Tatiana Aya
Tupinambá

Curandera, educator, human being.

I was born in the jungle, but I forgot.
My calling came through suffering, through loss, through the long quiet war with my own shadow.
Ayahuasca found me after many years, when I didn’t even know I was searching.
I learned the traditions of the Ashaninka and the Yawanawá.
Now I share these plants with others, so they too may remember.

Tatiana Aya Tupinambá, in a jaguar-print headdress, looking into the camera

Curandera of Ayahuasca and Truth

Through communion with plants and spirits, Tatiana has honed an ancient art of awakening: song, ceremony and breath in service of transformation. She hosts retreats in the Atlantic Rainforest of Brazil and in many countries around the world.

Lineage and training

Tatiana Aya Tupinambá

Indigenous Tupinambá woman and curandera in the Ashaninka lineage of Peru, and a student of the Yawanawá lineage of Brazil. She leads ayahuasca ceremonies and traditional plant dietas through Curandera retreats, based in the Atlantic rainforest of Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and in many countries around the world.

10yearsof training under Maestro Juan Flores
18+monthsin the jungle, in dieta and ceremony
2lineagesAshaninka of Peru, Yawanawá of Brazil
390+acresof forest reserve in Paraty, Brazil

2012
Began training with Maestro Juan Salazar Flores, master curandero of the Ashaninka lineage, at his center on the banks of Shanay-Timpishka, the sacred Boiling River, in the Peruvian Amazon.
2017
Began studying in the Yawanawá lineage of Brazil. The Yawanawá gave her the ceremonial name Aya, meaning little bird.
2022
Completed ten years of training under Maestro Juan Flores. She traveled to him two to four times every year and spent more than eighteen months in the jungle, including traditional plant dietas of isolation, restricted diet and ceremony.
Today
Leads ceremonies and personal dietas through Curandera retreats, with a main location on a forest reserve of more than 390 acres in Paraty, Brazil, and retreats held in many countries around the world.