Sankené Kai

“Sankené” is the sacred Shipibo art of weaving—each pattern a living prayer, a map of harmony. “Kai” is the Hawaiian word for ocean—a body of memory, rhythm, and feminine vastness. Together, they form Sankené Kai: a ceremonial convergence of forest and sea, thread and tide, remembrance and becoming.

This immersion invites you to enter a shared field of medicine—where the vibrational wisdom of Shipibo healers and the deep-rooted spirit of Aloha co-create a space for collective reweaving.

Date: November 6-9 & November 13-16 [2025]

Where: O’ahu

Journey to O'ahu

“Jacon shaman aquinra” “I call deeply the energy to myself in order to help.”

— Shipibo saying

“By listening to the plants, that is healing.”

There is a sacred weave of healing carried by the Shipibo, songs that see, patterns that stitch spirit, and ceremonies that perform precise surgeries of the soul. Their medicine is not metaphor, but a living technology rooted in forest intelligence, ancestral memory, and relational rigor. In this rare convergence, their visions meet the breath of Hawai‘i’s ‘āina, where ocean and lava speak their own frequencies of coherence. This is not wellness, but remembrance. Not escape, but entanglement. To sit in this field is to be rewoven, body, lineage, land. To receive is to reciprocate. To heal is to become a thread.

Meet Your Guides

In this immersion, you will be guided by two masters, both steeped in the ancient and modern traditions of the Shipibo. Together, they will lead you through a transformative sacred and ceremonial journey, including optional workshops and learning of the Shipibo language, cosmovision and stories.

Shipibo cultural guardian
Lila Lopez Sanchez is an Indigenous Shipibo Onanya Maestra from the native community of Roaboya in the Ucayali basin of the Amazon of Peru.
Maestra Lila ‘Caná Jisbe’ in Shipibo, was born into a family lineage of Traditional Healers, including her mother, highly respected and renowned Onanya Maestra Ynes Sanchez.
From a young age, Maestra Lila was initiated into the study of the Plants and Ancestral Healing System through various rigorous Dietas under the guidance of her grandfather, Maestro Jose.
Lila is a living library of knowledge and wisdom from the ‘Warmi’ Plants, and is known for her strong and striking voice through her Icaros, sacred chants filled with love and joy. Lila’s vivacious and grounded energy is infectious, as she imbues an open heart led way to live.
Lila is a Mother of 2 children and a Traditional Midwife, specializing in Female Reproductive Health, Womb Massage, Bone setting and Vaginal Care.

Shipibo cultural guardian
Damian Pacaya is an Indigenous Shipibo Onanya Maestro from the native community of Nuevo Nazareth in the Ucayali basin of the Amazon of Peru.
Maestro Damian is a very devoted, powerful and humble Traditional Medico (Healer). His Life trajectory led him to inherit his Ancestral Lineage through his grandfather and carry on the knowledge passed onto him.
Before Damian committed to his life as a Healer, he was fully dedicated to his career in Agroforestry — offering him a plethora of experience and understanding in working with the Plants.
It wasn’t until his grandfather passed that he sought out his uncle to help Damian heal himself, thus catapulting him into the Path of Curanderismo.
Maestro Damian carries a clear vision for the future, as he works with tremendous dedication, humility and love in honoring the Sacredness of the Healing Work with the Plants. Those who know Damian can attest to his incredibly caring nature and the fountain of Wisdom that he is.
Damian is a Father of 7 children, a master Agriculturalist and a Medico Healer specializing in strong Tree + Plant Remedies as well as Massage.