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Sensitive in Nature PodcastHow the Q'ero Community of Peru Work with Their Inborn Intuitions with Caara LovickHow can you properly merge the gifts of having a physical body and an energetic spirit? Is it possible to share energies with others? What is the magnetic power of community for truth and communication? In this podcast episode, I speak about how the Q'ero community of Peru work with their inborn intuitions with Caara Lovick. Together we reflect on the power of community, and what it means to heal energetically. Thanks for listening, I'd love to connect with...2023-08-2431 minSensitive in Nature PodcastHow the Q'ero Community of Peru Work with Their Inborn Intuitions with Caara LovickHow can you properly merge the gifts of having a physical body and an energetic spirit? Is it possible to share energies with others? What is the magnetic power of community for truth and communication? In this podcast episode, I speak about how the Q'ero community of Peru work with their inborn intuitions with Caara Lovick. Together we reflect on the power of community, and what it means to heal energetically. Thanks for listening, I'd love to connect with...2023-08-2431 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 37: Part 4 - Best Practices for Working with Indigenous Healers and Their CommunitiesIn the last episode of the mini-series "Best Practices for Working with Indigenous Healers and Their Communities," we're sharing a coca reading about Traditional Medicine and Caara's work. We asked the Q'ero to ask Mother Earth and the Sacred Mountains what they think of this project and if it's good. We're working to have the coca reading up on Youtube by the time this episode is released so you can read along. After this episode, we will take a break to work on a free webinar to give you everything you need to navigate your healing using Traditional Indigenous...2023-07-2918 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 36: Part 3 - Best Practices for Working with Indigenous Healers and Their CommunitiesOur last episode discussed how worker-owned or community-owned cooperative business structures harmonize with Amazonian and High Andean Q'ero traditions. Democratic workplaces safeguard communities, ensure no abuse takes place, and helps distribute wealth more evenly. Although projects can take on a more conventional business model until the project is successful, anyone working with these traditions should prepare for the day that they have to convert their business into a cooperative. In today's episode, we discuss what could happen if you decide not to respect these traditions and don't walk this path of power with the communities you're in business with. 2023-07-2124 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 35: Part 2 - Best Practices for Working with Indigenous Healers and Their CommunitiesThis episode discusses how worker-owned or community-owned businesses are the best structures for projects working with these indigenous healers and their communities. These businesses bring democracy into the workplace and harmonize with these healing traditions. The idea of capitalism is not native to the Americas. Although we live in a capitalist society, we must preserve these traditions by honoring them and creating businesses that are in harmony with them. Sometimes a conventional business is more practical at first, but our goal should always be to convert these businesses to maximize their value for these communities. www.traditionalmedicinemiami.c...2023-07-1420 min
Chakras and ShotgunsE79 Southside: Understanding the Sacred Plants and Healing Medicine of South America feat. Caara LovickSend us a textExplore South American indigenous medicine as Mik and Jenn team up with Caara Lovick from Traditional Medicine Miami. In this episode, they delve into the renowned Brazilian ayahuasca, a widely known plant medicine. Additionally, they unveil the sacred earth medicine of the Q'ero, an indigenous people who miraculously evaded colonization. Explore the transformative powers and ancient wisdom embedded in these indigenous healing traditions. Some things we talked about in this episode: Want to know more about Caara Lovick’s work (and maybe even get a reading with the Q’ero)? Check...2023-07-1029 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 34: Part 1 - Best Practices for Working with Indigenous Healers and Their CommunitiesIn this episode, we're discussing best practices for working with indigenous healers and their communities. To start this conversation, we must examine the science behind keeping human populations healthy and happy. We will review what anthropologists and epidemiologists (health experts who study large human populations) have found out regarding this topic and how this same wisdom is embedded into the fabric of both Amazonian and High Andean Q'ero healing traditions. www.traditionalmedicinemiami.comhttps://www.instagram.com/traditionalmedicinemiami2023-07-0920 