Philippe & Marie
Philippe
Philippe became interested in and practised shamanism in the 2000s, learning about different cultures. He taught himself to interact with the energies around him, especially through singing and music. He taught himself to play the didgeridoo, Mongolian diphonic singing, drum and Indian flute.
In 2010, he discovered ayahuasca, the Shipibo Konibo culture and their knowledge of medicinal plants.
Philippe was literally seduced by this medicinal energy and finally discovered what he had been looking for for years: a way to heal his spirit, his being, which had been suffering since his youth.
He travelled to Peru for 4 months, including 1 month at a centre near Iquitos.
During this first diet he experienced a great rebirth and rediscovered a taste for life; it came back to life in him, after so many years of waiting it finally made sense. He learnt a lot about his past life and why he felt different.
The plants were clearly giving him the message they wanted to teach him.
In the months following his return to France, everything fell into place for him to return to Peru to follow a one-year training diet in strict isolation according to the Shipibo Konibo culture.
Philippe then worked at the centre for several years on various trips, running the office and advising travellers on their treatments.
Marie
As for Marie, she went to Peru in 2010 to learn visionary painting and to heal herself with ayahuasca. Many synchronicities led her to make this journey. She lived in Pucallpa for 3 years, taking painting classes and following a series of healing diets.
She received great revelations from the medicine about her destiny, her gifts and her purpose in life, as well as the path she needed to follow to regain her purity. The plant spirits called her to follow their teachings and it was a long process that followed.
Philippe et Marie
They met at ceremonies organised by Philippe, where Marie had come to present her visionary paintings, and medicine brought them together.
In 2015, with their first child, they decided to move to Peru for a long period of nutrition and care.
In 2017, they realised that the education they were receiving was not what they wanted, and the care they were receiving was not complete.
Medicine showed them that their path was no longer in that centre, so they decided to leave the Maestro.
Their destiny soon led them to Isabel, who immediately took them under her wing. They were in a very bad state, their health and that of their family had been seriously damaged.
Isabel treated them with a variety of plants they had never heard of before.
The power of her treatments, her singing, her devotion to medicine and to her patients touched Marie and Philippe deeply and they decided without hesitation to follow her teachings.
In 2020, Isabel celebrated their spiritual marriage in a traditional ceremony and invited them to join forces to revive her Mundo Yacuruna centre, which was falling into disrepair.
Gradually, new houses, a new kitchen and finally, in 2022, a new maloca were inaugurated.
Mundo Yacuruna is now for sale.
In 2024, Isabel and Philippe had the opportunity to buy a piece of land in the Allpahuayo-Mishana Reserve near Iquitos and decided to build a new centre called "Casa Chakoni Amazonian Centre for Healing and Ancestral Medicine" in honour of the hidden spirits of the Chaikonis.
The centre is still under construction, but can already accommodate a few guests.
Philippe and Marie, who now have two children, will have spent more than 6 years in Peru working with medicine, mostly on a diet, accompanying passengers during their treatments, sharing their experiences, trials and tribulations. They will be happy to help you during your stay at Casa Chaikoni.
