Shipibo Shamanism
Mastering Nature's Healing Energy
Shipibo Shamanism
Mastering Nature's Energy
Achieving an unequaled depth of healing with the wisdom of nature...
Like other indigenous traditions, Shipibo shamanism is based on holistically treating the body, mind, heart and spirit as an interwoven whole. Whole-person healing is an innate approach for the Shipibo people who live deeply immersed in nature’s embrace.
However, Shipibo shamans are recognized in the Amazon for having especially advanced knowledge for healing with Ayahuasca and other plant medicines.
Unlike other shamanic traditions which are passed down by elders, Shipibo shamans receive their healing songs (Icaros) and knowledge directly from the plants. This happens through years of Master Plant Dieta (Sama) practice.
Shipibo shamanic knowledge comes directly from the Master Plants.
Shipibo shamanic knowledge comes directly from the Master Plants.
Achieving an unequaled depth of healing with the wisdom of nature...
Like other indigenous traditions, Shipibo shamanism is based on holistically treating the body, mind, heart and spirit as an interwoven whole. Whole-person healing is an innate approach for the Shipibo people who live deeply immersed in nature’s embrace.
However, Shipibo shamans are recognized in the Amazon for having especially advanced knowledge for healing with Ayahuasca and other plant medicines.
Unlike other shamanic traditions which are passed down by elders, Shipibo shamans receive their healing songs (Icaros) and knowledge directly from the plants. This happens through years of Master Plant Dieta (Sama) practice.
Shipibo shamanism offers a path for deep transformation
Ancestral knowledge of plant medicines
Holding the keys to nature's wisdom and healing power
Maestra Lucinda closes a healing Icaro treatment
The Shipibo tribe has lived relatively uninterrupted in their way of life in the heart of the Amazon rainforest for around 3,000 years. Shipibo shamans believe their ancestors are the original creators of the entheogenic brew, Ayahuasca. They have used Ayahuasca for many generations to assist with healing diagnoses and treatments.
Master Shipibo shamans (Onányas) are recognized for holding the most advanced knowledge for safely working with Ayahuasca and other Amazonian plant medicines to heal all kinds of illness. Onánya shamans typically employ a variety of healing methods:
- Natural remedies to address physical issues
- Plant and flower baths to cleanse energies
- Healing songs (Icaros) for energetic shifts in the body and mind
- Master Plant Dieta (Dieta, or Sama) to treat more chronic illnesses or imbalances. Dieta is also their main practice for learning shamanism through a long, slow, arduous process of personal transformation
In most shamanism traditions, apprentices learn ancestral songs from elders and apply them in broadly similar healing situations. However, the Icaro treatments of Shipibo Onánya shamans are uniquely crafted in the moment. Icaros are formed according to their shamanic vision of your healing needs, like a kind of spiritual surgery.
The efficacy of an Onánya’s treatment depends on the level of their shamanic vision and the power of their Icaros. Both are developed over many years of disciplined Master Plant Dieta practice.
Ancestral knowledge of Amazonian plant medicines
Holding the keys to nature's wisdom and healing power
Maestra Lucinda closes an Icaro healing treatment
The Shipibo tribe has lived relatively uninterrupted in their way of life in the heart of the Amazon rainforest for around 3,000 years. Shipibo shamans believe their ancestors are the original creators of the entheogenic brew, Ayahuasca. They have used Ayahuasca for many generations to assist with healing diagnoses and treatments.
Master Shipibo shamans (Onányas) are recognized for holding the most advanced knowledge for safely working with Ayahuasca and other Amazonian plant medicines to heal all kinds of illness. Onánya shamans typically employ a variety of healing methods:
- Natural remedies to address physical issues
- Plant and flower baths to cleanse energies
- Healing songs (Icaros) for energetic shifts in the body and mind
- Master Plant Dieta (Dieta, or Sama) to treat more chronic illnesses or imbalances. Dieta is also their main practice for learning shamanism through a long, slow, arduous process of personal transformation
In most shamanism traditions, apprentices learn ancestral songs from elders and apply them in broadly similar healing situations. However, the Icaro treatments of Shipibo Onánya shamans are uniquely crafted in the moment. Icaros are formed according to their shamanic vision of your healing needs, like a kind of spiritual surgery.
The efficacy of an Onánya’s treatment depends on the level of their shamanic vision and the power of their Icaros. Both are developed over many years of disciplined Master Plant Dieta practice.
Healing Songs (Icaros) are sacred gifts from the Master Plants
Shipibo Onánya shamans sing their powerful, majestic Icaros during Ayahuasca Ceremony. Each healing song is composed in the moment according to the shamans’ visions.