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 33: Part 4 - What is Power?In our mini-series on what power is, we've talked about how power is the ability to hold space for good things to happen and how virtues like radical compassion and service to this planet are part of the keys to unlocking high levels of power. Now in this episode, we discuss Mother Earth and her energetic role in helping us to reach new levels of power. Just like a marathon runner would not be able to run long distances without the proper nutrition, we also cannot access high levels of consciousness and power without this planet's energetic and spiritual...2023-07-0225 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 32: Part 3 - What is Power?In this episode, we delve deeper into the exploration of power, drawing from personal experiences. I share insights gained from Ayahuasca training, recounting simulations in ceremonies that illuminate the essence of power. Join me on this journey through the Amazonian and High Andean Q’ero healing traditions, uncovering valuable lessons along the way.www.traditionalmedicinemiami.comhttps://www.instagram.com/traditionalmedicinemiami2023-06-2534 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 31: Part 2 - What is Power?In today's episode, we continue discussing power and what power is for wisdom keepers in the Andes and the Amazon. And it's not just the way wisdom keepers of the Andes or the Amazon view power; it is multiple religions and spiritual disciplines saying the same thing. Why? Because they are tapping into the same truth. Today we talk about how Amazonian healers and Q'ero healers walk the path to power and follow the same path as bible scriptures and other texts from other disciplines without having a book of their own. Instead of reading about the way to...2023-06-1821 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 30: Part 1 - What is Power?For indigenous healers in both the Amazon and High Andes, power is the ability to hold space for good things to happen. To build and access power, healers must undergo a challenging, energetic, and spiritual refinement process that helps them bring powerful medicine into this world. In this episode, we discuss what power means in these traditions and how they compare to other traditions and religions that outline the path to power or enlightenment. www.traditionalmedicinemiami.comhttps://www.instagram.com/traditionalmedicinemiami2023-06-1116 min
The Practice of Therapy PodcastCaara Lovick | Connecting Mental Health and Indigenous Healing | TPOT 282On this episode of "The Practice of Therapy" podcast, host Gordon talks to Caara Lovick about incorporating traditional indigenous medicines into mental health healing journeys. Caara Lovick serves as a healing facilitator and translator for a project called "Traditional Medicine" based out of Miami, FL. They discuss the benefits and considerations of traditional healing and how it complements Western medicine. Overall, the episode offers a unique perspective on the intersection of indigenous healthcare and Western medicine and how they can work together to provide more comprehensive, holistic mental health care. Resources Mentioned In This Episode Use...2023-06-0527 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 29: How the Q'ero Perceive EnergyThis episode discusses the genius of Q'ero's wisdom and healing tradition. The Q'ero Healing Tradition has simplified complex energetic and spiritual concepts to the bare minimum. It has established ways to bring their entire community effortlessly to higher levels of consciousness alongside mother earth and the sacred mountains. We cover how they see beyond the images and the symbols provided by our minds to translate energetic and spiritual phenomena, effectively seeing beyond these illusions and placing their finger on the pulse of reality at its most accurate source. www.traditionalmedicinemiami.comhttps://www.instagram.com/t...2023-06-0421 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 28: How Does Our Mind Interpret Energy?In today's episode, we review how our minds interpret energy. First, we cover how our world is both physical and spiritual. We, as humans, are both physical and spiritual as well. Humans capture information regarding their physical environment through the senses and energetic/spiritual information regarding their environment through inborn intuitions. The mind then translates this spiritual and energetic world into dreams, symbols, images, and other forms of expression to help us understand this energetic/spiritual event.www.traditionalmedicinemiami.comhttps://www.instagram.com/traditionalmedicinemiami2023-05-2821 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 27: Part 2 - Introduction to the Amazonian Healing DisciplineWe're continuing our mini-series on the Amazonian Healing Disciplines with Part 2. In this episode, we're focusing on the healers. What does it take to become an excellent Amazonian healer? We will discuss how healers