July 30 – August 4 2025
Silent retreat with Shipibo diet remotely guided by Maestro Heberto
4/5-day diet from Wednesday July 30 afternoon till Monday August 4 after lunch.
The circumstances in 2021 made us create this retreat with the remote guidance of Master Heberto and it was so powerful that we decided to organize it every year. Maestro curandero Heberto is an expert in doing remote healing, he is a great channeler of energies and reads a person’s aura remotely. Because Heberto came to guide retreats here in centro Awankay in previous years he has a good connection with the nature and this lands. (Read more about el maestro Heberto here).
In this amazing place in the middle of nature of the natural park the Sierras de Cazorla y las Villas, we will work both individually and with the group.
For those people committed to dive deep into themselves, the healing retreat, diet and ceremonies, offers them a great opportunity for physical, mental and spiritual healing, and progress in their own ´camino´
The diet
The Master Plant Diet is an ancient practice used by master healers of the Shipibo tradition to access the healing power and wisdom of nature. It is called a Diet because it requires a set of dietary and lifestyle restrictions to enable the connection with the plants. The type of restriction depends on the master healer guiding the diet. The diet sensitises the person to open themselves to create a connection with the spirits of the plant they are dieting. The diet is usually done in an isolated place in nature for the purpose of healing and/or training to be a healer.
When I was in the jungle last March with maestro Niwen Koshi (Heberto) he has created this diet for this year’s silent retreat (2025):
We will be in silence minus two times a day in which we do group work with a ritual and a Peruvian bath with flowers and plants in the morning, and a meditation with breathing exercises in the afternoon.
On the days of the retreat, we will diet 4 master plants, namely 1. Paico, which focuses the mind, cleanses the third eye, strengthens the natural magnetism and the connection with Mother Earth., 2. Ayahuma, which removes energies and cleans the filters and portals of the body, 3. Renaquilla, which helps us to purify the heart, helps us to overcome traumas and different emotional blockages, attracts spirits of love and improves creativity, 4. Huito, opens the channels that unite mind and heart, is a mediator through which we can have encounters with different types of spirits and receive their benefits. More info about these plants below.
We are fasting two days and the other days we only have lunch.
Heberto makes a first diagnosis based on the information sent by each participant before coming. On the first day of the retreat, Wednesday afternoon, you receive the result of the diagnosis.
All week Maestro Heberto will maintain a protected healing space and there will be a channel active to guide and channel the process.
You are in a single room or if you come with your partner in a double room. Therefore places are limited.
Contact me for more info about the program
INFORMATION ABOUT DIETING PAICO, AYAHUMA, RENAQUILLA and HUITO.
PAICO: works on 2 levels. 1st Physical – eliminates bacteria, focuses the mind so that there is more lucidity. It is very good for balancing mental disorder. 2nd Spiritual – cleanses the third eye, recovers energies of the earth elementals. Nourishes the energetic organs. Strengthens natural magnetism and connection with Mother Earth. Helps to improve intuition, make correct decisions and improves alignment with the 4 cardinal points. Connects with healing spirits. The spirit of Paico is a master who teaches you.
AYAHUMA: Removes energies, expels negative energies. Increases the natural magnetism of the body. Cleans the filters and then attracts good things into life.
RENAQUILLA: Is a member of the Renaco family, one of the main master trees. The difference is that Renaquilla helps with subterranean energies. There are different levels of earth energies. The subterranean energies especially level 3 are related to love. It helps us to purify the heart, to overcome traumas and different emotional blockages or scars from them. And it also helps us to see things in a different way, to change from seeing the negative into the positive. It helps us to love ourselves and give meaning to the things we do. It attracts spirits of love, including musical spirits, helps to improve the voice and to be creative and focus the mind.
HUITO: It is a well known medicine in the Shipibo world, not only in shamanism. Huito gives the dye for tattoos and also to dye the hair. It also helps to eliminate phlegm that accumulates in the throat. This phlegm blocks the channels between the mind and the heart, is a mixture of negative emotions such as sadness and anger, and can attract diseases to the body and affect the mind. On the spiritual level the Huito is one of the mediators between loving spirits, medicine spirits and arcane spirits. They are channelers. Through the Huito we can have encounters with different types of spirits and receive their benefits. It helps to develop the capacity of intuition. To be creative in everyday things in life.
BIOGRAPHY OF HEBERTO OR NIWEN KOSHI
Born in Maputae on August 15, 1978, in an ethnic community of Shipibo – Conibo, in the Ucayali region, Heberto was born with great divine revelations and the gift of healing, the use of healing plants. Over time he specialized in different branches of shamanic healing and the curative use of medicinal plants from the coast, sierra and jungle.
Heberto, descended from a generation of merayas and shamans (Ancient wise master healers). Since his childhood he has been instructed by his grandparents Guillermo, his wife Luzmila and other meraya healers, who transmitted knowledge of great mysteries that enclose the forests of the jungle, transmitting their knowledge and shamanic powers. Heberto is related to the great geniuses of outer space and their preference for the spirits of the wind. At age 7, Heberto started having his own icaros and at age 12 was able to direct ceremonies. Their sacred songs invoke the powers of nature to restore the balance and harmony of people with broken health.
Heberto has researched and developed his own technique associating with other elements and ways of curing diseases, even the unknown ones and the damages that come from hidden powers. He is an expert in the knowledge of the human body and soul and is endowed with that wonderful gift in his hands to be able to heal his fellow men through the elements of nature, his long experience acquired from the ancient shaman masters and the knowledge acquired during more than three decades.