Before traveling to the Amazon to learn directly from shamans, Dr. Alberto Villoldo studied the human brain at the University of San Francisco. He conducted research on the root cause of disease, and how we could create lasting health within the mind and body. It was clear how psychosomatic illnesses can be caused, but the puzzle remained—how can body, mind, and soul be healed?
These questions led him to search for alternatie answers—views of space and time that differed from our Western ones.He packed his bags and left the laboratory for the Amazon jungle. During his travels, he met many shamans in the Amazon and the Andes, Africa, Indonesia, and Brazil who could heal the body and maintain health with only the power of their spirit and herbal remedies.
Alberto learned a lot from them, first as a medical anthropologist, and later as a direct student of the shamans. Ever since, it’s been his life’s work to bring these incredible healing techniques to the West, so that all people can benefit from lifelong health and wellbeing.