embark on a lifelong journey of self-development, service to others, building connections to sacred Amazonian beings, and integrating divine energies into their field to help them perform powerful healing for others. www.traditionalmedicinemiami.comhttps://www.instagram.com/traditionalmedicinemiami2023-05-2117 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 26: Part 1 - Introduction to the Amazonian Healing DisciplineWe're starting a mini-series on the Amazonian healing disciplines in today's episode. This discipline is best known for its work with sacred plants like Ayahuasca and even the sacred frog known as Kambo. Today we'll cover the three critical ingredients which made this Amazonian traditional indigenous discipline possible, along with the High Andean Q'ero healing tradition. We'll also talk a little about how healers learn in this tradition and how healers are brought into this tradition as well. www.traditionalmedicinemiami.comhttps://www.instagram.com/traditionalmedicinemiami2023-05-1419 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 25: Three Important Things You Need to Know as a Mental Health Expert When Your Client Wants to Incorporate Traditional Indigenous Disciplines Into Their Healing JourneyIn this episode, we're going over why your client must find the proper discipline and medicine to help alleviate their problem, the 3-step process indigenous healers use to help clients, and what you need to know as a mental health expert to support your client before and after these healing sessions. www.traditionalmedicinemiami.comhttps://www.instagram.com/traditionalmedicinemiami2023-05-0725 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 24: The Difference Between Carl Jung's Work and the Work Pioneered by Traditional Indigenous Healers Regarding the UnconsciousIn this episode, we compare Carl Jung's work and the disciplines pioneered by Traditional Indigenous Healers in their efforts to work and understand the "unconscious," or what indigenous healers call the energetic and spiritual aspect of reality. We discuss that the main difference between these disciplines lies in their roots. On the one hand, Carl Jung's methods depend on the conscious side of life or the physical side of reality, where the intellect reigns supreme. On the other hand, indigenous healers have built their disciplines and methods using the very framework of the unconscious or the spiritual/energetic aspects...2023-05-0123 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 23: Why Listening to Indigenous Healers About Their Own Medicines and Traditions is so ImportantThis episode discusses the importance of listening to indigenous healers regarding their medicines and traditions. We go over what microaggressions and microinvalidations towards indigenous healers look like, along with the dangers of these attitudes and behaviors running rampant in the online communities which emerged because of their innovations and pioneering work. www.traditionalmedicinemiami.comhttps://www.instagram.com/traditionalmedicinemiami2023-04-2425 min
Yoga in the Therapy Room: Tips for integrating trauma informed yogaEpisode 115 How Traditional Indigenous Healers & Holistic-Minded Health Experts Can Succeed Together: Interview with Caara LovickWhat are the mental health benefits of traditional indigenous medicine? How can these healing practices be integrated with holistic practices to care for your clients? MEET Caara LovickCaara Lovick serves as a healing facilitator and translator for a project called "Traditional Medicine'' based out of Miami, FL. "Traditional Medicine '' is a unique project with the Q'ero community to connect their world-renowned Q'ero healers with people who want their services. Caara is also the host of a podcast called "Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara Lovick," which aims to educate and help people feel closer t...2023-04-1934 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 22: Part 3 - What is Kambo?In this episode, we finish our mini-series on Kambo. First, we review what modern science has found about Kambo secretion and what peptides are all about. Then we cover what to expect when taking this medicine and more. www.traditionalmedicinemiami.comhttps://www.instagram.com/traditionalmedicinemiami2023-04-1615 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 21: Part 2 - What is Kambo?In today's episode, we continue our conversation about Kambo by sharing personal first-hand experiences to provide you with insider knowledge of what lies behind the veil of this incredible medicine. We will discuss what it looks like energetically to introduce this medicine into the body, what it's like to come in contact with the sacred Kambo being, and why it's always important to see this medicine as more than just a physical medicine. www.traditionalmedicinemiami.comhttps://www.instagram.com/traditionalmedicinemiami2023-04-1033 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 20: Part 1 - What is Kambo?Kambo medicine