Healing States · Episode 06

On the Path of the Shaman

Don Eduardo Calderon, a Peruvian medicine man, leads a group of western apprentices through the steps and trials of becoming a shaman. The journey begins on the tree of life, a giant figure etched on a mountain side, where his students go in quest for a vision of healing and self-knowledge. In the Nasca plains they explore the monolithic figures carved on the desert floor, ritual designs crafted by ancient shamen, and used to journey into inner space.

Directed by Georg Lhotsky