Ancestral
Plant Healing Center
in the Peruvian Amazon
Master Plant DietaMaster Plant Dietas at Shipibo Rao
Shipibo Rao is a plant-spirit healing center led by Maestro Jose Lopez Sanchez, offering deep healing and apprenticeship through traditional Shipibo master plant dietas, supported by ayahuasca ceremonies. Nestled in forty-five hectares of old-growth rainforest, we are home to the diverse medicinal plants, trees, and wildlife that are integral to our healing work and which we are committed to protecting.
Master A Life Of Alignment
Through the ancestral discipline of dieta, you will enter into sacred communion with a master plant or tree spirit doctor. This profound work reaches to the roots of trauma, imbalance and illness, opening a path of transformation. Approaching the dieta respectfully deepens your bond with the plant ally, which in return shares its wisdom, guidance and protection, gifting you with the tools to maintain alignment throughout your life journey.
“In my 28 years of life, I have never felt like my needs, emotions or self mattered. I finally received the care, acknowledgment and love I needed as a child while at Shipibo Rao”
-Ahsan Vency
-Ahsan Vency
Traditional Plant Dieta at Shipibo Rao
Guardians of Traditions
Master plant dieta is a sophisticated healing system mastered by Shipibo healers over thousands of years, working in deep alliance with plant spirits. Shipibo Rao is founded and run by Shipibo Maestro Jose, whose deep, lifelong relationship with plant allies stems from his healer's family lineage. Here, our advanced-level Shipibo healers practice their art in its traditional form, offering authentic dietas guided purely by the plants' wisdom. In today's rapidly changing world, we are deeply committed to preserving and sharing these traditional Shipibo practices in their pure essence.
Bridging Worlds from Experience
Our team of facilitators have experienced multiple dietas at Shipibo Rao. Dedicated to the path of apprenticeship, they understand deeply both the Western and Shipibo perspectives, having walked the journey from initial unfamiliarity of an unknown world to profound trust in these traditional practices. Drawing from their experience and continuous learning, they guide you to enter your dieta with understanding and offer support to navigate the daily challenges of your healing journey in a caring and loving environment to heal and transform.
Attentive Care Throughout Your Journey
We care for you as a family, giving each guest the individual attention their unique healing journey needs. Our Maestros and facilitators work closely together in service of your healing - Maestros select the right master plant for you, administer treatments, and hold ceremonies for healing, alignment and connection with your plant, while facilitators maintain daily contact, offering compassionate listening, guidance and ensuring you receive all needed care from the Maestros. This attentive support begins with preparation guidance before your dieta and continues through your post-dieta.
Traditional Shipibo Plant Spirit Medicine
The ancestral wisdom of Shipibo healing offers a path to health, well-being, remembering our true essence and purpose. Beyond a medicinal system, it is a living tradition that continues to evolve, weaving together intricate practices, an expansive cosmology and vast plant knowledge. This healing work is based on a direct experience and Universal wisdom transmitted through plant spirits, transcending belief systems or religious frameworks.
Through years of experience, investigation and responding to healing needs, Maestro Jose has developed a complete medicine system that weaves together Shipibo dietas, apprenticeship paths, Ashaninca practices, and distance healing work. This harmonious approach, born from his continuous quest to serve, meets each person's unique journey from personal transformation to transgenerational healing.
Through years of experience, investigation and responding to healing needs, Maestro Jose has developed a complete medicine system that weaves together Shipibo dietas, apprenticeship paths, Ashaninca practices, and distance healing work. This harmonious approach, born from his continuous quest to serve, meets each person's unique journey from personal transformation to transgenerational healing.
14 & 28-Day Traditional Plant Healing Dietas
These dietas are focused on healing, featuring 5 and 10 ayahuasca ceremonies respectively, work with one Master tree or plant, various plant treatments, daily care from our healers and facilitators, plus integration and post-dieta follow up. These experiences provide profound personal transformation through dedicated dieta work.
Long Healing and Alignment Dietas (1-4 months)
These powerful dietas take the journey of transformation to deeper levels, requiring serious commitment and previous dieta experience. They resolve deeply rooted situations while fostering independence in one's healing journey. A necessary step toward apprenticeship, they demand sustained discipline and dedication to self-development.
Apprenticeship Dieta (1-12 months)
For those who have completed sufficient healing dietas and follow a sincere calling to heal others, Maestro José offers apprenticeships extending over many years. He provides ongoing guidance and support as each student's unique healing and learning path unfolds.
Distance Healing: Surrogate Dietas
Drawing from ancient Ashaninca wisdom and reviving this practice among Shipibo, Maestros from both traditions work as surrogates to provide deep healing without the need for physical presence. This powerful work addresses deeply rooted ancestral traumas, provides strong protection, and removes heavy negative energies. It serves both as a complement to presential dietas and as support for those unable to diete themself.
Ayahuasca Retreats & Private Sessions
Maestro José offers ayahuasca ceremonies at partner centers and private locations, from weekend intensives to 10-day retreats. These sessions serve as preparation for dietas, introduction to the medicine, or maintenance work for dietors. At Shipibo Rao, special family retreats allow parents to receive healing while children benefit from healing Icaros, enabling whole-family transformation.
Distance Healing: Surrogate Dietas
Drawing from ancient Ashaninca wisdom and reviving this practice among Shipibo, Maestros from both traditions work as surrogates to provide deep healing without the need for physical presence. This powerful work addresses deeply rooted ancestral traumas, provides strong protection, and removes heavy negative energies. It serves both as a complement to presential dietas and as support for those unable to diete themself.
