As this Hearts-n-Barks Apprenticeship Program is a one-on-one immersion experience, there are normally only four vacancies per year. So, if you are interested, please plan far ahead.
Explore the craft of making medicinal plant remedies and start an enlightening adventure. First, you will experience the realm of plant consciousness, practicing methods of making energetic connections with the plants. Then you will move on to sustainable harvesting, energy purification, raw material sizing and drying, and medicines preparation using a variety of techniques.
You will discover how to properly store and package your medicines for an extended shelf life. You will also practice holistically choosing potential plant medicines for other people. You have the option of spending the latter part of your apprenticeship in a traditional Shamanic Isolation Diet, carefully monitored by Maestra Diana. Having learned to listen to the plants, you will diet the plant that has reached out to you throughout your process. This is an opportunity unlike anything offered because you work with the plant extensively, connecting, harvesting, sizing, and cooking, before dieting. Plus, the medicine for the diet is made with your own hands every step of the way!
Diana fosters a joyful learning atmosphere, inviting you to replace the word “work”; with “play”; Join us and discover the magic that happens when passion meets purpose! Her approach is holistic and comprehensive, revealing that natural medicines go beyond merely addressing physical and spiritual needs; they cultivate harmony in every aspect of life. You will have the opportunity to engage with not only the renowned “master teacher”; plants promoted in Ayahuasca retreat centers, but also a diverse array of botanicals traditionally cherished by the indigenous culture for their extraordinary healing properties.
The Hearts-n-Barks center is located along the Marañon River in the town of Nauta, just a two-hour commute from the city of Iquitos. Here you will have your private cabin and share a clean, cozy, and well-equipped kitchen with Diana’s assistants. (Please specify in your interview if you have any specific dietary requirements)
The local community is very welcoming and friendly and provides you with ample opportunities to make connections with our Cocama Community experiencing the authentic way of life in our community of Santa Rosa. They are friends and neighbors, not employees.
The location is just a ten-minute riverside walk or a five-minute motorcar ride to the city center in Nauta and five minutes from a small waterfall, perfect for those hot afternoons or refreshing after an all-night medicine cooking session over a woodfire!
In essence, you will be in nature but don’t have to rough it! You will have electricity, Wi/Fi, a shower, a modern kitchen, and be just minutes away from everything a normal city has to offer. preparation using a variety of techniques.
You will discover how to properly store and package your medicines for an extended shelf life. You will also practice holistically choosing potential plant medicines for other people. You have the option of spending the latter part of your apprenticeship in a traditional Shamanic Isolation Diet, carefully monitored by Maestra Diana. Having learned to listen to the plants, you will diet the plant that has reached out to you throughout your process. This is an opportunity unlike anything offered because you work with the plant extensively, connecting, harvesting, sizing, and cooking, before dieting. Plus, the medicine for the diet is made with your own hands every step of the way!
This is an apprenticeship program not a tourist package! It is asked that you have a serious interest in learning about plant medicine through hands-on,
practical work experience,
As this Hearts-n-Barks Apprenticeship Program is a one-on-one immersion experience, there are normally only four vacancies per year. So, if you are interested, please plan far ahead. To apply for a position please write to Diana at the listed email address stating why and when you are interested in participating in this experience, as well as, a little information about yourself. Financial information will then be available. Please plan for a two-month pre-registration and a deposit made at that time to hold your position. The program does not include airfare.