We are excited to be welcoming Black healers, leaders, or seekers called to deepen their healing path and align more fully with purpose, this sacred two-week immersion is for you.
This October, join us in the Peruvian Amazon for the Black Shipibo Master plant Dieta, an intimate retreat rooted in the ancestral plant medicine tradition of the Shipibo-Konibo people.
You’ll be guided by master Shipibo healer Wexu Mesta at the Kushi Ayahuasca Retreat Center and receive a personalized plant dieta, an ancient practice of spiritual study, purification, and transformation. Supported through sacred Ayahuasca ceremonies, plant baths, traditional teachings, and deep rest, this experience is a profound initiation into self, Spirit, and the healing power of the master plants.
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.
The Black Shipibo Dieta is a transformative apprenticeship with the plants themselves. This two-week journey is for Black healers, leaders, and seekers who are ready to dive deep into healing, spiritual alignment, and living with embodied purpose.
You’ll have the rare opportunity to work closely with Shipibo Maestros in a traditional dieta format. Receive your own master plant ally, personalized healing in ceremony, and powerful energetic treatments that nurture and support your entire being.
Over the course of six ayahuasca ceremonies, you’ll be guided through a process of clearing, restoration, and visioning.
The Maestros will sing icaros (medicine songs) directly to you, opening and protecting your energetic field and activating the teachings of your dieta plant.
This retreat is a two-week traditional Shipibo dieta designed to meet you wherever you are on your healing journey. Whether you're a seasoned space holder or new to master plant work, this immersion offers the structure, guidance, and sacred support to go deeper, with yourself, your spiritual path, and your life’s purpose.
✅ 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.
Please feel free to hop on a call with our team
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.
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"
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 .
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.
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.
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