Healthcare Practitioners Retreat

This very special retreat will feature powerful ayahuasca / shamanic healing led by two female and two male high-level Shipibo healers; supported by Matthew Watherston, the founder of the Temple of the Way of Light, and two senior Temple facilitators, Publio Valle and Deborah Rivett. Together, we bring unprecedented experience over decades of working within genuine Amazonian shamanic healing practices.

We will also be collaborating with Dr. Keith Loring, MD, who has 25 years of experience working in emergency medicine, now working in addiction medicine, with training in Compassionate Inquiry and Internal Family Systems, and Dr. Sarah Marshall, a naturopathic physician with over 15 years of experience and one of the Temple’s Integration Program facilitators.

This uniquely designed program is exclusively for healthcare professionals working in medical and mental health settings. Priority consideration will be given to applicants with 10+ years of applied experience in their field and/or applicants with MD/ND/PhD/PsyD/DC/LAc/DoM level qualifications.

We aim to bring healing and spiritual awakening to individuals working in Western healthcare and, thus, to the systems they serve. We see the profound potential of transformed and awakened individuals to impact those they serve: their patients, colleagues, institutions, and communities.

The healing modalities provided throughout this program were developed to facilitate working through problematic emotional depths, transforming conscious and unconscious compensatory mechanisms, and inspiring possibilities for integrating Indigenous wisdom and spiritual healing within conventional healthcare systems.