the people in this video resonate deeply with me. Their struggles are so relatable, and thanks to the powerful imagery and sounds, I can almost physically feel their experiences. This documentary has filled me with positivity and reinforced my belief in the healing power of nature and our own consciousness. 🌿🌌

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