Doriane
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Based in Peru since 2005, Doriane is French by origin. Trained as an anthropologist, she lived for several years in the Amazonian region of Pucallpa, within the Shipibo-Konibo Indigenous community of San Francisco de Yarinacocha, where she conducted doctoral research on the commercialization of ayahuasca shamanism. This research led to the publication of an academic book, Korikiati. Turismo chamánico y capitalismo entre los Shipibo-Konibo de San Francisco (Amazonía peruana), published by IFEA and Abya-Yala.
It was in this village that she met an Indigenous shaman, Filder Agustín, who became her husband and the father of her three children. He passed away in 2020.
Having been familiar with ayahuasca shamanic rituals for many years, Doriane describes receiving, in 2022, what she experienced as a calling from the spirit of ayahuasca. At that time, while living with her children in the Cusco region, she felt called to understand that she too could learn to heal through this path, should she choose to do so. In 2023, she returned to live in the Shipibo village and began a formal shamanic apprenticeship under the guidance of her husband’s uncle. Over an eight-month period, she undertook several traditional plant dietas with him.
In early 2024, she met a mestizo shaman of Asháninka origin (another Indigenous group) in the town of Yarinacocha, who taught her how to conduct her dietas independently. In Amazonian shamanism, the dietas themselves constitute the core of the apprenticeship. Initially, one undertakes a dieta for personal healing; gradually, the plants transmit shamanic knowledge and abilities. Doriane has since accumulated numerous dietas in order to deepen her understanding of, and relationship with, the various master plants—shrubs and large Amazonian trees traditionally used in the region—whose spirits become her allies during healing work, both in meditation and in ayahuasca ceremonies.
For the past three years, Doriane has practiced long dietas lasting on average three to five months. She often repeats a dieta with the same plant to gain different perspectives. When one dieta ends, she typically begins another with a different plant after a period of about ten days.
These dietas are understood to build strong energetic protections within her, allowing her to work with the ailments and illnesses of ceremony participants without being affected herself. They also provide the connections needed to sense and perceive the issues to be addressed in those she works with, and to be guided in how to approach each case.
Doriane is now based in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, in the village of Taray near Pisaq, approximately forty minutes from Cusco. She works from her home, where she receives those undertaking dietas and conducts ayahuasca ceremonies. She also has a private space outside her home where she welcomes dietants as well.
It was in this village that she met an Indigenous shaman, Filder Agustín, who became her husband and the father of her three children. He passed away in 2020.
Having been familiar with ayahuasca shamanic rituals for many years, Doriane describes receiving, in 2022, what she experienced as a calling from the spirit of ayahuasca. At that time, while living with her children in the Cusco region, she felt called to understand that she too could learn to heal through this path, should she choose to do so. In 2023, she returned to live in the Shipibo village and began a formal shamanic apprenticeship under the guidance of her husband’s uncle. Over an eight-month period, she undertook several traditional plant dietas with him.
In early 2024, she met a mestizo shaman of Asháninka origin (another Indigenous group) in the town of Yarinacocha, who taught her how to conduct her dietas independently. In Amazonian shamanism, the dietas themselves constitute the core of the apprenticeship. Initially, one undertakes a dieta for personal healing; gradually, the plants transmit shamanic knowledge and abilities. Doriane has since accumulated numerous dietas in order to deepen her understanding of, and relationship with, the various master plants—shrubs and large Amazonian trees traditionally used in the region—whose spirits become her allies during healing work, both in meditation and in ayahuasca ceremonies.
For the past three years, Doriane has practiced long dietas lasting on average three to five months. She often repeats a dieta with the same plant to gain different perspectives. When one dieta ends, she typically begins another with a different plant after a period of about ten days.
These dietas are understood to build strong energetic protections within her, allowing her to work with the ailments and illnesses of ceremony participants without being affected herself. They also provide the connections needed to sense and perceive the issues to be addressed in those she works with, and to be guided in how to approach each case.
Doriane is now based in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, in the village of Taray near Pisaq, approximately forty minutes from Cusco. She works from her home, where she receives those undertaking dietas and conducts ayahuasca ceremonies. She also has a private space outside her home where she welcomes dietants as well.
