Diomar López Silvano

Shipibo Maestro · Foundation Chairman · Community Mayor

Diomar López Silvano

Diomar López Silvano is a Shipibo maestro, chairman of the Shipibo Ayahuasca & Shamanism Foundation and mayor of Santa Rosa de Dinamarca. He grew up within a family of practitioners, including his father, Maestro Roger López Maynas, and was recognized as a shaman in 2001 after initiation and apprenticeship. His practice connects Ayahuasca, Piñón Blanco, plant dieta and live icaros. He describes rama as a spiritual lineage carried through generations and deepened through disciplined plant learning. His relationships with more than fifty plant species are central to that practice: in his understanding, plant spirits are teachers and members of an extended family, offering knowledge, guidance and protection. In 2011, he served as president of the Shipibo Shinan community initiative. His ceremonial and community work reflects a tradition lived within a family and a specific place.

Hear Diomar speak in his own words about plants as extended family, and the place of dieta, ceremonies and plant baths in his life’s work.