The 54-year-old mother was visiting a retreat described as a “sacred space” where Westerners go to “expand consciousness”.
A British mother of three died at a remote retreat in the Bolivian Amazon rainforest after allegedly drinking tea laced with the psychedelic drug ayahuasca.
Rainford’s daughter Rochel, 32, said staff at the retreat told her that her mother had suffered a “medical emergency”. Shaman Pablo Flores raises his hands to the sky before the beginning of an ayahuasca session, in Nuevo Egipto, a remote town in the jungles of Peru.Staff tried for an hour to resuscitate her but she died before the doctor arrived, the family were told.
The bitter beverage, made from brewing leaves and stalks from two local plants, has been long used by the indigenous tribes in South America for medicinal, spiritual and ceremonial purposes.In recent years, the Amazon has experienced a boom in Western tourists travelling to retreats to take part in the ayahuasca ceremonies, seeking alternative therapy., he admitted to taking the drug “therapeutically” and “medicinally” in order to help him overcome PTSD connected to his mother’s death.
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