Macarena Arias is a Peruvian living in Ucayali and student of the Shipibo-Konibo language since 2016. She began learning with Professor Eli Sánchez and continued through her work with Alianza Arkana and plant medicine with Manuela Mahua (Jakon Rate). She began sharing the Shipibo language in 2020, and is also an artist, SE Practitioner, Expressive Arts Facilitator, and works at Kushi Ayahuasca Retreat Center together with Wexa Metsa.
Wexa Metsa is a Shipibo curandero born in the community of Roaboya, Loreto. He began his apprenticeship with his grandfather at 13 years old and later trained with his great aunt, Maestra Olivia Arevalo. At the age of 18, he began singing in his native language and using his knowledge of medicinal plants following the ancient Shipibo tradition. Today he leads Kushi Ayahuasca Retreat Center together with Macarena Arias