Ayahuasca - Awakening the Spirit Within

Ep 29 Once Lost Now Aligned

Welcome to Ayahuasca - Awakening The Spirit Within.
During this series we explore the transformative power of Ayahuasca, this podcast delves into personal stories of healing, spiritual awakening, and overcoming life's challenges, while providing insights into the journey before, during, and after retreats.
In this episode, John shares how Ayahuasca showed him his full potential which led to him majorly transforming his life post-retreat to create the most beautiful future for himself.  The medicine also healed his addictions and the grief he ws suffering from after his friend got murdered.
About your host: Claire Quirk.
Claire is a passionate medicine worker and founder of Yagéwaska, an ayahuasca retreat centre rooted in indigenous traditions. Overcoming personal struggles with anxiety, depression, and addiction, Claire's journey to healing and spiritual awakening led her to train with shamans in Peru and Colombia. Now based in Medellín, she is dedicated to guiding others on transformative journeys with ayahuasca, fostering a growing community of healing and self-discovery.
Follow on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/yagewaskaofficial/

028 Healing From Childhood Sexual Abuse & Grief

Welcome to Ayahuasca - Awakening The Spirit Within.
During this series we explore the transformative power of Ayahuasca, this podcast delves into personal stories of healing, spiritual awakening, and overcoming life's challenges, while providing insights into the journey before, during, and after retreats.
In this episode, Leigh shares how her retreats with us helped her to not only heal from the sexual abuse that she suffered from in childhood, but also helped her to forgive her abuser. She also talks about how she came to terms with her mum´s passing because the medicine showed her mum at peace in the heavenly paradise realm. 
About your host: Claire Quirk.
Claire is a passionate medicine worker and founder of Yagéwaska, an ayahuasca retreat centre rooted in indigenous traditions. Overcoming personal struggles with anxiety, depression, and addiction, Claire's journey to healing and spiritual awakening led her to train with shamans in Peru and Colombia. Now based in Medellín, she is dedicated to guiding others on transformative journeys with ayahuasca, fostering a growing community of healing and self-discovery.
Follow on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/yagewaskaofficial/

027 Sewing A Broken Heart Back Together

Welcome to Ayahuasca - Awakening The Spirit Within.
During this series we explore the transformative power of Ayahuasca, this podcast delves into personal stories of healing, spiritual awakening, and overcoming life's challenges, while providing insights into the journey before, during, and after retreats.
In this episode, Lauren shares how her heart was sewn back together in ceremony, curing a life-long heart related illness.  She also talks about how many loved ones who´d passed over to the otherside contacted her to bring her messages and assurances that they were happy in the spirit realm.  Since leaving retreat Lauren has been feeling strong and connected and her anxiety and insomnia has vanished.
About your host: Claire Quirk.
Claire is a passionate medicine worker and founder of Yagéwaska, an ayahuasca retreat centre rooted in indigenous traditions. Overcoming personal struggles with anxiety, depression, and addiction, Claire's journey to healing and spiritual awakening led her to train with shamans in Peru and Colombia. Now based in Medellín, she is dedicated to guiding others on transformative journeys with ayahuasca, fostering a growing community of healing and self-discovery.
Follow on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/yagewaskaofficial/

026 Healing ADHD & Mental Illness

Welcome to Ayahuasca - Awakening The Spirit Within.
During this series we explore the transformative power of Ayahuasca, this podcast delves into personal stories of healing, spiritual awakening, and overcoming life's challenges, while providing insights into the journey before, during, and after retreats.
In this episode, Scarlett shares how she had been diagnosed with ADHD, BPD, Bipolar, anxiety, depression and chronic pain disorder prior to coming on retreat with us.  She went through a beautiful healing  process on Ayahuasca which led to her full recovery from all of these illnesses.
About your host: Claire Quirk.
Claire is a passionate medicine worker and founder of Yagéwaska, an ayahuasca retreat centre rooted in indigenous traditions. Overcoming personal struggles with anxiety, depression, and addiction, Claire's journey to healing and spiritual awakening led her to train with shamans in Peru and Colombia. Now based in Medellín, she is dedicated to guiding others on transformative journeys with ayahuasca, fostering a growing community of healing and self-discovery.
Follow on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/yagewaskaofficial/

025 Suicide Prevention and Living For Another Day

Welcome to Ayahuasca - Awakening The Spirit Within.
During this series we explore the transformative power of Ayahuasca, this podcast delves into personal stories of healing, spiritual awakening, and overcoming life's challenges, while providing insights into the journey before, during, and after retreats.
In this episode, Ciaran shares how he lost his Dad to suicide age 12 and his mum passed away in 2019.  Having struggled with mental health issues and substances he came to us to break these patterns. In this episode, he shares how the medicine healed all of these struggles in his first retreat and talks about how he reunited with is mum and dad in one of his chumas which was a profoundly healing experience for him.
About your host: Claire Quirk.
Claire is a passionate medicine worker and founder of Yagéwaska, an ayahuasca retreat centre rooted in indigenous traditions. Overcoming personal struggles with anxiety, depression, and addiction, Claire's journey to healing and spiritual awakening led her to train with shamans in Peru and Colombia. Now based in Medellín, she is dedicated to guiding others on transformative journeys with ayahuasca, fostering a growing community of healing and self-discovery.
Follow on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/yagewaskaofficial/