Icaros embody the energy and healing knowledge of the shaman acquired through their own journey of personal transformation with the Master Plants.
Holistic Healing Tradition
Body, mind, heart and spirit are inextricably interwoven
The Shipibo view of health encompasses connection with nature and place in community
Despite great achievements in technology and the treatment of disease, modern Western medicine has yet to develop an integral approach to healing all aspects of the human being. The treatment of body, mind, heart and spirit has become separated. Doctor, therapist, practitioner and spiritual guide treat our disparate parts. At best there is minimal collaboration between them.
However, when we are exposed to disease, trauma, or physical or emotional stress, our whole being is affected. All essential aspects are harmed by the experience.
Such understandings are innate to the Shipibo natural way of living in the Amazon. Your physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual well-being is seen as an undeniably interwoven whole. Shipibo shamanism employs plant medicines in a way that holistically treats each level of your being. This is an essential requirement for lasting healing.
During an Ayahuasca Retreat at Caya Shobo, our master Shipibo shamans provide personalized plant medicine treatments aimed at rejuvenating all essential dimensions of your health:
- The biology and chemistry of your body and brain
- Your thoughts, mental patterns and emotions
- Your energy, and your spirit or spiritual consciousness
Holistic Healing Tradition
Body, mind, heart and spirit are inextricably interwoven
The Shipibo view of health encompasses connection with nature and place in community
Despite great achievements in technology and the treatment of disease, modern Western medicine has yet to develop an integral approach to healing all aspects of the human being. The treatment of body, mind, heart and spirit has become separated. Doctor, therapist, practitioner and spiritual guide treat our disparate parts. At best there is minimal collaboration between them.
However, when we are exposed to disease, trauma, or physical or emotional stress, our whole being is affected. All essential aspects are harmed by the experience.
Such understandings are innate to the Shipibo natural way of living in the Amazon. Your physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual well-being is seen as an undeniably interwoven whole. Shipibo shamanism employs plant medicines in a way that holistically treats each level of your being. This is an essential requirement for lasting healing.
During an Ayahuasca Retreat at Caya Shobo, our master Shipibo shamans provide personalized plant medicine treatments aimed at rejuvenating all essential dimensions of your health:
- The biology and chemistry of your body and brain
- Your thoughts, mental patterns and emotions
- Your energy, and your spirit or spiritual consciousness
At Caya Shobo we recognize each human being has a unique personal world with a single non-repeatable history.
Harmony equals health
Nature is in constant search of equilibrium
Shipibo shamanism connects us with the perfect harmony of nature
In Shipibo shamanism, “healthy” means feeling good, or being without illness in body, mind or spirit. It also means being in a state of well-being or equilibrium within ourselves, and in harmonious relationship with our environment – natural, socio-economic and spiritual.
Illness occurs as a result of imbalance: internally, or in our relationships with others and the outer world. Health or wellness may be achieved by re-establishing harmony, deeply to the roots of all aspects of our being. And by restoring our connection with nature, our relationships with others and our place in community.
The notion of health equating to harmony is echoed throughout nature. Natural systems constantly adapt in search of a state of dynamic equilibrium. Even our internal systems are always regulating to keep our bodies steady and balanced.
The Shipibo Master Plants are believed to carry deep intelligence for helping us adapt and maintain resilience to external change. We can access this wisdom through Master Plant Dieta practice.
Harmony equals health
Nature is in constant search of equilibrium
Shipibo shamanism connects us with the perfect harmony of nature
In Shipibo shamanism, “healthy” means feeling good, or being without illness in body, mind or spirit. It also means being in a state of well-being or equilibrium within ourselves, and in harmonious relationship with our environment – natural, socio-economic and spiritual.
Illness occurs as a result of imbalance: internally, or in our relationships with others and the outer world. Health or wellness may be achieved by re-establishing harmony, deeply to the roots of all aspects of our being. And by restoring our connection with nature, our relationships with others and our place in community.
The notion of health equating to harmony is echoed throughout nature. Natural systems constantly adapt in search of a state of dynamic equilibrium. Even our internal systems are always regulating to keep our bodies steady and balanced.
The Shipibo Master Plants are believed to carry deep intelligence for helping us adapt and maintain resilience to external change. We can access this wisdom through Master Plant Dieta practice.
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We will let you know how Shipibo shamanism can help you
A slow & steady approach to healing
Sustained personal transformation takes time
Our experienced facilitators and shamans guide and support guests
Shipibo shamanic healing with plant medicine takes time. Western medicine aims to quickly restore or defend the body’s basic functions without necessarily addressing underlying root causes. Healing with plant medicines involves a more integrative approach to discovering the roots of illness and cleansing and revitalizing your system gradually.
