The Green Light of Kambo
This is a quote from another Kambo Practitioner that explains the beauty of sitting with this medicine quite beautifully:
“Kambô circulates in the heart. Our shaman said that when we take Kambô it makes the heart move accurately, so that things flow, bringing good things to the person. It is as if there was a cloud on the person, preventing the good things to come, then, when it takes the Kambô; it comes a ‘green light’, which opens its ways, making things easier”
I’m still learning where earth medicines assist my spiritual path.
There was a period where I thought practicing yoga asanas and pranayama was everything. I imagined that using substances was a shortcut or a detriment to my practice.
My first Kambo ceremony led to one of the most dramatic shifts in my life. I went for months feeling burnt out, exhausted, achy, and depressed. The day after the ceremony I was excited to greet the day, filled with energy, literally seeing the world in more vibrant colors.
According the classic texts on Hatha Yoga, purification is the first step of our practice. I was not arriving to my mat in a healthy body when I felt the call to sit with Kambo. A healthy body is needed to support a healthy mind, and a healthy mind is needed to reached an enlightened state.
Kambo is the medicine taken from the giant monkey tree frog who resides in the Amazon jungle. Taking this secretion from another animal means that our body integrates the medicinal compounds (peptides) as our own.
This medicine helps us to recover the balance that has been disrupted by a toxic lifestyle. Kambo helps us to remember our natural state of being.
