Amazonian Sweat Lodge
The Sweat Lodge
Ayahuasca cooking and Sweat Lodge in Ashi Meraya!
Photo Credit: Francesco Sammarco
Yora Niscanti
On the first night of the retreat you may take part to a Sweat cleansing ritual, led by our Shipibo shaman. Watch here our YouTube video on the Shipibo Sweat Lodge ritual in Ashi Meraya!
Amazonian Sweat Lodge ritual in Ashi Meraya
Photo Credit: Francesco Sammarco
The Sweat Lodge – a unique feature of Ashi Meraya, unheard of in this area of the Northern Peruvian Amazon – is the fruit of the living of Don Alfredo with Ashaninka and Cashibo tribes (both of whom have a tradition of conducting these purification rituals) and has a special Shipibo flavor to it.
Shipibo shamans Don Mariano and Don Alfredo during a Sweat Lodge ritual at night, in Ashi Meraya
Photo Credit: Heberto Hiran Garcia Ramirez
It is also the fruit of the staying of our beloved Don Mariano Silvano Sinuri (Shipibo name: “Shawan Sani”, a Palero Ayahuasquero shaman) with Ashaninka tribes in his youth. Last but not least, it’s also the fruit of a cross-cultural exchange – which we have directly ideated and facilitated – with a visiting native Lakota ceremonialist, Johnnie Wind-dancer.
Before the beginning of the ritual and during the actual Sweat ceremony, the shaman will sing a song of invocation to the powerful Spirit of the Anaconda, in the Shipibo-Conibo idiom. The dirt altar created by the shaman and aligned to the front of the Lodge’s entrance symbolizes the ever-present Spirit of the Anaconda, one of the most powerful spirits dominating Shipibo cosmovision.
Amazonian Shipibo Sweat ritual with Don Alfredo and Don Mariano
Photo Credit: Francesco Sammarco
All plants used during the purification ritual are native Amazonian plants with cleansing and aromatic properties. The cleansing Sweat ritual is done always on the first night of the retreat, before the sessions and treatment with Ayahuasca would begin.
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