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Alberto Villoldo, PhD

NY Open Center


Alberto Villoldo, a medical anthropologist who has studied the shamanic healing practices of the Amazon and Andes for more than 25 years, founded the Four Winds Society, which offers extensive education in the philosophy and practice of energy medicine in 1984. He also directs the Center for Energy Medicine in Chile, where he investigates and practices the “neuroscience of enlightenment.”