Long before the advent of "modern medicine" indigenous tribes all over the world have been using "medicines" extracted from plants and animals in nature for thousands of years, yet somehow in our modern society we deem indigenous or natural medicines as alternative or unproven therapies when they were indeed the original medicines. In this episode, Lois and Will, along with special guest and Kambo practitioner Donell Wicklund, take on the topic of Kambo, which is a traditional Amazonian medicine that has been used for thousands of years for medicinal and spiritual purposes by indigenous tribes in the Amazon rainforest, primarily in Brazil, Peru, and Colombia.

Kambo is made from the secretion of the giant monkey frog (Phyllomedusa bicolor) and is applied to the skin through small burns made by a healer. Kambo is claimed to have various benefits, such as reducing pain, improving immunity, and treating a wide range of physical and psychological conditions. In recent years, the use of Kambo has spread outside of indigenous communities and gained popularity in the West as an alternative medicine and spiritual practice. The use of Kambo is traditionally associated with hunting and is believed to provide increased strength, stamina, and sensory perception. It is also used for medicinal purposes to treat a variety of ailments, such as autoimmune disease, infections, inflammation, and pain. In addition, Kambo is used in spiritual ceremonies and is believed to help cleanse the body and promote spiritual growth. 

Lois attributes Kambo as one of the primary components of her profound (and medically documented) healing from a 15+ year battle diagnosed with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus when western medicine failed her. She is now going on 7 years pharmaceutical drugs and symptom free. They discuss the safety and effectiveness of this incredible medicine (which its legal in the United States) and best practices for finding a knowledgable practitioner, along with ways to ensure a safe and productive experience. 

Kambo contains a number of bioactive peptides, which are small chains of amino acids that can have various effects on the body. Some of the peptides in Kambo are known to have analgesic (pain-relieving), anti-inflammatory, and antimicrobial properties. Donell brings a unique scientific approach to working with this medicine so that we can continue to understand how the bioactive peptides contained in Kambo work. Overall, the exact mechanisms by which these bioactive peptides in Kambo work are not well understood, and more research is needed to fully understand their effects on the body.

Have you sat with Kambo? We'd love you hear about your experience. 

MEET DONELL WICKLUND: 

Donell has spent most of her adult life exploring health, physiology, and functional medicine is dedicated to understanding how the human can function more optimally through exploring practices, tools and natural healing resources. She is incredibly knowledgable in the area of psychedelics, psychology and human performance. Donell can be reached at 561-699-0132. 

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Socrates old axiom Know Thyself is perhaps one of the simplest and most profound statements ever spoken - but to truly know thyself you need tools. In this epsisode, Will, and Lois along with a special guest and Cosmic Channel Bre Choat share and discuss the tools that have been most pivotal in their individual transformations and growth. From Gene Keys, Astrology, Human Design, Tarot, and more, they discuss the importance of not getting lost in a modality or using it as a weapon but using them to reach deeper levels of understanding and rise into the highest version of yourself. 

There are a lot of tools available if you are committed to your own evolution and in this episode, we share how to find the ones most effect for you.  

Hey listeners!! We would love to hear what tools you have found effective on your journey to healing and wholeness. If you are seeking tools, community or support join us in our private social community Meraki Social where we are curating a sacred space to find it all. 

Meet Bre Choat: Bre is a cosmic channel for communicating directly to the Divine, your guides, angels, and ancestors through the medium of tarot, and oracle cards to help you find deeper alignment on the human journey. FIND BRE ON MERAKI TRIBE COLLECTIVE.  If you want an incredibly powerful life-directing tarot reading Bre is your girl! 

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In this episode, Will and Lois discuss the nature of duality and what is consciousness. The nature of existence in this 3d realm is duality - as in we all have the capacity for good or evil, light and dark, Ying and Yang. Life exists in a spectrum and learning to navigate the duality is what this human experience is all about. So many in spiritual communities are seeking to transcend the human experience instead of embracing the totality of it. We get to choose how we show up in the world, the impact we have, and the legacy we leave through the choices we make. This discussion is a call to action and deep contemplation on some higher-level concepts meant to get you thinking about your contribution to creating positive change. We'd love to hear your thoughts on this subject. 

