In 2004 we co-funded – along with our native Shipibo friends Heberto Hiran Garcia Ramirez, Don Leoncio Garcia Sampaya, Ines Ramirez Cairuna, Jose’ Garcia Ventura, Eunice Garcia Ramirez, and Esther Garcia Ramirez Maggs – Ashi Meraya, a unique Shipibo shamanic retreat centre with a great ethnobotanical garden, in the Peruvian Amazon jungle.
The Shipibo family. Right to left: Heberto, Ines, Esther, Eunice, Don Jose’, Ruth and Erica
Photo Credit: Stephen Witte
Shipibo family and guests in Ashi Meraya
Photo Credit: Stephen Witte
In Ashi Meraya, guests may experience in the context of deeply transformative and life changing retreats:
- Shamanic healing
- A very intense schedule of Ayahuasca ceremonies, up to four times a week!!
- Amazonian Sweat Lodge rituals - Unique to Ashi Meraya
- Cleansing ritual herbal baths (baños de limpie)
- Purifying rainforest clay baths (baños de barro)
- Luck-changing ritual flower baths (baños de florecimiento), to attract prosperity and good fortune in business, love and friendship
- Ancestral Shipibo shamanic rituals
- The traditional Shamanic Plant Teachers Diet, for those interested in the initiation into Amazonian shamanism, in the Shipibo tradition, and wish to enter into a more rigorous shamanic apprenticeship.
Overview of the ”Ashi Meraya” shamanic healing and retreat centre in the jungle, near the Allpahuayo Mishana Reserve 
Photo Credit: Francesco Sammarco