Amazon Medicine Field School -

Do you want to learn the latest advancements in Amazon medicine?

Embark to Peru and attend our inaugural Amazon Medicine Field School. Learn with local experts, take workshops in medicine preparation and cultivation, visit unique indigenous communities and organizations, and discover the essential role Amazon medicine played during the pandemic.

Days 1-3. Explore Pucallpa

Fly into Pucallpa and discover a city bursting with life on the Amazon frontier. Explore city markets and fascinating cultural sites. Learn about the challenges that beset a region that possesses the world’s most valuable resources.

What is Medicine?

Attend a special one-day symposium at UNÍA, the National Intercultural University of the Amazon. Learn from local experts the latest research on the potential of Amazonian remedies to get to the source of many illnesses and support enduring wellness and resilience.

Visit Biokuka

Visit Biokuka, a botanical paradise. Learn how to identify many species of medicinal plants, how they are cultivated, and how remedies are prepared.

Food is Medicine

Take a cooking workshop with reknown local chef, Blanca Perez, and learn to prepare some famous regional dishes with powerful medicinal Amazon fruits.

Tour the Ucayali

Take an ecological boat tour of the mighty Ucayali river, the main headstream of the Amazon River. Experience an incredible biodiversity of aquatic flora and wildlife and visit communities along the river that live in close harmony with nature.

Days 4-8. Visit Santa Clara

Embark to Santa Clara and stay with a Shipibo-Conibo community that has revitalized their ancestral ways of life. Stay with a host family and learn traditional practices with the community including fishing, art, and music, and regional cuisine. Discover their unique perspective on medicine and wellness and what it can teach us can teach us about living in balance with the planet.

Learn about Shipibo Curandismo

Attend an authentic Shipibo healing ceremony, learn about the philosophy and practice of the Amazon “diet,” and the use of powerful “teacher plants” including the la soga de alma (vine of the soul), ayahuasca.

Rao Banabo

Learn how to prepare traditional remedies to support the immune system and kill viruses with RAO BANABO, a project launched in response to the pandemic to support the use of traditional medicinal plants for families without access to public healthcare.

Amazon Permaculture

Discover an ecological practice of cultivation and a philosophy of living, that has existed in the Amazon for millennia with expert, Marcos Urquía. Get your hands dirty in the permaculture gardens around Santa Clara.

Amazon medicine institute — Marcos Urquía gives a tour of the permaculture gardens at Santa Clara

Art of the Kené

Take a hands-on workshop on the ancient art of Shipibo-Conibo slip-fired pottery. Discover the meaning behind their complex Kené designs and their mysterious origins. Receive a gorgeous one-of-a-kind book, KENÉ SIKATI KIRIKA, free with your trip!

Days 10-13 Embark to the Rainforest

Embark to the Aguas Thermales Reserve and discover a geological phenomenon, a “boiling river” that extends seven kilometers through the rainforest and reaches boiling point in places. Observe a huge variety of birds, monkeys, insects and reptiles in one of the most ecologically diverse regions of the planet.

Visit Santuario Huishtín

Relax in rustic tranquility at Amazonian plant medicine centre, Santuario Huishtín, and take nature hikes with the maestro to identify giant medicinal trees and ancient species of plants. Experience how a deep immersion in rainforest can refine the senses, rebalance the mind and body, and develop your inner powers.

Natural Magic

Discover the magical world of vegetalismo, a spiritual training and traditional botanical healing practice focused on the natural intelligence of the rainforest. Learn how to prepare visionary medicines and what plants can teach you about human creativity and our psychic connection to the natural world. Attend a vegetalista ayahuasca ceremony and experience transformative medicines with that can heal the mind, expand your perception, and trigger vivid dreaming.

Explore the Reserve

Relax and rewind in the tranquility of the Aguas Thermales Reserve. Take nature walks of this prehistoric region and discover hidden wonders including hot waterfalls and an unusual salt water river, the Cachiyacu. Learn about the mystery of the “boiling river of the Amazon,” and its trace its source.

Return to Pucallpa

Spend your final days visiting cultural sites in Pucallpa. Meet Amazonian visionary artists who work with plant medicines to enhance their communication with the spirits of nature.

Reserve Your Spot Now

Your participation goes directly towards our crowding and our projects to build the first Institute of Amazon Medicine. This unique field expedition has a limited occupancy of 15 people. Reserve now to secure your place in this groundbreaking programme.