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Black Shipibo Dieta is a sacred two-week retreat centering Black healing within the ancestral tradition of Shipibo plant medicine. Guided by Shipibo Maestros at Kushi Ayahuasca Retreat Center in the Peruvian Amazon, this immersive experience offers a rare opportunity for participants of African descent to engage deeply with master plants in a culturally safe and spiritually grounded space. Rooted in the powerful lineage of dieta work, participants receive personal plant prescriptions, attend six ayahuasca ceremonies, and are supported through baths, songs, teachings, and community. This is a call to those ready to heal, remember, and rise—held by the jungle, guided by the maestras, and surrounded by kin.
INCLUDES:
- Personal consultation.
- Master plant teacher.
- 6 Ayahuasca ceremonies.
- 6 vapor baths.
- Powerful purgatives.
- 6 love baths.
- Palo santo smoke bath.
- A song book and recordings.
- Basic Shipibo classes.
- Preparation of ceremony perfume.
- Workshops of medicinal plants and Amazonian shamanism.
- Visiting the jungle hot springs at National park of Sierra del Divisor.
- 2 meals per day, accommodation, laundry and transportation.
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.
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.
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.
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.