Macarena Arias
About the Teacher
Why study with them?
Macarena Arias is a Peruvian plant medicine practitioner, artist, SE therapist, expressive arts facilitator, and bridge keeper of the Shipibo-Konibo language. In 2016 she arrived to Ucayali to work with shipino communities with the NGO Alianza Arkana. Around that same time she began learning the shipibo language with professor Pakan Meni and started her own medicine studies with Onanya Manuela Mahua (Jakon Rate). In 2020 during a long term samá, Macarena received inspiration to share her language abilities, create a musical project and continue to develope in Plant Medicine. She began partnering with Pakan Meni, Xawan Rabi and linguistic Brian Best to share the language with the samataibo community. Together they created the Jakon Joi Language Education Initiative to teach the first group modules for beginners. In 2021 she met her partner Wexa Metsa. In 2022 she joined him at Kushi Ayahuasca Retreat Center, later they launched Koshi Joi an advanced icaro immersion module for plant medicine students. Today she continues to share shipibo-konibo language, medicine, and is working in her own art projects.
