Ayahuasca healing retreats with Shipibo shamans in the Amazon Rainforest of Peru

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Shipibo master shaman Don Walter (Chono Tsoma), in the jungle surroundings of Ashi Meraya

Photo Credit: Heberto Hiran Garcia Ramirez

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''This man is about the most beautiful entity I have ever met in my life. I had never seen anything like this man. He is my saviour, my redemptor, and my hero. And my dear, dear friend for life. He is a powerful, super humble servant of the Ayahuasca who cures lovingly and vehemently with the force of love.''

Maria S., Artist

The Ayahuasca brew prepared by Don Walter (Chono Tsoma)

A warm, gentle, humble, patient and compassionate healer - and with wonderful icaros too! - our Shipibo master shaman has his own style of preparing the Ayahuasca brew, which he prepares using Ayahuasca (Banisteriopsis sp.) vine cuts, Chacruna (Psychotria viridis) and Toe' (Brugmansia suavolensis) leaves, Mapacho (Nicotiana sp., black jungle tobacco), all mixed together with the actual Ayahuasca leaves.

Photo Credit: Heberto Hiran Garcia Ramirez

The use of Ayahuasca leaves in the making of the Ayahuasca brew is - to the best of our knowledge - a rarity among shamans in the North West Peruvian Amazon. Sometimes, the fresh leaves of the Huambisa (Diplopterys sp.) and Chaliponga (Diplopterys cabrerana) plants are also added to the brew, to make it even more potent.

Photo Credit: Heberto Hiran Garcia Ramirez

Interestingly, the names of the Huambisa and Chaliponga plants are sometimes used indistinctively by some botanical sources (as apparently referring to the same plant), but our Shipibo maestro distinguish the two, as part of the same genus, but being two different species altogether.

The Apprenticeship of Shipibo Maestro Chono Tsoma

Don Walter had - as it's current practice among many native shamans of the Peruvian Amazon - a rather 'multi-ethnic' shamanic background, re. his own apprenticeship. His teachers were Don Palomino Estrella (a master shaman of the Cacataibo/Cashibo ethnic group), Don Umberto Shapiama Cruz (an indigenous Cocama shaman)), Don Marcos Ricopa (a Campa-Ashaninka shaman), Don Leoncio Garcia Sampaya (an elderly Shipibo shaman and former maestro at Ashi Meraya) and Doña Lucia Cumapa Ocampo (a Shipibo shamaness).

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There are many practical uses for which the shaman may employ his icaros, the most diffuse ones being the invocation of the spirits of the plants to aid in a healing to take place, or else, to grant protection. The icaros are sang especially - but not exclusively - during Ayahuasca ceremonies, and are also much used by Amazonian shamans to empower a remedy or a preparation. The Shipibos are reputed by most anthropological sources to be amid the best shamans of the Peruvian Amazon basin, and their icaros are renowned for being powerful, beautiful, subtle and inducing strong visions. We have prepared - after years of painstaking work - a new compilation of icaros recorded live during Ayahuasca rituals and featuring those of Shipibo master shamans Don Adriano, Don Mariano and Don Alfredo.

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