comes from the Amazonian Giant Tree Frog. In this episode, we will build the foundation you need to learn about this beautiful Amazonian medicine and sacred being. This episode will be a part of a mini-series on Kambo. www.traditionalmedicinemiami.comhttps://www.instagram.com/traditionalmedicinemiami2023-04-0211 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 19: Part 2 - What is Ayahuasca?In this episode, we continue our conversation about Ayahuasca, narrowing the explanation down to one single word or term to answer the question, "What is Ayahuasca?" www.traditionalmedicinemiami.comhttps://www.instagram.com/traditionalmedicinemiami2023-03-2620 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 18: Part 1 - What is Ayahuasca?In today's episode, we build the foundation to understand what Ayahuasca is. We review the basics, sneak in some neuroscience from Dr. Jordi Riba and his team in Barcelona, and review the framework these Traditional Indigenous Medicines live within, including Ayahuasca, to avoid unnecessary learning curves that can slow up progress. This is part 1 of our "What is Ayahuasca?" mini-series. www.traditionalmedicinemiami.comhttps://www.instagram.com/traditionalmedicinemiami2023-03-1920 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 17: Part 2 - What Mental Health Experts Need to Know Before Offering Plant Medicine Integration Services and Preparation Support for Clients Seeking Traditional Indigenous MedicinesIn this episode, we continue our conversation with mental health experts offering integration (or preparation) services to clients who have opted to incorporate traditional indigenous healing services into their healing journey. We discuss how important it is for mental health and traditional indigenous healing disciplines to work together, especially when clients decide to incorporate traditional indigenous healing services into their healing journey, as they complement each other significantly throughout the client's healing process. In addition, by allowing traditional indigenous healers to monitor the energetics of the client before and after their traditional indigenous healing services, we provide the client...2023-03-1321 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 16: Part 1 - What Mental Health Experts Need to Know Before Offering Plant Medicine Integration Services and Preparation Support for Clients Seeking Traditional Indigenous MedicinesIn this episode, we identify the common challenges mental health experts and traditional indigenous healers face on their journey to helping people. In our challenges, we find common ground and an opportunity to bridge both disciplines. In bridging the two disciplines successfully, we can provide more continuity in the support we offer clients seeking traditional indigenous medicines. Mental health experts must avoid pitfalls when finding ways to complement traditional indigenous healers and their work. True collaboration is imminent and necessary to provide clients with the best services and support.www.traditionalmedicinemiami.comhttps://www.instagram...2023-03-0726 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 15: What Challenges are High Andean Q'ero and Amazonian Traditional Indigenous Healers and Their Communities Facing?In today's episode, we go over some of the challenges High Andean Q'ero and Amazonian Indigenous Healers and their communities are being challenged with.www.traditionalmedicinemiami.comhttps://www.instagram.com/traditionalmedicinemiami2023-02-2717 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 14: How are Traditional Indigenous Healers Expected to Help Us Birth Powerful New Medicines into this World?Today's episode discusses how Traditional Indigenous Healers expect to see new, more potent medicines coming into this world. The more challenging our times get, the more powerful the medicines will need to be in order to bring about balance. The Q'ero expect to see new levels of mastery achieved in their healing tradition. They also expect new souls with unique energetics and gifts to enter our world. These new "medicines" in the form of people will need help being birthed and can sometimes come into this world with a rigid set of challenges meant to help them mature into...2023-02-2017 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 13: Why Did High Andean Q'ero Healers and Amazonian Healers Open Up Their Healing to the World?In this episode, we talk about the sense of duty and responsibility traditional indigenous healers from Peru feel for the earth and for humanity. Their healing and teaching, like in the case of the High Andean Q'ero Community, have been preserved to fulfill that duty and responsibility in aiding humanity into a new era.www.traditionalmedicinemiami.comhttps://www.instagram.com/traditionalmedicinemiami2023-02-1409 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 12: Why is it so Important to Cultivate Empathy and Compassion?In today's episode, we explore why cultivating empathy and