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Healing Modalities

Shipibo Herbalism, Midwifery, Orthopedics & Shamanism

Healing Modalities

Shipibo Herbalism, Midwifery, Orthopedics & Shamanism

Healing with the material and spiritual essence of plants...

Shipibo traditional medicine incorporates a body of knowledge, practices and resources based on healing with Amazonian plants.

Shipibo people believe that plants have both a material (or biological) nature, and an energetic (or spiritual) nature.

Specialist Shipibo practitioners hold extensive healing knowledge in 4 principal healing modalities: Herbalism, Midwifery, Massage/Osteopathy, and Shamanism. These can, and often do overlap.

The Shipibo tradition incorporates millennia of ancestral knowledge for safe, natural healing with Amazonian plants.

The Shipibo tradition incorporates millennia of ancestral knowledge for safe, natural healing with Amazonian plants.

Healing with the material and spiritual nature of plants ...

Shipibo traditional medicine incorporates a body of knowledge, practices and resources based on healing with Amazonian plants.

Shipibo people believe that plants have both a material (or biological) nature, and an energetic (or spiritual) nature.

Specialist Shipibo practitioners hold extensive healing knowledge in 4 principal healing modalities: Herbalism, Midwifery, Massage/Osteopathy, and Shamanism. These can, and often do overlap.

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The Herbalist (Raomi)

Physical healing with natural remedies

Hands crushing up Hojas de Algodon plant medicine at Caya Shobo Shipibo healing center

Crushing up dried Hojas de Algodon to make a nerve-calming herbal tea.

Raomi medicine is the most common healing modality in the Shipibo tradition. The Raomi practitioner is typically an elder woman. She knows how to safely identify, prepare and apply many plant medicines to treat physical ailments.

Rao in Shipibo means natural remedy or plant medicine. This includes herbal extracts, infusions, vapor baths, perfumes, poultices, creams and other treatments. When preparing her remedies, the Raomi healer is sensitive to the presence of the spiritual “mother” or owner spirit (Ibo) spirits of the plants.

Like the Doctrine of Signatures , the characteristics of the Rao plant medicines often align with the symptoms of sickness that they are prescribed to treat. 

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The Herbalist (Raomi)

Physical healing with natural remedies

Hands crushing up Hojas de Algodon plant medicine at Caya Shobo Shipibo healing center

Crushing up dried Hojas de Algodon to make a nerve-calming herbal tea.

Raomi medicine is the most common healing modality in the Shipibo tradition. The Raomi practitioner is typically an elder woman. She knows how to safely identify, prepare and apply many plant medicines to treat physical ailments.

Rao in Shipibo means natural remedy or plant medicine. This includes herbal extracts, infusions, vapor baths, perfumes, poultices, creams and other treatments. When preparing her remedies, the Raomi healer is sensitive to the presence of the spiritual “mother” or owner spirit (Ibo) spirits of the plants.

Like the Doctrine of Signatures , the characteristics of the Rao plant medicines often align with the symptoms of sickness that they are prescribed to treat. 

Discover Shipibo Remedies

Sustaining life with ancient gifts of the Amazon

Freshly prepared Master Plant Dieta extracts made from Amazonian plant medicines at Caya Shobo

Herbal medicines

An incredible abundance of medicinal plants in the Amazon rainforest has supported tribal peoples’ health and wellbeing for millennia.

Shipibo shaman Dominga teaches about Achiote Master Plant medicine tree at Caya Shobo healing center

Ancestral Knowledge

Immense knowledge for identifying and safely utilizing plant medicines has been lovingly passed down and evolved with each generation.

Shipibo shaman Arturo smokes mapacho tobacco pipe and looks out over the Amazon rainforest jungle

Spiritual Wisdom

The Shipibo have a deep connection with the spirit of nature. Onánya shamans hold ancestral knowledge for directly “conversing” with Master Plants. 

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The Midwife (Baquibiai)​

Supporting and nurturing new life

Amazonian Master Plant medicine Malva Malachra ruderalis Malvaceae yellow flowers

Malva or wild mallow is an Amazonian herbal medicine used to aid childbirth

Perhaps the most specialized Shipibo healing modality is midwifery. The Baquibiai is a Shipibo healing practitioner who helps women with fertility, pregnancy, childbirth and newborn care.

Many Amazonian plant medicines have strong physical effects, and can be toxic or even fatal in very small doses. The Baquibiai healer learns from Shipibo elders to identify which plant medicines are gentle and safe for mother and baby during pregnancy and early life.

Malva (common name Wild Mallow) is one such gentle plant medicine that is often used to help facilitate a timely and easeful birth.

The Midwife (Baquibiai)

Supporting and nurturing new life

Amazonian Master Plant medicine Malva Malachra ruderalis Malvaceae yellow flowers

Malva or wild mallow is an Amazonian herbal medicine used to aid childbirth

Perhaps the most specialized Shipibo healing modality is midwifery. The Baquibiai is a Shipibo healing practitioner who helps women with fertility, pregnancy, childbirth and newborn care.

