Apurina Hapé – Clarity, Balance, Dreams

Description

Strength: Mild

This traditional green rape of the Apurina tribe is created with Awiry, a plant of the Amazon that only appears during the dry season and grows in the riverbeds.  There is no ash and the leaves are not fermented like regular hapé, it is referred to as love or raw hapé.  The leaves are sun-dried before being crushed.  Apurina Awiri is a special mixture known as “Hapé of Light.” It has a floral fragrance and truly smells like you’re in the midst of a jungle.  Opening and yet beautifully subtle.

Instead of tobacco, this green Hapé contains a number of medicinal plants from the Amazon. It gives an ethereal feminine energy to meditation that is beautiful. It provides clarity, opens the senses, and might make your dreams more vivid. It’s wonderful to tune in to the forest’s softer energies.

The Apurina tribe, who resides in the southern Amazon, are the creators of this rapé, of which the recipe will remain a secret. The Apurina people gather the herbs in a sacred area of the forest that was given to them by their ancestors to preserve. In their tribe, the Hapé medicine is mostly used for meditation, while it is also used for hunting and to heighten perception. 

• Grounding and stabilising
• Clears mental clutter
• Supports clarity
• Enhances focus
• Balances energy
• Supports daily use
• Strengthens presence
• Promotes calm awareness

About the Apurinã 

The Apurinã are an Indigenous people of the Brazilian Amazon, primarily living along the Purus River. Their culture is deeply rooted in a close relationship with the forest, which they view as a living system of intelligence, providing both physical sustenance and spiritual knowledge.

The Apurinã, also called TheIpurinã, Ipurinãn, Kangite, Popukare (endonym), are an Indigenous people who live near the Purus River in western Brazil and speak Apurinã. They live in houses are long, low and narrow and the side walls and roof are one, poles being fixed in the ground and then bent together so as to meet and form a pointed arch for the cross-sections. They use small bark canoes, their chief weapons are poisoned arrows and they have a native god called Guintiniri. The Apurinã, rely on fishing, hunting, and small-scale agriculture, while maintaining strong spiritual practices centered around plant medicine, healing, and connection to unseen realms.

Their knowledge of medicinal plants is extensive, and their use of hapé reflects a focus on clarity, grounding, and balance. Despite facing displacement, disease, and cultural disruption during colonisation, the Apurinã have continued to preserve their traditions and identity. Today, they remain guardians of their territory and knowledge, carrying forward a quiet but powerful lineage of healing and connection to the natural world.

The Apurinã people primarily inhabiting the Purus River region and they have an estimated population of 7,700.

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