I have been traveling to the Yucatan every year since the mid 90's to take in the beauty of nature and work with the local shamans and curenderos (healers) there. On my last visit in March of 2008 , I took about and hour and half of video footage at Dos Palmas, which is a ceremonial center near Tulum. Dos Palmas features an amazing cenote (jungle pool in a cave) as well as a stone temazcal (sweat lodge.) This place is run by a family of ancestral shamans. This video below is the first in a series of interviews I did with Freddy (one of the youngest of the shamans in the family) Maurito, a Guerrero de Fuego (warrior of fire)and their cousin Claudio, who is knowledgeable about the Mayan traditional ways. In this interview, I ask them how a person can become a shaman, and what kind of shamanic work does Freddy do?
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