Jamie Atherton

IKARA RETREAT CENTRE
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​Iboga has been a big part of my journey in becoming serious when it comes to loving, learning, forgiving, and in other words, learning to love unconditionally. If it involves connections, translations, transduction, merging and bridge building - I am all over it. If it means feeling separated from a collective social understanding in an effort to reconnect to the self to be better for all, I´ll take the seemingly separated route every time. I love being the first to admit failings because I love learning and I love receiving help. This is where I feel loved and connected. My primary care for others exists in me being able to assist them in some shape, way or form with their individual expression of truth. It is not what they believe, rather, it is primary that they be free to believe that which they choose, to breathe and live their choices. For me intelligence resides within emotion. It is the compartment where knowledge exists, we merely use our beliefs to access the knowledge.

I have 20 years of plant medicine experience. Ikara Retreat Center is my new home. Having experienced personal transformation through Iboga, it was the catalyst for my ongoing commitment to the study of the self and others emancipation.. My research into undivided wholeness through comparative philosophies, disciplines of science including epigenetics, earth bioenergies and archeoastronomy is ongoing and continuous  I am an Iyengar yoga student of 10 years and a certified Hatha Yoga Teacher specializing in traditional  Pranayama and Restorative yoga designed around the release of physically manifested energies derived of mental traumas and affliction. I continue to seek to apply Yogic Science as seen through Patanjalis Sutras and the 8 fold path to work in conjunction with and according to, the physical and mental demands of Plant medicine namely Iboga.