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Importance of Preparation

Comprehensive preparation and total commitment to the integration period afterwards are as equally important as the healing experienced during the dieta.

The dieta itself is only one component of the healing experience, no matter how powerful or profound. When you register for a dieta you are committing to the entire process (pre, during, and post) along with any and all challenges that will arise during your journey. These challenges will arise the moment you register for your dieta as the plant spirits are testing your dedication and sincerity. This makes your preparation even more important. It is critical that you commit to the advice given on this page, from your facilitators and the maestros, before, during and after your retreat to ensure your healing experience is positive, safe and sustained over the long term.

The master plants are powerful cleansing and purifying medicines that can rid the body of physical impurities, the mind and body of emotional blockages and negative energetic patterns, as well as put together fragmented aspects of one’s soul due to past traumatic events. The medicines also serve as a teacher who initiates or accelerates us into a lifelong journey of continual self-discovery, deep personal transformation, and remembrance of the divine within us all. Indigenous Shipibo traditions have worked with the master plants for thousands of years and have always viewed it as a rigorous practice requiring the utmost commitment and dedication.

Before, during and after the process, perseverance, courage, a strong determination, and patience all significantly facilitate the healing journey. The results are highly beneficial with the end goal to come back into alignment with our true nature, find balance between our heart and mind, balance between our subconscious, conscious and superconscious selves, and to re-awaken self-respect, self-worth, and self-love.

Working with the Master Plants

Working with the master plants can be a highly beneficial spiritual practice that activates evolutionary healing, provided your intent and approach are sincere.

Many people from the West who are new to these traditional medicines come with a misconception of the way they work. There is no “quick fix” when awakening to higher aspects of consciousness or alleviating long-term pain and suffering. True transformation, personal growth and evolution are marked by gradual and grounded changes requiring discipline of conscious awareness and actualization.

The best way to approach the Master Plants is to develop a connection with them and not seek to simply take them. When working with the master plants in a healthy manner, you enter into a relationship of reciprocity - receiving healing and teachings while giving back through taking responsibility for all parts of yourself, a long-term commitment to change, courage to face your fears, a willingness to find and offer your gifts to the world.

A master plant dieta is a journey into what really matters: your heart, your life and your soul. It is an opportunity to face and integrate the darkest parts of you, transmuting trapped energies into beautiful life purposes. The master plants help us search for the light that has been lost in the darkness. True healing with ayahuasca and the master plants is very hard work, requiring courage, determination and commitment to your healing journey.

Preparing to Face Your Shadow

You will need personal integrity and courage as you will face the whole of yourself, including “shadow aspects.”

While it is impossible to predict what might arise during your dieta, it is essential to understand that the master plants bring the experiences of your inner world into your conscious awareness; this includes the “shadow aspects” within.

Your shadow is everything inside of you that you have repressed, disowned and kept in the dark as a defense mechanism from pain. Everyone turns away from pain at points in their life, especially during childhood. Any pain we have not processed lives in our shadow. Your shadow is where your life force gets trapped (I.e. blockages) and is less available to you because it is energy that is not integrated with the rest of your being. Facing your shadow, you turn towards feeling the pain you once ran from. You feel that pain within and slowly bring it to the light, understand it better and eventually (hopefully) learn to love it. This shadow part of you goes from a dreaded “it” to a reclaimed “you.”

A master plant dieta serves as an amplifier that will bring to the surface patterns and programs that no longer serve you. The master plants do not allow you to further repress your issues or escape from reality. They do the exact opposite by compelling us to face, resolve and release issues that have been buried throughout our lives. The master plants healing work is to clean, clear and transform trapped energies (in your shadow) that hold you back in life, cause emotional distress and create constant discomfort that eventually manifests as “dis-ease.”

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Pre-Dieta Tips

Intention

Ask yourself why are you seeking the master plants? Your intention is your focus and will ground you through this deep work. Of course, your intention may change, which is fine. While the master plants will show you many things, you can also ask them what to show you. If you ask the master plants, “teach me” you may get a powerful lesson which is difficult to understand. If you ask for something more specific “teach me how to love myself” you will receive a lesson more easily understood.

Purifying

For at least a week (preferably longer) prior to your dieta, it is essential to clear your mind and body of as many impurities and intrusions as possible so you may approach this deep work with a fresh energy and full strength. This will also help your endurance for the challenges in the dieta. We recommend any practice: yoga, meditation, exercise, etc. which helps in your cleansing process. We have also clearly outlined the pre-dieta on the site which is to be taken seriously and followed to the best of your ability.

Take Care of Business

Before leaving for your dieta, take care of as much business as possible, ideally leaving a week before for preparation and a week after for integration without distractions to your energetic space. Take care of any details: finances, emails (auto responder), arrangements, etc. Also realize that you will be extremely open and sensitive in the days after the dieta, so plan in advance time to rest and relax in a peaceful and beautiful location for a few days. Manish Hotel is perfect.

