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Hapé Education Corner

Grounded Practice, Breathwork Protection & Ritual Clarity - A Living Guide to Safe, Aligned & Ancestral Hapé Practice

This space shares teachings on authentic hapé preparation, safe usage, breathwork protocols, Indigenous lineage, ceremonial practice, and guidance for choosing and receiving the medicine with integrity. For those seeking the tools to begin or deepen their practice, you may explore our handmade kuripes and tepis or browse our full Apothecary of traditional hapé blends. To learn more about the makers and the living communities behind these offerings, visit our Collective’s story.

Each section below offers a clear, grounded resource to support both personal ritual and ceremonial journeywork.

1- What is Hapé or Rapé? Ancestral Forest Preparation Explained

Hapé (ha-peh) is a sacred ancestral preparation carried by Indigenous peoples of the Amazon Basin for countless generations. Across the forest, it is known by many names -Rome Poto, Epẽ, Nunu, Paricá, Zazará, Dume- each reflecting the language, lineage, and cosmology of the tribe preparing it. Though the names differ, the essence remains the same: a finely prepared ceremonial powder offered through breath, intention, and prayer.

Each blend is slowly crafted by hand using a ceremonial plant base, forest botanicals, and sacred ashes, ground with wooden or stone tools in a process that can take hours or days. These preparations are never produced by machines; they are made in prayer, in rhythm, and in direct relationship with the forest. This is why elders say “Hapé is not made - it is received.”

Traditionally, Hapé supports grounding, clarity, energetic cleansing, emotional balance, alignment of the breath, and connection to spirit. It can accompany daily rituals, meditation, prayer, or deep ceremony. It is not inhaled; it is received through the upper passage of the nose, awakening pathways connected to intuition, inner sight, and the pineal gland.

When we first began sharing Hapé within our micro-communities in the early 2010s - in festival circles, art gatherings, music events, and small spiritual spaces - very few people in North America had ever encountered this offering. There were no brands, no labels, no Western shops carrying it.

We became the first to offer Hapé under our collective’s name, presenting each blend clearly, safely, and intentionally - always rooted in sacred relationship rather than commerce.

What we carried into those early spaces was not a “product,” but a living forest tradition shared through breath, prayer, and the teachings we received directly in the Amazon.

Our understanding comes from lived experience - including years of apprenticeship (2012–2016) with Matses and Shipibo families, learning how Hapé is prepared, carried, and used within their ceremonial lifeways. This lineage shapes how we honor, offer, and protect this sacred preparation today.

In our community, Hapé is not “used.”

It is received - through breath, presence, humility, and relationship.

To explore traditional forest preparations from different lineages, visit our curated Hapé Apothecary Collection.

2- Lineage & Integrity of Preparation - Understanding the Tradition

Authentic Hapé is prepared through ancient methods passed down through family lines, tribal lineage, and ceremonial apprenticeship.

Each tribe carries its own way of preparing, praying with, and naming this sacred forest offering, yet all share one truth: Hapé is a living tradition, not a manufactured product.

Every blend is made slowly and intentionally, using forest botanicals, sacred ashes, and a ceremonial plant base. These ingredients are ground in wooden or stone mortars, often for many hours, until the preparation becomes an extremely fine, silken powder. This process is accompanied by song, silence, prayer, and deep presence.

There are no machines, no industrial grinders, no automated processes in true preparation.

There are no “Hapé factories” in the forest.

The medicine is born through the hands, breath, and heart of the one preparing it.

Across the Amazon, elders emphasize that Hapé carries the spirit of the one who makes it. Their state of mind, their prayer, their relationship with the plants, and the lineage they come from all weave into the final blend. This is why the preparation is considered both an art and a sacred responsibility; it is not taken lightly, nor done for mass distribution.

Our understanding of Hapé comes directly from the Matses and Shipibo communities, who opened their homes, teachings, and ceremonial spaces to Su-Ata during his years living in the Amazon (2012–2016).

