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placeAt the Community woodland in Balerno
placeBooking in advance recommended to secure your place.
today This is a beautiful opportunity to connect deeply with three Indigenous elders and a young Yawanawa musician in a sacred and enriching way. Their presence offers profound wisdom, cultural sharing, and heart-opening experiences rooted in indigenous traditions.
today Note: Those interested in a shorter event can attend an evening Rapeh Ceremony via the Planetary Healing Centre. Click here to book Rapeh Ceremonies.
Meet the elders:
Maná Madhá
Maná has received from his own people, the name of "Santo" (Saint), what already tells us much about his noble mission on the service of healing.
Maná has received a traditional training that very few shamans [pajés] have today. He possesses an extraordinary knowledge of plants and a technique of spiritual healing that allows him in some cases to bring the disease into his mouth and materialize it into small stones that he then spits out.
Well known for his healing gifts, Maná is a great master when it comes to healing of a spiritual nature, being a "complete shaman", both in terms of physical and spiritual matters.
Ratsuhá Madhá
Ratsuhá also has received a traditional training that very few healers have today. Ratsuhá is a birth specialist having attended the birth of approximately 2,800 babies and also a plant specialist. She works together with her husband Maná in the healing arts according to the Madhá tradition.
Vêsku Yawanawá
Vêsku lives in the village of the Apurina people and has dedicated her life to the culture of indigenous peoples from several states of Brazil, especially women, aiming at strengthening the use of medicinal plants. She is the oldest sister of the spiritual leader Putanny and therefore shares with her the connection with her grandfather, a great healer who also knew many medicinal plants.
She is part of the Sitoakore Women's Organization, having organized innumerous events to exchange indigenous knowledge between 18 indigenous nations, thus witnessing and learning various healing knowledge with the use of oils, plants, trunks, leaves and roots.
Vesku has also developed a healing centre, the IRPY Instituto Runyn Pupykary Yawanawá, a medicinal plant pharmacy and a seed bank. She is a specialist in childbirth and an apprentice to healing and the use of medicinal plants.
Runuiná Yawanawá
Runuiná carries in his name the mystery of great healing beings of the forest. Grandson of a great leadership Raimundo Luiz Tuimkuru, he is the son of Vesku Yawanawá and Antônio Apurinà, two great leaders within the indigenous movement in Brazil.
He is an apprentice of Maná Madhá and did diet guided by Biraci Nixiwaká and his aunt Putanny in the Holy Village (Aldeia Sagrada).
Runuiná is a very talented musician with a unique voice, bringing songs from a very deep Yawanawá root.
Acknowledgement:
In heartfelt remembrance, Claudia would like to honor and acknowledge the revered elder Tatá Txanu Natasheni (Tatá Yawanawá), who has transitioned to the Spirit World. Tatá served as a profound bridge, connecting Brazil and Scotland in 2016. With his wisdom and radiant spirit, Tatá, at the age of 104, touched the hearts of many. It was his guiding spirit that led Claudia back to the Amazon, igniting in her a deep commitment to support the indigenous communities through the Indigenous projects initiated via the Planetary Healing Centre and the Edinburgh Shamanic Centre. Tatá's legacy continues to inspire her work, and she holds his beautiful soul in eternal gratitude.
What Cláudia says:
I have had the priviledge to meet, visit and work with Shaman Maná, Ratsuhá, Vesku and Runuiná since 2016 and always wanted to share these experiences with the people of Scotland.
I feel really excited and deeply honoured that they are coming to visit us for the second time and share their wisdom. If you did not manage to go to the Amazon, now the Amazon is coming to you.
How to book:
Cultural Exchange group: 2pm to 9pm
Tue 2nd, Wed 3rd, Thu 4th Sep
FEW PLACES LEFT!
Exchange: 1 day:£265 / £240 / £230 / £220 / £190 (please choose and donate generously, your contribution will be supporting 3 villages). If you need further support with this, please talk to us.
Note: The program is the same each day, so participants are invited to choose one day to attend. This is not an Ayahuasca ceremony, but a cultural exchange rooted in ancestral wisdom. The day will include sharing of knowledge and teachings, a medicinal plant bath, Rapé and Sananga circle, sacred song circles, and conversations about traditional crafts.
Personal Consultations (1 hour).
FULLY BOOKED! Contact Claudia to be on the waiting list.
Choose from 09:00am to 12:00pm
Exchange: £450 / £430 / £420 / £400 (please choose and donate generously, your contribution will be supporting 3 villages). If you need further support with this, please talk to us.
