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19 Jul 2015

A Cacao Ceremony Experience

After Ayahuasca in the Amazon and San Pedro in the Sacred Valley it was time to test out Cacao in Clapham! Not quite as exotic a location but that in no way hindered the depth of the experience and the … Continued

16 Jun 2015

Ayahuasca Testimonial

by Francesca Cassini | posted in: Ayahuasca Video Diary | 0

What was my personal experience of Ayahuasca sacred plant medicine? Did I have a full on psychedelic peak experience that all is one? No. But I did have healing on a more physical level which has never come about in … Continued

16 Jun 2015

Ayahuasca Day Seven

by Francesca Cassini | posted in: Ayahuasca Video Diary | 0

This photo was taken after we’d just arrived in Kapitari after the hot and humid walk from the boat. I named this little Love Bird Albert, although he probably had a more romantic and Peruvian name than that. I will … Continued

14 Jun 2015

Ayahuasca Day Six

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These fabulous men were always available to help out whether we needed a hand to the toilets during an Ayahuasca ceremony when standing on our own two feet was a bit of a challenge, when leaving Kapitari in mud which … Continued

Five Bridges, Three Frontiers and 150 Euros

‘Was the post-break-up adventure I’d embarked upon going to end in the loneliest of deaths in the middle of nowhere? Was my determination finally to live life on my own terms going to kill me as surely as Isadora Duncan’s scarf killed her?’ Sandy Locksmith

Five Bridges, Three Frontiers and 150 Euros Emerging from a fever-induced fantasy of the beginning of the world Sandy faces the shocking reality. She’s held captive by a psychopathic vagrant, imprisoned in a medieval citadel cradled deep within an empty valley in rural France, and being subjected to terrifying sexual assaults. It’s the middle of a freezing December. How did she end up in such a hopeless position and what can it take to transform it? Sandy is certain that somewhere among all the unusual experiences she’s had over the previous month lies the key to her freedom. We journey back with her to the middle of November. In her late forties, post menopausal and childless Sandy has been trying to ‘create her own reality’ for months… The first novel in the Waking The Lions trilogy.