Going slowly in your healing allows you to deeply reflect and consider your patterns of being. And to deeply examine your experiences and beliefs, your ways of relating and living. Gradual transformation allows you to make the lasting changes needed to truly improve your life.
During your Ayahuasca Retreat at Caya Shobo we teach you how to work safely and steadily with Master Plants for sustained personal transformation. We offer expert guidance for gradually integrating the wisdom of the Master Plants into your life.
A slow & steady approach to healing
Sustained personal transformation takes time
Our experienced facilitators and shamans guide and support guests
Shipibo shamanic healing with plant medicine takes time. Western medicine aims to quickly restore or defend the body’s basic functions without necessarily addressing underlying root causes. Healing with plant medicines involves a more integrative approach to discovering the roots of illness and cleansing and revitalizing your system gradually.
Going slowly in your healing allows you to deeply reflect and consider your patterns of being. And to deeply examine your experiences and beliefs, your ways of relating and living. Gradual transformation allows you to make the lasting changes needed to truly improve your life.
During your Ayahuasca Retreat at Caya Shobo we teach you how to work safely and steadily with Master Plants for sustained personal transformation. We offer expert guidance for gradually integrating the wisdom of the Master Plants into your life.
Authentic, modest and respectful to the tradition they are holding. It’s not a party, it’s not another bullet point for your spiritual resume. It is hard work."
מיכאל מלמדוב
Shamanic Vision - an essential tool in Shipibo shamanism
In Shipibo shamanism the level of energetic “vision” of the shaman is developed through disciplined Master Plant Dieta practice.
At Caya Shobo all our Shipibo shamans hold a minimum of 25 years of Master Plant Dieta experience, and are actively engaged in Dieta practice.
Ayahuasca
The "Heart of Life" of the Shipibo people
Ayahuasca is the sacred knowledge plant of Shipibo shamans. A powerful psychoactive plant medicine, Ayahuasca commands great respect and demands strict preparation in order to ensure its safety.
Historically in Shipibo shamanism only the shaman would drink Ayahuasca to open their “shamanic vision” to see the energies in the body, mind and spirit of their patient. Ayahuasca also allows the shaman to connect with his Master Plant spirit allies to receive energetic protection and the gift of healing songs (Icaros).
These days Ayahuasca Ceremony has become a central feature of Shipibo shamanic medicine offerings. Many Westerners drink Ayahuasca to experience a deep awakening to their essential nature.
We bring enormous care to how we work with Ayahuasca. We work with only the most experienced and professional Shipibo shamans. And we work with Master Plant Dieta treatment alongside Ayahuasca, because this allows the shamans to better stabilize the Ayahuasca Ceremony energies. And it helps you achieve a deeper, more lasting healing.
Ayahuasca
The "Heart of Life" of the Shipibo people
Ayahuasca is the sacred knowledge plant of Shipibo shamans. A powerful psychoactive plant medicine, Ayahuasca commands great respect and demands strict preparation in order to ensure its safety.
Historically in Shipibo shamanism only the shaman would drink Ayahuasca to open their “shamanic vision” to see the energies in the body, mind and spirit of their patient. Ayahuasca also allows the shaman to connect with his Master Plant spirit allies to receive energetic protection and the gift of healing songs (Icaros).
These days Ayahuasca Ceremony has become a central feature of Shipibo shamanic medicine offerings. Many Westerners drink Ayahuasca to experience a deep awakening to their essential nature.
We bring enormous care to how we work with Ayahuasca. We work with only the most experienced and professional Shipibo shamans. And we work with Master Plant Dieta treatment alongside Ayahuasca, because this allows the shamans to better stabilize the Ayahuasca Ceremony energies. And it helps you achieve a deeper, more lasting healing.
Holistic Healing & Transformation
Shipibo shamanism is capturing the attention of the whole world, for its ancestral knowledge of Amazonian plant medicines, including Ayahuasca and other Master Plants; and for its shamanic practices which can awaken profound self-understanding; and for the amazing healings of body, mind and spirit achieved for thousands of people today.
Healing Your Whole Being
Shipibo shamanic treatments focus on purifying, strengthening, and revitalizing your body, mind, heart and spirit as an integrated whole.
Re-establishing Balance
As nature shows us in every expression, health arises when harmony is achieved in all aspects of our life, both internally and externally.
Gradual, Lasting Transformation
Just as the plants grow slowly, gradually transforming your way of being over time can bring you genuine, sustained healing and well-being