Shaman's Pharmacy student Sam Billings, with Tarantulla. Photo by Zoe Helene
Amazon Shamanic Medicine provides a unique, intensive exploration of the plant-based medicines of Amazon rainforest, a body of knowledge derived from shamans who are considered among the most capable of natural healers alive today.
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Emily with Emerald Boa
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Rachael Carlevale Swinging in Jungle Vines
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Tim West Kissing Fish
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Haleemah Jackson and The Ceiba Tree
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Sam Billings with Tarantula
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Julie Mahdavi on the Canopy Walk
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Elly Vaughan on Cultural Preservation and the Rainforest
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Chris and Segundo on the Canopy Walk
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Amazonian Caterpillar
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Chris Kiham at the Canopy Walk
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The Shaman's Pharmacy is a 3-credit course and field trip, taught and led by UMass Explorer in Residence Chris Kilham, an internationally recognized ethnobotanist and medicine hunter with over 30 years of field experience, to study medicinal plants the Peruvian Amazon. Read more about The Shaman’s Pharmacy (Amazon Field Immersion Course). The course involves three two-hour class sessions, and eight days of travel and participation in studies and rainforest activities, in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest.
The course is sponsored by the UMass Medicinal Plant Program, the UMass Department of Plant, Soil, & Insect Sciences, and the UMass International Programs Office.
Students, please send your best high resolution photos (with captions, please) to Zoe Helene: zoe@cosmicsister.com