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.