Icaros

The word Icaro comes from the Quechua language and means magic song. These songs are medicine in melodic form. A direct language between the unseen and the heart.

Our Icaros are not songs we simply sing. They come directly from the plants themselves. Some were received during long dietas in the jungles of Peru, where deep connection allows each plant spirit to teach its own song. These songs live within us and emerge during ceremony.

Each Icaro carries the unique frequency of a master plant, woven with the singer’s medicine. They are not memorized, but move through us. Some only emerge at certain energetic frequencies and seem forgotten until we reenter their realm.

An Icaro can comfort, guide, challenge, or cleanse. There are songs to open the heart, to calm the mind, to steady the body, or to call in courage when something must be released. Like the plants, each Icaro has its place and purpose.

In ceremony, these songs become invisible threads between the plant world and each participant’s inner landscape. Everyone may receive them differently, and even more differently the next time. The true art is to become so empty that the melodies and words can do what they came to do. We offer our voices, and the medicine does the rest.

They move through the space and shape it. The weavings of sound and frequency are like the traditional Shipibo embroidery shown in the image above: each pattern encodes the unique vibration of a plant.

Over time, some Icaros become steady companions. They offer a familiar rhythm and structure. But the most powerful ones often arrive unannounced – when we let the plants sing through us without knowing what will come until the first note is already in the air.