Sachamama Ethnobotanical Garden

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El Mundo Magico

Una Vision Hecho Realidad

Entrance to Sachamama Ethnobotanical Garden. Don Francisco holding a schacapa fan; hanging from the wooden signpost, a bottle with a 14 years old ayahuasca brew and vine.

A signpost at the entrance of the Garden. Protected natural area and ethnobotanical garden, Sachamama is the first project of its kind in the North West Peruvian Amazon, and intends to offer sanctuary to medicinal plants and indigenous plant varieties of the rainforest.

Sachamama

Unidos Para La Madre Tierra

The Ethnobotanical Garden 'Sachamama' (literally, 'mother spirit of the jungle') was founded by ethnobotanist, shaman and visionary artist don Francisco Montes Shuña - of Capanahua origins - in 1990, following a vision during an ayahuasca ceremony in which 'Sachamama', the mother-spirit of the jungle, appeared to him and guided him towards the creation of this space. The resort comprehends 60 hectares (now destined to increase thanks to the continuous and generous donations of people from all over the world) of beautiful secondary rainforest and hosts an impressive number of medicinal and ethno-culturally significant plant specimens.

Medicinal plant extracts, prepared by don Francisco

PROGRAMME OFFERED

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• Ayahuasca ceremonies

• Traditonal teacher plants diet for Vision Quest, Shamanism or Healing

• Traditional healing with Medicinal Plants

• Workshops on the use of Medicinal Plants

• Holistic Clay and Flower Baths

• Tobacco (Mapacho) rituals and body cleansing

• Natural painting and visionary painting classes, using natural pigments and colours extracted from plants

• Informal talks and seminars on the Ecology of the Amazon

Everyone wishing to participate to ayahuasca ceremonies, do so on a purely voluntary level of participation, and will undertake a previous preparation of the body through special dieting. During the time necessary to prepare for the ceremony, it is compulsory for everybody to abstain from sex (the recommendation is 2 days before and 3 days days after the rituals) and from intake of salt, sugar, alcohol, coffee, fats, stimulants, spices, and heavy meals. Strict avoidance of pork meat and pork-related products (including ham, salami, etc) in special, is necessary 2 weeks prior and after the intake of ayahuasca. Please visit the link on diet when taking MAO inhibitors for a more detailed list of food to avoid.

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