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Beyond Ayahuasca
Empower the Indigenous Yahua Nation: Preserve Culture, Protect the Amazon
Beyond Ayahuasca
International Best Seller #1 in shamanism on Amazon in US, CA, AU & FR!
Traditional Ando-Amazonian medicine man takes readers through the three main pillars of Amazonian indigenous teachings, and through a deeper place of transformation and healing with insights and step-by-step guidance.
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For over two decades, Paititi Institute and its founders have stood in solidarity with indigenous nations, championing their rights, cultures, and ecological wisdom. Our past campaigns have fostered meaningful change, and today, we invite you to join us in our most urgent initiative yet.
The Amazonian Yahua tribe, relocated by the government in the 1970s to a small reservation near the city of Iquitos, faces immense challenges in preserving their ancestral culture and sustaining their livelihood. The limited land and resources have forced many to rely on tourism for survival, putting their rich traditions at risk of fading away.
Our current campaign aims to develop a cultural heritage center and school for the Yahua people—a sanctuary where native children can reconnect with their original creation myths and cosmo-vision, and where adults can cultivate and craft medicinal plants, preserving invaluable knowledge passed down through generations.
The center will also provide informational booklets for visitors, fostering greater awareness, respect, and understanding of the Yahua tribe’s profound heritage.
Check out our short video about this project!
At the heart of this effort is our book, Beyond Ayahuasca – Unlocking the Evolutionary Science of Indigenous Amazonian Wisdom to Access Your Highest Potential.
This autobiographical adventure novel is a living rite of passage that immerses readers in the inner technology of the Yahua’s enlightened ancestral civilization. A portion of the book’s proceeds will directly support the building and operation of the cultural heritage center.
Why Your Support Matters:
Help build a vital cultural and educational hub for the Yahua community.
Preserve indigenous knowledge that holds keys to sustainable living and spiritual growth.
Protect the Amazon rainforest, one of the planet’s most vital ecosystems.
Foster cross-cultural understanding and respect through education and immersive retreats.
By supporting this fundraiser, you become part of a movement to honor indigenous voices and protect the Earth’s sacred wisdom. Together, we can create a future where ancient knowledge and modern consciousness unite to heal our world.
Join us. Purchase the book. Share the story. Be the change.
What people are saying…
“It was the title of this book that captured my interest – what did it mean to go beyond the Ayahuasca experience? So many of my friends and clients had experienced Mother Ayahuasca, and while for some, it was a deep transformation, for more of them it was a shock to the system difficult to integrate. From my own work with plant allies, I knew that the wisdom of the plant came to me through several pathways, some of the most important being honoring the deva of the plant, its cosmology, its culture significance - its very archetype. As I dove into the chapters, it became clear that Roman Hanis was writing about shamanic rites of passage that went far beyond the plant itself, and while the Ayahuasca ceremony was a portal, it wasn’t the whole point of the ritual. This is a book you’ll want to take notes of and savor its wisdom. Roman is a medicine man who truly honors the Indigenous wisdom he learned along his own healing path. This imparts great meaning to his life story and how anyone can find meaning in theirs through learning, ritual and practice. I especially found the ‘tools’ and ‘reflections’ sections at the end of each chapter helpful. It is one thing to read about something, and to subsequently make it one’s own. The Five Pathologies of the Amazonian Healing System were especially revelatory about being human. There is so much in this well written, intelligent account of self-gnosis and the relationship between oneself and all sentient life, toward non-suffering.”
Monika Carless
International author, spiritual writer, and consciousness educator.
“Beyond Ayahuasca unveils the hidden evolutionary science of the Amazon, where natural and super-natural realities are present as one. Guided by Indigenous elders, and with a good work ethic, rooted in humility, persistence, respect and honor, Roman Hanis reveals a living lineage that reconnects each reader to harmony with Earth and cosmos.
This is way more than “just another book on plant medicine”, call it what you may: Sacred activism, Swirling radical detachment in Reverse, Cultural revalidation in action, a revealing of the wonderful omnipotency of the highest and greatest universal culture of service in action. Through a story of ancestral wisdom transmission and sacred plants, Beyond Ayahuasca offers a path to refining humanities higher potential. This book is an auspicious rite of remembrance—an invitation to return to ones own inner authenticity, and to enact on that.”
Jonathon Miller Weisberger
Ethnobotanist, author of Rainforest Medicine, and founder of Guaria de Osa, dedicated to preserving biodiversity and Indigenous science.
“Book Review: Beyond Ayahuasca by Roman Hanis 🌿
I just finished reading a book that shook me to my core.
Beyond Ayahuasca isn’t just a story, it’s a transmission.
It’s a sacred weaving of Roman’s personal healing journey in the Amazon which has spanned over two decades, with the spiritual technologies and living wisdom of the Indigenous elders who guided him.
As a trauma survivor and someone walking the medicine path with deep reverence, this book felt like a remembering.
A call to listen.
To honor.
To slow down and truly learn from the ones who have held these ways long before the Western world arrived.
I’m still integrating what this book opened in me…
but I know this: this is required reading for anyone exploring plant medicine, ancestral healing, or the decolonial path of returning to right relationship.”
Abigail Teixeira
Best-selling author, trauma recovery coach, and CPSD specialist
FREE ONLINE ALCHEMY SERIES With Book Purchase!
This online course is a living extension of the Beyond Ayahuasca book—a pathway where ancient wisdom becomes embodied truth. You’ll be guided through three core Indigenous practices rooted in the sacred traditions shared in the book: Primordial Breathwork, Alchemy of Immortality Qigong/Andean Art of Being, and Ancestral Remembrance Meditation. These practices are portals into ancestral knowledge and deep inner transformation.