Shipibo Treatments vs Dietas
Sacred Healing Paths for Body, Mind, and Spirit
When walking the sacred path of plant medicine, it’s important to understand the difference between Shipibo treatments and plant dietas.
Both are powerful, ancient traditions — but they serve different needs.
At Inkan Rao, we honor the true ways of the Shipibo people and offer both treatments and dietas, always listening to what your soul and body truly need.
“Before the plants can teach you, the body must be clean and the spirit must be light. Treatments are the first song of healing, opening the path so the plants can truly enter.”
— Don Rono (Maestro)
Shipibo Treatments: Healing First
Treatments focus on deep healing, cleansing, and realignment.
During your retreat, the Maestro(a) diagnoses your energetic state during the first Ayahuasca ceremony (they will see everything inside of you) and builds a personal healing plan with sacred songs (Icaros), plant remedies, purgatives, saunas, and plant baths.
Treatments are like preparing the soil before planting seeds — removing illness, trauma, and heavy energies, so you can truly heal and grow.
Plant Dietas: Learning from the Spirits
A dieta is a sacred bond formed with a master plant spirit.
It’s a longer process where you build a relationship of trust, learning, and transformation directly with the plant.
A dieta is like going to university — receiving teachings and wisdom over time. But without a clean energetic body, the lessons can be blocked or distorted.
Heal First, Then Learn
If the body and spirit are still carrying trauma, confusion, or energetic imbalances, the dieta process can be much harder.
That’s why starting with treatments is essential — just like going to the hospital before enrolling in university.
Even for those who have already done dietas, old traumas or crossed energetic lines (breaking dieta rules, mixing energies) can leave confusion, illness, or emotional heaviness.
Treatments bring you back to center, clearing what blocks your growth, so that any future dietas can unfold in purity and strength.
Healing in Comfort, Supported by the Ancestors
At Inkan Rao, we offer both Shipibo treatments and dietas in a comfortable, safe home environment.
No mosquitos, no harsh isolation — only peaceful comfort, clean beds, healthy organic food, and the protective energy of the Apu Mountains and the Inca spirits.
This sacred land supports your healing journey deeply, allowing you to go even further into your process without the physical distractions of suffering.
“Treatments are like the river that washes your soul. Without them, the plants cannot root deeply in your heart. Healing is a return to purity, to simplicity, to the truth of who you are.”
— Doña Angela (Maestra)