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Amanda Suutari

Amanda Suutari

Visual artist, educator, and content developer based in Nova Scotia, Canada, creating art and storytelling for regenerative conversations and climate/ecology education.

Aug 29, 2026

0:59
Can you tell us how your journey with ayahuasca began?
1:03
Yeah.
1:06
So it was about 15 years ago.
1:10
And I mean, I had had some experience with psychedelics, not ayahuasca in particular, LSD and mushrooms in high school, maybe like a lot of us have had psychedelics.
1:24
But those were more recreational experiences.
1:27
So this was really my first experience in a more intentional way.
1:34
um context and container with a lineage behind it and it was with a western facilitator in where i was living in bc at the time and it was a weekend experience where we did three ceremonies over three nights and i i felt like by the end of that experience there were a lot of physical experiences that I had, one of which had to do with like a lot of shaking in my body.

16 MINS LATER

18:28
How can someone find a good retreat? You know, I mean, like, are there any tips that you have when it comes to finding something like that?

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