Maestro Miguel, a seasoned healer with over four decades of experience, began his unique path at 24 in the Amazon, learning from the forest and its plants. He became deeply knowledgeable in traditional healing methods and the creation of icaros. Miguel has formed special bonds with 42 plants, including Camalonga and Ayahuama, which he uses to aid those seeking healing. At 69, his expertise and icaros are a testament to his deep connection with nature and his unwavering commitment to helping others. Miguel's presence brings a rare and precious wisdom to all he meets, embodying the essence of true healing. Maturity, focus, sensitivity and commitment, these are the best words to describe him. You will be in good hands !
Virginia is a skilled Shipibo shaman with over 20 years of experience, working closely with her husband, Miguel, to form a powerful healing couple. Her energy is soft and caring, and during ceremonies, she creates a warm space where deep healing can happen. Her melodic icaros are bringing calm and peace. She gives herself fully to the work, sharing her soul in every ceremony. Virginia is also a talented artisan, creating traditional Shipibo crafts. She continues to diet master plants, deepening her connection with them and strengthening her healing abilities. Her kind presence makes everyone feel comfortable and at ease. Working with her offers not just healing but a sense of being truly cared for.
Ronel Cairuna Garcia, my Shipibo name is Ronin Yoi, and with my wife Wilma Verita Morayari Saldaña, my Shipibo name is Isa Yaka, we are a married couple dedicated to medicine for many years.
I come from a family of Onanyas (traditional healers) established in the Ucayali region. I am the son of the respected teacher Alfredo Cairuna (Sinamano), who passed away three years ago. He introduced me to the path of medicine at a young age. From childhood, I witnessed my grandparents using traditional medicinal methods to cure and treat illnesses, fostering my interest in medicines and ancestral knowledge.
Since my father passed away, his legacy continues with the same spirit of serving and helping people with their various problems. In my training, I have followed diets based on different master plants and traditional medicines, undergoing a very long process of preparation and training, thanks to my grandfather and my father, to whom I am eternally grateful.
During my training, I learned to identify plants and their pharmacological properties so I could use this knowledge to help people. I also give lectures on the medicinal properties of local plants. I am a very patient, friendly, and kind person, sharing my knowledge with patients in an easy and accessible way.
I have a beautiful family: my sons Luis, Leonel, Freddy, Jack, and Lester. I currently live in Iquitos.
Maestra Wilma
VERITA MORAYARI SALDAÑA
→ Isayaka meaning
“MESSENGER BIRD
THAT RECEIVES AND TRANSMITS PEACE AND LOVE
MORE THAN 30 YEARS WALKING THE PATH OF ANCESTRAL MEDICINE”
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Maestra Wilma Verita Morayari Saldaña, known in Shipibo as Isayaka, meaning "messenger bird that receives and transmits peace and love," is a Shipibo healer from the community of Nuevo Nazareth, belonging to an ancestral culture recognized for its rich traditions, wisdom, and knowledge passed down through generations.
With more than 30 years walking the path of ancestral medicine, WILMA has dedicated much of her life to service, healing, and supporting others. For her, being a healer carries a simple yet profound meaning: to help, serve, and work with love.
Her connection with medicine began at a very early age, growing up surrounded by her grandparents and family members, who lived deeply connected to traditional medicine. Among them, she shared a special bond with her grandmother Isayaka, a medicine woman with whom she also shares the same spiritual name. From childhood, she accompanied her family into the jungle to collect medicinal plants, developing a deep curiosity and natural connection with this world.
As time passed, she began receiving dreams and spiritual experiences where the spirits of medicine invited her deeper into this path, revealing teachings and guidance on how to use this knowledge in service of others.
Later in life, when she united with her husband and began building a life together, a new chapter in her spiritual and medicinal journey unfolded. Through his family, she had the opportunity to deepen her preparation under the guidance of her father-in-law, the respected Maestro Alfredo Cairuna (Sinamano). This stage strengthened her path through profound plant diets and expanded her knowledge in icaros, therapeutic massage, traditional work with perfumes and tobacco, mud treatments, and the ancestral art of bone healing, a traditional practice focused on working with bones, supporting fractured bones, alignment, and restoring the body's physical structure.
For WILMA, master plants are a great spiritual school. She believes that when a person enters this path, they enter a world of teachings, discipline, and sacred rules that must be honored with humility and commitment.
Throughout the years, she has guided many healing processes through ceremonies and traditional treatments, supporting each person with presence, intuition, and deep respect for the medicine.
Through her journey, she has learned that helping and serving others brings profound joy to her heart. Witnessing someone find relief, clarity, or transformation is one of the greatest gifts of her life.
The values she seeks to share with those who come to her space are love, unity, empathy, and respect. Through ceremonies, dreams, and spiritual messages, she feels the spirits continually remind her of one essential teaching: to cultivate love, serve, and help one another.
Her deepest wish is that every person who works with her may find wellbeing, clarity, and reconnect with their purpose in life.
A Shipibo maestro from Pucallpa, César has a unique background as a former Director of Photography for Canon Peru and decades of experience with Amazonian plant medicine. He is the son-in-law of Maestro Miguel and frequently works alongside Mirabel Mahua Miguel’s daughter and a member of the legendary Mahua family.