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In this episode, Will, Lois, and special guest Anastasia Menachem discuss what it means to hold space and create SACRED space in ceremony and in life. Ceremony isn’t the only time you are supposed to carry yourself in a sacred way it is supposed to remind you that YOU are sacred and to carry yourself that way every day. Many of us have forgotten what it means to hold things sacred and this podcast is meant as a reminder to bring back the sacred. From our connection with Mother Earth to our connection with self, ceremony brings us back into right relationship. Through circle and ceremony the sacred can be known.

They share stories and experiences from life and ceremony, plus practices that have allowed them to translate sacredness into everyday life. 

MEET ANASTASIA: Anastasia is an incredibly talented artist and medicine woman walking the Red Road and sacredness flows through her every breath. She can be found on Meraki Tribe Collective. (You will want to check out her art!! It’s Ahhhhhmamaaazziing!!)

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SENSITIVE TOPIC WARNING: This episode briefly discusses rape and sexuality. 

In this episode, Will and Lois along with special guests Christy LeCuyer and Anastasia Mencham are holding nothing back. We said we were going to take on some spicy topics and dive into some uncomfortable conversations that gets to be had and this is one of them we see as problematic in the healing and medicine communities and that's the sudden rise in "Popup Shamans" as we call them. By Popup Shamans we mean the ones that sit in one medicine ceremony or have one mystical experience or decide Shamanism is cool and suddenly decide they've found their new career - with no lineage, no mentor, nor proper initiation or apprenticeship, or even a true understanding of what shamanism is  - they start holding ceremony and taking on clients. It's dangerous and is something that happening far too often leaving a swath of walking wounded in their wake. They share from their personal experience and give listeners valuable tips on what to look out for and how to protect yourself in ceremonial/medicine space - especially if sexuality  is being introduced into a "healing space" under the guise of tantra or sacred sexuality. 

You can't just call yourself a shaman. It doesn't work like that.  The path of shamanism is a sacred one and it carries with it great power and great responsibility. It is a path of deep initiation. One just does not decide to be a shaman or will it so. It is a calling.

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In this episode, Will and Lois take on the topic of false scarcity and the fundamental challenge facing humanity today.

We are living in a paradigm of manufactured scarcity and it seems most of humanity has bought into this false construct - which is continually reinforced through education, religion, government, and industry. Our entire economic system is rooted in scarcity - which creates a distinct separation between the haves and have-nots and fuels economic disparity. We talk often about the importance of healing from your woundings and ancestral traumas and ending cycles of dysfunction, but the reality is when people are operating from a space of survival and deep scarcity it’s hard to evolve and self-actualize and make choices from a place of power. Poverty in turn feeds violence and crime and issues of morality.  So how do we change it? How do we flip the conversation around scarcity on its head? Fundamentally we need to shift the paradigm we are currently living in. We get to change the way we look at things and the artificial scarcity model we are currently embracing.

This episode is full of heart-warming stories and practical ideas to get the conversation started so humanity can come up with collective solutions. Listen in to hear what we think the solution is.

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In this episode, Will and Lois along with special guest and dear friend, Windy Woo, Certified Atmana Intuitive Life Coach, Certified Soul Realignment® Practitioner, and Breatherain™ Healer, dive into a controversial, action-oriented, thought-provoking conversation with lots of laughs mixed in -  meant to get you thinking... and questioning everything you know.

From the moment we are born we are indoctrinated, domesticated, conditioned, programmed, and homogenized and we are taught to blindly trust and give our power and authority away... and we wonder why so many are living disempowered lives?

How do we break free from the programming? How do we determine what is truth and not just what we were taught is truth? How do you learn what is correct for you? How do you break free from the pressure of pleasing and agreeing with family, loved ones, and friends and allow yourself to live a life in congruence with your own soul? It all starts by questioning everything and giving yourself permission to change.

Wyndi, Will & Lois each share wisdom from their personal journey to discovery and profound healing through questioning everything and continually re-evaluating belief systems through their unique perspectives.

If your life is not working and you are living deep in suffering and struggle or lacking peace and fulfillment maybe it's time to start questioning everything you think you know. Give yourself permission to get curious, evaluate your beliefs, observe what's working and what's not, and begin to question why.  We were not meant to live a life of suffering but to use the suffering as a catalyst for growth and evolution so that we might live in joy, abundance and peace.

We welcome your thoughts and perspective.

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