Authentic Study of the Shipibo Healing Tradition – The Ayahuasca Foundation recognizes that more and more people are responding to a call to return to ancestral healing traditions, and we have designed an ayahuasca training program to facilitate their journeys on the healing path. Located in the heart of the Amazon Rainforest, these courses help to both preserve and spread the wisdom of the indigenous cultures of South America.

Plant dietas are a central focus of the course, because they are a central part of curandero training. It is through dietas that students can become curanderos, and how curanderos become true maestros. The course provides students with an accurate understanding of how to maximize the effects of dietas, how to deepen their connections to the plant spirits, and how to best maintain and continue their dietas after the course. During the initiation course, students do two dietas with two of these plants: Noya Rao, Bobinsana, Chiric Sanango, Marusa, and Chullachaqui. All five of these plants are incredibly special teachers and tremendously powerful healers. The chance to diet with Noya Rao, especially to have Noya Rao trees at the school to visit and commune with on every level, is incredibly rare and a true honor for every student who attends the course. The potential depth that can be achieved when the dietas are combined with thorough teachings and explanations of the process is amazing.

Students learn how to continue their dietas after the course, as well, which enables the insights and lessons learned to deepen and develop further. Each student is encouraged to continue dieting and to return to diet the plants they didn’t diet during the course. The path of a curandero never ends, but with a solid foundation of understanding the principles of the tradition, the journey can be more fulfilling and beneficial with each step forward on that path. Learning how best to do plant dietas is a central part of the foundation upon which the healing tradition of curanderismo is built. The initiation course provides a rare and incredible opportunity to do powerful plant dietas.

Ayahuasca Initiation courses are an opportunity to experience an authentic training in the Shipibo tradition of curanderismo, centered around the use of ayahuasca in ceremony. This course is a condensed version of an ancestral initiation, teaching the basic principles that form the heart of the ayahuasca tradition in Peru. The course takes place at the Inkan Kena school for plant medicine, a space designed specifically for the initiation courses and ayahuasca apprenticeships. If you feel called to learn the ancient healing traditions of ayahuasca and plant medicine, this course is a wonderful place to begin. Even if you are already on the path to become a healer, the initiation course offers a chance to fully immerse yourself in the Shipibo culture and the world of plant spirit healing.