SHANENAWÁ FESTIVAL 2025
The Festival will take place in the Kenê Merá village and is divided into two parts, the first called RAU XARAHU, where healing activities and ceremonies with local medicines will be carried out. The Second, called XIPI SHANENAWA, focused em cerimonial celebration with medicines and cultural exchanges with other shanenawá villages and from another ́s tribes.
The Festival includes various rituals in different spaces and with different medicines (Ayahuasca, Rapé, Sananga, Kambo, Matxu, and more. Storytelling with the elderly women of the village, natural treatments, baths, traditional games, body painting, energy cleansing and many others in an environment of deep connection with the jungle and nature.
We are organizing a foreigners group, English speaking, with extra support with accommodation and translation of all the activities and experiences of the Festival. We are offering 2 complementary extra days beyond de the festival, with the presence off the Pajés off the Village.
We are very gratefull and inspired to receive you inside of the forest.
RAU XARAHU
Shanenawá Healing Experience
07/19/2025
(07 am) Departure from Rio Branco
(3:30 pm) Reception at Kenê Merá Village
(5:30 pm) Bath and accommodation
(7 pm) Dinner
(Night) Rest
07/20/2025
(06:30 am) Breakfast
(8:00 - 11:00 am) Guided visit in the village and welcome with Pajé Maná. (12:00 pm) Lunch
(2 – 4 pm) Talk with the Pajés of the Village
(4 – 7 pm) Journaling and free time
(7 pm) Dinner
(Night) Rest
07/21/2025
(06:30 am) Breakfast
(08am – 12) Bath with medicinal herbs to purify the body.
(12 – 1:30 pm) Lunch
(2 – 5 pm) Opening of the Handicraft Exhibition and body painting ritual
(6:30 pm) Dinner
(8 – 10pm) Preparation of the bonfire and accommodation for the Uni (ayahuasca) ritual.
(10 pm) Opening of the ritual with herbal incense cleaning
07/22/2025
(06 am) End of ritual
(6:30 – 8 am) Breakfast
(08 am – 12) Rest
(12 – 1:30 pm) Lunch
(1:30 – 5 pm) Traditional games on the Envira River beach
(5 pm) Return to the accommodation
(6 pm – 7:30 pm) Dinner
(8 pm) Ritual of sacred medicine snuff at the bonfire, with presentation by the prayer group Yawa Yawa Yka.
(12 midnight) – Rest
07/23/2025
(06:30 – 08am) Breakfast
(08am – 12) Singing workshop with Pajé Maná
(12 – 1:30pm) Lunch
(2 – 6pm) Kenê workshop (indigenous graphics)
(6 – 7:30pm) Dinner
(8pm) Preparation for the Uni ritual at the Sacred House of Jibóia (Sacred place for the Shanenawá)
(9pm) Beginning of the ritual.
07/24/2025
(6am) End of ritual
(6 – 7am) – Natural bath
(7 – 8am) Breakfast
(8 – 12pm) Rest
(12 – 1:30pm) Lunch
(1:30 – 5pm) – Traditional games of the Shanenawa people: WAMENE, TAWA, SHUPÁ, ATSÁ, KUTÁ and HUNIHÚ
(6 – 7:30 pm) Dinner
(8pm) Storytelling with the elderly and matriarch Matsiani: the story of how UNI (Ayahuasca) came about, how the Shanenawá people came about, how Shanenawá agricultural production came about, how Rapé (Snuff) came about. (10pm) - Rest
07/25/2025
(4 – 6 am) Indigenous vaccine
(6:30 – 07:30 am) Breakfast
(07:30 – 10am) Walk on the trail and visit to Samaúma (Very Big and Sacred Trea)
(12:00 – 1:30pm) Lunch
(2 – 5pm) – Planting seedlings in the village
(6 – 7:30pm) – Dinner
(8 pm) Closing of the Rau Xarahu experience and organization for the Festival.
XIPI SHANENAWÁ
Cultural Festival
07/26/2025
(6:30 – 7am) – Breakfast
(8 – 9am) – Reception of guests.
(9am) - Official opening of the XIPI SHANENAWA Festival
(9:30 – 1pm) - Launch of the book “Rau Xarahu, medicinal plants”
(1 – 2:30) – Lunch
(2:30 – 6pm) – Presentation with groups of TXANÁS from all the villages.
(6 pm – 7:30 pm) – Dinner
(8 – 9pm) – Presentation of photos and videos telling the story of the KENÊ MERÁ village: the conquest, development, culture and spirituality
(9:30pm) – Beginning of the ritual with Uni.
