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Shamanic Plant Diet Intensive Retreats 

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Shipibo master shaman Don Walter Martines Guimaraes, in the jungle surroundings of Onanyan Shobo

 

 

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The Shamanic Plant Diet Apprenticeship with Don Walter

 

 

What You Will Learn

 

Candidates doing the shamanic plant diet apprenticeship with our Shipibo healer Don Walter Martines Guimares (Chono Tsoma) may learn how to prepare - as part of their retreat - special cleansing saunas prepared with pure ayahuasca vine leaves, as well as cleansing baths prepared with refined rainforest clay. Towards the end of your apprenticeship you will also have - and learn how to make - ritual baths prepared with  aromatic rainforest flowers (ba๑os de flores). Depending on the length of your staying, you may learn in the process - among other things - different icaros melodies, different ways to sing icaros over a patient, secret love-magic remedies (pusangas) and different approaches to - and different styles of - the shamanic dieta.  As part of your hands-on apprenticeship, you will aid the shaman in the conduction of Ayahuasca ceremonies for people doing the Ayahuasca retreat.

 

Plants of the Diet and Ayahuasca Ceremonies

 

How to take the plant preparations (el brebaje)

 

Each plant preparation to diet with may be taken (in form of macerate, infusion or ba๑o maria) up to 2 times every 2 days (i.e.: once a day, for no longer than 2 days in a row). Therefore, all different plants which are part of one's diet will change every 2 days.

 

Ayahuasca sessions during the diet

 

There are no major changes in the diet style as practiced by Don Walter for the number of Ayahuasca ceremonies that may be done during the plant diet itself. Please visit the page on Ayahuasca and Plant Diet, to familiarize yourself with this information. 

 

Food Allowed and Restrictions

 

Regardless of whether one may be vegan, vegetarian or else not, Don Walter maintains that when one is doing a plant diet to learn shamanism, one may only have the following food (with attached restrictions):

 

Fish: 

 

Lisa, Boquichico, Dorado, Sungaro, Corvina, Tucunare: these are all different local Amazonian fish varieties, excellent for the diet, which may be eaten grilled/roasted or in broth, with little to no salt.

 

Free-range chicken:

 

May be eaten grilled/roasted or in broth, with little to no salt.

 

Free-range eggs:

 

Allowed, hard boiled, with little to no salt.

 

Read meat:

 

Usually, red meat won't be allowed during the traditional plant diet. However, this can be negotiated with the shaman. The only kind of read meat that might be served during the dieta may be that of some game animals like Collared Peccary (Pecari tajacu), Paca (Agouti paca nelsoni), etc. Again, with little to no salt.

 

Grocery and fruits:

 

Not really allowed, except for green plantains, green bananas and Yucca (the root of the Cassava plant), all boiled or roasted. Some other concessions may be made at the shaman's discretion.

 

Bread and flour derivates:

 

Allowed. 

 

All food may be taken with little salt or little sugar. Once the diet period will be over, you may eat everything to your like!!

 

 

Ajos Sacha

 

 

Photo Credit: Paola Garavaglia

 

Plant Teachers and the Shamanic Diets of Don Walter Martines Guimaraes

 

The following is a list of some of the plant teachers dieted by our shaman. We have also indicated the length of the period these were dieted:

 

TEACHER TREES (Palos Maestros)

 

• Huaira caspi:  2 Years


• Catahua:  2 Years


• Ayahuman:   2 Years


• Ajos quiro:  2 Years


• Remocaspi:  2 Years


• Bobinsana
(formerly identified by anthropologist Luis Eduardo Luna with Swartzia arborecens [1992:236], and later associated [1999: 62] with Calliandra angustifolia) is a plant that makes one in contact with the spirits of other plants; Luna (1992:236) reports that: "The spirit of this tree is a prince, who presents himself dressed in beautiful garments and with a sword. The tree is in his palace, and this is why it always has flowers":  6 Months


• Chiric sanango (Brunfelsia grandiflora):  6 Months


• Uchu sanango (Tabernaemontana sp.):  6 Months

 

• Chuchuhuasi (Maytenus krukovit), a 'doctor-tree' used to heal and strengthen the body:  6 Months
 

• Azucar huayo (Hymenaea sp.), another 'doctor-tree', which gives strength and helps in receiving the icaros:  1 Year


 

TEACHER PLANTS (Plantas Maestras)
 

• Pi๑on colorado:  4 Months


• Pi๑on blanco:  4 Months


• Toe' (Brugmansia suavolensis):  4 Months


• Ipururo:  3 Months


• Piri piri:  3 Months


• Ajos sacha
(Mansoa alliacea), a plant which strengthens the body, reinforce and cleanse the system: 3 Months

 

VINES (Sogas)


• Cielo Ayahuasca:  7 Months


OTHER (Perfume)


• Agua de florida:  5 Months

 

Plant Classification from:

 

* Brack Egg, A., 1999: Dicionario Enciclopedico de Plantas Utiles del Peru

                       

* Gentry, A.,1993: A Field Guide to the Familie and Genera of Woody Plants of Northwest South America

 

Luna, L. E., 1986: Vegetalismo - Shamanism Among the Mestizo Population of the Peruvian Amazon - Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis - 27

 

* Luna, L.E., 1992: 'Icaros: Magical Melodies', in Matteson Langdon, E. J. and Baer, G.: Portals of Power - Shamanism in South America, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque 1992: 231-253.

 

* Luna, L.E., Amaringo, P., 1999: Ayahuasca Visions, The Religious Iconography of a Peruvian Shaman, Berkeley

 

 

 

Cumaceba tree (Cesalpina equinata)

 

 

Photo Credit: Paola Garavaglia

 

The Shamanic ''Dieta'' with Plant Teachers

 

Shamanic Plants Diet: The "Way of Wisdom": Click here  

 

Shamanic Plant Diet and Ayahuasca: Click here 

 

Restrictions, Food, Plant Teachers and the Shamanic Diet: Click here

 

List of the Plant Teachers of the Shamanic Diet: Click here

 

Further info on the Shamanic Plant Diet: Click here

 

 

 

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