In this sacred and challenging time, I wish to speak from the heart, as someone who has heard a deep calling and consecrated his life to healing, the search for truth, and the spirit. To speak precisely from that place we’ve been taught to silence, from where there are no barriers, no fear, and no distrust.
Sinchi Runa is not merely a center for working with Master Plants. It is a frequency, a soul mission. It is the space where many of you have remembered who you truly are, beyond pain, beyond the past, beyond the masks. A space where Master Plants are not used merely as tools for extraordinary experiences, not only to expose our wounds and give divinity the opportunity to heal them, not just where trauma reveals Dharma – but also as bridges to communion with the eternal.
After many years of working in Europe, where we also came seeking understanding and connection with hearts, we now find ourselves at a moment of return – to the origin. We see returning to the Peruvian jungle not only as an important part of our path, but perhaps as a completion. We are at a crucial moment in which it is necessary to fully immerse ourselves in the magic and power of the Master Plants. These plants are not merely brews, they are the expression of the forest itself, of the entities of the jungle. The world of the Yacumama (1), the spirit of water, and the Otorongo (2), the jaguar, the sacred world of the primordial forest that still survives amidst the chaos sown by a humanity that has lost the meaning of civilization.
Healing with Master Plants is an entire system that depends on the forest; on its sounds, the frequencies of the plants, the whisper of wind through the leaves, the millions of microcosms that a single Lupuna (3) tree can sustain, and the living mystery in the soil where the miracle of life arises without human intervention, without mind, greed, or presumption. We have learned much in Europe and built an undeniable network of love, for which we are immensely grateful. But we see the return as a necessity: a purification, a renewed search for truth, and an opportunity for our students to be immersed in the knowledge transmitted through the plants and the elemental presence of the forest. We return to the place where this medicine was born, where the earth still speaks, and where knowledge has not yet been dissected or frozen in the mind by religious paradigms, New Age ideologies, or pseudo-folkloric visions that are often part of the commodification of the sacred.
Our return to the Amazon is not an escape – it is a consecration. We will settle close to and within the virgin forest, creating a quiet, harmonious infrastructure, a space that honors the depth of this path, that is sustainable and loving. A home for those seeking truth, not a psychedelic spectacle; for communion, not stimulation; for freedom, not doctrine.
We do not identify with the word “shamanism” as it is used today. What we propose is not a superficial fusion of spiritualities, nor a folkloric reproduction. What we live is a living tradition, a deep mysticism, a practice of purification and surrender that reveals itself as a Brahmanic path. The sacred fire, mantras in communion with icaros, the technology or science preserved in silence, the plant diets, the vision, the renunciation – all of this is integrated with the sacred use of plants like Ayahuasca (4), Tobacco, Rosa Sisa (5), Bobinsana (6), and San Pedro (7). Each of these plants is a Deva, a form of Brahman – the One without second, that place where words retreat, manifested to help us remember who we are.
Since its founding in the Caribbean jungle, Sinchi Runa as a center for Master Plant work has drawn on ancestral knowledge revealed in ceremonies and through the very entities themselves. We have also received teachings from men and women of diverse genuine spiritual paths, for whom we are grateful. But we are guided by inner integrity, discernment, and the listening of higher consciousness. Our purpose is to liberate, not to recruit. To teach people to trust their inner light, not to repeat beliefs. That is why we are not affiliated with any religious institution, sect, doctrine, or cult. We uphold essential freedom so that the soul may recognize its path without ending up in hierarchies or manipulation. We are a temple, a hospital. We are the Lupuna tree that welcomes and protects, the anaconda that confronts with the voice of the serpent that lives within you, that flows with the forest, that loves and devours without fear or judgment. The path to Brahman, to the eternal truth, needs only sincere intent, deep cleansing, and a willingness to die and be reborn in Truth. The plants do not distract us from this search, they confront us with it.
Over the years, I have been accompanied by committed students: brave men and women who did not come to “try experiences”, but to surrender to the inner dismantling process, to walk with humility, to learn without pretense. Together, we are shaping a serious proposal within what is today called “shamanism,” one that seeks to restore its dignity, depth, structure, and true service to humanity – for young people in search of silence, and of a civilization that is marked not by pride, but by the pursuit of stillness.
