Sankené Kai
“Sankené” are the sacred songs (icaros) that pattern the seen and unseen worlds. In the sacred Shipibo art of weaving, from the unseen into the seen, each pattern is a living prayer, a map of harmony.
“Kai” is the Hawaiian word for ocean, a mother, a body of memory, a rhythm of 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 [2025] (SOLD OUT)
Where: Hawaiian Kingdom
“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. These visionary song-patterns are vibrational blueprints. The Shipibo medicine is not metaphor, but a living ecology rooted in relational intelligence, ancestral memory, and reciprocal rigor. In this rare convergence, their visions meet the breath of Hawai‘i’s ‘āina, where makai and mauka speak their own frequencies of coherence. To be with us here in this field is to be rewoven, body, lineage, land. To receive is to reciprocate, to heal is to become a thread in the beautiful emergent tapestry of tomorrow.
Meet Your Guides
In this immersion, you will be guided by one master, steeped in the ancient and modern traditions of the Shipibo and one master from the Samoan tradition . They will lead you through a transformative sacred and ceremonial journey, including intercultural dialogue and workshops, learning of the Shipibo icaros and stories of healing.
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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.
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Samoan cultural guardian
A retired Director of the Pacific Business Center Program and associate professor at the University of Hawaii's Shidler College of Business, where he led one of the nation's most award-winning university centers. As a traditional Samoan leader (Papalii) and academic, he advocates for holistic, regenerative systems thinking rooted in balance, harmony, and reciprocal-giving for the wellness of the Moana (Earth Mother).
Application Timeline
Early Bird
If you sign up by September 15, 2025 you will receive the early bird discounted rate of $1500.
General Registration
If you sign up after September 15, 2025, general registration is available at the full rate of $1,800.
Life-line for Applications
The deadline (or lifeline, as we like to call it) for applications is October 21, 2025, end of day Hawai‘i Standard Time (HST).
Reciprocity: Samati Xobo
An Ancestral Shipibo Healing and Education Center run by Onanya Maestra Lila Lopez Sanchez and Onanya Maestro Damian Pacaya. Tucked away in the lush Amazon Rainforest of Iquitos, Peru, Samati Xobo opened its doors with the core intention to welcome worldwide seekers of healing and transformation, as well as devoted students of the Plants. With a diverse approach to offering their Traditional Healing work, Samati Xobo coordinates Master Plant Dietas and Cultural Immersions. Samati Xobo
Some of our activities
Shipibo art markets
Two plant/flower baths before healing ceremonies
Icaro Technology workshop
Two traditional Shipibo healing ceremonies
Mapacho workshops
Intercultural dialogue of "the two seas”
Post-ceremonies expression circle
Pre-immersion and post-immersion integration calls
Learning about Samati Xobo’s vision and intention
Optional: Lomi massage
Optional: Private healings
