A Shipibo-Owned Ayahuasca Healing Center
Jochipapanete is a Shipibo-built and owned Ayahuasca healing center located in the Amazon Jungle of Peru. We offer our guests the opportunity to heal and awaken through the use of traditional Shipibo plant medicines and shamanism. Ayahuasca helps us heal on multiple levels of our being, and at Jochipapanete our retreats provide the medicine and environment for this healing process to unfold. Maestro Deodemero and Maestra Rosenda welcome you to their center and invite you to share in their combined wisdom through ceremony.
Our Story
Jochipapanete was built from the dreams of our Maestro Deodomero. Deo comes from a long line of shaman’s in his family, and was apprenticed as a shaman under his father Xawan Mane. Deo’s life ambition has been to have a Shipibo owned Ayahuasca Healing Center, where Shipibo maestros can heal and awaken people from all over our planet, with the activity of the center supporting Shipibo communities. With the help of his community and donations from all over the world, Deo was able to realise this dream in 2021.
Ayahuasca For Our Heart
Jochipapanete expresses its gratitude to all human beings who have the courage to use Ayahuasca as a vehicle of self-discovery and healing. Over time the human world has become ever more complicated and competitive, which divides us and expands our sense of duality. Ayahuasca allows us to fall through this veil of separation and discover that myself is yourself.
Our Retreats
Our 10-day Ayahuasca retreats are designed to give our guests the medicine, time and space to progress on their own unique healing and awakening journey. Although we offer a program of activities each day, our main goal is to serve the medicine in a safe and supportive environment to allow Ayahuasca the time and space to work with our guests. Our Maestros are also available during the retreat for private consultation to work with guests on specific issues.
Our Maestros
Our Shipibo Maestros & founders are Maestro Deodemero Matios Maynas and Maestra Rosenda Melendez Flores. They both come from a long line of healers in their family and have been working with Ayahuasca for over 20 years. With experience working in a variety of different well-renowned centers in Iquitos and Pucallpa, they are now working for themselves, together as a family.
Our Center
Our center is located in the middle of the Amazon Jungle, with no neighbours, secluded far away from any city noise near the town of Contamana, in the Ucayali province. There are a variety of healing master plants on the property, as well as a hiking trail that leads to the top of a small mountain. Our center is also located near the medicinal thermal waters of Aguas Calientes, which our guests bathe in as part of our retreat program.
“Medicine runs through my blood, I thank my ancestors for teaching me to identify with my Shipibo lineage, wherever I go I do not forget my roots. Every icaro that comes out of me, comes out from the bottom of my heart for a healing.”
— Maestro Deodemero Matios Maynas