The journey starts here   

Born in the Shipibo Paoyhan indigenous community, in the lower Ucayali region, Loreto, near Contamana. He grew up in the same community until he was 16 years old. When he was young, Marco Antonio was “forced” to grow up quickly, he enjoyed playing with other children from the village, going fishing, hunting and was eminently curious about the plants and animals of the Amazon rainforest. Fortunately, most of Marco Antonio's family were shamans from the lower Ucayali, known and prestigious and recognized as the Nahua family of the Paococha indigenous community, so Marco Antonio decided to follow in the footsteps of his ancestors in traditional medicine. From his youth he felt a connection with the Icaros and the ancestral charm of medicine that his uncle Manuel Mahua would share with him on many occasions. According to the visions through ayahuasca, the universe had established Marco Antonio's destiny. When his father died, he took power from the knowledge that his father left him and began to read and study. Marco Antonio felt called to follow the path of the Shaman, so much so that the shaman Manuel Mahua guided him to his ordination as Onanya, a traditional Shipibo doctor, beginning his samá or diet from the age of 11, making a substantial lifelong commitment to heal and help others. The first three months of his first diet (samá) that his teacher, Marco Antonio, opened, he was able to connect in the ceremonies with the powers and properties of the master plant ayahuasca; Marco Antonio had the effect of the medicine where he received messages from his deceased father that he was the one called and chosen to continue the path of medicine with the opening of sacred visions, teachings, icaros and his gifts as a shaman. To date, Marco Antonio has done a diet with approximately fifty different master plants and trees. The most difficult part of his training was dealing with certain emotions, thoughts, feelings and traumas that were difficult to understand and integrate in order to move forward. These situations marked Marco Antonio's life and he now recognizes that when you give your life to serve others you often have to face unexpected spiritual challenges or better said, spiritual opportunities! To take advantage of those opportunities, Marco Antonio committed himself to surrender himself fully and completely to the divine and stays away from negative thoughts and emotions with conviction. "Accepting who you are and how you are in each moment is important to grow and staying in the present moment is what makes the difference" are Marco Antonio's strengths. Marco Antonio considers himself a lifelong student of Shipibo ancestral medicine and is constantly seeking to further deepen his relationship with ayahuasca and other master plants/trees he works with. As a result, his ability to heal continues to evolve, strengthen and therefore offer change in others. His professional career focused on healing those who come to Peru in search of transformation and life change through ayahuasca and currently based in Yarinacocha-Pucallpa, Marco Antonio continues to offer services and benefits of shamanism, from his own Spiritual Center "Dietas de Ayahuasca Healing Center" located in the native community of San Salvador, district of Yarinacocha, 18 kilometers from the city of Pucallpa. I came to understand and value that shamanism is an ancestral science, like "diets", "samá" which would be the discipline of ayahuasca as a master and sacred plant, which is practiced with respect, to be a shaman or master one has to have the diet, and without a diet you are nothing in shamanism. His indigenous brothers, sisters and many people from other corners of the world can testify to his career and work. He has committed himself until the end to share his gifts so that he can change people's lives and emotions. He started about 10 years ago, working in prestigious centers such as "Baris Betsa", "Oka Wasi" and "Soltara", "Espíritu de Anaconda", very well-known centers in the industry of the powerful ayahuasca.