– Reserve Your Stay at Caya Shobo –
We look forward to receiving you at Caya Shobo. Please select your preferred retreat dates from the currently available options listed below.
If you would like to FILL IN OUR MEDICAL QUESTIONNAIRE, we will let you know our recommendations for preparing to visit Caya Shobo to participate in Ayahuasca ceremony and plant dieta.
Caya Shobo now accepts payment by credit card, international bank transfer, and Bitcoin. Please write to us below if you wish to pay by Bitcoin or bank transfer.
Please be sure to read our Terms and Conditions of stay at Caya Shobo. These Conditions form the basis of your contract with us so please read them carefully. Please note our Terms and Conditions have recently changed.
See our Travel Planning page for the latest updates regarding recent political protest in Peru.
– Attend a Caya Shobo Information Session –
Complimentary Information Sessions on Zoom are available for anyone interested in attending a retreat at Caya Shobo. This is a great way to ask us questions you haven’t been able to find answers to throughout the website. You’ll have the opportunity to chat with our experienced retreat facilitators and get a general feel for our approach with Shipibo plant medicine.
Our next free Information Session is scheduled for Tuesday June 6, 2023 at 10am (Pacific Standard Time)
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81344216541
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– Upcoming Retreats at Caya Shobo –
AUG 28 – SEPTEMBER 9 : RESERVE NOW
SEPT 18 – 30: RESERVE NOW (Limited Availability)
OCT 30 – NOV 11 : RESERVE NOW (WOMAN"S RETREAT)
An Ayahuasca & Plant healing retreat at Caya Shobo offers a truly transformative and sustained healing experience in the way of the true Shipibo plant medicine healing tradition. Limited to only 11 guests, this is an excellent opportunity to receive highly personalized attention and care.
12-day retreat price of US$2,595 includes accommodation in one of our spacious standard rooms, or for US$2,795 you can upgrade to a jungle tambo.
Our highly experienced maestros, maestras, and the dieta process will enable a deep cleansing and healing of your body, mind, heart, and soul. Our experienced facilitators will provide skilled support and guidance throughout your process.
Price is all-inclusive of 8 Ayahuasca Ceremonies, personalized plant dieta treatments, accommodation, meals, and facilitation support including translation in English. Airport or hotel transfers are available for a small fee (of US$25 each way).
A 12-month rescheduling credit is available in case of sickness or travel restrictions or the possibility of retreat cancellation due to the pandemic.
Other 2023 Retreat Dates to be posted soon
Please enquire for more information about extending your retreat stay or arranging your own private group retreat for 2023 (minimum 8 guests).
If you are unable to attend the above retreat dates, please let us know which dates would suit you best.
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If you have a question or need assistance making your reservation or planning your travel, please send us an enquiry here. Or if you prefer to speak with a real person, please call our manager at the number listed here.
Write to us
team@cayashobo.com
Call us
+51 917 327 657
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Comunidad Varillal
14km Iquitos-Nauta Hwy
Loreto, Peru
– A Note About Payment –
Online payment by credit card may be made by clicking on any of our Package Stay or Retreat Programs listed above.
Alternatively, you may pay for your stay by Bitcoin transfer, or by International Bank Transfer direct to Caya Shobo’s account in Peru. Please notify us of your preferred dates and wait for our email confirmation before sending your payment.
We are also able to receive payment for your stay by Cash upon your arrival at the Centre. However please note that we cannot guarantee availability of your room without full payment for your stay received 6 weeks in advance of your scheduled arrival date. See our Terms and Conditions for more information.
When bringing cash USD to Iquitos, please be sure to request pristine bills from your bank – the slightest tear or mark will cause your bills to be rejected by most Peruvian retailers and banks, and therefore cannot be accepted at Caya Shobo.
You can withdraw pristine USD bills and Peruvian Soles from ATM machines in Lima or Iquitos.
If you pay for your stay by bank transfer or cash, upon arrival you will be asked to provide a valid credit card for a security deposit. If you do not have a credit card, you can pay a security deposit of USD$300 in cash, which will be returned to you at the end of your stay at Caya Shobo.
Read our Travel Planning page for more tips on preparing for your journey to Caya Shobo.
Meeting Walter you immediately recognize his natural warmth and humility as a person, as well as his impressive capability as an experienced Onánya Maestro healer. His beautiful, lower toned voice and variety of melodic Icaros can transport you to a place of peace and reconciliation with your life’s experiences and your healing path. Walter is always solid in the middle of the storm.
Maestra Maricela is a highly experienced Shipiba Onánya curandera and Raomi herbalist. Born in the Alto Ucayali river village of Roya, south of Pucallpa, her father Nicolas Vardales is a well known Shipibo medicine man with a strong famileal lineage of medicine knowledge. At age 13, in receiving treatment for some serious health issues of her own, Maricela began to learn about the healing properties of Amazonian medicine plants. She continued dieting with different master plants until she started working with Ayahuasca in her early 30’s.
Immersed in the medicine world her entire life, Maestra Lucinda is the eldest daughter of renowned Shipibo Onánya Maestro Pascual Mahua Ochavano, born in the Shipibo village of Paoyhan or ‘Water of the Pearls’ located on the banks of the beautiful Ucayali river, north of Pucallpa. When she was a tiny infant of 4 months old her father opened her first learning dieta to bring her the advanced knowledge of the Noya Rao “Tree of light” of her ancestors.
Orlando also belongs to the famous family Mahua. His great-grandfather Manuel Mahua was renowned as one of the most powerful Onánya shaman in the entire history of the Shipibo tribe. Manuel’s daughter Manuela, grandmother to Orlando, is also a well – known living Onánya Maestra. Manuela brought up Orlando from early childhood and opened his first medicine plant dieta at age 7. 
Fernando Levi, also born in the village of Paoyhan, is the grandson of Pascual Mahua, and, like his father, his grandfather and many generations before him, Fernando has inherited the Shipibo name “Sani Piko” which means “The Great Medicine Men.” This legacy of ancestral knowledge and the discipline Fernando has brought to developing its power within himself is clearly evident in his Icaros, in his medicine and also in his extensive knowledge of master plant dieta for healing and learning.
Francisco (or Pancho) has been working with the Shipibo medicine path since his early 40’s, and is now in his late 60s.
Rafael was born into a family of Ayahuasca Curandero Medicos in the Shipibo village of Santa Rosa de Dinamarca, 5 hours journey by riverboat to the south of Pucallpa. Growing up immersed in the world of Ayahuasca, he observed his parents and the men and women of his extended family always working in healing ceremonies and guiding plant dietas. At the age of 18, his curiosity to learn more about this path inspired him to open his first plant dieta, and he has since been learning and dieting with different master plants over the past 15 years.
As a teenager, Pablo felt the call of the medicine, but without access to knowledgeable teachers in his own family or community, he pursued his own learning path with Ayahuasca in the way of the ancient Shipibo Maestro Onánya – by entering the jungle alone and following the call of the plants in isolation dieta.