Waska: the cost of spiritual healing in the Amazon

Teona Gherasim

The plant medicine hayakwaska (ayahuasca), marketed as a mystical shortcut to healing and enlightenment, is an example of what the Indigenous storyteller Nina Gualinga, sees as commodification and extractivism in the Amazon. Subscribe to The Guardian on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/subscribegdn Nina is from the Kichwa people of Sarayaku, Ecuador, and she speaks with the memory of her shaman grandfather about the ongoing cultural appropriation, environmental destruction and marginalisation of her

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Waska: the cost of spiritual healing in the Amazon The Guardian - 17.06.2025 15:55