Hayulima Family - Meet Our Shamans

(Meet the guides for your Ayahuasca Retreat)

Man wearing a hat and vest sitting next to a dog in a mountainous jungle landscape.

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.

Woman wearing a brown hat and long beaded earrings, standing outdoors with a blurred forested mountain backdrop.

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.  

Woman sitting on the ground next to a small makeshift shrine with fruit and a bottle in a garden.

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.