What happens when a group of traumatized Westerners seeks healing from their pain deep in the rainforests of the Amazon? How can they release that trauma? Will their modern minds accept or reject the wisdom of the earth? In this film, a family of indigenous shamans guides the group with traditional healing songs and ceremonies – and with the most potent and transformative plant medicine in their world, ayahuasca. Along the way, the shamans bring us their ancestral relationship to the rainforest, which honors the interconnectedness of all. Their guides are the spirit world and its curing traditions. But is ayahuasca a cure? Is the commodification of the sacred just a new way to exploit? Amazonian cultures, as we see, have suffered at the hands of Western ideologies, individualism and extractive industries. Our group learns that the shamans’ approach to medicine is not individual. It heals humanity's broken relationship with nature itself.

LIVE virtual Q&A to follow with:

Marc Silver (Director)

Tanya Kammonen (Facilitator, Temple of the Way of Light)