Maestro Cesar

Affectionately nicknamed Paparahua, Cesar is Maestra Justina's husband and comes to us with a long and deep knowledge of medicine, having worked with plants for over 50 years.

A Shipibo shaman, Paparahua began working with the medicine at the age of 14. Now 66 years old and with a lifetime of diets and healing practice, he’s also become known as the shaman’s shaman. Coming from a lineage of Merayas, the Shipibo's highest ranked curanderos, it was his father who introduced him to becoming a healer, and is where Cesar inherited his knowledge of the plants. His first plant diet was over a year long, and since, has done over 30 other plant diets on his Shamanic path.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

At 16 he began leading his healing ceremonies and is now with us to share his knowledge and warm spirit during your healing process. Through his Icaros you’ll find a loving and powerful voice, and one of the purest examples of an old traditional Shaman. The Staff at the center feel lucky and blessed to have Paparahua on our team. When not at the center, Cesar returns home to the village of Vencedor to look after Arkana's Ayahuasca plantation.