The Shamanic Shipibo Lineage

In the Peruvian Amazon, in the region of Ucayali, lives a population who are the guardians of sacred knowledge of the holy jungle, its kingdom, and medicinal plants. For millennia, the Shipibo-Conibo people have kept a relationship with nature’s spirits, creating a link between the spiritual and the existential.

According to tradition, one or several persons in the local community are responsible for the communication between the material world and the spiritual worlds, where plants, animals, and ancestral spirits unite. These people are called “Onaya” or “Mwëraya,” a shaman, a healer, calling on the spirits. They travel in the invisible; their knowledge is ancient; they link the physical and the spiritual worlds.