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Our offering
Dates available: 1
We have been invited We have designed the retreat to allow for folks to join for: either a week, two weeks, or stay the entire time and complete a Master Plant Dieta. We have space available for a total of 10 people per week. So space is very limited for this retreat.
NOTE: Master Plant dieta is only offered for the three week stay.
**We will required an initial down payment and can collect payments gradually over the months
All offerings include:
- Accommodation in your own spacious jungle tambo
- Traditional Shipibo-Konibo ceremonies with Yoxán Manuela and Yoxán Robi
- Traditional Shipibo-Konibo Cultural Workshops in kené (ancient designs), embroidery, and ceramics
- Shipibo-Konibo Language Workshop & Icaros Singing Lessons (optional)
- Preparation and Integration Support Sessions for ceremonies
- Integrative Black Condor Circle throughout the retreat to support with integrating the work of the healers and plants.
- Shipibo Flower Baths offered each week
- Jungle-Style Plant medicine sauna bath ( For dieters)
- Transportation to and from the center from anywhere in Pucallpa
- All meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) throughout the entire time
One week: Jungle Immersion $ 1350
- All of the above mentioned
- 3 Traditional Shipibo-Konibo ceremonies
Two week: Jungle Immersion $ 2400
- All of the above mentioned
- 6 Traditional Shipibo-Konibo ceremonies
Three week: Master Plant Dieta $ 3350
- All of the above mentioned
- 9 Traditional Shipibo-Konibo ceremonies
- 2 additional pre and post integration sessions
- Dieting with one Master Plant (Bobinsana, Noya Rao, Chiric Sanango)
Interested in joining us? Please submit a form of interest now and get priority when we open registration January 10th. There are only 10 spots available per week, so space is limited!
The Masters of Ceremony
Manuela Mahua
Manuela Mahua comes from a long-standing and well-respected family lineage of Shipibo-Konibo healers from the upper and lower Ucayali regions of the Peruvian Amazon. Born in 1947, she began apprenticing with her father at age 13 and now has 60+ years of experience working with her ancestral medicine.
Today she heals and teaches, both Shipibo-Konibo and foreigners alike. She has a vast knowledge and understanding of the natural pharmacy of her land and is very open to sharing it with those who are willing to make the commitment to carry on the tradition.
Manuela is an altruistic, generous, and positive force. She cares deeply for all of her students and provides individual attention and care that only a great-grandmother can give. She embodies her given Shipibo-Konibo name Jakon Rate and truly is a "Life-Giving Good Surprise" for all who meet and learn with her!
Robertina Mahua
Robertina Mahua is the eldest daughter of the late Pascual Mahua and is a Noyá Ráo maestra who has been working side-by-side with Manuela for the most part of the last 4 years. She’s 67 years old but did not begin her samá path until she was 52. After being around her father, uncles, and cousins and witnessing this path for decades, she was encouraged, taught, and supported by her own father. After two years of dedicated study with only Noyá Ráo, she began samá with Tobí Ráo and began developing her message and bone setting skills. She also has strong samá connections with Sémein (Bobinsana), Mókapari (Chiricsanango), Chullachaqui Caspi, and Marosa.
The Land
The Jakon Rate Center for Shipibo-Konibo Studies
Asociación Jakon Rate is a Shipibo-Konibo family-owned and run non-profit organization that aims to support and preserve the culture and ancestral wisdom of the Shipibo-Konibo in the Peruvian Amazon. They do this by creating natural, clean, and safe environments for traditional practices to be remembered, regenerated, relearned, and shared throughout the Shipibo-Konibo Nation and the global community.
Inspired and guided by the great grandmother Manuela Mahua Ahuanari and the essence of her true name, Jakon Rate—‘A Life-Giving Good Surprise’—Asociación Jakon Rate is dedicated to helping current and new generations learn and practice the Shipibo-Konibo culture with educational workshops, courses, and traditional samá to deeply reconnect with the plants and animals from the forests and rivers of the Shipibo-Konibo homelands—through life-giving good shocks to the system—to help us reconnect to our source energy.
Jakon Rate and our family live on 26.5 hectares (65 acres) of land 8 km from the cities of Yarina and Pucallpa. It is a raised peninsula of forest and farmland, which extends into the natural floodplain between the oxbow lakes of Cashibococha and Yarinacocha. Our family lives at the entrance along the northeast side. House by house and garden by garden we are building community and home.
There is a deep well (112.5m / 369ft) and a large water tower with a 10m / 33ft observation deck. The well provides delicious potable water for drinking and washing. Currently there are 11 small private houses that serve as each student’s sámati xóbo. They are all located further back on the land, isolated from each other and our family homes.
Let's Go Black to the Jungle!
Interested In Joining an all Black Shipibo Retreat ?
If you feel called to join this experience, please fill out the medical form, and we’ll arrange a call to discuss further.