Don Raul, maestro curandero:
Ayahuasca ceremonies and diets in Pucallpa, Peru

Don Raul lives in Villa Verde, km 27 Pucallpa - Peru, and gives Ayahuasca ceremonies and runs medicine plant diets. He has dieted more than100 different jungle plants during his life; his first diet was at the age of 12. He speaks Spanish plus other indigenous languages.

Ayahuasca ceremonies
Don Raul gives Ayahuasca ceremonies in the traditional style. A dose of Ayahuasca medicine is given with prayers and tobacco smoke at about 9pm or 10pm at night, the lights are turned off, and everyone lies down to wait for the effect to start. Once the effect has started, don Raul sings Icaros (medicine songs). These songs come directly from the plant spirits he has with him, according to the needs of the people in the ceremony. The effect of Ayahuasca varies from one ceremony to the next, but often it involves clearing emotional issues, sometimes physically by vomitting into a bucket, or seeing visions of the plant spirits which come to help, or visions of other things, or reaching understandings about life issues and so on. After about 4-5 hours the effect diminishes, and then it is possible to sleep until the morning.

Costs:
Ayahuasca ceremony: $150
12-day diet: $1000
15-day diet: $1200
The prices of the diets include all food during the diet, accomodation in the dieting hut, medicine and ceremonies. Bedding, mosquito net and hammock are provided. The dieting hut is well protected with anti-mosquito mesh. Other types or lengths of diet can be arranged with the Maestro. If you wish to stay longer after the diet, this is possible by paying the day-to-day costs.