Asencia Sanchez Canayo is a healer specialized in Ayahuasca with more than fifty years of experience in ancestral healing techniques. She grew up within the ethnic group Shipibo-Conibo in the Amazon jungle of Ucayali, Peru, where she is also known as the Wise Senior Lady of the Amazon Jungle. Asencia uses a variety of healing methods, acting on both physical and spiritual levels, which she combines with crafts-making and midwifery. Together with her two sons she co-founded the Wasan Yakas Healing Center, which was destroyed in the 2019 Amazon rainforest fire. With this initiative, I would like to ask for your support to rebuild Asencia's healing center to be able to receive guests and provide treatment again. Asencia started her training as an Ayahuasca shaman when she was only 8 years old, learning the secrets of the medicinal plants. Her parents, who were also initiated by their parents (this tradition going back many generations), were both doctors and healed with Ayahuasca. They taught her how to prepare and practice this medicine and she started joining the healing ceremonies when she was 15 years old. Asencia sings and invokes the power of the jungle through her magic songs to heal, embracing and delivering infinite and unconditional love. She is widely known in Peru and Argentina for her wisdom and knowledge, leading healing circles, women’s gatherings, medicine and musical events and performing at festivals. Thanks to René van der Zouwen, founder of https://acsauhaya.org/, a Dutch organization, with which he brings Amazonian healers and their ancient wisdom to his healing center in the Netherlands, Asencia recently traveled to Europe for the first time, leading Ayahusaca ceremonies there from September to November. This is where I met this incredibly powerful woman and her amazing son Santos, who was accompanying her and I was lucky to assist them by translating from and to Spanish. I witnessed Asencia and Santos provide profound individual healing to a variety of humans in October and November and feel very connected to them on multiple levels. When I learnt about the tragedy that happened to their community and Asencia's traditional maloca, where she was leading her ceremonies, being burnt down by the Amazon fire during the tropical dry season this year, I immediately knew I wanted to help. Please join me in supporting this 71-year-old powerful healer, who is also a grandmother to many children and provides for her entire community. I hope one day (if you haven’t already) you will meet Asencia, who walks barefoot, to be closer to the earth, speaks only her native Shipibo language, is called Wasanyaka, which means bird of fire in Shipibo, and shares generously her healing gifts and love to all. In the spirit of the holiday season, every financial donation is highly appreciated and will help make this world a better place. Asencia and her community also want to thank you! <3