Maná practices a very ancient and profound technique of healing, which is preserved in rare and very few shamans in the forest. Such healing is difficult to transcribe into words in the Portuguese language or any linear language, due to its complexity, and because it is based and rooted in other paradigms and visions of physical/material reality. In some cases, small stones removed from the body of the person receiving the treatment can be materialized, and a specific diet and protection are subsequently indicated. Claudia will be the translator.
Session for the Opening of the Soul Voice: (1 hour).
FULLY BOOKED! Contact Claudia to be on the waiting list.
Choose from 09:00am to 12:00pm
Exchange: £380 / £370 / £360 / £350 (please choose and donate generously, your contribution will be supporting 3 villages). If you need further support with this, please talk to us.
Another service offered by Maná in the morning will be the “Opening of the Soul Voice” — a sacred modality that includes bodywork and spiritual practice to help open or unblock the soul voice. This voice is the authentic expression of our innermost self — not influenced by ego, fear, or conditioning. It guides us toward our purpose and inner truth. Soul voice work also connects us to ancestral healing — restoring what has been silenced in our lineage.
Students who have a deeper understanding of the Yawanawá tradition will recognise the profound spiritual respect the Kulina-Madhá people hold in this kind of work.
Note:
Due to the highly specific nature of his healing work, Maná will offer only four sessions per day, so you can book either a Personal Consultation or a Session for Openning the Soul voice. These sessions will take place in the morning.
Kambo cleansing on Friday: 7am to 10am
FULLY BOOKED. Contact Claudia to be on the waiting list.
Exchange: £140 / £130 or £120 (please choose and donate generously, your contribution will be supporting 3 villages). If you need further support with this, please talk to us.
Mana', Runuina and Vesku will offer a Kambo ceremony — a traditional healing ritual that uses the secretion of the Phyllomedusa bicolor (a rainforest frog) to cleanse the body, strengthen the immune system, and release energetic blockages. This powerful practice has been used for generations to restore balance and vitality on physical, emotional, and spiritual levels.
All funds raised, after flights and all costs are paid, will be donated to support the Madha, the Yawanawa and the Apurina communities. They are 3 different villages situated in Acre, Brazil. To book please pay 50% or 100% for each event booked. All 100% refundable if we cancel from our side, or 40% non-refundable if you cancel last minute without pointing a replacement.
What to bring:
Please come in warm clothes ready for all weather. Layers are recommended for the day cultural exchange and for the one-on-one sessions, also outdoors footwear. Please bring a blanket, if you like, a paked lunch for 6pm, a towel, bathing clothes for the medicinal plants bath and a camping chair if you have one.
We will provide for everyone: vegetarian lentil soup, tea, coffee, water, cups, cutlery, 6 camping chairs for pleople over 50, 16 normal chairs plus some cushions.
Weather:
This is an outdoors event and we will have a bell tent as a backup plus various gazebos as shelters if needed. We will be seating confortably around the fire.
Where:
Healing Sessions, Group work and Rapeh Ceremonies:
Meeting Point: Meet at the Planetary Healing Community Woodland, Cockburnhill Road / Buteland Road, Balerno, EH14 7JB
Getting There by Bus
1. Take bus 44 or 44A to Balerno village.
2. Get off at the third bus stop after the roundabout.
3. Walk along Cockburnhill Road for about 15 minutes.
4. At the V-junction, turn right.
5. Walk for about 2 minutes until you see the Planetary Healing sign on your left.
6. Enter the woodland and follow the stream, crossing the bridges as you go, until you find us.
By Car
* No parking in front of the woodland – we kindly ask visitors not to park there.
* Please park at Cockburnhill Road, before the V junction, and walk to the site as described above.
Upon arriving at the gate, there are a few bridges to cross before reaching to where we are. We have a composting toilet in the woodland.
For the Kambo Ceremony:
Meet at Shamanic Centre: 5 Cockburn Farm, Balerno, EH14 7JB. Please park inside our driveway. If there is no more space, please let us know and we will show you another place in the Farm. There will be three toilets available on site for everyone’s use.
Important Info: parking and questions
For the cultural exchange event, please park on Cockburnhill Road and enjoy a short 3-minute walk to the woodland. We kindly ask that no one park directly in front of the woodland unless you have mobility needs or are an elder. Thank you for your understanding and respect.
If you have any questions before or on the day regarding this event, please text: 075 0443 8763