His ceremonies are known for melodic, energetic icaros and a calm, balanced presence reminiscent of a Buddhist monk. Combining traditional Shipibo knowledge with empathy, attentiveness, and a deep understanding of Western participants, César creates a space where powerful ancestral traditions meet warmth, professionalism, and a genuine sense of safety.
Maestro Edwin Cauper began his work at the age 18, with 3 years long dieta with palos maestros, was trained under his uncle Antonio Sanchez in remote Puerto Nuevo community. He has since accumulated multiple diets with powerful trees and master plants and has been working independently and in various centres over many years, developing very focused, unique style, warm, melodic entrancing icaros, holding space in very stable, balanced way. Works in duet with Maestra Claudia, mostly during our open ayahuasca retreats.
25 years on a long and twisted path of exploration of magic, primordial beliefs, traditional cultures, shamanism and spirituality of the world. From Rastafarian camps in Jamaica, voodoo in Haiti and Africa, desert traditions of healing with trance, in Maghreb, Ethiopia, Pakistan, shamanism of Mongolia, Africa, Pakistan, mysticism of Indian subcontinent, transformative Sufi rites on three continents, Bwiti initiation in Cameroon, finally culminating in Amazon and Andes, years of learning its traditional medicine, sampling various sources of knowledge of the world and inspiration, understanding of self and bringing others safely through paths scouted before. Worked with shamans in Peru, Ecuador and Colombia, gringos, mestizos and tribes : Shipibo, Siona, Cofan, Tsachilas, Kamsa, Achuar, Kichwa, Witoto.
Ex-traveler, photographer, writer, guide, practitioner. Founder of headquarters of Psychonauta Foundation, medicinal camp in the jungle of northern Peru and a growing collective focused on therapeutic use of psychoactive plants.
Working on fringe area where medicine and art meet, thus reconnecting to primal, ancient shamanism reinterpreted through body, breath and own, unique experience for the moment of NOW, improvisation, techniques of trance, syncretism, song woven continually, rooted in ancient past and in various cultures with fruits here and for each case individually.
He co-founded the Psychonauta Foundation and has made his home in the Amazon jungle with his partner and two children. Since 2016, he has been leading retreats helping hundreds of individuals expand their consciousness. His favorite plants are Ayahuasca and San Pedro.
Over the years, he also has undergone many plant diets, including Ajo Sacha, Bobinsana, Chuchuhuasi, Marosa, Shinipampana, Renaquil, and Chiric Sanango. He earned the nickname "Captain" from a Shipibo healer, he likes it for its connotation of guiding a boat, a psychedelic boat beyond the mind's boundaries. However, he believes true leadership enables individuals to become captains of their own lives.
In his practice, Blez combines his skills as a psychologist with the profound lessons from plants. He is committed to creating a safe, judgment-free space for those seeking healing. His priority is to foster a supportive environment where everyone feels seen, heard, and valued.
Blez takes great care in preparing medicines, ensuring their highest quality. He finds immense satisfaction in witnessing the transformation towards a more conscious existence and improved well-being. He states that healing can be a fascinating journey.
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Before moving to the Amazon, she worked in set design, bringing other people’s visions to life. She eventually chose a different path, building a family and a home in the jungle.
Over the years, she has explored meditation, massage, yoga, Ayurvedic bodywork and plant medicine. Her approach is shaped above all by lived experience, curiosity, presence and a willingness to let life unfold without needing to control every step.
As a mother of two children born naturally, one in the Sacred Valley and one at home in the jungle, Julita brings a deeply personal understanding of trust, change and the relationship between people and nature.
Her work is grounded in creating spaces where people can slow down, listen more deeply and reconnect with what feels true to them.
Daughter of Maestro Miguel and a guardian of her family’s ancestral knowledge. Her icaros are powerful, rhythmic, energetic, and full of life, bringing a distinctive intensity and vitality to her ceremonies.
Her presence combines powerful feminine energy with balance, sensitivity, and strength, creating a unique and deeply engaging ceremonial experience
Margo Kapała is a psychologist and certified cognitive behavioural therapist (CBT) with over 12 years of experience in mental health. She holds master’s degrees in psychology and philosophy and has completed postgraduate studies in psychedelics and altered states of consciousness at SWPS University in Poznan, Poland.
Her work draws on clinical psychology and philosophical reflection, focusing on the transformative potential of altered states of consciousness. As a retreat facilitator, she supports participants in navigating difficult emotions and exploring the personal meaning of profound experiences as part of the psychedelic integration process.
Born in Poland, I have been exploring life's deeper questions since childhood. From an early age, I felt drawn to understanding the nature of reality, consciousness, and the human experience.
My journey was not a straightforward one. For much of my life, I struggled with feelings of disconnection, misunderstanding, and inner conflict. These challenges eventually became some of my greatest teachers, leading me into profound personal work and giving me extensive experience with the process often referred to as shadow work.
I am professionally trained as a physiotherapist and massage therapist, with a strong appreciation for the connection between body, mind, and spirit.
Today, I dedicate my life to supporting others on their paths of healing, self-discovery, and transformation. My approach is grounded in authenticity, compassion, and the understanding that growth often emerges through our willingness to face both the light and the shadow within ourselves.
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