Maestra Laura Lopez de Fernandes

Shipibo

Peru

Maestra Laura, a Shipibo Onanya (healer), is from the Shipibo community of Roaboya near the Ucayali River in Pucallpa, Peru. Immersed in plant medicine from a young age, she began dieting plants with her grandparents at age 10 and started her apprenticeship at 16. At 20, she traveled across Peru with her mother, Maestra Ynes, offering plant medicine and ayahuasca ceremonies. Over the last 15 years, she has worked alongside her mother at their family center, Niwe Rao Xobo, and at renowned healing centers in Peru and abroad. Laura carries deep ancestral wisdom and is known for her powerful ikaros—medicine songs sung with love and devotion to support healing in her patients.