Visionary Journeys between Medicine and Magic

Ashi Meraya

In 2004 we co-funded – along with our native Shipibo friends Heberto Hiran Garcia Ramirez, Don Leoncio Garcia Sampaya, Ines Ramirez Cairuna, Jose’ Garcia Ventura, Eunice Garcia Ramirez, and Esther Garcia Ramirez Maggs – Ashi Meraya, a unique Shipibo shamanic retreat centre with a great ethnobotanical garden, in the Peruvian Amazon jungle.

The Shipibo family. Right to left: Heberto, Ines, Esther, Eunice, Don Jose’, Ruth and Erica

Photo Credit: Stephen Witte

Shipibo family and guests in Ashi Meraya

Photo Credit: Stephen Witte

In Ashi Meraya, guests may experience in the context of deeply transformative and life changing retreats:

  • Shamanic healing
  • A very intense schedule of Ayahuasca ceremonies, up to four times a week!!
  • Amazonian Sweat Lodge rituals - Unique to Ashi Meraya
  • Cleansing ritual herbal baths (baños de limpie)
  • Purifying rainforest clay baths (baños de barro)
  • Luck-changing ritual flower baths (baños de florecimiento), to attract prosperity and good fortune in business, love and friendship
  • Ancestral Shipibo shamanic rituals
  • The traditional Shamanic Plant Teachers Diet, for those interested in the initiation into Amazonian shamanism, in the Shipibo tradition, and wish to enter into a more rigorous shamanic apprenticeship.

Overview of the ”Ashi Meraya” shamanic healing and retreat centre in the jungle, near the Allpahuayo Mishana Reserve
Photo Credit: Francesco Sammarco

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