Advanced Shipibo Dive
Advanced Shipibo Icaro
This course offers a deep-dive into Icaro language song, and structure. It is highly recommended that you hae some background in Shipibo language study and are able to journey with us for the following 3 months just like a plant dieta. We will encourage you to start writing your own icaros!
$388.00
You will
- Learn original icaros to inspire your vocabulary
- Build a deep understanding of Shipibo-Konibo language to connect your song to your unique experience and medicine
- Gain confidence in writing your own icaros taking into account song structure systems
- Learn about Shipibo-Konibo medical cosmovision from a Shibipo-Konibo maestro himself
- Expand your understanding of the medicine path and connect that insight into your icaros
Includes
- Access to group online classes via Zoom (live course only)
- Access to recordings of each online class
- Access to special study materials
- Immersive experience with bilingual plant medicine practitioners
- Live feedback and answers to all your questions, plus detailed feddback on individual icaro work (live course only)
Meet your instructors
Wexa Metsa
Is a Shipibo curandero born in the community of Roaboya, Loreto. He began his apprenticeship with his grandfather Leonardo Inuma at 13 years old and later trained with his great aunt, Maestra Olivia Arevalo and Julian Arevalo at the age of 18. He has worked with a range of maestros and extensively translated dreams, isions, and the plant dieta universe to students around the world. Today he leads the Kushi Ayahuasca Retreat Center and educates hundreds of plant medicine students online together with Macarena Arias and his Kushi family.
Macarena Arias
Is a Peruvian living in Ucayali and student of the Shipibo-Konibo language since 2016. She began learning with Professor Eli Sánchez and continued through her work with Alianza Arkana and plant medicine with Manuela Mahua (Jakon Rate). She is an artista, SE Practitioner, Expressive Arts Facilitator, and works with her spouse at Koshi Ayahuasca Retreat Center.
Course structure
Month 1
- Icaro 1: Nokon Bewa Pishaban, releasing your song!
- Language study on opening your ceremony space
- Language study on body parts
- Language study on connecting to your voice, your doctors, and singing from your medicine
- Study of song structure, rhythm, and melody
Month 2
- Icaro 2: Ocha Maya Niwebo
- Study of energetic distortions and language around clearing those energies
- Study of energetic recalibration
- Language study around dieta structures, landscapes, decorations, and installations, and connecting to your own medicine
Month 3
- Icaro 3: Koshi Arkanas and protections!
- What is an protection mechanism and dieta arkana?
- Language study around dieta arkanas and general protection mechanisms
- Koshi Arkana!