Silvia Polivoy
Silvia lives and practices in Itacare, Brazil. She has been investigating modified states of consciousness for thirty years. Silvia has worked extensively with Ayahuasca, San Pedro cactus and other sacred plants in their native habitats. She studied in Mexico with Mazatec shamans.
Silvia has a postgraduate degree in clinical psychology. For more than 20 years she had a private practice in Buenos Aires, starting with psychoanalysis and later transactional analysis and transpersonal psychology. She soon began to explore shamanism and spiritual practices.
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Since 1996, she has hosted retreats for thousands of participants in both the Peruvian and the Brazilian Amazon. At these retreats she provides participants with the opportunity to “meet” the ancient plant teacher ayahuasca in it’s natural environment – the jungle.
Silvia is a trail breaking pioneer in South America who was one of the first to provided safe access to non-indigenous people of visionary plants. She models ethical female leadership in a world inhabited by mostly male shamans.
In 2004, Silvia co-founded The Vine Spiritual Retreat Center on the Atlantic forest of Bahia, Brazil. This center was purposely created to hold ayahuasca retreats for those interested in spiritual pursuits and was one of the first retreat centers ever created for this purpose.
Her work is in the spiritual realm, integrating her expertise in psychology, expanded states of consciousness, shamanism, and other spiritual practices. Her current focus is modeling an effective method for spiritual development and integration using ayahuasca.
She has a postgraduate degree in clinical psychology. For 20 years she had a private practice in Buenos Aires, starting with psychoanalysis, transactional analysis and transpersonal psychology, and later neo-shamanism and spiritual practices.
Learn more at www.spiritvineretreats.com.
Additional Reading: What I Have Learned by Sylvia Polivoy.