The master plant dieta is not a more advanced version of an ayahuasca retreat. It is a different animal entirely.

The framework we work with at Inin Nete is initiatory and cosmological. You become an initiate by being woven into an unbroken lineage.

In Shipibo, the diet is called a sama, and the dieter a samati. A maestro orchestrates a direct connection between the samati and a master plant spirit, fusing trans-species consciousness and energetic bodies. You are going in to become someone who has a direct, living, permanent relationship with a non-human intelligence — a plant spirit who will teach you and guide you for the rest of your life.

The master plant dieta is the central focus of our work at Inin Nete and in the Shipibo tradition. The healers are bridges between worlds, trained through decades of disciplined intimacy with the spirits of the plants. With a 2-4 healers and a maximum of ten participants per retreat, you receive personalized treatments, and are held inside a caring, protected container.

Ayahuasca is a spiritual hospital. Master plants are the surgeons and specialists who come into the hospital to perform specialized care and customized, deeper healing.

Ayahuasca is top down — cosmic insights arrive in a language that’s hard to miss. The dieta is bottom up — daily practice, prayer, dreams, integrity.

The plant spirit world is a library, and without a master plant dieta, you can’t check out any books. The dieta is your library card.

You don’t choose the plant. The plant chooses you. The maestros are the messengers and carriers.

In your first ceremony, the priority is diagnostic. During that ceremony or in a dream after, the healers will receive your plant — the one suited to your particular healing, your history, your constitution, the work that’s actually yours to do.

Sometimes people read a small list of human-made descriptions of the plants that are popular and sell well. The maestros know thousands in the entire pharmacy.

To protect your relationship with your plant, you maintain as much energetic solitude as possible — limited contact, silence, fasting, strict protocol. Without silence, you cannot hear the plant. Dreams become the primary channel. Every sleep cycle is a ceremony.

The plants reward discipline because that is what’s necessary for a clean connection. If you fix your phone line, they’ll give you a call.

You arrive home with a new roommate, partner, and guide. You don’t integrate this other being, just like you don’t integrate a new bride after the wedding. You cohabitate.

That’s the reward of this process. You will always have this being with you. You will have access to information that other humans don’t have. You will be able to see, hear, sense, and know things that others can’t.

The plants will always meet you halfway.

This is not a beginner’s path. If you have sat in ayahuasca ceremonies before and feel called to go deeper — not for stronger visions but for a living relationship — this work may be for you.

Maricela says: the plants want your presence, not your perfection.

We invite you to reach out to begin a conversation.