Ayahuasca healing retreats near Iquitos, Peru

The Temple of the Way of Light - BENA CAYA AINBOBO (A New Feminine Spirit) is a Shipibo shamanic healing centre offering intensive Ayahuasca retreats with women healers near Iquitos in Peru. We are dedicated to offering visitors the chance to benefit from the ancient healing wisdom of the Shipibo people, and to helping this unique culture to preserve its knowledge and identity in the 21st Century.

We work with some of the most respected and powerful female healers (Onanya) from the Shipibo tribe, many of whom have only previously worked within their communities. All our Onanya are experienced, gentle, caring, and deeply dedicated to healing. We are very privileged to be working with them.

We offer a pioneering but ancient path to Mother Ayahuasca by working with the Divine Feminine, and the healers we work with embody the wisdom and sincerity of their people. We firmly believe in the profound benefits of the medicine Ayahuasca.

The main pillars of our work are:

1. Working with women healers
   A unique focus on working with onanya ainbobo - indigenous women healers working within the rich and complex medical/magical tradtion of the Shipibo people. These women have an incredible level of wisdom and compassion, as well as an encyclopaedic knowledge of the medicinal plants of the jungle and great shamanic power. They hold safe, harmonious and compassionate ceremonies with Ayahuasca within an environment of love and intregrity.
   
   
2. Focusing on social benefit rather than profit
   We are committed to making the healing magic of Ayahuasca and the wisdom of the Shipibo people as accessible to as many people as possible with cost being too restrictive. We are not focused on making personal profit and all financial gain is invested into the development of the Temple infrastructure and community projects which benefit the local villages.


3. Permaculture and a self sustained communities / eco systems
   We are currently implementing a permaculture project across the Temple grounds with a view to being completely self sustained by 2018. We also plan to build a small eco village adjacent to the Temple grounds for conscious people to live from the land and work closely with the Medicine and the Maestras.

Projects in the Shipibo communities

We are concerned by the accelerating loss of traditional knowledge and growing threats to the Shipibos’ ancestral lands along the Rio Ucayali. We are currently in the process of setting up an NGO and are dedicated to raising awareness of the social, political and environmental issues which face their people. We aim to implement a range of projects aimed at preserving Shipibo traditions – including their unique ethnomedical tradition – and promoting culturally and environmentally sustainable development through education and community work.

We are also working closely with a grassroots organisation in Pulcallpa which works to protect the Shipibo people, culture and shamanic traditions and are currently discussing plans to begin the projects in the healers villages with a view to expand these projects across 33 communities across the Shipibo territories.

Please explore our website for much more information…