Nature

Do your best to spend time in nature. If you live in a city where nature is hard to find, search for botanical gardens or zen gardens. Take long walks in the woods, on the beach, whatever landscape calls you. This will provide your mind and body an opportunity to relax and help to establish a deeper connection to yourself. Nature is itself the ultimate purifier, we are all made of nature, the master plants come from nature and the maestros did their training in nature.

Be Ready to Unplug

We strongly suggest you completely unplug during your time in dieta because having ongoing communications and concerns with the outside world can significantly interfere with the work done in dieta. Which is why we recommend taking care of business and planning post-dieta stays/travel in advance.

Importance of Integration

The master plants do not stop working when we cut the dieta; instead. The plants initiate a healing process deep within all levels of our system that unfolds over months or even years.

The goal of integration is to maximize that healing process. Integrating the healing and lessons from the master plants is as important if not more important than the dieta itself. During this period of time, you will start to witness the benefits of the work you have done and the seed you have planted will grow.

It’s what you do with the teachings and insights from the master plants, how well you take care of yourself and make changes in our life that ensure your ongoing process of healing and self-transformation. During your integration process the healing energy of the plants, ayahuasca, and the energetic vibrations the maestros have imprinted in you will continue to cleanse, heal and best of all, help you blossom.

Remember this relationship/connection with the master plants stays with you for life. Just like any great relationship it takes nurturing, dedication, respect, honesty and most significantly love. The more care and attention you give this relationship, the stronger and deeper the bond, the clearer the wisdom and the simpler the integration within. And, like any great relationship it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

In the days after the dieta, we encourage you to seek loving and nurturing environments during your preparation and integration phase; engage as often as possible with loving thoughts and actions, and to see any challenges that may arise as part of the healing gift to yourself. Most importantly, have faith, trust, practice positive mind sets and relax

Facing the Challenges/Tests

Traditional Shipibo Healers working with plant medicines talk about the plant spirits ‘testing’ us as a way to find out who you truly are, to know your heart, to find your intention, and to see how strong is your commitment and dedication, and to discover how sincere your search for healing and learning.

It is common to experience tests and challenges, sometimes as soon as you leave Shipibo Rao. They may be big or small, difficult or easy to navigate, but they will for sure arise. Remember this is how the plants test the strength of your commitment and dedication, and how sincere if your search for healing and learning.

These challenges are perfect opportunities to practice what you have learned and to relate to old situations in new ways. Navigating the master plant dieta integration process can be extremely challenging, which is why your facilitator will be available to answer any and all questions/concerns.

It is easy to react when you are being tested, you can do your best to simply observe the feeling. While it is completely normal and even healthy for anger, frustration, and confusion to come up for the purpose of healing, it is important you do not make these feelings worse by getting more angry or frustrated. During the dieta and integration, reacting with anger or frustration will make you cross your dieta. Crossing the dieta means shifting the energies and alignment of the seed you have planted, which will be harmful to you.

As you pass these tests, which we will help you with during your dieta and serve guidance during your post - dieta, incredible rewards will come on your path that will transform your life beyond imagination.

Follow the Post-Dieta Dietary Restrictions

The dietary guidelines after the dieta are for your benefit and safety and the safety of the maestros. Breaking the post-dieta can have detrimental consequences for your health and that of the maestros.

Honoring the dietary guidelines after the dieta will help maximize the benefits of the master plant healing and teachings. Remember the plants are continuing to test your dedication and commitment even after the dieta ends, following the post-dieta fully shows your sincerity for healing and discipline with the process. Once you complete the post-dieta restrictions you will begin to notice subtle shifts in your life.

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Post-Dieta Tips

Allow Yourself to Relax

Receiving healing from the Shipibo in a master plant dieta is in essence a spiritual surgery. The first week or two following a dieta can be compared with being in post-op after physical surgery in the Western world. This is why it is essential to take time for rest, relaxation and recuperation than to slowly ease into life one step at a time.

Have a Practice

It’s important to have a practice in your day to connect with the master plants. A practice can be anything you do consistently, one that encourages reflection and introspection. The practice can be meditation, yoga, art, journaling, etc. - any activity that you do with intention. In the early weeks after the dieta, it’s helpful to schedule more time in your day to dedicate towards embracing your feelings.

Seek Love and Nurture

Since you are going to be extra sensitive after your dieta, it can benefit you greatly to be in extra loving and nurturing environments. Being around people who understand you went through a process and will care for you as you ease back into life can make your integration process that much easier while also creating space for the master plants to continue their healing work.

