Inin Nete Sacred Plant Medicine Healing Center is an indigenous-owned center in Pucallpa, Peru, operating in partnership with a Shipibo healing family whose lineage spans generations. The healing team — Maestra Maricela, Maestro Francisco, and their children, Maestro Gavino, Maestra Karina, and Maestra Melissa — are the owners, not employees.
Groups are limited to 10 participants. The healer-to-participant ratio is 4:10. A healer remains present in the ceremonial space throughout the night following every ceremony.
The center is co-founded and facilitated by Mee Ok Icaro, a writer and plant medicine apprentice who has been working with plant medicine since 2013 and in formal Shipibo dieta since 2016. She is currently undertaking two simultaneous one-year master plant dietas. She has published in the LA Times, the Boston Globe, and Michael Pollan’s Trips Worth Telling, and was featured in the Netflix docuseries Unwell and Gabor Maté’s The Myth of Normal.
Each retreat is held in a three-month container: preparation begins one month before arrival, integration support continues for six weeks after departure.
Offerings include a guided ayahuasca retreat (8 nights) and a master plant dieta (14 nights). The center has particular experience with complex trauma, chronic and autoimmune illness, mental illness, those touched by adoption, and participants who have had difficult experiences with sacred medicines.
All applicants are interviewed prior to acceptance. Not all are accepted.
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Denis
May 19, 2026 at 11:56 pmI attended a retreat at Inin Nete in the summer of 2025. This was the 4th ayahuasca retreat I attended, and my first time at a Shipibo-owned one. This provided a deeper level of healing than I’d achieved anywhere else I’ve been. If you’ve done Western-led retreats and are looking for an authentic indigenous-led retreat that can support and facilitate a deeper experience, Inin Nete is the place for it.
They provided a supportive container and treat each interaction with great care. Beyond the ayahuasca ceremonies, they also want to help heal the root of what brings you there, and offer various plant treatments, saunas, and plant baths. I’ve received Bobinsana and Piñon Colorado saunas, flower baths, and individual plant treatments such as Tanti Rao or Chuchuhuasi. The food was also delicious and dieta-friendly. Receiving icaros from multiple maestros was a profound experience, as each helped with different layers of the work, and they all complemented each other.
I have also been to a retreat with Francisco and Maricela in the past at a different location that wasn’t theirs, and the experience at Inin Nete was much more profound and healing doing it at their place along with their family.
lauren
April 9, 2026 at 8:10 pmI spent 6 weeks at Inin Nete, and it completely transformed my life. This family is the real deal, and they are rooted in love. They took such intuitive care of me, and helped me uproot generations of complex trauma and repression. To be on the land with them, is as sacred as the ceremony itself. It’s a safe space to descend, unravel and reemerge. The experience is truly beyond words, and if you feel the call, this is the place to go.