As you might before stepping off a cliff, I hesitated, thinking of what the well-known curandero Don José Campos had told me in the busy Peruvian port of Pucallpa a few days before.

U pon arriving in Punta de Mita, the emerging destination for the luxury traveler in the Mexican state of Nayarit, it’s ...

And that’s if a curandero stays in his or her community. As more retreat centers and lodges look to hire Indigenous healers (particularly Peruvian Shipibo ones), curanderos are moving away from ...

and a mystical healing curandero. Throughout his career, Random Rab has blurred the boundaries between genres, immersing himself in music as medicine and the cultures that surround. Often a festival ...