Through these relationships, we learned:

  • how each ingredient is gathered
  • why some blends are masculine, activating, or purifying
  • why others are feminine, grounding, or heart-opening
  • how sacred ashes are selected and prepared
  • when songs are used, and when silence is the ceremony
  • how breath becomes prayer
  • how intention guides the medicine’s spirit
  • why nothing is rushed in true preparation

Understanding the tradition means knowing:

  • Where each blend comes from
  • Who prepares it
  • What lineage holds the knowledge
  • Whether the preparation was ceremonial or commercial

Traditional communities use Hapé for many purposes:

  • grounding before prayer
  • aligning the mind before hunting
  • clearing stagnant energy
  • opening the inner sight (third eye)
  • supporting emotional balance
  • harmonizing the breath and heart
  • preparing for or closing ceremonies

To understand Hapé is to recognize that the medicine is not separate from the people who carry it. It is a dialogue between the forest and the one receiving it, shaped by lineage, humility, and presence.

Respect for its origins is essential to honoring the medicine and the Indigenous families who safeguard it.

Learn more about our Collective here.

3-How to Choose an Authentic Hapé (Hapé Discernment Guide)

Discernment is protection - for yourself, for the tribes, for the forest, and for the spirit of the medicine. True Hapé carries the vibration of the one who prepared it, the lineage behind it, and the intentions woven into its creation. Choosing a blend is not a casual act; it is a moment of alignment.

Before receiving a blend, ask yourself:


1. What is my intention?

Grounding?

Clarity?

Energetic renewal?

Emotional balance?

Meditation?

Heart-opening?

Inner sight?

Your intention creates the energetic container for the experience and helps you choose a blend whose vibration aligns with your present season.

Some blends are masculine (activating, clarifying, sharp),

while others are feminine (softening, grounding, heart-centered).

There are also blends crafted without smoke-bearing plants, honoring those who prefer a gentler, more subtle energetic profile.

Your intention helps you recognize what is needed.


2. Where does this blend come from?

Authenticity means traceability:

  • Who is the tribe or community behind this blend?
  • Which region was it prepared in?
  • Does the offering come from a direct relationship?
  • Is the lineage clearly honored?

Each tribe crafts Hapé differently.

Knowing the origin helps you understand the medicine’s spirit.


3. Who prepared it?

Hapé should be created by:

  • ancestral carriers
  • tribal families
  • trained community members
  • ceremonial apprentices
  • lineage-rooted stewards

If the maker cannot be named, or the lineage feels unclear, commercialized, or disconnected from tradition- pause.

Authenticity carries a certain quiet truth.

It can be felt.


4. How was it prepared?

Traditional preparation uses:

  • wooden mortars
  • stone tools
  • ceremonial prayer
  • slow, intentional grinding
  • sacred ashes prepared over specific fires
  • energetically aligned botanicals

Authentic blends are never made with:

  • metal grinders
  • industrial equipment
  • automated machines
  • bulk factory settings

There are no factories in the forest.

Ceremonial Hapé must be made by hand, with breath, prayer, and relational presence.


5. How is it stored?

Storage affects the medicine’s purity and vibration.

Avoid:

  • plastic
  • treated cardboard
  • metal containers
  • anything porous or chemically treated

Always choose:

  • airtight glass containers (non-pourus)
  • cool, dark storage

This preserves the subtlety and life of the blend.

6. What does your intuition say?

Your body knows the truth long before the mind.

Before receiving:

  • Hold the blend in your hand.
  • Notice how your body responds.
  • Do you feel warmth? openness? agitation? resistance?

If something feels off, unclear, or commercialized, trust that knowing.

Choose stewards - not sellers.

Choose lineage - not trends.

Choose integrity - not hype.

Choose what feels alive, real, and rooted.

Authentic Hapé is a sacred forest dialogue, and you deserve to receive it in its true, respectful form.

