Master Plant Dieta Library
La Dieta
Dieta is an ancient shamanic practice that is an incredible tool and healer gifted by the plants and kept alive through the guardians of the medicines. It is a practice used usually in conjunction with ayahuasca, though not isolated to it. As many of the Shipibo peoples do not drink ayahuasca anymore, however they practice Dieta often. When someone is sick, they are automatically put on concoctions of plants and often will follow a regimented food diet as their body heals..
In the Spirit of the Plants
The shamanic form of Dieta is where the curandera or curandero will open your energy body up to receive the master plant. Many of the healers work in ceremony to open a Dieta , however this is not always the case. You will drink the master plant in some form, usually in an alcohol solvent, tea, or solar infusion.
Over the course of Dieta , one connects to the spirit of the plant and welcomes its healing and companionship. The Master plant is benevolent helper and aids in the particulars of physical, emotional and mental healing and wellness.
Transformation
There are plants for everything you can imagine. Plants for the brain, for emotional healing, for immune and nervous system rebalancing, plants to cure ailments of all sorts.
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Bobiensana
Cedar
Mapacho
Noyarao
Rose
In many ways Dieta is traditional herbalism, however used alongside ayahuasca, one becomes extremely attuned to the energies of the master plants.
Traditionally Dieta would be practiced in isolation. Many of the maestras and maestros we work with spent a period of 6 months to a year in isolation huts dieting plants, drinking medicine and learning directly through personal experience how to become healers.
This is the traditional form the Shipibo would practice to become healers. There are Dietas for learning and there are Dietas for healing. Most of the time they weave between the both.
The practice of Dieta involves a commitment to practice. Often depending on the type of Dieta one is practicing, one must eliminate all salts, sugars, oils, and spices.
The reason for this is similar to the yogis and Ayurveda practices in India that would keep the nervous system as calm as possible in order to become attuned to subtle energies.
In the case of Dieta, one becomes attuned to the subtle teachings of the master plant they are dieting. Used in conjunction with ayahuasca, one becomes extremely connected to the plant that they Dieta in ceremonies.
Once a person Dietas a plant, for a period of weeks, months, or years, the plant spirit that they have been working with becomes woven into the fabric of their being, serving as a protective compassionate helper. The Shipibo work with the practice of Arkanas.
One of the best ways to explain this is as though it were a woven cloak of songs and healing vibrations. The Shipibo speak of the importance of Arkana, serving as spiritual protection for people that will support them in their life journey. The Dietas are also a form of direct learning and training through the plants and through the practice of Dieta one may receive doctoring tools to help aid in healing, the removal of parasitic energies, illness and disease.
All of these practices have evolved over thousands of years of Amazonian shamanism and direct learning from the spirits of the plants, the earth, and a devotion to peoples healing.
For this container it’s requested you do your best to move into a space of quiet and introspection and follow the food protocols diligently.
It’s encouraged to delete certain apps and be mindful of who you engage with.
You can download high consciousness audio books and play instruments but stay out of things with heavier undertones.
Dieta Protocols
As we are working with the ancient plant ancestors ,we are going back to eat like our ancestors, as we welcome this medicine into our bundle.
- No chemicals in your food
- No Dairy
- No Gluten
- No sugar
- No processed foods
- No chips
- No alcohol
- No factory farm Meat
- No raw oils
- no sex (however you can find other ways to be intimate with if you are in sacred relationship)
- No red meat, though you can have wild game if caught in an ethical way
- A little salt is ok on your meals
Conversations
No gossip. Not putting others down with your words in Dieta, this includes Hollywood actors, politicians, your mother in law, the person that annoys you at work.
You may of course talk about your process freely, however take responsibility for your own feelings and experiences. This is a potent way of working with energy and asking for responsibility and integrity while we are in the Dieta process.
This may mean having more direct conversations with people if conflict arises. We are working on repatterning certain dynamics here with deeper levels of inquiry when certain dynamics play out. So watch what you engage, relax and also enjoy.
Spiritual Community
Though we will be covering some scholarly work, this isn’t about filling your head with fun facts or books, but an invitation into our own divine nature. As each of us commit to this, we naturally create a field of energy that will help us accelerate. This is why in Buddhism there a whole books devoted to the holy Sangha. You become like the people around you, and we know through mirror neurons we begin to think like the people who surround us. Don’t underestimate the power of spiritual community committed to transformative growth.
Music
If you have joined me for a plant attunement, I usually sing Ikaros to you. And I will do this, if I feel the need for a clearing. But there will be focus on us singing together and singing songs that will activate your inner heart. Music and movement on the Bhakti path, or path of love and devotion are interwoven. This is where spirit can meet us.
Media
No watching the news, reading about the end of the world, information on vax laws. None of this right now. This is a time to retreat from the world and gain strength in the deeper aspects of the soul.
