Curanderos

León Fidel Andy Grefa

Fidel Andy was born in 1966 on the river island La Soga in the outskirts of Tena, Ecuador, where he still lives and practices.

Javier Arévalo

Javier Arevalo Shahuano, nací en la comunidad de Nuevo Progreso, Río Napo, en el departamento de Loreto – Perú;.

Elisa Vargas Fernandez

Bio coming

Aeli Ronin Yaka

Thirteen years ago, Thirteen years ago, Mary Ann Eddowes felt the urgent need to discover her true essence, wondering why she was here and what her mission in this life was…

Pedro Panduro Navarro

Pedro Panduro Navarro apprenticed in Lamas, Peru, a department of San Martin spending 2 years dieting "palos vegetales."

Wendy Luckey

Wendy Luckey was born in Minot, North Dakota into a family with mixed cultural diversity.

Marie Luisa Garcia

Marie Luisa Garcia de Armas was born in Caserio de Sucayo. She is a Huesero, a specialist in dislocations, i.e. bones that are out of socket.

Percy Garcia Lozano

My name is Percy Garcia Lozano; I was born on the 7th of September 1973, in the community of Aucayo.

Ron Wheelock

I came to Peru in March 07, 1996 with the intention to become a healer. My first trip here i drank ayahuasca two times in Tamshiyacu with Don Agustin Rivas Vasquez.

Don Lucho

Luis Lucho Culquitón, whose mother is from la selva baja (the lower jungle) and father is from la selva alta (upper jungle) was moved by the poverty in his family and around him in his pueblo of Manacamiri. He was taught curandismo while still young by his grandmother and twenty years ago began to build Centro de Investigacion Kapitari in the jungle near his pueblo and has embraced the wisdom of the plant spirits for the benefit of his family, the people of the jungle, and all those who visit.

Much of the inspiration for Kapitari which has been created to be self- sustaining, he says has come from Ayahuasca. It was the calling and instruction of Ayahuasca that inspired him to buy wood from the lumber yard down the river and begin the arduous task of bringing it the forty minute boat ride and hour long trek into the jungle to transform what had been a modest plot of sugar cane into the little paradise it is now. He soon realized that buying lumber or much of anything else in the city of nearby Iquitos to create Kapitari was unnecessary because, as he will tell you, everything you need to live is provided by the jungle.

Don Lucho says he has been instructed to build Kapitari in the shape of the turtle which represents wisdom, with the temple for ceremonies at the head and the entrance after you come down a path lined with hedges of the violet blooming Chiri Sanango and a carpet of these blooms after they have turned white and fallen.

Don Lucho offers private tombos for retreat and dieta and his guests enjoy the fresh food grown on his nearby farm. The lagoon, aside from growing the fish that is prepared for the meals, is also intended for natural air-conditioning, bathing and exercise.

He expresses great interest in teaching the people in the local pueblos how they can farm with short and long term crops in the same plot and benefit from the forest without ruining the soil or clear-cutting. He says everything they need is right there, the medicine, the food, the shelter. Seems Ayahuasca has instructed him that there is no poverty in living in the jungle and to share this wisdom with others.