#11 — Ayurvedic Medicine with Dr Vanessa León-Sulca

Dr Vanessa León-Sulca is a Medical Doctor and Psychotherapist of Quechua lineage, with expertise in combining Ayurvedic traditional medicine and ayahuasca.

Having first pursued careers in politics and finance, she was forced into a profound healing journey of her own. Since then, Vanessa has immersed herself in the shamanic traditions and Andean cosmology from her native Peru.

She has also written on the historic trauma of colonisation in Peru from a psychotherapeutic perspective and is conducting ongoing research in this area, and has dived into the fascinating modality that is Ayurvedic medicine from India: the main topic of today's conversation.

Vanessa León-Sulca is one of many experts on Onaya's 6-month Psychedelic Mentorship Training programme. For more information and to find out how to enroll, visit Onaya's website and use the code 'INTHROUGH10' for a special 10% discount.

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