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Notes on rapé, the plants of the Amazon and the people who keep their knowledge alive.
“Madre Tierra, Madre Vida” (Mother Earth, Mother Life) is one of the best-loved medicine songs sung in circles today. It was written by the Peruvian composer Alonso del Río and released on his 2003 album Canciones de Medicina. Here it is sung by the Pachamama Sanga Band. The song Alonso del Río is a Peruvian […]
Medicine Music
“Eu vi um caboclo na mata” (I saw a caboclo in the forest) is a traditional Brazilian song that honours the first peoples of the land and the spirit of the forest. It began as a ponto, a sung prayer of Umbanda, and it travelled into the circles where hapé and other forest medicines are […]
FOREVER THE FOREST, Medicine Music
Why sound and vibration are essential elements of spiritual and energetic medicine The Song Before the Words Long before written language, before formulas and charts, before medicine was confined to pills and prescriptions, there was sound. The first medicine may not have been something taken into the body, but something felt—through voice, vibration, and silence. […]
Ayahuasca Chants, FOREVER THE FOREST, Rapé Snuff, WISDOM
Ancestral medicines have always been surrounded by a mix of mystery and reverence. Indigenous peoples and spiritual traditions worldwide have used plants and healing rituals for millennia, passing down knowledge from generation to generation. But what about modern science? What do recent studies say about these medicines? Are they just beliefs, or is there a […]
Music and Songs, Medicine Music
“Eskawatã Kayawã” is a chant of the Huni Kuin (Kaxinawá) people of Acre, in the Brazilian Amazon. It is sung in their ceremonies and, more and more, in circles around the world. This recording by Carlos Caruso has been played more than 237,000 times on SoundCloud. Where the chant comes from The words are in […]
Amazon Forest Plants, Medicine Music
“O Sopro do Rapé” (the blow of hapé) is a song about the moment at the heart of every hapé circle: when one person blows the medicine for another. It is sung in Portuguese by Welber Marron, and it carries a second name, “Força do Rapé”, the strength of hapé. The song This recording by […]
Medicine Music
“Reza do Vento” (prayer of the wind) is a song by the Brazilian singer Ale de Maria, from her 2018 album Mãe D’água (Mother of the Waters). We first shared it here in January 2024, and it has been played more than 50,000 times on SoundCloud. The song “Reza do Vento” is Ale de Maria’s […]
Medicine Music
“Vem Jiboia” (come, boa) is a música de rezo, a prayer song, that calls on the jiboia: the boa of the Amazon forest. This version, “Vem Jiboia II”, has been played more than 48,000 times on SoundCloud. The song “Vem Jiboia II” was written by Paulo Henrique, who also plays the percussion, and is sung […]
Medicine Music, Music and Songs
Listen to our Pachamama Recordings Entirely Free on SoundCloud. Pachamama Church Recordings in Ceremony with Marcio Purusha and the Pachamama Singers and Sanga Musicians in the period between 2013 to 2016. Pachamama CIRCLE of LIGHT – Queen of the Forest · medicine for this time The Sacred Sound: A Bridge Between Worlds In the stillness […]
Ayahuasca Chants, Medicine Music
[ux_image id=”185546″ link=”https://queenoftheforest.org/product/new-queen-of-the-forest-rape-sampler-7pack/”] Sacred sound creates sacred space. Like prayer, it connects us with the sacred source of life, bringing a sense of Divine Love and care. This awareness of the sacred connects us in profound ways to the divine, as well as to those around us. Spiritually, this sense of sacred connection can result […]
