Ask the Plants
Live Q&A w/ Maestra Maricela
Date: January 25, 2026 | 11am PST / 2pm EST
We’re hosting a 90-minute live Q&A with Maestra Maricela Rios Inuma, grandmother, lineage-holder, Shipibo onaya (healer), and founder of Inin Nete Sacred Plant Medicine Healing Center. Maestra Maricela rarely does public Q&A. This is direct access to Shipibo cosmology, plant medicine knowledge, and 30+ years of healing work. Come with real questions. Expect real answers.
Medicine & Practice:
Shipibo plant medicine and cosmology
How illness is understood in Shipibo medicine
Master plant dietas - how they’re chosen, prepared for, and how long they last
The role of icaros (healing songs)
Culture & Change:
The path of the healer in Shipibo tradition
How dietas have changed since the ancestors
Modern pressures affecting Shipibo medicine and culture
For Westerners:
Common misunderstandings about plant medicine
Questions Westerners don’t ask—but should
How this work relates to daily life and community
Participants can submit questions ahead of time and during the live call. Questions will be moderated and translated as needed by Mee Ok Icaro, plant medicine facilitator and co-founder of Inin Nete.
This is an “ask me anything” format. Not all questions may be answered, and answers may be given in story or indirect form, depending on what is appropriate.
If you are unable to attend a recording will be available afterwards. We invite you to buy a ticket if there is a question you would like to have asked and you will be sent the recording afterwards.
Details:
90-minute live session
Questions submitted in advance + live
Ticket price: $20 - BUY NOW
Limited to 25 participants
Submit your questions here
This space is for people who want to learn directly from Indigenous lineage - no ceremony required.
This event will be recorded. We will start promptly. Doors close at the start time. Please arrive 10 minutes early. Late arrivals will not be admitted.
Mee Ok Icaro (Shipibo name Inkanñabhi “Harmonious Beauty of the Marosa”), is a Sacred Medicine Advisor, Integration Specialist, and co-founder at Inin Nete, Life Purpose Coach and Guide, and an award-winning stylist and poet. Her work has appeared in notable publications like the LA Times, Boston Globe Magazine, and Michael Pollan’s Trips Worth Telling anthology. She was also featured in Gabor Maté’s New York Times bestseller The Myth of Normal and the Netflix docuseries [Un]Well. With over a decade of experience working with ayahuasca and dieting 13 master plants, Mee Ok is curing a near-fatal autoimmune disease, scleroderma, and is dedicated to helping others heal and recover their birthright of authenticity and truth. She is currently completing two 1-year diets: noya rao, niwe rao, and a magnet.
Mee Ok holds a BA in Philosophy from Boston University and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction. She continued her studies in the history of sexuality, medicine, and German at Harvard. With a diverse set of passions, including racial and disability equity, adoptee advocacy, social justice, the arts, and sacred activism, Mee Ok is a curious soul with a wealth of knowledge and experience.