Naysha Silva

Mother, Healer, Writer, Lawyer & Traveler
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Hello, my name is Naysha. I’m from the Peruvian Amazon — Tarapoto — and I want to welcome you to my blog.

Since 2014 I’ve been traveling through Europe, holding shamanic ceremonies and writing about my life on my personal Facebook page. Now I feel it’s time to bring all of that writing into one place, so more people can find it.

I’m honored by the messages people have sent me since I started writing. I write about my own experience, and about what has been taught to me — knowledge is meant to be shared, and we grow faster when we share it. I hope you enjoy reading, and please don’t hesitate to write to me. My life hasn’t been easy, and I know that sometimes all we need is someone to listen — to know that we still matter to someone.

For the past three years I’ve been traveling the world sharing what I learned during my shamanic training in the Peruvian Amazon. If you’d like to know more about that side of my work, take a look at my articles and my website.

What I Offer

• Ayahuasca Ceremonies
• Sacred Plant Retreats
• Integration After Ceremonies
• Master Plant Dietas
• Kambo and Plant Purges
• Flower Baths
• Ceremony Preparation
• Tarot Readings

My Shamanic Training

I was born in Tarapoto, Peru, and began this path at 22, right after finishing my law degree and working a year for the Peruvian government. It was during that year that I understood something that has stayed with me since: for society to change, the individual has to change first — and that change starts from within.

I spent a year and a half dieting in the shamanic tradition, then two more years working as an assistant to my teachers. During that time I also learned about San Pedro, kambo, and other healing practices — though the training never really ends.

Shamanic diets are spiritual retreats done in isolation, under specific conditions and rules. My teachers were two indigenous healers — a Witoto man named Luis, and his wife, a Yahuar woman. Training as a shaman isn’t a conversation between teacher and student in the way people might expect. Most of what I learned came from observation, and from what I experienced during ceremony. When I felt I understood something, I would bring it to my teacher to check whether I’d understood it correctly.

What you understand from the inside never leaves you. When you can hold that understanding and explain it in your own words, that’s when you’ve truly learned something. Everything I share in my Facebook group, Ayahuasca and Shamanism, comes from what I learned during my training — and it was confirmed by my teachers.

Ayahuasca and Shamanism

Somewhere along the way, I also understood that becoming a teacher is really just what happens when you finally understand something all the way through. Waking up the teacher inside takes time. The first part of a shaman’s training is self-exploration — and, in a way, self-destruction. We go through many small deaths in that process, and then we’re reborn. We clear our past, our family’s history, the weight carried from before.

Only after that are you ready to help others heal — because you’ve done the work in yourself first. Because you’ve faced pain, and learned love, compassion, and humility the hard way. That’s what makes it possible to help.

Everyone wants to become a shaman. Few are ready for what it actually takes.

With love and gratitude,
Naysha Silva