The Path to Becoming a Curandero.
Jungle University and learning vs. healing diets.
One Word: Diets.
Master Plant Diets are the primary method through which the healer/curandero-in-training learns their craft.
The jungle is the university, the ceremony is the classroom, the plants are the teachers, and the diets are the curriculum.
But this is more than a line of work. It is an entire Way of Being.
The master plants teach the apprentice not only how to serve medicine, but also how to be medicine men and women.
A full mind/body/spirit transformation is required to graduate from this degree, not a memorization of skills and techniques.
This type of diet is called a learning diet.
Healing Diets.
The Marosa experience we are offering in December is a healing diet.
The purpose of a healing diet is to (you guessed it!) heal! Healing occurs in a number of ways. The plant helps the dieter remove obstacles that are blocking them from being their true selves and living the life they are called to live.
Resolving core wounding and emotional trauma.
Cultivating profound levels of courage and self-respect.
Unlocking new levels of wisdom, capability, and love.
The line separating a ‘learning’ or ‘healing’ diet is not always that clear, as the two often come together. Most diets, in my opinion, are both. But each diet usually has a stronger leaning toward one of them.
Last year, I completed a 3-month diet with Rose (yes, like the one in your garden…).
It was one of the hardest and most rewarding things I’ve ever done. I loved it and would do it again in an instant. But that’s a story for another time.
Why do diets have to be longer than retreats?
You know that you need to spend a significant period of time with someone to really get to know them. And you have to stay in a new place for a few months to get a real feel for it.
It’s a similar story with master plant diets, but deeper.
You need extended time to go deep in your communion with the spirit of the plant you are dieting. Because that’s what the diet is all about…
Communion.
It’s a relationship.
As the relationship develops and you become more familiar with each other, you open to deeper levels of teaching and healing from the plant.
You know how they say you become a combination of the 5 people you spend most of your time around? The Shipibo think of plants as people. When you diet a plant, that plant becomes the ONE person you spend ALL your time with.
It becomes part of who you are. You merge with its spirit.
In the Shipibo tradition, the plants teach the healers how to sing their icaros. (This is no small feat, as singing is the primary tool they use to work with energies and heal.)
They teach not through words, but through energy, vibration, intuition, and dreams.
I had my doubts until I experienced it myself.
I had multiple experiences of a plant completely changing my voice while I was singing. You know it’s the plant because the energy of the plant that you become so accustomed to while dieting it is the exact energy that the vibration of your voice has now aligned with. My voice has never been the same since!
This is how the curanderos in the Shipibo lineage have learned for millennia. Yes, it is necessary to learn from and apprentice under an experienced maestro.
But the primary teachers are the plants.
They will teach you just about everything you need to know. They will teach you how to work with energy. They will open your visions. And most importantly, they will teach you how to be yourself.
They teach you from the inside out.
They install lessons in your soul that you might forget in your head, but you remember in your bones.
When the time comes to apply them, the program you downloaded during your diet guides you and changes how you show up in your life. This, in my opinion, is how real change occurs.
“This was, without a doubt, one of the most pivotal experiences of my life. A year ago, my anxiety was through the roof—something I had battled for over 20 years. Since Apotheosis, my anxiety has decreased by at least 95%.
That one transformative week in the Mayan jungle profoundly changed how I relate to negative emotions. Yes, I still have low moments and bad days, but I now see a clear path forward every time. I’ll be forever grateful for my time in the jungle with all of you.”
— Willis Polk, American Hip-Hop Artist
For our master plant healing diet, we’re working with Marosa.
Marosa is exceptional and truly unmatched at:
Understanding and resolving deep emotional trauma.
Correcting heart/mind imbalance and deepening spiritual connection.
Cultivating emotional mastery and bringing positive emotions to the forefront of your life.
Solidifying an unshakeable foundation of confidence, self-love, and self-respect.
If you are ready to experience the beautiful, heart-opening, self-loving wisdom of one of the most comprehensive master plants I know, I invite you to join us.
Much love to you, my friend,
Nic & The Apotheosis Team.