compassion not only benefits the people around you but can even save your life. Empathy and compassion can serve to protect you on your journey through life, guide you down your true path, and help you build the highest levels of power.www.traditionalmedicinemiami.comhttps://www.instagram.com/traditionalmedicinemiami2023-02-0623 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 11: Coca Readings with the Q'ero - Is Marijuana a Medicine?In this episode, we translate the coca reading we did with the Q'ero to ask "Is Marijuana a Medicine?" For the original video with subtitles in Quechua and in English, check out our YouTube video "Coca Readings with the Q'ero: Is Marijuana a Medicine?"www.traditionalmedicinemiami.comhttps://www.instagram.com/traditionalmedicinemiami2023-01-1821 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 9: Traditional Indigenous Healers and their Alliance with Mother EarthThis episode discusses the #1 central theme in traditional indigenous healing- a strong alliance with Mother Earth. www.traditionalmedicinemiami.comhttps://www.instagram.com/traditionalmedicinemiami2023-01-1316 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 10: What are the Coca Readings from the Q'ero all about?So what are Coca Readings all about? And why are they so important in the High Andean Q'ero tradition? In this episode we go into the importance of the coca plant, its energetics and how the Q'ero came into this method of communication with Mother Earth (Pachamama) and the Sacred Mountains (Apus).www.traditionalmedicinemiami.comhttps://www.instagram.com/traditionalmedicinemiami2023-01-1316 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 8: Is Marijuana Considered a Medicine by Traditional Indigenous Healers?This episode covers how traditional Amazonian and High Andean Q'ero Healers see Marijuana. Is Marijuana Considered a Medicine to Traditional Indigenous Healers? Also checkout EP 11 “Coca Readings with the Q’ero - Is Marijuana a Medicine?”https://youtu.be/qc92EkVO52k?feature=sharedwww.traditionalmedicinemiami.comhttps://www.instagram.com/traditionalmedicinemiami2022-12-1617 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 7: What is the Q'ero Tradition All About?In this episode of Traditional Medicine with Caara Lovick, we dive into three important pillars of the tradition. We also talk about what the Q'ero considers to be 'Power' and how it is gained. www.traditionalmedicinemiami.comhttps://www.instagram.com/traditionalmedicinemiami2022-11-2719 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 6: Who are the Q'ero?In this episode, Caara brings you closer to understanding the Q'ero community of wisdom keepers and healers. If you've never heard of the Q'ero and their healing tradition, this is a great place to get started. www.traditionalmedicinemiami.comhttps://www.instagram.com/traditionalmedicinemiami2022-10-3014 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 5: What is the Function of Faith? And Why is it so Important in Healing?In today's episode, we explore the importance of faith, its function in healing, and why faith is the door you and you alone must walk through to heal.www.traditionalmedicinemiami.comhttps://www.instagram.com/traditionalmedicinemiami2022-10-3012 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 4: What are Energetic Complications? Here are 3 Common Energetic Complications Q'ero Healers Come Across.What are energetic complications? What are symptoms of energetic complications? And what should you do if you think you may have one? Stay tune for this episode and we'll go over this and more in today's Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara Lovick. www.traditionalmedicinemiami.comhttps://www.instagram.com/traditionalmedicinemiami2022-08-2117 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP3: What is at the Core of la Ciencia Ancestral? or Ancestral Sciences?In this episode, we talk about what is at the core of la ciencia ancestral or ancestral sciences from the lens of traditional indigenous healing modalities. We discuss concepts developed by Q'ero healing traditions, beginning with energetic complications. www.traditionalmedicinemiami.comhttps://www.instagram.com/traditionalmedicinemiami2022-07-2912 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickEP 2: What Obstacles Stand in the Way of Us Understanding Traditional Indigenous Medicine Concepts?"What Obstacles Stand in the Way of Us Understanding Traditional Indigenous Medicine Concepts?" We discuss this in today's episode.www.traditionalmedicinemiami.comhttps://www.instagram.com/traditionalmedicinemiami2022-07-2517 min
Traditional Medicine Podcast with Caara LovickWhy Therapists Looking to Offer Energy Healing to Clients Should Work with Traditional Indigenous HealersIn this episode, I give four reasons why therapists looking to offer energy healing to clients should work with traditional indigenous healers. www.traditionalmedicinemiami.comhttps://www.instagram.com/traditionalmedicinemiami2022-07-1812 min