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A rare opportunity to Diet a Master Plant
For thousands of years, Shipibo healers and community members have worked with Master Plants through a sacred practice called dieta—a time of deep spiritual study, purification, and connection. Over time, the plants themselves began calling people from beyond the tradition to receive their teachings and healing. This led to waves of Western seekers coming to the Amazon—sometimes in ways that honored the culture, and other times, in ways that were extractive.
At Black Condor, we approach this work differently. We believe in long-term, reciprocal relationships with our Indigenous relatives. Our director, Adorable Jasmine, has spent years building trust with the maestros at Kushi Ayahuasca, sitting in dieta, and witnessing firsthand how this path transforms lives, including her own.
This offering is born from that relationship, a space lovingly co-created with the Shipibo for Black folks to engage with the plant teachers in a culturally safe, spiritually grounded, and deeply respectful way.
This is more than a retreat. It’s a rare invitation to enter into sacred contract with the plants and receive their guidance for your healing, growth, and purpose.
Each participant receives:
✅ Personal consultation with the Maestros to determine your dieta plant
✅ Daily dieta tea from your selected master plant ally
✅ 6 Ayahuasca ceremonies guided by Shipibo Maestros
✅ 6 vapor baths and 3 purgatives to cleanse toxins and stagnant energy
✅ 6 love baths and smoke baths for energetic alignment
✅ Shipibo Icaro songbook & recordings to support your connection to the medicine
✅ Basic Shipibo language classes and teachings on cosmology
✅ Workshops on Amazonian shamanism and plant medicine
✅ Workshops on Shipibo dream interpretation
✅ Preparation of your own ceremony perfume
✅ Visit to jungle hot springs in the Sierra del Divisor National Park
✅ 2 nourishing meals per day, laundry service, and accommodations
This dieta is fully guided by the Shipibo Maestros, supported by a Black-led facilitation team, and held in a small, intimate group of 13 participants.
The Team
Maestro Wexa Metsa
Master Shaman
Wexa metsa is a Shipibo curandero originally from a small community on the main headstream of the Amazon River. He began his apprenticeship with his grandfather when thirteen years old and later trained with his great aunt, Maestra Olivia Arévalo. When Eighteenth, he began singing in his native language and using his knowledge of medicinal plants following the ancient Shipibo tradition.
Merlita Lopez
Master Shaman
Mery Lopez Maldonado, Mokan Rate., 31 years old from the Roaboya community. She is hers father's aprendice Don Enrique lopez Fanasando ( Kesten Rono ) a renowned Shaman of the Lopez family.
"After sitting with my father today I continue to learn and share my medicine to heal the bodies with Amazonian remedies at the same time using my voice, my vision and dreams as healing tools outside and inside of the ceremony room durng the dieta healing processes"
Macarena Arias
Facilitator
Macarena Arias is a Peruvian plant medicine practitioner, artist, SE Practitioner, Expressive Arts Facilitator and specialist of the Shipibo-Konibo language. In 2016, she arrived to Ucayali to work with Shipibo communities through the NGO Alianza Arkana. Around the same time, she began learning the Shipibo language with Professor Pakan Meni and started her plant medicine studies with Maestra Manuela Mahua (Jakon Rate). Today Macarena -in collaboration with Wexa Metsa and other Shipibo-Konibo tea .
Adorable Earth Angel
Group Leader
Adorable Jasmine (Earth Angel) is the director of Black Condor Tribe. She is a sacred musician, energy healer, ceremonialist, and organizer of healing courses, rituals, and retreats for over 15 years. Adorable is devoted to creating safe, trauma-informed spaces where Black and BIPOC individuals can come together for healing, liberation, and community.
Adorable's role on this trip is to support with pre trip logistics, and post retreat care.
This retreat is for you if…
- You’ve been interested in joining a dieta and have been waiting for the right space, timing, and container.
- You are of African descent and are seeking a culturally grounded space for deep healing.
- You feel called to work with ayahuasca and traditional Amazonian plant medicine in a lineage-held way.
- You are ready to explore your inner world, ancestral patterns, and emotional blocks in a supportive environment.
- You desire a deeper connection with your body, spirit, and the earth.
- You’re carrying grief, trauma, or life transitions and want to be held through a transformational process.
- You value collective healing and want to sit in ceremony with other Black folks doing the work.
- You are open to the teachings of Indigenous Shipibo Maestros and the jungle’s wisdom.
- You want to slow down, unplug, and listen to what your soul needs next.
Dieta at Glance
- Preparation for the experience: with the family and facilitator healers.
- Airport pickup: You’ll be pick up from the airport to our guesthouse.
- Accommodation for two nights at our guesthouse: The night before and after the retreat.
- Dinner in our guesthouse before the retreat: Guests arrive the day before the retreat begins.
- Accommodation for 14 nights at the kushi ayahuasca center: Private rooms and bathrooms.
- Transportation to and from kushi ayahuasca center: Flying to and back (30 mnts) over the amazon.
- Healing tools like mapachos, agua florida: Important for use in ceremonies and medicine treatments.
- At least two meals a day, following the healing diet: Quinoa, grilled fish, rice, lentils, boil , banana, etc.
- Translation of lectures and workshops, etc: Facilitators also add their own experiences and teachings.
- Assistants for guidance: Two facilitators will be available throughout the retreat.
- Integration workshop: Enhance process of integration when you get home.
TREATMENTS
SUGGESTED ITEMS TO BRING
SUGGESTED ITEMS TO BRING
Throughout the Black Shipibo Dieta, participants will experience six traditional ayahuasca ceremonies led by the Shipibo Maestros and supported by our facilitators. Healing is deepened through the chanting of traditional icaros—medicine songs sung by the Maestros and facilitators to guide and cleanse the energy during ceremony. Each participant will receive a personal consultation, with translation support, to select the appropriate master plant ally for their dieta. Daily plant tea from your chosen dieta plant will be served three times a day to support your healing journey.
The retreat includes basic Shipibo language classes and teachings on the cosmology of the Shipibo-Konibo tradition. Additional supportive treatments include purgatives such as sangre de grado taken after ceremony for deep physical cleansing, vapor baths with Amazonian plants to release toxins and negative energy, mucura sinus cleanses to boost respiratory health, smoke baths with palo santo for energetic protection, chiric sanango to support the nervous system and emotional release, daily wasai tea for kidney and urinary tract purification, and love baths to welcome in sweetness and attract positive energies. As needed, poultices, traditional massages, and other medicines will be offered to support each participant’s healing path.
SUGGESTED ITEMS TO BRING
SUGGESTED ITEMS TO BRING
SUGGESTED ITEMS TO BRING
- Flashlight or headlamp.
- travel alarm clock or watch.
- Raincoat or poncho.
- Hiking Boots (optional but a good idea).
- Water Bottle.
- Bathroom items – toothbrush, floss, shampoo, etc (natural is best if possible).
- Camera/phone, with extra batteries or external/solar charger.
- Travel first aid kit.
- Notebook and/or art supplies for personal processing.
- Hat and sunglasses.
- Ceremonial or sacred objects you want to have for ceremonies or in your tambo.
- Plastic bags or zip-lock bags (to protect electronics and other items from humidity).
- Musical Instruments.
- Extra spending money, at your discretion. There may be an option to purchase Shipibo craft items from our family, so be prepared with extra money if this interests you.