Hayulima Family - Meet Our Shamans
(Meet the guides for your Ayahuasca Retreat in Ecuador)
Arutam Panki
(México)
Arutams´s devotion to medicinal plants began at a young age. Since then he has been able to work with many elders and masters of different ancient traditions.
He is initiated into the practices and rituals of the Red Path such as the Sweatlodge, Vision Quest, Sun dance, Star dance, limpias and various kinds of ceremonies, using power plants as Ayahuasca, San Pedro in Ecaudor, Mexico and around teh world.
He and his family are the custodians of Hayulima Spirit Sanctuary.
Shiram Ucucuy
(Cuba / Ecuador)
Shiram is a carrier of ancestral medicine. She has been working with native rituals and power plants for 10 years. She is a conductor of temazcals and a co-founder of the group Mujeres de Luna (www.mujeresdeluna.org).
Along her path, she has worked with the feminine energy and the obsidian mirror. She accompanies the work of some of the Andean and Amazonian elders.
Matías Lizama
(Chile)
Matías Lizama is a Chilean man whose path has been guided by a journey of ancestral knowledge for over a decade. His life has moved in rhythm with ancient celebrations, including dancing in the San Juan festivities of indigenous communities in northern Ecuador.
For Matías, music is more than sound—it is a path to the spirit, expressed through the many instruments he plays, inviting the heart to remember and reconnect. His journey is ultimately offered to love, peace, and art, guiding every step of his creative and spiritual path.
Fernanda Flores
(Ecuador)
Fernanda is mother and actress, focused on movement, bodywork, and creativity as forms of expression. Her path integrates art as a manifestation of life and ancestral knowledge, cultivating a deep and sensitive understanding of human processes.
She also offers Thai massage therapy, understanding the body as a key space for transformation and creative exploration understanding the body as a key space for care and transformation.
Diana Oviedo
(Ecuador)
Chocolatier. Mother. Vision quester. Sun dancer, and singer. Diana carries the altars that she received the blessings from the ancestors of the “Camino Rojo”such as the ceremonies of Two Tobaccos and Temazcals. She also takes care of the food and nourishment diet of all the people that come to drink medicine at Hayulima.
Diana carries and holds her prayers from her land Killawasi, located in Quito. There she lives with her two children and shares medicine with her community.
A passionate musician, Diana’s sacred tool is singing and sharing the vibration of her beautiful voice and instruments.