MAESTRO SANTIAGO ENRRIQUE 

Maestro Enrique is the son of a powerful Amazonian healer and has continued his father’s sacred lineage at Santuario Huishtin, a place devoted to authentic plant-medicine healing in the Peruvian Amazon.

For centuries, Indigenous Peruvians have passed down the story of The Boiling River deep within the rainforest. While largely unknown to the modern world, this living natural phenomenon holds profound spiritual significance. Santuario Huishtin stands as a rare destination for those seeking a genuine and uncompromised experience with Amazonian plant medicine, rooted in the ancient tradition of vegetalismo.

Only here is Ayahuasca prepared according to a time-honoured ancestral recipe, using waters drawn from the sacred Boiling River itself. Under the guidance of Maestro Enrique, participants are invited into a ceremonial journey where subtle yet powerful transformations unfold. By the end of the experience, many recognise the quiet but profound ways the spirit of Ayahuasca, La Madrecita, has touched and reshaped them.

Ayahuasca cannot be understood through words alone. Her wisdom is not intellectual but experiential. The shaman’s role is not to explain, but to transmit energy and healing through presence, intention, and sacred song. Through his icaros, Maestro Enrique calls upon the spirits of the plants, the elements, and the unseen realms, allowing healing to move through vibration rather than language.

In the Amazon, the word “shaman” is rarely used. Instead, healers refer to themselves as vegetalistas or curanderos — those who work directly with the intelligence of plants. Ayahuasca is one among many sacred plants they commune with. Through sustained relationship with these plants, a vegetalista acquires mariri, the spiritual force and power carried by the medicines. This force allows the healer to perceive, protect, and transmit energetic healing to others.

The transfer of this wisdom is both ancestral and experiential. Maestro Enrique carries this lineage through his bloodline — his father and grandfather were both vegetalista-curanderos. Though he never consciously sought this path, the knowledge lived within him. When he began working with the plants, the understanding came naturally, guided by sensitivity, humility, and deep reverence.

To drink Ayahuasca is not merely to ingest a substance. It is to receive the spirit of the plant. Through this communion, spiritual growth is accelerated. One enters the worlds of plant spirits, animal allies, and elemental forces — Earth, Water, Fire, and Air. These realms reveal themselves not as concepts, but as lived realities.

Ceremony often invites participants to face what could be called their inner shadows or unresolved energies. This process unfolds within a sacred communal space, where masks fall away and authenticity emerges. Cleansing, purging, and emotional release are not only accepted, but honoured. In this shared vulnerability, deep bonds are formed and true healing occurs.

The jungle itself becomes an orchestra — the subtle sounds of the forest blending with the icaros, creating a living symphony that guides the journey. Gratitude flows naturally: gratitude to the plants, to Ayahuasca, and to Mother Earth.

While there are many paths to spiritual insight — meditation, prayer, devotion — working with plant medicine offers an accelerated curriculum. What might take years through other practices can sometimes be accessed within a single ceremony. The plants move swiftly, yet with profound intelligence and grace.

Many describe visions of becoming part of the living forest — feeling like a tree with roots and branches, sensing animals and birds as teachers, seeing veins transform into vines pulsing with life. This is the blessing Ayahuasca transmits: a remembrance of our connection to all living things, and an initiation into continuous growth and awakening.