Rogelio Reátegui Canayo

"Don Rogelio was born in native comminity of Paoyahn to his father Inocencio Reátegui Serafim and his mother Isabel Canayo Sanacino. His father and grandfather were also a healers. His family moved to Masisea and he started his diet at the age eleven; Don Rogelio grew up hearing his father and uncle sing Icaros, the healing songs, and by the time he turned twenty five, he has dieted over a hundred plants. For the first seven years his preparation was purely with so called plantas del amor (love plants) or Nuirao in Shipibo. There are over ninety love plants, when their medicine penetrates well into the body it is used to attract something desirable.

This way in the beginning Don Rogelio was dieting in order to be successful in fishing and hunting animals, tasks which are crucial for survival deep in the rainforest. Other love plants have properties to cleanse the mind, heal traumas, release sadness, agitation, anxiety, and start generating positive qualities.The spirits of the plants reveal themselves and penetrate deeper and deeper into the body as the dieta progresses. Dieta can start from 7 days and up to 90 days do the full potential of the plant to penetrate and give it's power to be used for healing oneself and others.

Each plant has it's specific use an purpose, depending on personal circumstances the best suitable plant is recommended for the dieta. At the age of twenty-five, Rogelio started participating in ceremonies with other teachers and one day during a powerful Ayahuasca ceremony he was feeling the force of the medicine for 48 hours straight and that's when the spirits of the plants that he dieted so far revealed the secrets of how to work with them for healing and he discovered the strength of all the plants that were dieted. The plants also taught him how to help people with addictions to drugs like alcohol, marijuana and cocaine. Rogelio dieted with the master trees, palos, including chiric sanango, shihuahuaco, lupuna blanca and ajosquiro. Plant spirits are the true teachers and they are the ones working through the healer and manifest in form of songs that through intonation reach the heart of the person who is feeling bad and clear the underlying energy that is causing it."

(Retreat Guru https://retreat.guru/teachers/6420-29/rogelio-reategui-canayo)

I have met Don Rogelio through Dominic Fagan while accompanying a group of Belgium friends who came to experience medicine on Ayahuasca tour that was supposed to see them drinking with different maestros each night. Don Rogelio's center, humble as it is, turned out to be most conductive place for medicine work and the group not only stayed there several days in a row but also formed a bond with Don Rogelio with a promise of many future returns.

Don Rogelio is a rare find in my books. I had instant connection and confidence in him for the simple fact that he is a genuine man, open and direct and much wizened by the medicine work and master plants dietas which he undertook since he was but a boy. Maturity of the person doesn't come from the physical age of his body but from the lived experience and for this reason Don Rogelio has a great deal to offer.

Having worked with a number of maestros curanderos including Benjamin and Guilberto Mahua of Paoyahn, Enrique Paredes of Santuario Huishtin, Cesar Soimetsa and Maynas family of Rao Kano Xobo, as well Rider Arevalo of Moyano, to name a few, I can highly recommend Don Rogelio and his center Niwe Neti outside of San Francisco both for healing dietas and Ayahuasca experience.

The center is clean, situated in a country side which means no noise pollution and deeper immersion into the medicine space. One feels happy to be there, one feels harmony of spirit manifested in physical reality. Because Don Rogelio is not heavily promoted or well known, you are guaranteed to receive his undivided attention which large centers often lack. It is this personal approach and high degree of human compassion and interest that makes one's experience a profound one, with big transformational potential both in healing and learning.

Don Rogelio's expert healing work is to be experienced in person. Perhaps it will be suffice to say that spirits do all the healing for him and his task is to facilitate this process - this is what being a grand maestro means. Fifty years in medicine work is a fare bit of experience and if you are looking for extraordinary curandero that is interested in seeing you do well rather in just getting your money, don't miss this opportunity to meet Don Rogelio. He welcomed me and my partner wholeheartedly, aligned our dietas in only two ceremonies and taught us a great deal in very short time which not many curanderos will do. I can testify that once in his care, you become an instant member of the family, often even before you arrive to his place physically. It doesn't get better than that!