Ayahuasca Training Programs
What is an Ayahuasca Course?
Ayahuasca courses are in depth training programs in the Shipibo healing tradition of plant spirit medicine known as curanderismo. By learning the core principles of the tradition, students can build a strong foundation to practice for the many years it takes to become a true maestro.
An Incredible Honor
Ayahuasca Training Courses at the Ayahuasca Foundation help people who feel called to the healing path of ayahuasca find their way by offering authentic educational opportunities in a style that resonates with western learning models. By presenting the Shipibo teachings as written texts and audio recordings, as well as lectures and workshops, the complex tradition can be understood more fully as it is experienced through powerful plant dietas and personal explorations of profound ceremonies and treatment processes. Of course, spending one or two months in the jungle is not a lot of time, but it is enough to make significant progress in understanding the key principles of the indigenous paradigm and the Shipibo healing tradition. It will take a lot of practice and continued diets to further develop those principles, but by having a strong foundation in the optimal methods of practice, that development and progress will be heightened and accelerated.
During the courses, participants attend ayahuasca ceremonies, do powerful plant dietas, and receive a variety of traditional plant remedies. They attend important lectures, participate in workshops, contribute in discussions and share in conversations. There is also a great deal of learning that happens directly from their experiences with the plant medicines. Ultimately, the courses are led by the spirits of the plants, assisted by Shipibo curanderos and their apprentices.
Healing Treatments
Ayahuasca Training Programs
Much more than just ayahuasca training, the courses also teach basic categories of plant remedies, including plant baths, vapor baths, smoke baths, inhalants, purgatives, poultices, and other remedies. The ayahuasca tradition is much more than the ceremonies. but a great deal of time and attention is also given to the central aspect of ayahuasca and ceremony procedures. There is a lot of emphasis on the healing songs, the icaros, and a lot of focus on the plant dietas. This forms the heart of the Shipibo training.
Courses are led by indigenous curanderos from the Shipibo tribe. Ultimately, the curanderos are brothers who learned from their father and grandfather, so the roots of the tradition employed is the same. Both curanderos still have their personal style and manner, and each program is also unique and catered to the individual groups and people that attend.
Plant Dietas
Course participants can do two powerful dietas during a course. Dietas are what make students into curanderos and work to deepen the connections thay have with plant spirits. Meanwhile, doing good dietas results in having profound relationships with specific plant spirits. Courses provide the optimal teachings and explanations to fully understand the dieta and how to maximize their effect. Each plant spirit has its own way of being, its own nature, and its own gifts. One of the most special dietas offered on courses is with the bio-luminescent tree Noya Rao. This tree forms the heart of the unique and rare familial lineage of the Shipibo curanderos who lead the courses. Dieting Noya Rao is truly an honor and contributes tremendously to the depth of insight and ability that can be achieved during a course and beyond.
Dietas are close personal relationships with plant spirits. While the effects of treatment is often profound, it is the educational aspects of the course, and especially the plant dietas, that serve to continue the healing and further the development of healing potential and ability for each student. Having strong dietas allows students to maintain their connection to plant spirits, and also increase their connection to new plants through a more highly developed intuition.
Healing Empowerment Course Schedule
Four Week Empowerment Course $5,850
REVIVE YOUR HEALING POWER: Spend four weeks at the Ayahuasca Research Center and attend 11 ceremonies led by a Shipibo maestro. Get the deepest personalized healing treatment program possible with dozens of plant treatments and cleanses. Learn about the plant spirit healing tradition ideologies and methodologies and do a BOBINSANA DIETA. Integrative practices like yoga, meditation, breathwork, and epigenetic reprogramming help to guide your own personal process to fully empower yourself as a healer.
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Eight Week Initiation Course $6,850
TRUE SHAMANIC TRAINING: Intended for people who want to study the authentic Shipibo tradition of healing with ayahuasca. Students spend eight weeks with the maestro don Enrique at the Ayahuasca Research Center, attend up to 23 ceremonies and do NOYA RAO DIETAS and other powerful MASTER PLANT DIETAS in addition to learning icaros, ceremony methods and techniques, and preparation of plant treatments and remedies. It’s a unique opportunity to study traditional curanderismo with an authentic indigenous maestro.
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