Hayulima Family
(Meet the guides for your Ayahuasca Retreat in Ecuador)
Salvador VillaLobos
Arutam Panki
(México)
Salvador´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)
Carrier of the water drum, Matías has been working with ancestral medicine for 10 years, along with the elders of the ecuatorial highlands. He is a dancer of the San Juan celebration in the indigenous communities of Northern Ecuador.
He has a close relationship with the medicine of San Pedro, planting, harvesting and preparing it in the traditional way to be used for healing. He considers music as a path to arrive to the spirit and likes to play various musical instruments during the rituals.
Fernanda Flores
(Ecuador)
Fernanda is a mother and a professional actress with a specialization in movement theater. She is interested in creating art as a vital force.
She has been working with power plants for about 10 years in different traditional Andean ceremonies and the Red Path as well. She also practices the art of Thai Massage therapy.
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.