




REPLANT YOUR SPIRIT - $5550
Held at the Riosbo Ayahuasca Retreat Center, this four-week healing journey is designed for those ready to take an active role in their own transformation. The program includes 11 ayahuasca ceremonies guided by a Shipibo maestro, along with a sacred plant dieta with either Noya Rao or Bobinsana.
After many years of refining this approach, the course has been shaped around a simple truth: deeper participation can lead to deeper healing. Participants are introduced to the practices and teachings of working with plant spirits, supporting them in becoming their own healer.
Alongside the ceremonies, the retreat offers personalized treatments and integrative practices that help cleanse and purify the mind, body, and spirit. By bringing together ancestral Shipibo tradition and modern holistic care, the experience is intended to support profound, lasting healing.
Our experiences influence the way we move through the world. By connecting with spirit guides and plant allies, remembering our true nature, and embracing self-love and forgiveness, we create the conditions for well-being to grow. This is the heart of the Healing Empowerment Course.
Throughout the program, participants receive medicinal plant treatments from the Shipibo healing tradition under the guidance of Shipibo curandero Don Ronor. He also shares essential teachings, including the use of mapachos, agua florida, healing songs known as icaros, the soplando technique, and recipes for specific plant-based remedies.
Assistant healers explain each treatment, its purpose, and its effects, while also leading integrative practices that support the ayahuasca ceremonies. The result is a complete holistic healing experience, combined with in-depth education in Shipibo plant medicine, personal health, and happiness.
Ayahuasca ceremonies are used to help release deep-seated trauma, stored emotion, and negative energy. A range of natural treatments works to cleanse the digestive, circulatory, respiratory, nervous, and immune systems. Individualized care addresses specific concerns, while integrative practices offer guidance toward greater balance and well-being.
Workshops and discussions immerse participants in the healing traditions of the Shipibo. Guests learn the core tools used by a Shipibo ayahuasca curandero, and powerful icaros are studied and sung in ceremony, strengthening the connection to the experience and inviting positive energy into both the ayahuasca and dieta process.
The opportunity to build a relationship with the spirit of either Noya Rao or Bobinsana is considered a true honor. With guidance from the Shipibo curandero, participants deepen this connection and develop lasting bonds of healing and intuition. The treatments, knowledge, and tools gained during the course are meant to leave each person feeling empowered.
Each day is supported by plant treatments, therapies, workshops, and discussions on Shipibo healing and integrative practices. Over four weeks, with 11 ayahuasca ceremonies and a wide range of remedies, participants move through a powerful process of self-discovery and deep healing.
By the end of the course, they return home renewed, with greater clarity and strength to take responsibility for their health and life.
The Riosbo retreat center is located within the Allpahuayo-Mishana National Reserve, deep in the Amazon. Surrounded by rainforest, wildlife, and the sounds of nature, it offers a peaceful setting for rest and reflection. Comfortable accommodations blend with the environment, creating a quiet sanctuary in a sacred landscape.
The $5,550 USD price includes:
If you are traveling with a friend, family member, or partner, each person can save $650 by sharing a room. Rooms include two beds, a fan, desk, closet, meditation suite, and full bathroom. To receive the discount, simply note on your registration forms that you will be sharing a room and include the other person’s name. The discount is applied to the remaining balance after the deposit.
Please review the Medical Guidelines carefully. Some medical conditions may make it unsafe to join an ayahuasca healing program, and support is available to help you make the best decision for your health.
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July 12 - August 8, 2026
3 Available Spots
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Allpahuayo-Mishana National Reserve
Iquitos, Peru
Day 0 - Saturday
Arrive at any time and you will be met at Iquitos airport and taken to the hotel, where all participants spend the night before the course. In the afternoon, there is a welcome meeting to meet the group and review the itinerary and details.
WEEK ONE
Day 1 - Sunday
Travel by air-conditioned bus for one hour to Nina Rumi on the Nanay River, then continue by boat for one hour into the National Reserve. After arriving at the retreat center, settle in, have lunch, and attend a meeting about the accommodations and course activities.
Day 2 - Monday
Begin with light yoga, start the three key plant remedies, and join a discussion with the curandero and staff about ceremony preparation. A guided meditation follows before the first ceremony.
AYAHUASCA CEREMONY #1
Day 3 - Tuesday
Wake early for Sangre de Grado, a purgative used to cleanse the digestive system. Meet privately with the curandero, with translation from the facilitators, to discuss a personalized treatment plan. Continue the daily plant remedies and settle into the new rhythm.
Day 4 - Wednesday
Morning yoga, continued plant remedies, and the start of vapor baths to detoxify the system. Attend a workshop on mapacho and agua florida, then close the day with guided meditation before ceremony.
AYAHUASCA CEREMONY #2
Day 5 - Thursday
Plant remedies and vapor baths continue, and personalized treatments begin if needed. A sharing circle offers space to reflect on the experience, followed by a workshop to learn the first icaro.
Day 6 - Friday
Morning yoga, ongoing remedies and vapor baths, icaro practice, journaling, swimming, and time to relax in the jungle. Guided meditation prepares participants for the evening ceremony.
AYAHUASCA CEREMONY #3
Day 7 - Saturday
Take Ojé, a powerful purgative used to deeply cleanse the blood and digestive system. Plant remedies and vapor baths continue, along with any personalized treatments needed. The week concludes with a review of lessons and teachings.

The Kesten Rono Plant Medicine School features a mini village in a remote part of the rainforest, consisting of small collections of huts spread over a cleared expanse of jungle terrain. Every student is assigned a tambo, or jungle hut, on the property. These huts and the other buildings like the dining room, vapor bath hut, and ceremony maloca, come together to form a peaceful little village for the students, surrounded by the energies of the plants. The student huts provide the basics in accommodations, a bed, a hammock, a desk, and a closet. Each hut also has a bathroom with running water. The simplicity of the rooms resembles an authentic indigenous hut, with some added improvements in comfort. The plant medicine school features is a mini village in a remote part of the rainforest, consisting of small collections of huts spread over a cleared expanse of jungle terrain. Each student hut, or tambo, has a private bathroom with running water. Rooms are furnished with a bed with bedding and mosquito net, a desk and chair, a closet, and a hammock. There are outlets and lights but there is only electricity for a few hours each day. On-site, all ayahuasca preparation, plant baths, vapor baths, and other remedies are crafted with care, strengthening the connection to the healing plants. While accommodations are simple, the profound beauty, power, and peace of the rainforest are ever-present in this extraordinary and sacred place. Kesten Rono School offers an authentic jungle living experience, far away from the hustle and noise of modern life. It was designed specifically for the Shipibo Curandero Initiation Course. This location has tremendous energy due to the quality and integrity of plant dietas being done here by students of the Noya Rao tradition. It is more rustic than the our other center, but you will feel an amazing connection with the plants instantly upon arrival. Kesten Rono is a place for deep immersion into the world of spirit plant healing. Students quickly recognize that the school and the entire experience during courses is authentic to the indigenous tradition being taught. This is as real a place as it gets.

Raised in a family of curanderos with a strong Shipibo healing lineage, Don Ronor has been close to plant medicine since childhood. As the younger brother of Don Enrique, he spent more than ten years training alongside him before taking on the responsibility of leading ceremonies. His extensive understanding of medicinal plants, together with his ongoing dietas and studies, has...
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