About Tania
Shipibo name: Neten Yaca, which means Bright World
Tania comes from a remote Shipibo village of Roaboya on Ucayali river. She has been working with medicines for her whole life, and comes from a lineage of traditional healers. She has thirteen years of experience working with ayahuasca. Her main Maestro was her grandfather Jose Lopez, who was the community healer at the time. Later, her uncle Americo Lopez and his partner Olga Urquia became her teachers, as well as her cousin Gabriel Lopez. Thanks to all of them, we are now a strong family group of healers, she says. Her favorite plants are marosa, piƱon colorado, y shiwahuaco.