07/27/2025
(6am) – End of ritual
(6 – 07:30am) – Breakfast
(7:30 – 08am) – Natural bath, dam and creek
(8 – 12pm) – Rest
(12 – 1:30pm) – Lunch
(1:30 – 2:30pm) – Exhibition of crafts from each village present.
(2:30pm) – Start of games and competitions Shanenawá: Tug of war. Who is the biggest MATXU drinker? Who takes more XIPI MUTSA? Who takes more (Rapé) snuff? Who eats the most XIPI? Who is the best arrowhead?
(6:30pm – 7:30pm) – Dinner
(8pm) – Beginning of the Festivity with MATXU, a traditional Shanenawa drink, presentation of the guest groups of TXANÁS.
07/28/2025
(6 – 7:30am) – Breakfast.
(8 – 12pm) – Visit to the village to harvest the fruits and vegetables that the village produces.
(12 – 1:30pm) – Lunch
(1:30 – 5pm) - Competition of chants and sacred prayers, with the groups present at the Xipi Shanenawa Festival
(6 – 7:30pm) – Dinner
(9pm – Beginning of the ritual with bonfire, UNI (Ayahuasca), herbal incense cleaning, Rapé Circle and sananga.
07/29/2025
05:00 – 07:00 - Conversation circle and closing of the festival.
07:00 – 08:00 – Breakfast
09:00-- Rest
12:30 pm – Lunch
02:00 pm – Integration Circle
06:00 pm – Dinner
07:00 pm – Bonnfire with villagers and friends off the festival
07/30/2025
07:00 – 08:00 – Breakfast
09:00-- departure from Feijó village
10:00 – Departure Feijó to Rio Branco.
Afternoon, arrival to Rio Branco and accomodatios at the hostel.
Attention: The program maybe can suffer some small changes.
EXTRA INFORMATION
A Google form will soon be sent for official registration and collection of personal data in order to know the specifics of each visitor. Important to say if you have any dietary restrictions, be clear in the answers.
The exchange value - Rau Xarahu Experience and Xipi Shanenawa Festival:
12 days in the Forest – Package: U$ 3,500.00 – per person.
Method of payment: cash (same amount) or, 50% upon registration and 50% up to 06/30 at the most – all funds will be used to organize the event, therefore advance payment is required.
What is included in the package?
• Reception at Rio Branco Airport – transfer to accommodation
• Accommodation with breakfast in Rio Branco (07/18 and 07/ 30)
• Transfer from Rio Branco to the village – round trip
• 3 meals a day (plus all fruits from the region)
• Wooden lodging house ( It’s a Shared space where all the group will stay)
• All activities that are on the schedule.
Translator Portuguese x English
What is NOT included: Air tickets, food during transfers, personal purchases (market, pharmacy).
The landing and boarding airport is the International Airport of Rio Branco – Plácido de Castro.
You should arrive in Rio Branco on 07/18 because the departure for Aldeia will be at 07:00 on 07/19, we will offer accommodation in a partner accommodation. Regarding the return, we suggest that the air ticket be issued for the 07/31, as the journey from the village to Rio Branco takes around 7 hours by road, therefore, it is safer to have a ticket for the 07/ 31, don't worry, we'll offer you another night's accommodation in the same space. (https://planetofhotels.com/pt-br/brasil/rio-branco/jardins-guesthouse)
If you feel like taking a donation to the village, follow the need items that can contribute to strengthening the community, culture and economic development:
Musical instruments
Beads :(Jablonex or Preciosa)
Sarongs, handkerchiefs.
Clothes, shoes
Fabric paint, brush
Metal parts for assembling earrings
Toys
Waxed thread, colored string
Loom, loom comb, fine bead needle.
What to take to the Forest:
• Camp Tent (Optional, if you whant mor privacy space. Will you have a Mattress and a Mosquito Net available to you. Therefore its optional we recommend that. If you need some support with that let us know).
Thin sheet, flashlight, sunscreen, anti-allergy, water bottle, repellent, long- sleeved clothing and light long pants, footwear for walking in the forest, hat or cap, no forget your bathing suit for hot afternoons.
• Take your personal hygiene items. (Eco-Friendly please)
• If you want to take special foods from your diet, for individual use, feel free, the food in the village is delicious, traditional and very natural.
• The temperature will be high as it will be the summer period in Acre, consider this information when choosing the clothes you will take.
• Carry some amount of money to purchase handicrafts.
• Our water is drinkable and very good but there are people who prefer to consume bottled mineral water, for this reason, we are going to make the purchase of water available.
For more information, contact: info@txaiedu.com +5511959531429 Whatsapp or Telegram
Note: LIMITED vacancies, those interested have until the end of May to register and guarantee their spot. Please, let us know any extra needs or questions that you could have!
With Love, Txai Edu and the organization Team