No scrolling social media mindlessly. You can use social media, but must be done with mindfulness. No tv. No violent movies, or dramas. You can watch documentaries, or talks that are expansive in nature, things that feel supportive. This is all programming your system, and as we are not at a retreat center and you are at home. It is important to break any of these habits.
All of this is important and can affect your Dieta.
Prayer Partner
Each of you will be assigned a prayer partner. (if your open to it) Part of this practice is praying for others, and also receiving the energy of prayer. We will discuss this together when we all gather.
Shamanic Mentorship
One of the principles I live by, is that every single one of us have a divine blueprint. We are brainwashed by our world to compare ourselves to each other, but The Lily is different then the cedar tree. And no matter how it tries, the flower cannot become the tree. In this, its not necessarily about adding new things, but seeing what is ones deepest gifts, working with this divine blueprint and fanning this flame within you.
We will be calling in every week the support of your guides and helpers and the energy of Cedar to guide us. When speaking of this mentorship it requires a willingness to open into yourself to new possibilities and be willing to look at habbits that do not serve you. As well as weaving in the details of every day life and what may be needing accountability and support.
bobiensana | the heart of the amazon
A little bit about Bobiensana
You can recognize Bobiensana by its bright pink almost fluorescent flowers that seem to explode with joy like fireworks. It tends to grow alongside water such as rivers and streams is a master plant teacher revered and honored in the amazon.
It is well known for its gentle stimulating effects and its ability to open the heart to greater compassion, strength, and guidance from the spirit realm.
In its herbal medicinal properties, its roots, barks and leaves are boiled down and used as a treatment for rhumatism. Its boiled down bark is also used as a contraceptive in many amazonian communities.
Bobinsana is a highly respected master plant teacher with diverse medicinal properties.
Considered a very creative feminine plant, Bobinsana’s teachings are focused on healing wounds of the heart from past relationships to release trauma, intense grief, loss and sadness.
It’s supportive for Healing deep wounds from childhood, romantic relationships.
It’s a benevolent kind spirit and often can just provide that lightening of heavy loads.
That said it also cleans the emotional body, so crying is often a way of purging.
It is well known for its gentle stimulating effects and its ability to open the heart to greater compassion, strength, and guidance from the spirit realm.
It is also beneficial for enhancing dream states or lucid dreaming, where emotional trauma can be healed.
The concept of a plant spirit may seem hypothetical to some, but when one undertakes this deeply traditional and intensive experience that is the dieta, you have a chance to know experientially what this really means.
Bobiensana is a beautiful gift!
cedar | the tree of life
A little bit about Cedar
Cedar medicine is vast, its history long, and full of teachings if you are willing to be quiet and listen. Though you may have walked by this tree a thousand times, getting to know it in the realm of dieta is an incredible gift.
Cedar is one of the oldest living species of tree. And it is recorded in one of the oldest pieces of literature, the epic of Gilgamesh. Written in ancient Mesopotamia 2100, bc. The Cedars of God in Lebanon.
In the Coast Salish traditions from the west coast, red cedar, is called the tree of life, as It provided baby carriers, boats, houses, clothes and medicine to the people. And was used in ceremony to bring in abundance! It is also used specifically to help with forgiveness and letting go of heavy burdens.
In Cherokee tradition it was called the tree of the ancestors and was given as a gift from the great mystery after a time of great loss.
Cedar across the board has been used for spiritual protection and purification. In physical form it repels bacteria, viruses and insects, and these characteristics also manifest in the spiritual plane. I will share after working with Noyarao for many years, there is a similar frequency in the cedar tree being honored as a Tree of life. Both rose and cedar have long long histories of devotion and spiritual practice and interrelated relationship with the people on the earth. We will talk about cedar in our time together, though most important in this work is your direct experience.
mapacho | remote dieta
A little bit about Mapacho
Mapacho, also known as Grandfather Mapacho is one of the oldest plants used ceremonially in the shamanic traditions of south America. Its use dates back over 8,000 years! It is a master teacher and has an incredible rich lineage of healing with human beings. Some of the oldest images of mapacho show him as an old man with a crown of leaves and a necklace of skulls. The Skulls and bones a reminder of the ancestors and the ancient wisdom as well as original instructions.
Before there were ayahuasqueros there were mapacheros. Mapacheros were medicine people or shamans who would heal and cure people using mapacho in a variety of ways.It is anti fungal, anti parasitic, and even used as a natural pesticide because it keeps bugs off of crops.
As this is one of its physical expressions, it also is used in this way spiritually and ceremonially, as a way to clear parasitic energies, trauma and sickness.
Mapacho’s more spiritual and shamanic qualities are ones of energetic protection, commitment, and prayer.
Tobacco in all traditions is used as a way to pray, and mapacho is no different in this way. A strong ally for prayer and connection with your creator, it can teach you many things about walking in a devotional way.
Many people who have encountered the spirit of Mapacho see this plant spirit manifest as an ancient grandfather, kind, loving and also stern and direct.
