April Shipibo Ayahuasca Retreat

I'm putting together a small group of 3 to 6 people to join me in the Peruvian Amazon for a nine day traditional healing 'dieta' with maestro Teobaldo and his extended family in the Noya Rao plant spirit medicine center near Pucallpa for the first two weeks of April 2011.
Contact me at  martinstevens@juno.com  for further details.

Happy New Year!

Grandsons Bruno and Zair

Lourdes and I spent Christmas with our large family in Lima which was a first for me.  Nothing much happened on Christmas Day itself, all of the activity was on Chrstmas eve with a big meal late in the evening followed by singing up-tempo Christmas songs around the tree, opening presents and at the stroke of midnight the whole sky lit up with fireworks.  Christmas with a Latin flair.
On a whim we decided to head north by bus and we spent New Year's visiting Lago Azul near Tarapoto in the extreme western end of the Amazon basin which makes for a combination of mountains and jungle.  The lake itself was beautiful with an ideal tropical climate and not a bug in sight.  We are thinking of buying land there......



Our grandson Zair appearing as a chicken