Many Amazonian plant medicines have strong physical effects, and can be toxic or even fatal in very small doses. The Baquibiai healer learns from Shipibo elders to identify which plant medicines are gentle and safe for mother and baby during pregnancy and early life.

Malva (common name Wild Mallow) is one such gentle plant medicine that is often used to help facilitate a timely and easeful birth.

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The Masseuse or Osteopath (Tobi)

Re-aligning and strengthening the body's form

Massage Therapy at Caya Shobo

Gentle massage is a time-honored treatment method of Shipibo healers.

The Tobi is the Shipibo massage healing specialist, who typically has knowledge of musculo-skeletal manipulation to treat muscles, bones and body tissues. Massage is often a complementary therapy administered in support of the other Shipibo healing modalities.

Healing of tissue sprains and tears usually incorporates both topical and internal plant medicine preparations. Many Amazonian plant medicines have healing properties that can help reduce inflammation and promote tissue generation.

Suelda con suelda, known as “bone-heal”, is an Amazonian plant medicine used to heal acute musculo-skeletal injury. Suelda con suelda is also a Master Plant used by Shipibo shamans to help heal chronic orthopedic problems and relax the nervous system.

The Masseuse or Osteopath (Tobi)​

Supporting and nurturing new life

Massage Therapy at Caya Shobo

Gentle massage is a time-honored treatment method of Shipibo healers.

The Tobi is the Shipibo massage healing specialist, who typically has knowledge of musculo-skeletal manipulation to treat muscles, bones and body tissues. Massage is often a complementary therapy administered in support of the other Shipibo healing modalities.

Healing of tissue sprains and tears usually incorporates both topical and internal plant medicine preparations. Many Amazonian plant medicines have healing properties that can help reduce inflammation and promote tissue generation.

Suelda con suelda, known as “bone-heal”, is an Amazonian plant medicine used to heal acute musculo-skeletal injury. Suelda con suelda is also a Master Plant used by Shipibo shamans to help heal chronic orthopedic problems and relax the nervous system.

Ayahuasca Retreat with traditional Shipibo Master Plant Dieta

Master Plant Dieta (Dieta, or Sama) is the practice of Shipibo shamans for forming direct spiritual connections with the Master Plants.

During an Ayahuasca Retreat at Caya Shobo you will have the opportunity to experience personalized Master Plant Dieta treatment. We will teach you about how long-term Dieta practice can bring deep, lasting personal transformation.

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At Caya Shobo, we work only with the most experienced and dedicated Master Onánya shamans in Peru.

All our shamans hold over 25 years of experience healing with Ayahuasca and Master Plants.

The Shaman (Onánya or Unáya)

Healing the body, mind, heart and spirit as an interwoven whole

Traditionally dressed maestra Shipibo Shaman at Caya Shobo

Shipiba Maestra Lucinda Mahua Campos

The most fascinating and demanding of the Shipibo healing modalities is the realm of the advanced Shipibo shaman, or Onánya. Onán in Shipibo means ‘to know’, or ‘to understand’, or ‘the sage’. The Onánya is also known as Curandero or Curandera, healer, vegetalista or Ayahuascero/Ayahuascera.

An Onánya shaman is an advanced shamanic practitioner who knows how to heal with the Rao plant medicines. They also hold deep energetic relationships with the Master Plants. An Onánya receives their healing songs (Icaros) directly from the plants through disciplined Master Plant Dieta practice.

The Onánya is a specialist in charge of curing all kinds of illness and is usually characterized by extreme energetic sensitivity, imagination and compassion. He or she holds advanced knowledge for working safely with Ayahuasca, and often has expertise in some or all of the other Shipibo healing modalities.

An apprentice shaman is called Samatay, from the Shipibo word Sama, meaning diet, or abstinence. Along with knowledge passed down from elders, Shipibo shamans develop their most important skills through Master Plant Dieta. This practice gradually promotes profound transformation over many years of disciplined practice.

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The Shaman (Onánya or Unáya)

Healing the body, mind, heart and spirit as an interwoven whole

Traditionally dressed maestra Shipibo Shaman at Caya Shobo

Shipiba Maestra Lucinda Mahua Campos

The most fascinating and demanding of the Shipibo healing modalities is the realm of the advanced Shipibo shaman, or Onánya. Onán in Shipibo means ‘to know’, or ‘to understand’, or ‘the sage’. The Onánya is also known as Curandero or Curandera, healer, vegetalista or Ayahuascero/Ayahuascera.

An Onánya shaman is an advanced shamanic practitioner who knows how to heal with the Rao plant medicines. They also hold deep energetic relationships with the Master Plants. An Onánya receives their healing songs (Icaros) directly from the plants through disciplined Master Plant Dieta practice.

The Onánya is a specialist in charge of curing all kinds of illness and is usually characterized by extreme energetic sensitivity, imagination and compassion. He or she holds advanced knowledge for working safely with Ayahuasca, and often has expertise in some or all of the other Shipibo healing modalities.

An apprentice shaman is called Samatay, from the Shipibo word Sama, meaning diet, or abstinence. Along with knowledge passed down from elders, Shipibo shamans develop their most important skills through Master Plant Dieta. This practice gradually promotes profound transformation over many years of disciplined practice.

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