Teacher Bio Categories Maestro Onáya Healer Archive

Maestro Arturo Izquierdo

Born in a small native community village down-river from Atalaya, Arturo started learning the medicine path at a very young age (under 10 yrs old) from his mother and father who are both Maestro Onánya healers of the Shipibo tradition. By age 18, while studying Teaching at university in Lima, Arturo was already holding healing […]

12-day Ayahuasca & Plant Dieta Retreat (dateless),

Maestra Maricela Rios Inuma

Maestra Maricela was born in the Alto Ucayali river village of Roya, south of Pucallpa. Her father Nicolas Vardales is a well known Shipibo medicine man with a strong famileal lineage of medicine knowledge. At 13 years old, in receiving treatment for some serious health issues of her own, Maricela started to learn about the healing properties of Amazonian medicine plants. She continued dieting with […]

Maestro Francisco Vasquez

Maestro Francisco has been working with the Shipibo medicine path since his early 40's, and is now 65 years old. Although he started his learning later than most, Francisco has rapidly progressed to become a truly high level, mature Maestro of the Shipibo tradition. His beautiful Icaros are sung in the more traditional and deeply poetic 'Shirobehua' style, where Francisco's energy of […]

Maestro Walter Martinez

Born in the small jungle village of Nuevo Loreto, 3 hours boat journey from Pucallpa in the Imiria National Forest, Maestro Walter opened his first dieta at age 15, and learned the way of the medicine with his father. He is now 63 years old, and lives close to Iquitos with his wife and 5 […]

12-day Ayahuasca & Plant Dieta Retreat (dateless),

Maestro Miguel

Miguel is an experienced and highly respected Ayahuasca Curandero from Chile, who began working with Amazonian plant medicine healing 23 years ago. He initially studied with renowned indigenous maestros in the Quechua-Lamista and Mestizo traditions in Peru and Brazil, including Don Jose Campos, Ronnie Rengifo and Don Solon Tello Lozano. In 2008, when confronted with […]

Maestro Pablo Bardales

As a teenager, Pablo felt the call of the medicine, but without access to knowledgeable teachers in his own family or community, he pursued his own learning path with Ayahuasca in the way of the ancient Shipibo Maestros - by entering the jungle alone and following the call of the plants in isolation dieta. Now 45 years old, Pablo is an […]

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Maestra Lucinda Mahua Campos

Maestra Lucinda is the eldest daughter of renowned Shipibo maestro Pascual Mahua Ochavano, born in the Shipibo village of Paoyhan or 'Water of the Pearls' located on the banks of the beautiful Ucayali river, north of Pucallpa. Lucinda has been immersed in the medicine world of her family her entire life - since she was a […]

Maestro Rafael Garcia

Rafael was born into a family of Ayahuasca Curandero Medicos in the Shipibo village of Santa Rosa de Dinamarca, 5 hours journey by riverboat to the south of Pucallpa. Growing up immersed in the world of Ayahuasca, Rafael observed his parents and the men and women of his extended family always working in healing ceremonies […]