Master Plant Dieta
What is a Master Plant Dieta?
A master plant dieta is a complex, strict, and rigorous healing and teaching process where a recipient builds an energetic connection between their spiritual consciousness and physical energy body and the spirit energy of a master plant. These plants are conscious, ancient and highly intelligent spirits, with unique gifts as powerful healers and wise teachers.
Over thousands of years of careful study and passed-down ancestral knowledge, the Shipibo Onányas (healers) have identified a wide selection of Master Plants in the Amazon that can bring specific healing and learning properties when dieted properly.
The Shipibo Maestro Onanya’s understand that truly shifting the deeply ingrained patterns of the mind, adapting the cellular structure of the body and opening the wisdom of the heart and spirit require deeper healing which is only achievable through a Master Plant Dieta.
The Dieta consists of drinking a Master Plant that the maestros choose for you according to their experience with you in the first ceremony, your intentions and their knowledge of the plants. Dieting really means growing the spirit of the plant inside you. The spirit of the plant with then always be with you sharing its healing power, serving as a guide/protector and imparting wisdom about yourself, life, and spirituality in general. It will open your path and help you by giving you what you need (which is usually different than what you want, surprise!), as long as you can trust and be open to her.
Master Plants + Ayahuasca
A master plant dieta is deep healing work combining ayahuasca ceremonies with a master plant, allows for longer lasting healing work on physical, psycho/emotional and spiritual levels.
Simply working only with ayahuasca allows for healing on the emotional, mental and spiritual/energetic levels. When ayahuasca is combined with a master plant, they work together on a much deeper level by digging at the roots of trauma, healing the physical body of illnesses/disease and cleansing the spirit of dark energies.
Before dieters can truly connect with the spirits of the master plants, they must first pass through a process of deep mental, physical and spiritual purification. During the ayahuasca ceremonies the healers will work on you to cleanse your spirit through their icaros so you may develop a connection with your master plant.
“The challenges that can arise pre- and post-dieta are markers that relate to our intentions. They illuminate connections to them. Let your being succumb to discipline and let that magic unfold.“
- Lucas Beckert Berger
Working With Master Plants
Discipline: The Golden Key to Healing
In order to transcend our previous patterns and connect with the master plants we have to first go deep, deep within, which takes a lot of discipline. While facing old patterns, negative energies, and your shadow, it’s easy to get lost and revert to old behaviors and energetic patterns. This is why working with the master plants and truly deep healing requires discipline through the entire process.
Working with the Master Plants is more than a one time thing, it’s more than responding to an old situation in a new way once. It is about continually responding to old situations in new ways and that requires a lot of discipline to stay consistent. There is no wiggle room or space to negotiate in dieta. Many people have tried to do a dieta “their way” as an attempt to find the middle ground. That does not work and most people learn that lesson the hard way.
Responsibility and Commitment: Desire to Heal
You may not be to blame for your trauma but you are responsible for your healing. You are responsible for embracing the plants with trust, responsible for how you face the challenges, responsible for your attitude during the process and responsible for how you integrate these lessons into your daily life.
The more you give, the more you receive. While that should not be your only intention or wish, it is the reality of how energy flow. When you sign up for a dieta, you are not just committing to the time at the center, you are committing to the entire process of the pre-dieta, during and post-dieta. You are also making a strong commitment to yourself and in the process learning to honor your commitments.
Challenges: Testing your Dedication
The work with the plants can be challenging as the plants mainly teach through tests, challenges and dreams. The maestros working with plant spirit medicine talk about the plants ‘testing us’ to find out who you truly are, how strong is your commitment and dedication, and how sincere is your search for healing and learning.
The tests will start from the moment you decide to do a dieta and will present themselves in many ways. Remind yourself that, “Everything is a test!” then observe the situation, breathe and respond calmly.
As you encounter and pass through challenges that arise in the journey of the dieta, you open the door to precious teachings, gifts, and experiences. Passing through each test gives you a profound freedom from what has been blocking you in your life and an opening to new dimensions bringing new possibilities for yourself.
Patience and Trust: The Continual Healing Process
Truly healing takes time, which is different than the “I want it now” attitude conditioned to us by Western Society. It is important to be patient with yourself during this process because you are learning and growing and that takes time. Also you will inevitably make lots of mistakes a long the way and that is the most important time to be patient with yourself.
“Healing is a continual journey.” It is not a one time quick fix of consuming medicines at a dieta. This process is deeply personal and different for everyone. The more you practice trust the more you open your space for the plants to work. You want to trust you are healing even if you cannot immediately feel it, you want to trust the challenges are opportunities to integrate and you want to trust yourself in the process.
Components of a Dieta
Working Traditionally
At first, all dietas are for the purpose of healing to align your body, mind and spirit to your purpose.
Our focus is to work as traditionally as possible with all the dietas we give, may they be groups dieta or individual dietas. The Maestros work with the guidance of the plants given in dreams and in the ceremonies according to how your individual process is unfolding.
With traditional dietas, nothing is ever written in stone. The indication that we are giving you here is our attempt to give a guiding map as clear as possible. However, each one of you is taken in consideration as an individual and all configurations are possible. Don’t be shy to ask.
Isolation in Tambo
You will be staying alone in a “Tambo”, a hut. During the dieta, you will be encouraged to be in silence and isolation as much as possible, which supports you in the opportunity to be fully present with your plant. The more you remain by yourself, the more your plant will be available to you. Its energy will blossom within you, deepening and accelerating your process in surprising ways.
Eating and Fasting
Just as you clean the ground before you plant a seed, cleansing and purifying your body will allow the spirit of the plant to grow and work inside of you. The traditional food during dieta is pure: no salt, spices, sugar, oils, red meat, or dairy.
Your meals will be prepared with great love and attention by our cooks who receive daily directions from the maestros which are given by the plants in ceremonies.
Dry fasting will be your most effective tool to deepen your dieta.
A dry fast, no food and no water, is an offering of gratitude to the spirit of the plants. Very sensitive to it, they respond by deepening your process in incredible ways. Dry fasting is never an obligation, it’s a gift from the heart you offer with intention. You will know when you are ready and your facilitator will guide you through it.
What Else To Expect
Something about how there is no set program. Here are things throughout the dieta.
- Dieta instruction session with your facilitator.of the maestros and their recommendations.
- Individual consultation with the maestros to share your intention.
- Flower baths
- Steam baths
- Additional treatments if and when necessary; plants remedies to drink, in poultice or as a bath, massages, etc
- A sharing circle with the maestros at the midpoint and at the end.
- Dieta closing and post-dieta instructions
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