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Shamanic Dietas of Teacher Plants & Trees

Discovering and Preserving the Tradition of Dieta as Practiced by the Healers of the Amazon Rainforest.

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What is a Shamanic Dieta?

A shamanic dieta is the ancient discipline of sacrifice and prayer, wherein the spirit of teacher plants and trees bestow profound physical, emotional, and spiritual healing and teachings upon the dedicated student (dietero).

Master Plant Teachers

A tea made from the leaves, flowers, bark, or root of the plant or tree being dieted is consumed according to the schedule prescribed by your maestro (master healer).

Ayahuasca

Ayahuasca, the visionary medicine of the Amazon, is typically used in formal ceremony by the maestro to open and close the dieta.

Tobacco

The Amazonian form of tobacco, smoked as mapacho or ingested as rapé, is often used during dietas for energetic cleansing and connecting with the spirit of the plant or tree being dieted.

Sacrifice

A traditional shamanic dieta is normally undertaken in isolation, with little to no contact with any other person. Other guidelines include no sex, no salt, no sugar, no alcohol or drugs, among other restrictions prescribed by your maestro.

Deep Healing

Each master plant or tree is characterized by its ability to offer a special type of healing. Many believe that successful completion of a dedicated plant dieta offers more healing than any other type of healing modality.

Shamanic Apprenticeship

The dieta is the process by which apprentices from the Amazonian tradition of vegatalismo (plant-based shamanism & healing) learn to become curanderos (healers).

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Dieta of Teacher Plants & Trees

3 months ago

Dona Txima of the Huni Kuin people, who reminds me in so many ways of Shipibo maestra Luzmila Mori (decd.).

Her quiet presence in ceremony belies a remarkable gift for seeing, prayer, and healing, in addition to holding a library of knowledge on the medicinal plants of the Amazon. ... See MoreSee Less

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