Welcome to our website! The name of our association 'Tzumi Muraya' is an ancestral name, written in dialect of the Cocama indians of the Amazon rainforest and can be translated the best as ´Soul of the grandfather Medicineman´. We are a non-profit organisation.
The members of the association dedicate most of their time to the cultivation and traditional use of the medicinal plants and trees found in the Peruvian Amazon as it has been practiced by the indigenous medicinemen 'Tzumi Murayas' from immemorial times
In the heart of the Peruvian Amazon the association protects, in cooperation with the local community, an area of 238 hectares of beautiful virgin forest rich in medicinal plants and trees where we have build a camp with it´s traditional ceremony house (malocca) and a big guesthouse for our visitors.There we receive and treat people of the local community and/or from abroad who are ill and in need of traditional remedies, and we also do receive guests who would like to learn more about traditional medicine, the world of the medicineman and forestlife in general.
Our main goal within the association is to keep the ancestral traditions alive within the community we live in, protect them, and (re)integrate them where they have been lost. As we practice traditional medicine ourselves, we understand the importance of integrating these traditions in a world in which we encounter many physical, mental and spiritual disseases and many people are in great need of a true cure.
Therefore we regulary organise programms in our center in the forest or in other countries if we have the opportunity, where it is possible to participate in traditional healingceremonies and traditional diets with medicinal plants and trees, through which each one of us, can gain personal experience, healing and can get to know the secrets of the forest and gain wisdom of the ancestral spirit (Tzumi Muraya)
We are very busy within the association, so we apologize if the website is not always up 2 date but we try to update the website whenever we can. For any question you can always write us and we usually are able to give respond within 10 days. We hope you enjoy your visit on our website and we hope to see you soon!