Rocio Alarcon
6 Courses • 9 StudentsBiography
Dr. Rocίo Alarcόn G. PhD in Ethnopharmacology UCL (UK) Director of the IAMOE Centre in the Ecuadorian Amazon Curandera, ethnopharmacologist, ethnobotanist. She has spent over 40 years working with ethnic groups in the tropical rain forest and the Andes Mountains of Ecuador as well as the Basque Country, Spain. She offers workshops in UK, Ireland, Portugal, USA, etc. She practices and teaches about Curandera (shamanic healing ceremonies), that she called the art and science of curandera, a knowledge that she received via the lineage of her mother and grandmother who were born in the Andes of Ecuador, the place where she was born too, at the foot of the Pichincha volcano. Her interests are the practices with master plants and the techniques of healing ceremonies with hummingbirds, in Ecuador, and research about ethnobotany and biodiversity. She offers workshops and healing treatments for different organisations and people at Iamoe center in the Amazonia region in Ecuador and around the world. Website: www.iamoe.org
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