We seek truth. And we want to offer a path of formation that integrates the ancestral and the eternal, the Amazonian and the Vedic, the visionary and the ethical.
All of this is being gestated in a place – a fertile, virgin, and primordial land that will receive our respect, Dharma, and work. Every day, the Amazon loses 10,000 hectares of primordial forest. With that, thousands of Lupuna trees, the mothers of the forest, are turned into plywood. The voice of the serpent is silenced by the savagery of chainsaws. The knowledge and healing received by many of you is being paid for with the sterile death brought about by the new gods of money and the so-called “progress”; pastureland for cattle to fuel the barbarity of the meat industry, and mining practices devoid of ecological grounding. Death and desertification follow this disregard for life, for origin, and for the Dharma of humanity. We are going to protect a small piece of forest in relation to the vastness being destroyed, but to establish a spiritual base that allows the sacred to be heard.
That is why we now open this channel of support. For those who feel that this work has touched their soul, for those who have healed at Sinchi Runa, for those who feel this fire must continue and expand. Every donation, every gesture, every word of support will be used with transparency and devotion to build this center in the jungle: a place for retreat, for training, for healing, for service. If this vision resonates with you, we invite you to support this calling, so that this service may continue and multiply.
Sinchi Runa belongs to no one, and at the same time, belongs to all of us who feel the longing to live in truth, in silence, and in communion.
May we create together a refuge of light in the world. May we receive the Amazon with love and gratitude. May the plants continue teaching us. May Brahman guide us.
With Love and Gratitude,
Sanango
Preservation of the Rainforest & Retreat Center Construction
If you’d like to support the purchase and preservation of the virgin rainforest, and the construction of the healing center you can learn more & make a donation.
Our last retreats in Europe will be until end of Summer 2025. If you’d like to work with us before we return to the Jungle in Autumn, see our Retreat Schedule.
Footnotes:
(1) Lupuna: A sacred tree of the Amazon, also known as the ceiba. Its massive size and majestic presence symbolize the axis mundi, the axis connecting heaven, earth, and the underworld. Considered a grandmother, the Lupuna is a guardian of the forest’s deep wisdom. We call on her compassion for protection, transmission of knowledge, and revelation.
(2) Otorongo: The Amazonian jaguar. In Indigenous worldview, it embodies the spirit of power, night vision, mastery of the invisible realms, and the medicine of courage. A symbol of the spiritual warrior who walks without fear, always vigilant against ego and inner demons.
(3) Yacumama (Quechua: “Mother of the Water”): A primordial spirit inhabiting rivers, lakes, and springs. Manifesting as a great anaconda or aquatic serpent, she is both protector and teacher of emotional wisdom and life’s flow. She is the original form of Mother Ayahuasca, residing in water – the jungle’s spirit, the serpent that speaks within you, the voice of the eternal and primordial within humanity.
(4) Ayahuasca: A sacred jungle vine used in ceremonies for healing and vision. Its name means “vine of the soul” or “vine of the dead” in Quechua (aya = spirit or dead, huasca = vine). It opens spiritual perception and reveals deep truths held within ancestral human memory, healing trauma through exposure and understanding.
(5) Rosa Sisa: A delicate but powerful flower linked to beauty, spiritual purification, and sacred feminine energy. Used in spiritual baths, purges, and cleansings to harmonize and protect. A grandmother healer who clears sorcery, heavy energies, and harmful beliefs about oneself.
(6) Bobinsana: A Master Plant associated with heart-opening, tenderness, and forgiveness. It grows near rivers and bears pink blossoms. Used in plant diets to learn love without attachment. She teaches the feminine presence of the heart—how to live it, how to adapt, how to flow.
(7) San Pedro (Huachuma): A visionary cactus from the Peruvian Andes, associated with the heart, the solar plexus chakra, and connection to the earth (muladhara). Its medicine is expansive, loving, and deeply revelatory. It is connected to the understanding of Brahman.
(8) Brahman: The supreme principle in the Vedic tradition: the Absolute, the Eternal, the Formless Being, origin and end of all things. On the spiritual path, realizing Brahman means recognizing all existence as One. It is the immutable truth that transcends the physical world and the forms of existence.