024 The Alien Eyes of a Puma

Welcome to Ayahuasca - Awakening The Spirit Within.
During this series we explore the transformative power of Ayahuasca, this podcast delves into personal stories of healing, spiritual awakening, and overcoming life's challenges, while providing insights into the journey before, during, and after retreats.
In this episode, Kevin shares how he was suicidal and living in darkness after he was brutally stabbed and stamped on.  Ayahuasca removed the darkness and in his own words "created Kev 2.0".  He shares how this was the most incredible experience of his life and how it changed every aspect of his being.
About your host: Claire Quirk.
Claire is a passionate medicine worker and founder of Yagéwaska, an ayahuasca retreat centre rooted in indigenous traditions. Overcoming personal struggles with anxiety, depression, and addiction, Claire's journey to healing and spiritual awakening led her to train with shamans in Peru and Colombia. Now based in Medellín, she is dedicated to guiding others on transformative journeys with ayahuasca, fostering a growing community of healing and self-discovery.
Follow on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/yagewaskaofficial/

023 Source Realm & One Consciousness

Welcome to Ayahuasca - Awakening The Spirit Within.
During this series we explore the transformative power of Ayahuasca, this podcast delves into personal stories of healing, spiritual awakening, and overcoming life's challenges, while providing insights into the journey before, during, and after retreats.
In this episode, Elisa shares how she was freed from a darkness that followed her from early childhood do to abuse that she suffered from.  The medicine transported her to the source realm where she existed in pure healing bliss.
About your host: Claire Quirk.
Claire is a passionate medicine worker and founder of Yagéwaska, an ayahuasca retreat centre rooted in indigenous traditions. Overcoming personal struggles with anxiety, depression, and addiction, Claire's journey to healing and spiritual awakening led her to train with shamans in Peru and Colombia. Now based in Medellín, she is dedicated to guiding others on transformative journeys with ayahuasca, fostering a growing community of healing and self-discovery.
Follow on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/yagewaskaofficial/
Check out the official Yagéwaska retreat site : https://yagewaska.com/

022 Finding Your True Self

Welcome to Ayahuasca - Awakening The Spirit Within.
In this weeks episode Allison shares how she's still processing the magical experience she had with us more than 2 years later! She recieved a massive heart chakra opening coupled with intense inner child healing which led her to blossom in self-love and self-confidence.
During this series we explore the transformative power of Ayahuasca, this podcast delves into personal stories of healing, spiritual awakening, and overcoming life's challenges, while providing insights into the journey before, during, and after retreats.
 
About your host: Claire Quirk.
Claire is a passionate medicine worker and founder of Yagéwaska, an ayahuasca retreat centre rooted in indigenous traditions. Overcoming personal struggles with anxiety, depression, and addiction, Claire's journey to healing and spiritual awakening led her to train with shamans in Peru and Colombia. Now based in Medellín, she is dedicated to guiding others on transformative journeys with ayahuasca, fostering a growing community of healing and self-discovery.
Follow on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/yagewaskaofficial/
Check out the official Yagéwaska retreat site : https://yagewaska.com/

021 Trusting the process and finding community

Welcome to Ayahuasca - Awakening The Spirit Within.
During this series we explore the transformative power of Ayahuasca, this podcast delves into personal stories of healing, spiritual awakening, and overcoming life's challenges, while providing insights into the journey before, during, and after retreats.
In this weeks episode Conor shares how and he's been on 11, soon to be 12 retreats with us including two 10-day jungle retreats. He chats about how he was suffering from depression, anxiety, alcoholism and planned to take his own life before working with us. 
About your host: Claire Quirk.
Claire is a passionate medicine worker and founder of Yagéwaska, an ayahuasca retreat centre rooted in indigenous traditions. Overcoming personal struggles with anxiety, depression, and addiction, Claire's journey to healing and spiritual awakening led her to train with shamans in Peru and Colombia. Now based in Medellín, she is dedicated to guiding others on transformative journeys with ayahuasca, fostering a growing community of healing and self-discovery.
Follow on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/yagewaskaofficial/
Check out the official Yagéwaska retreat site : https://yagewaska.com/

020 Entering The Darkness To Find The Light

Welcome to Ayahuasca - Awakening The Spirit Within.
During this series we explore the transformative power of Ayahuasca, this podcast delves into personal stories of healing, spiritual awakening, and overcoming life's challenges, while providing insights into the journey before, during, and after retreats.
In this episode, Adam shares how prior to coming on retreat he was in a dark hole that he couldn't escape.  His healing journey on Ayahuasca was absolutely mindblowing and left him feeling like he could take on the world afterwards.
About your host: Claire Quirk.
Claire is a passionate medicine worker and founder of Yagéwaska, an ayahuasca retreat centre rooted in indigenous traditions. Overcoming personal struggles with anxiety, depression, and addiction, Claire's journey to healing and spiritual awakening led her to train with shamans in Peru and Colombia. Now based in Medellín, she is dedicated to guiding others on transformative journeys with ayahuasca, fostering a growing community of healing and self-discovery.
Follow on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/yagewaskaofficial/
Check out the official Yagéwaska retreat site : https://yagewaska.com/