This master plant dieta is supportive for those wanting to come into more direct communication practices, leaning into more structure, boundaries and protection.
Masculine in its nature, it serves as a conduit to the universal energy of the Sacred masculine so many of us desire to be in relationship with.
This said mapacho is seen as a master healer, and many who have dieted him have experienced miraculous physical healing.
In mapacho ceremonies it is drunk as a strong brew prepared and prayed over by the Tabaquero (tobacco shaman). It deeply cleanses the body of toxins, it powerfully clears negative energy, and it communicates via the dreaming space. It is used in a variety of different ways such as smoke, tea, snuff or paste.
Mapacho also contains a high proportion of harmala alkaloids – harmane and norharmane. (Similar to ayahuasca) These MAO inhibitors help increase the amount of serotonin in the brain, which is similar to an antidepressant.
It is an advanced dieta and requires a humble and willing heart to show up to best of your capacity.
noyarao | the tree of light
A little bit about Noyarao
Noyarao also known as palo volador or the tree of light is an incredibly rare tree that grows in the amazon jungle that glows in the dark. There are many myths and legends of the Noyarao tree. And for many years it was passed down only energetically by those who had been in relationship with it.. Noyarao is a tree that is used for healing and also to help awaken the gifts of healers. It is considered an advanced dieta, Which is why many healers in the Amazonian tradition find it incredibly helpful for their work in the shamanic arts. It strengthens the energy body, amplifies gifts and psychic abilities. That said, because of its very high frequency it can also reveal things out of alignment and increase sensitivity. It’s said that from the world of Noyarao awakened masters have come as it comes from another universe. One beyond duality.
Fasting is the main offering of this dieta. As you will be fast from food and water on ceremony days.
Many healing traditions, religions, and indigenous societies would use forms of fasting to move into altered states and experience deep connection with the divine. Allowing one to move past the mind and the physical into the realm of spirit through this practice of offering, prayer and learning.
Though this work is not what one would call easy, after years of watching groups move through the process of dieta, we have seen incredible transformations and changes take place in people which is the only reason we continue to create spaces for people to come and retreat into the sacred journey of the soul in the context of ceremony.
Dieta is a traditional way to bring positive changes to your mind, heart, body, and soul. It offers an opportunity to connect with and cultivate a deeper relationship with the intelligence, spirit, and energy of master teacher plants. The profound and powerful transformations that occur from the deep relationships we build with the plant, ourselves, and each other allows us to walk with the spirit of love and courage, which is much needed to create the new world our hearts are praying for.
A Dieta is a deeper way of working with the medicine. When you decide to commit to dieta, it involves discipline and offering of fasting from certain foods, a series of ceremonies and the simultaneous partaking of another healing plant. It is the way all the Shipibo become healers; curanderos.
rose | lineage of the wild roses
14th century Rosary prayer
Some of the topics we will cover in this time
1. The story of Christ and Mary, Who was the real Mary Magdeline?
2. The mythic meaning & symbology of the cross, death, resurrection & ascension.
3 Somatic wisdom & Healing the physical body, the Activation of the inner healer, covering many of Jesus and Mary many miracles – Special Guest teacher Healer
4. Shamanic Tools for wellness & Wholeness. How to clear energy, invoke healing using the authority of Christ light
5. Gnostic Teachings of the Divine Feminine & Masculine and the rose. Sacred sexuality and the Tantric Way– Special guest speaker, Tantric and Pranic Healer
6. Seeing with the eyes of the spiritual heart. Biblical & Gnostic pointing towards the technology of working with the inner chambers of the heart, also called the The bridal chamber.
7. Radical Love as a path to Awakening
“Let all that you do be done in love” 1 Corinthians 16:14.
Devotional Practice
Some say the rose is the goddesses way of showing her children that she loves them.
There are thousand year old rose petal offerings at the temples of Isis. The rose throughout our time has been a symbol of love, devotion and consciousness throughout human history and contains within it an entire mystery school.
There is a story where the Buddha smelt a rose and gave one of his most profound teachings by simply communing with the Rose.
The Jesus story and hidden aspects of Mary Magdeline and the teachings of divine union are all folded into the petals of this beautiful flower. This practice is an invitation and activation into the ancient lineage of the Rose of radical unconditional love, acceptance and compassion.
We will be in this devotional practice and commitment for 7 weeks together. For this time, this is an invitation to Radical cosmic Love.
The lineage of the rose, also what we will refer to as the Christ path, is all about the path of love as spiritual practice.
This is extra special for those of you who have been wounded or hurt by the church, have experienced abuse in the name of god or the church, or have Judeo-Christian roots in your ancestry. And can serve as a deep ancestral healing for your bloodlines. If you are triggered for one reason or another while we are covering certain things, there is space for dialogue as this is part of the healing process.
We will be meditating on Gnostic and biblical versus, covering the hidden gospels of Mary, Thomas and Philip. We also will explore Christian mystics, poets, and goddess history.