Spend Time in Nature

Find time to spend in nature, even if it’s just a little park. Get out into fresh air and include all your senses: lie down and earth yourself on the ground, touch the grass, hug a tree, breathe deeply, and feel the breeze. After working in a shamanic tradition guided by the wisdom of nature and continued by the plant spirits, paying your respects to nature is an important way to honor the healing you have received.

Take Care of Your Body and Mind

The first thing we forget during stressful and difficult times is taking care of our bodies. If you want your healing to continue, you have to take care of your body by continuing to eat well and moving around more. Also it is essential to take care of your mind because it is so easy to succumb to old negative thinking patterns. Make the effort to think as positively as possible and find the opportunity in everything.

Pre-Dieta Required Restrictions

For 2 weeks prior, abstain from:

Any natural medicines/psychedelics (including San Pedro, Ayahuasca, mushrooms, LSD, cannabis, kambo, , etc.)
All street drugs (cocaine, MDMA, amphetamines, etc.)
Sexual activities of any kind, including masturbation
Alcohol
Pork
Spicy foods
Ice, ice cream, or ice cold drinks

For 1 week prior, abstain from:

Reﬁned sugars
Red meat
Junk foods
Excess salt (only add salt to food if necessary for health reasons and keep it minimal)
Sweets or chocolate
Oils (if you must use oil, use olive or coconut oil very sparingly)
Animal fats (lard, etc.)
Carbonated drinks (including diet sodas, energy drinks, non-alcoholic beer, seltzer water, etc.)
Dairy products
Fermented foods
Caffeine & other stimulants

Additional Restrictions:

Additional Restrictions:
IMPORTANT: Please contact us if you are currently taking any medication or supplements.
If you will be menstruating during the retreat, please inform your facilitators when you arrive.
Ayahuasca and the master plants are not compatible with pregnancy.

More important than the pre-dieta is the post-dieta as you are carrying the spirits of the plants and the healing power of the ikaros. The post-dieta is split into two parts, the “food” post-dieta where you are restricted from specific foods and the more important “energy” post-dieta where you refrain from powerful energy shifters. The Maestros will share the exact length of your post-dieta after the cutting of the dieta.

Post-Dieta Required Restrictions

For 7-12 days after, abstain from:

Red meat
Dairy products, nothing containing butter or other dairy
Concentrated milk or cream, even vegan such as cocconut, rice, soya…Nothing too fat.
Chocolate and cacao
Industrial food
Fermented food ( tofu, sauerkraut, kambucha…)
Spices, including turmuric, curcuma, black pepper, chili…
Ginger
Seasoning and condiments (mayonnaise, ketchup, chili sauce, vinegar, mostard…)
Avocado
Papaya, Pinaple, Lemon, Camu Camu, Maracuya, Acerola, Grapefruit
Any acidic and bitter fruits are best to avoid
Industrial oils
Seafood and sea fish
Raw onions and garlic
Cold or icy food (ice creams, water or food from the fridge…)
Acidic food
Bread in Peru ( good artisanal in your country is ok )
Tea ( herbal teas are ok ) , Expresso/concentrated coffee ( weak coffee is ok )
Fizzy drinks
Rape, mambe or ambil.
Antihistamines
Avoid being under the sun for too long, cover your head, specially if you have dieted Shihuahuaco.

You can have:

Natural ingredients
A bit of olive or coconut oil
A bit of salt
A bit of sugar, preferably honey
Aromatic herbs
A bit of cooked onions and garlic
Cinnamon
A few nuts
Jungle fish, only: Tucunare, Corvina, Paiche, Gabitana
Out of the jungle only river trout and river salmon
Chicken and other white meat

After your food post-dieta restrictions end, you can eat start to eat normally again, remember the plants are still working and your body is adjusting so go slowly, try to keep a good dieta as long as possible.

For 20-26 days after, abstain from:

Pork
Sex
Alcohol
Drugs
Other medicine than ayahuasca. You can drink a bit of ayahuasca by yourself. However taking rest is a preferred
Taking medicine with another Maestro or Maestra
Receiving acupuncture or having a tattoo done. Nothing with needles.
Breathwork therapies
Energy work or anything that could stir up emotions. (Reiki, Deep Tissue, Myofascial release). Generally best to wait for any kind of sessions to let the plants work.

Consequences of not respecting a post-dieta

The consequences for breaking post-dieta restrictions can lead to a broken mirror or not rocgnizing yourself or your connection with life. These afects range from discomfort to endangering your health; physically, mentally and emotionally, as well as affecting the Maestros’s health. When post-dieta restrictions are not respected chaos can enter a participant’s life; illnesses, accidents, emotional and mental confusion, and a general lack of clarity in daily life and relationships. We share this to be transparent and highlight the importance of dedication and respect to this journey. When you complete a dieta you have been thoroughly cleansed within and energetically aligned to your soul’s path, but the responsibility for this energetic work to flourish and thrive rests with each individual guest.

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