AMPIRI.
Dawn on the river at Ampiri: the sun low between the trees and steam lifting off the water.

AMPIRI.

Traditional Amazonian folk medicine

Shanay-timpishka, Peru

info@ampiri.ninja+51 916 935 459

Welcome to Ampiri

A place of deep healing and transformation, dedicated to the study and teaching of traditional Amazonian folk medicine, on the world’s largest hot thermal river.

Come reconnect with nature and yourself. Take a mud bath, or bathe in the big hot spring river just steps from your dieting hut.

Why come to Ampiri?
For the teachings

Besides the jungle, with its birds, monkeys and wildlife, and the hot mineral springs that wash away aches, pains and anxiety, people come to Ampiri for the teachings.

  1. Small groupsGroups are kept small and personal, so we work with each person individually, on a programme made for their own needs.
  2. More than ayahuascaA deep teaching of Amazonian plant medicine and magic: the use and preparation of many plants, their methods and techniques.
  3. The foundationThe fundamentals of natural medicine and naturalism, a foundation like the root and trunk of a big tree, to build on for the rest of your life.
  4. Anywhere in the worldThe knowledge travels. We encourage you to learn the plants of your own country, and give you the tools to become a vegetalista, or naturalist, anywhere.
A guest in the mud bath at the river.
Steaming spring over rocks, at Ampiri.
Misty forest, at Ampiri.
Man in canoe from above, small, at Ampiri.

Where is Ampiri?

Ampiri is located on a giant thermal river next to the river pachitea, a tributary of the Ucayali, two hours from Pucallpa , Peru. Close to the small village of Honoria , 15 minutes by boat. All international flights to Peru arrive in Lima. From Lima it is necessary to book a local flight to Pucallpa. The Lima-Pucallpa flight takes one hour.

How to get here
The river plain from above, to the horizon.

A river that boils

01

A stream that heats up

27 °Cthe source, a jungle stream99.1 °Cthe hottest spring measured 100 °C boils

The river starts as an ordinary jungle stream and heats up as it crosses fault zones, to just under boiling at its hottest spring.

Andrés Ruzo and the Boiling River Project, via Wikipedia

02

Not a volcano

rainthe earth's own heat, deep downthe river

Rain sinks through deep faults, is warmed by the earth's normal rise in heat with depth, and comes back up into the river.

Wikipedia, Shanay-timpishka

03

The heat shapes the forest

a cooler plot1 °C warmer −11%tree species

Across 70 plots along the river, the forest holds about 11% fewer tree species for every 1 °C rise in mean yearly temperature.

Fortier et al., Global Change Biology, 2024

04

Where the water goes

  1. The Boiling River
  2. the Pachitea
  3. the Ucayali
  4. the Amazon

Local healers say the hot water is the work of Yacumama, the Mother of the Waters, a giant serpent spirit.

Wikipedia; Tierras Vivas

Now that you’ve found us, now that you’ve arrived, what are you looking for?

  1. 01I want to diet with plantsPlants
  2. 02I want to know who is part of AmpiriThe curanderos
  3. 03Where do I begin? I have no experienceOur retreats
  4. 04I’m interested in ayahuascaAyahuasca
  5. 05I’d like to know more about the dietPlant diets
  6. 06When can I come?Bookings
Natural MedicineGabriel's 11 talks: plant dieting, ayahuasca, healingWatch the series
Sunrise over forest, at Ampiri.
Aerial forest, at Ampiri.
Sloth in tree, at Ampiri.

Traditional Amazonian folk medicineShanay-timpishka, Peru

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info@ampiri.ninja+51 916 935 459