Today I speak with Brian Van Tighem who has spent the last 5 years studying in the Shipibo Indigenous medicine traditions, apprenticing under Shipibo brothers. Over the last couple years, Brian has been working with the Ayahuasca Foundation as a program facilitator/assistant healer, running programs alongside his teachers. We talk about his experiences with Ayahuasca and plant medicine, the relationships built with plants and the Shipibo traditions, and some guidance for those interested in partaking in an Ayahuasca ceremony in a traditional setting in Peru, or internationally.