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Shamanic Plant Diet Retreats in Ashi Meraya
Shipibo master shaman Don Walter Martines Guimaraes, in the jungle surroundings of Ashi Meraya
Photo Credit: Heberto Hiran Garcia Ramirez
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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
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
VINES (Sogas)
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
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