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4-Dosage, Safety & Beginning the Practice (Starter Guidance)

For beginners, always begin gently. A small, pea-sized amount per nostril - or the size of a dime when measured together - is enough for the medicine to introduce itself with clarity and respect. Hapé is not a substance to overpower the senses; it is a sacred forest preparation that reveals itself slowly, according to your readiness and intention.

In traditional communities, elders teach that the medicine meets you where you are. More is not “stronger,” and “stronger” is never the goal. The true aim is presence, breath, alignment, and relationship — not intensity.

As your connection deepens, you may find the dose that resonates with your personal rhythm. Some blends are naturally soft and grounding; others are more activating or clarifying. Your sensitivity, constitution, emotional state, and energetic needs all influence how you receive the medicine.

Before offering any dose -large or small -always follow the Breathwork Protocol described in the instructions below. This protocol ensures safe, respectful application and prevents the fine particles of sacred ashes from entering the lungs.

After serving the medicine:

  • breathe gently through the mouth
  • remain seated and still
  • allow the energy to settle
  • listen to your body’s language
  • let the forest speak through your breath

Each blend carries a unique spirit. Each person carries a unique sensitivity.

Small, intentional doses honor both.

When approached with humility, patience, and presence, even the lightest dose opens the doorway to grounding, clarity, and connection.

Browse our own produced Hapé Applicators here.

5-When & How to Use Hapé (Ceremonial Timing & Intention)

There is no fixed rule for how often one should connect with Hapé. In the forest, this sacred preparation is used according to need, intuition, and the natural rhythm of life. Some communities connect daily for grounding or prayer; others use it only during ceremony, healing work, or moments of transition. Frequency is never the focus; presence is.

Your body, spirit, and breath carry the true wisdom.

Let them lead you.


Connect with Hapé when you feel:
  • scattered or ungrounded
  • mentally foggy or unfocused
  • emotionally heavy or burdened
  • called toward meditation or prayer
  • stepping into a rite of passage
  • beginning a new chapter or cycle
  • needing energetic cleansing or renewal
  • longing to reconnect with your breath and center

In these moments, Hapé helps align you with your inner clarity and with the wisdom of the forest.

Pause or rest when you feel:
  • tired, drained, or energetically fragile
  • spiritually full after recent ceremonies or deep inner work
  • physically dry or sensitive in the nasal passages
  • emotionally saturated
  • guided inward into stillness without tools
  • a sense of “not now” in your intuition

Rest is part of the medicine, too.

General guidance:

For grounding or daily support:
a few small servings per week may be nourishing.

For deeper introspection, emotional release, or ritual work:

allow spacious time between sessions so your body can absorb, integrate, and speak to you.

In all cases:

Do not force a schedule.

Do not follow habit.

Follow presence.

Your relationship with Hapé is not built by frequency - it is built by intention, breath, humility, and awareness.

6-Serving Techniques for Kuripe & Tepi (Self & Shared Application)

Serving Hapé is an act of intention. The breath is the bridge.

In the forest, elders say that the breath carries the prayer, and the exhale becomes the pathway through which the medicine travels into the upper passage of the nose. Serving is never mechanical - it is a dialogue between breath, presence, and spirit.

Before any serving - whether self-application or offering to another; always follow the Safety Breathwork Protocol.

A full breath protects the lungs, aligns the body, and prepares the mind.

The breath patterns below are used during the exhale that delivers the medicine, not as a replacement for the Protection Breath. Each carries a different purpose, rooted in Indigenous teachings and lived ceremonial experience.


DEER BREATH : Power & Grounding

A steady, confident exhale that anchors the energy.

Used for clarity, protection, and strengthening the inner field.


HUMMINGBIRD BREATH : Precision

A gentle, even stream of breath - light, focused, and subtle.

Used for heart-centered clarity, sensitivity, and refined awareness.


SERPENT BREATH : Transformation

A long, wave-like exhale that travels in a smooth, fluid motion.

Supports emotional release, energetic clearing, and shedding old layers.

