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The ikaros produced by healers and members of Takiwasi’s therapeutic team are for sale through our website where you can also have access to a preview of each of the ikaros contained in each album.

2024 Edition

With this list of ikaros we wish to celebrate 30 years of work at Takiwasi of our director Jaime Torres. This is an approximate sequence that Jaime uses in the ayahuasca ceremonies that he leads. There is also an ikaro sung by Veronika Kavenská, psychologist, and another sung by Edgardo Tuanama, healer.

Tribute to Dr. Rosa Giove

As a tribute to her memory, we propose a production of ikaros by Dr. Rosa Giove recorded during an Ayahuasca ceremony held in Takiwasi in 2020. This album extraordinarily includes Rosa's last ikaro that appeared in dreams and visions to several people with whom a mysterious bond was established.

Healing Ikaros recorded live

Album of ikaros based on the live recording during an ayahuasca ceremony held at Takiwasi in 2020. These healing songs follow the rhythm and intensity of the ceremony. It includes an unreleased ikaro sung during ritual plant baths.

Special Edition 1992 - 2022

A special edition created to celebrate the 30 years of the Takiwasi Center by bringing together some of the favorite ikaros of each one of our healers.

Edgardo Tuanama, native of the quechua-lamista indigenous community of Santa Cruz, district of San José de Sisa, Department of San Martin. Healer at the Takiwasi Center. He received a healer's inheritance from his great-grandfather, he then consolidated it in the community of Chazuta and exercised it since 2010 in the Takiwasi Center.

Fabienne Bâcle, French psychotherapist, graduated in specialized education. Since 2003 she works at Takiwasi, accompanying in-treatment patients and personal evolution seminars. During this time, she has been specializing in the management of traditional Amazonian medicine.

Rosa Giove, surgeon, co-founder of the Takiwasi Center and author of some of the most famous and recognized ayahuasca ikaros. She is also the author several publications, including the report that led to the declaration of Ayahuasca as Cultural Heritage of the Peruvian Nation.

Jaime Torres, psychologist graduated from the San Martín de Porres University (Lima). He splits his time between his role as Director of the Takiwasi Center and providing psychotherapeutic and medicinal plant care to the center's in-treatment patients that struggle with substance abuse.

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Jacques Mabit, Medical Doctor. His interest in Peruvian traditional medicine systems and practices was awaken during a medical mission, he then went through many years of traditional medical learning in different regions of the Peruvian Amazon. He is the co-founder and Executive President of the Takiwasi Center.

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Jacques Mabit, Medical Doctor. His interest in Peruvian traditional medicine systems and practices was awaken during a medical mission; he then went through many years of traditional medical learning in different regions of the Peruvian Amazon. He is the co-founder and Executive President of the Takiwasi Center.

This is the first compilation of ikaros from the Takiwasi Center, made in 2008 with the healing songs transmitted to Jacques Mabit and Rosa Giove by some master healers such as Aquilino Chujandama and Solón Tello.

Ikaros recorded during an ayahuasca session in 2009. This album includes chants received by Jacques Mabit and Rosa Giove during their apprenticeship in traditional Amazonian medicine.

In the jungle of Peru we call "ikaro" the song or melody used by healers during ritual work. The ikaros are essential elements of Traditional Amazonian Medicine and constitute a source of cultural resistance by preserving both linguistic elements and knowledge related to Amazonian world-view and medicinal resources. They are the essential means of transmitting wisdom and healing practices. This concept led us to call our center "Takiwasi" that in Quechua means "the house that sings" or "the house of song", to honor this tradition.