Temple of the Way of Light

We work with two female, two male Shipibo healers (Onanyabo) and one female Shipibo herbalist who provide the deepest levels of traditional Shipibo healing, through ayahuasca ceremonies, plant healing songs (ikaros), energetic healing massages, individualized plant remedies, medicinal plant and vapor baths.

The powerful shamanic healing work of the Onanyabo is supported by three highly trained facilitators who provide translation from Spanish to English, and provide expert guidance and support throughout the Ayahuasca retreat, as well as an experienced yoga teacher offering Yin Yoga sessions before each ceremony.

Coming to an ayahuasca retreat in the Amazon, the birthplace and source of the medicine, being supported by the energies, elements, forces, and spirits of the jungle, and guided by the indigenous wisdom keepers of these powerful ethnomedical traditions, is the most effective and deepest way to work with ayahuasca.

Honoring Shipibo Healing Traditions

We deeply respect the indigenous healing traditions of the Shipibo People which have evolved over hundreds, possibly thousands of years.

Their far-reaching ancestral lineages carry an expansive cosmology, an encyclopedic knowledge of medicinal plants (rao, in Shipibo) and a rich, ethnomedical legacy that includes and deeply understands the non-physical dimensions of being and the energetic architecture of the mind, body, and soul.

Shipibo ayahuasca and plant-spirit healing is a reparative, regenerative, and preventative spiritual healthcare system, utilizing sophisticated practices that reach into the psychological, emotional, spiritual, and energetic taproots of trauma.

Moving beyond an anthropocentric approach to healing, focused on individual and materialistic realms, whether physical or psychological, the Shipibo approach to healing is eco-centric, fundamentally carrying the intention to restore our conscious connection and energetic alignment with the natural world.

Amazonian plant-spirit healing is an incredibly complex system and it takes many years to identify the varying levels of healers that practice ayahuasca shamanism. Finding the combination of deeply experienced, high-integrity, open-hearted healers is surprisingly difficult in the Amazon (and beyond).

We have carefully selected our healing team over many years and are blessed to work with some of the most respected, kind-hearted, and powerful healers (Onanyabo) from the Shipibo tribe who are highly skilled in ayahuasca healing and plant-spirit curanderismo (shamanism) of the Amazon.

Ancestral Wisdom of the Amazon

Our team of Onanyabo provide ‘high quality’, deep healing that stems from their decades of training, the roots of their countless generations of healing lineages, and the ancient transmissions of their wisdom traditions that ultimately are all sourced from the Amazon Rainforest itself.

What is often unknown or misunderstood in the modern psychedelic renaissance is that the key to long-lasting, root-level healing is the entire system – sophisticated plant-spirit assisted, shamanic, ethno-medical practices that clear heavy energies, transform negative thinking patterns, and heal the soul (kaya in Shipibo).

When working with ayahuasca without highly skilled shamanic healers, the psychedelic experience can be profound yet most often does not provide long-lasting healing.

Traditionally, indigenous patients in Shipibo communities typically did not drink ayahuasca when seeking healing.

It was only the village healer who drank the medicine for multiple reasons but primarily to connect with their team of (plant) spirit doctors, who would then identify and treat the energetic source of the illness.

However, there has been an evolution in ayahuasca healing over the last two decades, resulting in more and more people, in and out of the Amazon, stepping into and taking responsibility for their own healing.

The wisdom keepers and guardians of this sacred healing technology are now called to share their mastery of ayahuasca and expert guidance to people who are genuinely seeking and committed to deep healing.

All ayahuasca brew served at the Temple is sourced from two places. Our own sustainable ayahuasca and chacruna cultivation on the Temple grounds, then cooked by one of the Temple healers. Or sourced from Shipibo territory and cooked by healers from our close ally, Shipibo Rao Diea Center near Pucallpa.

We provide potent and visionary ayahuasca to our guests made from cielo (sky/heaven) ayahuasca and chacruna, with no admixtures.

The Temple leads the way in the ayahuasca scene, offering an exemplary track record of safety, protection, care for, and support of our guests together with the highest level of healing and shamanic mastery available in the Peruvian Amazon and beyond.