Maestro Mike

Maestro Mike is a Peruvian Shipibo healer who began learning the ways of Shipibo ancestral medicine from his mother, Onanya Rogelia, when he was a child. For the past 10 years he has been undergoing an in-depth apprenticeship with Onanya Rogelia, and is now a strong curandero in his own right.

Maestro Mike has a particular affinity with the powerful plant Tobacco, as well as an interest in continuing to learn how to process plant remedies – which is traditional to the work of Shipibo women. It is a joy for him to assist Maestra Onanya Rogelia in ceremony and throughout retreats. When he is not joining healing forces with his mother, he is leading ceremonies and offering healing in his remote village on the Ucuayali River.