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Alberto Villoldo



Alberto Villoldo, PhD, is a Cuba-born medical psychologist, author, and medical anthropologist who has studied the shamanic healing practices of the Amazon and Andes for over thirty years. He directed the Biological Self-Regulation Laboratory at San Francisco State University, which studies how the mind creates psychosomatic health and disease. He is also the founder of the Four Winds Society, an international research and training organization dedicated to bridging ancient shamanic traditions with modern medicine and psychology to achieve personal and planetary healing.

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See Dr. Alberto Villoldo Performing Shamanic Healing

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Yoga, Power & Spirit: Patanjali the Shaman

Derived from an ancient oral tradition, when the Divine feminine was worshiped, the Yoga Sutras were once taught by priests and scholars from a masculine tradition that obscured their deep wisdom.

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Self-Realization

The beauty of shamanism is that it is a direct experience of your own personal dialogue with Spirit.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThere are two kinds of people in the world: those who are dreamers and those who are being dreamed.

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One Spirit Medicine

One Spirit Medicine is founded on three ideas. Alberto Villoldo discusses these to find healing energy.

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Dance of the Four Winds: Secrets of the Inca Medicine Wheel

Dance of the Four Winds recounts the adventures of the American psychologist Alberto Villoldo as he journeys to Peru to explore the visionary ceremonies of the native shamans.

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An Interview with Shaman Alberto Villoldo

In Healing the Luminous Body: The Way of the Shaman, Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D., a psychologist, medical anthropologist and renowned shamanic healer, shares a captivating story of the first time he entered the Amazon rain forest as he embarked on his own shamanic journey.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageWhen the first chakra is disconnected from the feminine Earth, we can feel orphaned and motherless. The masculine principle predominates, and we look for security from material things. Individuality prevails over relationship, and selfish drives triumph over family, social and global responsibility.

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Healing States: A Journey into the World of Spiritual Healing and Shamanism

A colorful and compelling examination of evidence for the mind's ability to heal, taking a step into the fascinating world of psychic healing and shamanism. 80 black-and-white photographs.

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Alberto Villoldo – 2012-The Next Step of Evolution?

For the shaman-the shaman is a medicine man or woman-they differentiate between information and knowledge. Information is knowing that water is H20; knowledge is being able to make it rain. Information is knowing a diagnosis; knowledge is being able to heal. - Alberto Villoldo

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