Ayahuasca Retreats & Private Sessions
Maestro José offers ayahuasca ceremonies at partner centers and private locations, from weekend intensives to 10-day retreats. These sessions serve as preparation for dietas, introduction to the medicine, or maintenance work for dietors. At Shipibo Rao, special family retreats allow parents to receive healing while children benefit from healing Icaros, enabling whole-family transformation.
Group Healing Dietas
From two weeks to a month, include the accompaniment of an experienced western facilitator, the daily care of our healers, a vomitive tea, flower baths, steam baths, additional plant treatments, guided communion with one master plant, a high number of ayahuasca ceremonies, individual consultations, traditional dieta food, integration and post dieta follow up.
Long Healing and Alignment Dieta
From one to four months, these are powerful, highly effective, traditional dietas, only for people with a minimum of 14 days dieta experience who are willing to seriously take responsibility for their self-development and personal transformation. These will help resolve deeply rooted situations, on all levels, with one dieta.
Apprenticeship Dieta
The long healing and alignment dieta can lead to learning dietas, following a sincere calling to heal others. They can last from one month up to a year.
Distance Healing: Surrogate Dietas & Ceremonies
As ancestral high level healers traditionally worked on their patients through surrogates before working with them directly, our Maestros call your soul to the Amazon. They are able to provide deep healing, without the need for you to drink ayahuasca or be physically present in ceremony. As many are unable to travel at this time and some are unable to make the journey to Peru, Maestro José and his team are now reviving this ancestral practice.
Your Healing and Alignment
The plant spirits offer their healing and teachings in many areas, including:
Healing
- Trauma, emotional and psychological blockages
- Ancestral and karmic patterns carried through generations
- Heavy and dark energetic burdens
- Deeply-rooted fears
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Post traumatic stress disorder
- Addictive patterns
- Persistent worry and stress
- Long lasting and deeply rooted physical illness
Alignment
- Alignment with your heart
- Discover and align with your soul’s path
- Focus your mind
- Reconnect to you inner-self and intuition
- Awaken natural creativity
- Learn energy work
- Deepen self-love and self-knowledge
- Strengthen your connection to earth and nature
- Restore vital energy
- Awaken your dreams
Maestro José
Maestro José is the driving force of our center. He is the son of the legendary Shipibo Onaya - master plant-spirit healer - Maestra Ynes Sánchez González and Maestro David López, and comes from a lineage of powerful and well-respected healers dating back hundreds of years.
Having apprenticed extensively first under his paternal grandfather, a Meraya, the highest level Shipibo healer, then his uncle and his mother since the age of seven years old, he received the wisdom of his ancestors, the Shipibo-Conibo cosmovision, and sophisticated practices of Shipibo plant-spirit healing.
He honorably bridges the modern world with traditional Amazonian medicine and has healed many hundreds of people locally in various rainforest communities and in Western healing centers in Peru. Maestro José, who has a unique ability to communicate his wisdom and tradition, is often invited to speak and teach at various ethnobotanical and multicultural traditional gatherings around the world.
Maestro José assumes his role of service with benevolence and tender strength. His work is offered with love and gratitude for the medicine and plants that guide him.
Having apprenticed extensively first under his paternal grandfather, a Meraya, the highest level Shipibo healer, then his uncle and his mother since the age of seven years old, he received the wisdom of his ancestors, the Shipibo-Conibo cosmovision, and sophisticated practices of Shipibo plant-spirit healing.
He honorably bridges the modern world with traditional Amazonian medicine and has healed many hundreds of people locally in various rainforest communities and in Western healing centers in Peru. Maestro José, who has a unique ability to communicate his wisdom and tradition, is often invited to speak and teach at various ethnobotanical and multicultural traditional gatherings around the world.
Maestro José assumes his role of service with benevolence and tender strength. His work is offered with love and gratitude for the medicine and plants that guide him.
Meet Our Team
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Deep Dive with Maestro Jose and Anne-Laure
Our Partnerships
The Way of The Warriors
After experiencing healing with South American indigenous people, veterans developed a program combining Western naturopathic medicine and traditional Peruvian and Colombian healers to treat UK war veterans with PTSD and combat trauma. The Way of the Warriors program includes a one-month plant medicine retreat at Shipibo Rao in Peru.
Learn MoreTemple of the Way of Light
Since 2007, the Temple of the Way of Light in the Peruvian Amazon has safely provided ayahuasca healing to over 10,000 people, earning recognition as one of the world's most reputable and effective healing centers. Maestro José and his family are part of the Shipibo healing team leading retreats there.
Learn MoreHealing Encounters
Healing Encounters brings together social scientists and traditional medicine practitioners to share Amazonian perspectives on plant medicine use in the Western world. Their work on sustainability, equity, and social justice led to the open-access book
"Trabajar con las plantas que tienen madres: Diálogos con un onanya shipibo" by José López Sanchez, Silvia Mesturini Cappo, and Emilia Sanabria (Fineo, 2024).
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Learn More"Trabajar con las plantas que tienen madres: Diálogos con un onanya shipibo" by José López Sanchez, Silvia Mesturini Cappo, and Emilia Sanabria (Fineo, 2024).
Here free ebook to dowload.
Here free pdf to dowload.