Lidia
About the Teacher
Why study with them?
Lidia comes from a long lineage of curanderos from the Shipibo-Konibo tribe.
She grew up near Pucallpa, in the Peruvian Amazon, and at a very young age started her training as an ayahuasca practitioner at the hands of her grandparents, who were highly respected curanderos in their community. It was a long and difficult process involving years spent deep in the jungle in almost total isolation: a teenage girl studying the forest around her by day and by night, fasting, listening, sensing, and singing, and through all of this cultivating a lifelong relationship with it and with the many medicinal plants it holds. This is how Lidia, like her ancestors before her, began to develop her healing talents, the first step in the lifelong journey that made her the curandera she is today. Now in her sixties, she brings the same levels of tenacious dedication, of presence and patience, of fierce determination and gentle sensitivity needed to complete her rigorous training to every single health issue she is tasked with healing. To put it simply: she is the real deal.
Having spent decades traveling the Amazon, leading ayahuasca ceremonies, and dedicating her life to helping as many people as possible, Lidia eventually found work at a renowned ayahuasca healing center and has worked with groups of international guests for the past six years.
Lidia is a caring and passionate healer who works closely with retreat participants both in and out of ceremony. She is highly skilled at healing massage and bone-setting, which she offers on non-ceremony days to guests experiencing long-term pain, illness, or injury. Quick to smile and even quicker to laugh, there is nothing that gives her more joy than helping others feel better. It is her life’s work.
Lidia is also a talented embroiderer, sewing traditional Shipibo tapestries, clothing and accessories with designs inspired by visions she has seen in her ceremonies. Her work has won several awards in Shipibo embroidering contests held in Pucallpa and is available to purchase during retreats.
She lives on the outskirts of Pucallpa with her big family of children and grandchildren, and her favorite English word is “happy.”
She grew up near Pucallpa, in the Peruvian Amazon, and at a very young age started her training as an ayahuasca practitioner at the hands of her grandparents, who were highly respected curanderos in their community. It was a long and difficult process involving years spent deep in the jungle in almost total isolation: a teenage girl studying the forest around her by day and by night, fasting, listening, sensing, and singing, and through all of this cultivating a lifelong relationship with it and with the many medicinal plants it holds. This is how Lidia, like her ancestors before her, began to develop her healing talents, the first step in the lifelong journey that made her the curandera she is today. Now in her sixties, she brings the same levels of tenacious dedication, of presence and patience, of fierce determination and gentle sensitivity needed to complete her rigorous training to every single health issue she is tasked with healing. To put it simply: she is the real deal.
Having spent decades traveling the Amazon, leading ayahuasca ceremonies, and dedicating her life to helping as many people as possible, Lidia eventually found work at a renowned ayahuasca healing center and has worked with groups of international guests for the past six years.
Lidia is a caring and passionate healer who works closely with retreat participants both in and out of ceremony. She is highly skilled at healing massage and bone-setting, which she offers on non-ceremony days to guests experiencing long-term pain, illness, or injury. Quick to smile and even quicker to laugh, there is nothing that gives her more joy than helping others feel better. It is her life’s work.
Lidia is also a talented embroiderer, sewing traditional Shipibo tapestries, clothing and accessories with designs inspired by visions she has seen in her ceremonies. Her work has won several awards in Shipibo embroidering contests held in Pucallpa and is available to purchase during retreats.
She lives on the outskirts of Pucallpa with her big family of children and grandchildren, and her favorite English word is “happy.”
