From Exploitation to Harmony: Seeking Balance between Humans and Nature
The history of humanity, in the last 300 years since the industrial revolution, has resulted in wars, famine, and ecological devastation....
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Transforming our World Through Ancestral Wisdom
Empowering lives through the Transformative Power of Sacred Plant Medicines and Ancient Knowledge
Transformation Rooted in Earth’s Wisdom
Biorhythms, Plant medicines, and Nature guide us toward simple truths rooted in our Divine selves. For those feeling lost or searching for purpose, it’s time to release suffering, embrace natural ways, and embark on a journey of collective evolution—returning to our true essence.
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By integrating the insights of sacred plant medicines, ancestral teachings, and modern science, we can deepen our connection to ourselves and the cosmos. Together, we can awaken our full potential and cultivate community resilience.
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Join us on this transformative journey, and let’s inspire healing and awakening in the world.
Health for a Modern World: Where Spirit Meets Practice
Ancestrally, medicinal plants have always been used with one purpose: healing. Erika Salazar bridges that ancestral understanding of healing with the modern world, integrating the spiritual realm with life-changing practices for personal and collective transformation.
RETURN TO THE ORIGINS BOOK
"Path of Ancestral Wisdom"
By Erika Salazar
In our Origins, we find our true Nature, a path open to building a life of purpose and healing for ourselves and our world.
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Return to the Ancestral codes of Nature, Healing, and Unity that fill our lives with purpose and wisdom.
​​Learn the laws of healing that can transform our lives and relations.​"Embark on a profound journey into the heart of humanity's spiritual evolution with 'Return to the Origins: The Ancestral Wisdom of the Earth."
Journey through the Universal Principles of Plant Medicine and integrate Ancient Energy Techniques to clear your greatest blocks and achieve Harmony and well-being.
Ancestral Wisdom
We honor the Earth's ancestral wisdom and the rich legacy of the Indigenous peoples. These sacred traditions are open portals for humanity's healing and evolution.
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Our focus on sacred plants—commonly known in the modern world as psychedelics—highlights their role as profound teachers. Through transformative visions and purges, these plant medicines offer clarity and purification. They pave the way for a deep reconnection between humanity, nature, and existence.
PLANT MEDICINE
AYAHUASCA RETREATS
Ayahuasca can be a transformative ally if you’re seeking deep healing, a greater understanding of yourself, and true knowledge. With 40 years of experience and the support of ancestral lineages, the work at Shanayoy is dedicated to guiding you through your healing journey.
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Plant medicine offers a powerful pathway to renewal, no matter the challenges you face—chronic pain, emotional turmoil, or a sense of lost purpose.
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I invite you—whether you’re a thought leader, healer, activist, teacher, or dreamer—to join us for transformative Ayahuasca and integration retreats in Colombia, led by Indigenous leader Taita Juan Agreda and me. Together, we will embark on a journey of profound transformation and awakening.
Empower yourself to shift from being an observer to a creator—learn to tap into the strength of your ancestors to transform your life.
Welcome,
I’m Erika (she/her)
Author & Medicine Woman
I’ve been a devoted Plant Medicine Yage/Ayahuasca student in the ancestral Kamentsa lineage and practitioner as a medicine Woman in the Sacred Healing Altar for more than twenty years; through my work, I share messages of courage and liberation with communities in the Global North and South.
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I’m a founding teacher of ElOrigen for Plant Medicine Education and OIOC, a non-profit organization for environmental consciousness and conservation in the Amazon of Colombia. I support reciprocity efforts towards Indigenous communities. I am a member of Shanayoy Healing Center and have spent more than a decade studying Medical Herbalism and holistic therapy.
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As a minister of Circle of Sacred Nature, I’ve led hundreds of ceremonies with folks from all walks of life to help them experience accelerated healing by blending ancestral plant medicine ceremonies and modern ways of healing.
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I’m passionate about service as my life purpose and working with communities to heal, empowering everyone to become the changemakers we are all meant to be.
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MY NEW BOOK
ELEMENTAL HEALTH
For millennia, medicinal plants have been used for one purpose: healing.
Rooted in the deep understanding of natural cycles, body energies, and our environmental connection, this ancestral wisdom offers holistic solutions for true well-being.
In Salud Elemental, Erika Salazar bridges this ancient knowledge with the modern world, weaving together the spiritual realm and inner power to guide readers toward harmony, healing, and creating their own reality.
Our Indigenous People
Reciprocity Efforts
Supporting Indigenous-Led Initiatives Towards Community Resiliency in Sibundoy, Colombia
The world's ancestral wisdom is alive thanks to Indigenous resilience and resistance. For 13 years, our organizations, OIOC and CSN, have, in a union of forces, supported efforts to claim and empower the Kamentsa Indigenous community through culture, education, health, house reconstruction, and reforestation.
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Support the indigenous nations!
REMEMBERING our inner wisdom and divinity
Deepen Your Practice in Consciousness within the Ancestral Wisdom Worldview in the Field of Plant Medicine, Spiritual Healing, and Shamanic Traditions
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