ABOUT YAWANAWA JOURNEY

Rooted in
relationship.
Guided by
reciprocity.

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Yawanawa Journey exists to create meaningful opportunities to experience, learn from and walk alongside the Yawanawa people.

Our work grows through relationship, shared experience and a commitment to creating meaningful ways for people to come closer to the songs, community, ancestral knowledge and living culture of the Yawanawa.

Our journey began with healing and grew into something far greater than we could have imagined.

OUR STORY

Our work grew from deeply personal experiences of healing through plant medicine and sacred practices. Along the way, we have had the privilege of learning from Indigenous elders and wisdom keepers who generously shared their traditions, teachings and ways of seeing the world with us.

What began as a personal journey gradually became something larger. These experiences inspired us to create Yawanawa Journey, a way to share what has transformed us while honouring the people, traditions and communities from which these teachings come.

  • Group of nine people smiling and standing together outdoors in a shaded forested area with trees and sunlight filtering through the leaves.
  • Two Yawanawa men are sitting outdoors under a thatched roof, working with hapé, surrounded by green lush trees and blue sky. They are using various containers to mix or process the hapé in Mutum Village.
  • A round wooden building with a conical roof, people walking toward the entrance, wooden walkway, surrounded by tropical plants and palm trees, under a blue sky in Mutum Village.
  • Two Yawanawa women with tribal-inspired accessories and clothing weaving together using yellow strips of material in a greenhouse-like setting.
  • People sitting outside on chairs under a wooden shelter, surrounded by green trees and plants.
  • An Yawanawa man wearing a green cap and a striped shirt stirs a large pot of ayahuasca outdoors under a wooden and metal roof, with trees in the background.
  • Group of five people sitting on a wooden floor, with plates of food and drinks, in an outdoor, open-air shelter with a thatched roof surrounded by greenery in Mutum Village.
  • A Yawanawa man with tattoos is sitting on a wooden deck, peeling or preparing ginseng roots over a small green bucket filled with water, with more ginseng roots lying nearby.
  • Group of Yawanawa sitting and kneeling on a wooden platform and on the ground in a lush, green rainforest, engaging in an outdoor activity or discussion.
  • Yawanawa people participating in a traditional ceremony outdoors, with some wearing grass skirts, face paint, and holding ritual items, surrounded by floral and natural elements.
  • Close-up of a branch of urucum seed pods with green leaves on a weathered wooden surface.
  • A Yawanawa woman dressed in traditional indigenous attire holding a child, with other children and adults in similar attire and clothing seated outdoors on benches, against a background of trees and a cloudy sky.
  • People walking along a dirt riverbank with a green boat anchored nearby, lush trees in the background, overcast sky in Mutum Village.
  • Group of people dressed in traditional Yawanawa attire, including grass skirts and face paint, standing outdoors on a wooden platform with a grassy field and trees in the background.

OUR MISSION

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To create meaningful pathways between people, culture and place.

Yawanawa Journey creates experiences that allow people to learn directly from the Yawanawa while contributing to the continuation and flourishing of the culture, community and land that make those experiences possible.

WHAT GUIDES US

Our values
guide every
step we take.

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Relationship

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We believe that meaningful experiences begin with genuine human connection.

Reciprocity

Exchange should move in both directions, creating value for those who visit and for the communities who welcome them.

Cultural Integrity

We follow the guidelines of the people who carry these traditions, allowing their voices, knowledge and way of life to lead.

Presence

We create space to slow down, listen, participate and experience what cannot be understood from a distance.

Stewardship

We want every journey to contribute to the long-term wellbeing of the people, culture and land at its heart.

Indigenous people dancing and playing traditional drums in a forest, wearing grass skirts, feathers, and colorful clothing.

Our values
guide every
step we take.

WHAT GUIDES US

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Relationship

We believe that meaningful experiences begin with genuine
human connection.

Exchange should move in both directions, creating value for those who visit and for the communities who welcome them.

Gold geometric mandala design with overlapping petal shapes forming a symmetrical flower pattern.

Reciprocity

We follow the guidelines of the people who carry these traditions, allowing their voices, knowledge and way of life to lead.

A geometric design with concentric squares and angular patterns in gold and black.

Cultural Integrity

We create space to slow down, listen, participate and experience what cannot be understood from a distance.

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Presence

We want every journey to contribute to the long-term wellbeing of the people, culture and land at its heart.

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Stewardship

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RECIPROCITY

What we receive, we seek to give back.

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Reciprocity is not a concept to us. It is a responsibility.

Our relationship with the Yawanawa people is rooted in mutual respect, gratitude, and exchange.

Every journey we offer contributes back to the community, supporting the people, traditions, and land that make these experiences possible.

A living culture.
A living lineage.

THE YAWANAWA

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Indigenous man dressed in traditional attire with a large feathered headdress, body tattoos, and holding a clay pot, standing outdoors with trees and a clear blue sky in the background.
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The Yawanawa are an Indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest in Acre, Brazil. Their culture is rooted in a deep relationship with the land, the seen and unseen worlds, and a lineage of knowledge passed down through generations.

Their medicine, ceremonies, music, and teachings are expressions of a way of life that honours balance, reciprocity, and the sacred web of life.

Yawanawa Journey exists in partnership with the Yawanawa, guided by their leadership, their wisdom, and their invitation to share their way with the world.

DISCOVER THE YAWANAWA →
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There are many ways to walk alongside us.

THE JOURNEY CONTINUES

Whether through an immersive journey, a course, or continued connection with the work, each offering is an invitation to come closer, to learn through experience, deepen relationship, and participate in a way that gives something back.

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