Kantay Illariy
A Collaborative Plant Medicine Project in the Peruvian Amazon
10-Day Plant Medicine Retreat Jan 30 – Feb 8, 2027
Plant medicine has a way of bringing us into contact with what is most intimate and true—our grief and love, our wounds and longing, our relationship with life, death and birth, the Earth and the Divine. It reaches the deepest places within us, opening a depth of healing, remembrance and transformation that can profoundly change the course of our lives.
the heart of the work
Kantay Illariy is born from a remembrance that life is sacred.
Our work with Ayahuasca, Huachuma and the plants belongs within a greater path of relationship—with the Earth, with one another, with the seen and unseen worlds, and ultimately with the Divine.
We know the plants as living sacred beings, teachers and healers, and place ourselves in service to what they are here to bring. Through ceremony, dieta, prayer, song, silence and loving accompaniment, we aim to create a space for healing, remembrance and profound transformation.
At the heart of our work is a commitment to serve the kind of healing that changes the way we live—making us more able to love, to care, to live truthfully, and to remember our place within the sacred web of life.
Medicine Guides
Kantay Illariy is a collaboration of experienced medicine guides and elders from different paths of healing, knowledge and relationship with the sacred, brought together to serve the medicine and the deeper work of healing, remembrance and awakening.
MADHAVA PRIYA
Healer · Medicine Guide
Madhava is a healer and medicine guide whose work is rooted in fifteen years of relationship with Ayahuasca and the plant world, spiritual practice, intuitive listening and the healing intelligence of the heart. Shaped by years of ceremony, dieta, kambo, prayer and accompanying people through profound processes of transformation, her work is carried by tenderness, presence and a deep trust in the intelligence of the medicine.
Psychologist · Medicine Guide · Musician & Spiritual Teacher
KANTAY
Kantay brings decades of spiritual practice and relationship with the medicine together with psychology, healing knowledge, energetic protection, sacred music and Vedic wisdom. His presence brings grounding, strength, clarity and a deep sense of spiritual meaning to the work.
MAESTRA XAMAN VIRI
Shipibo Elder · Plant Medicine Teacher
Maestra Xaman Viri was born into a long lineage of Shipibo healers and grew up with the sacred plants and traditional medicine. She is the daughter of the renowned Shipibo elder and meraya healer Olivia Arévalo Lomas, and granddaughter of Maestro Aurelio.
Known for her deep knowledge of dieta, traditional plant medicine and the healing arts of her people, she accompanies Kantay Illariy with a rare gentleness and humility, and with the quiet, profound wisdom of a life wholly dedicated to the medicine.
MAESTRO PAMELITO
Medicine Guide · Tabaquero
Pamelito’s path with the medicine has been shaped by many years of learning from the sacred plants, a close relationship with tobacco, and a natural devotion to God. He brings warmth, deep perception and quiet strength to the work, contributing to a loving space where we can heal, cry, laugh, be ourselves, and support one another as family.
We’re opening our first retreat in the Peruvian rainforest · Jan 30 – Feb 8, 2027
If you feel called to join us, or would like to learn more, you are warmly welcome to reach out.
contact@kantayillariy.com
*Kantay Illariy means Song of Dawn, or Singing Dawn, in Quechua—speaking of a new dawn being sung into being, a rebirth and awakening into sacred remembrance.