HUMMING BREATH : Harmony

A soft exhale infused with gentle vibration.

Used to harmonize the mind, calm the nervous system, and create unity between body and spirit.

EAGLE / CONDOR BREATH : Vision

A strong, upward exhale that offers the medicine with direction and intention.

Used for expanding perspective, opening vision, and connecting to higher awareness.


TRADITIONAL TOOLS

In the Amazon, sacred tools are crafted from wood, bone, and stone, each carrying its own lineage and spirit.

  • Kuripe: V-shaped self-applicator for personal connection
  • Tepi: Long applicator used to serve another, honoring relational reciprocity

Authentic tools are handmade and treated as ceremonial objects, not accessories.

Never use metal tools for preparing or serving. Metal disrupts the energy of the blend and the purity of the preparation.


THE DIRECTIONS OF THE BREATH

Hapé is always served upward, toward the upper bridge of the nose, never into the lungs.

The breath carries the medicine to the place where clarity, intuition, and inner sight awaken.

Serve with intention, not force.

Presence, not performance.

Prayer, not pressure.

When breath, heart, and medicine align, the offering becomes a sacred act.

Browse our Tepi collection here.

7-Breathwork Protection & Receiving the Medicine Safely

This Breathwork Protocol is the foundation of safe Hapé practice.

It protects the lungs, aligns the mind, steadies the energy, and prepares the body to receive the medicine with clarity and presence.

The protocol must be followed before each nostril; for both self-application and receiving through a tepi.

BREATH 1 : Grounding

Inhale from root to crown.

Exhale slowly, releasing tension and settling into your body.

This centers your awareness.

BREATH 2 : Clearing

Inhale fully from belly to crown.

Exhale through the mouth and nose.

This clears stagnant energy and prepares your internal field.

BREATH 3 : Protection Breath (Most Important)

Inhale deeply through the mouth until your lungs are completely full.

Hold this breath with ease — not force.

While your lungs remain full:

  • the server positions the tepi,
  • or you position the kuripe for self-application.

Do not inhale during the serving.

The medicine must never be inhaled into the lungs.

Once the medicine arrives at the upper bridge of your nose,

release your breath gently through the mouth only.

This prevents fine sacred ash particles from entering the lungs and ensures a safe, empowered receiving.

FIRST OFFERING : Release
  1. Take the Protection Breath.
  2. Hold your breath with full lungs.
  3. Receive the medicine through the tepi (or serve through the kuripe).
  4. Do not inhale at any point during the serving.
  5. Release the breath slowly through the mouth once the server is finished.
  6. Continue gentle mouth-breathing for a few breaths.

This first offering supports letting go - clearing stagnant energy, emotional heaviness, and mental clutter.

SECOND OFFERING : Renewal

Before serving the second nostril:

  1. Inhale deeply through the mouth again until the lungs are full.
  2. Hold the breath gently.
  3. Receive the medicine on the second nostril.
  4. Release the breath softly through the mouth afterward.
  5. Maintain slow, steady mouth-breathing for the next few breaths.

This restores harmony between both sides of the breath and balances the energetic channels.

INTEGRATION (10–15 minutes)

Sit quietly.

Breathe softly through the mouth.

Allow sensations, emotions, and energy to unfold naturally.

If needed:

  • wipe lightly
  • do not blow your nose yet
  • wait until you feel liquid movement in the back of the throat and nasal passages

Full absorption typically occurs within 10 minutes.

Remain grounded, observant, open, and at ease.

Close the moment with gratitude.

8-How to Self-Administer Hapé (Step-by-Step Guide-Ceremonial)

Self-serving Hapé is a sacred act.

You are not “using” something; you are opening a direct dialogue between breath, intention, and the spirit of the forest and debt of self. Approach slowly, with reverence.

1. Prepare your space

Sit close to the earth.

Let your sitting bones ground you while your spine rises naturally.

Keep your posture upright but relaxed, allowing your breath to open on its own.

Silence your mind.

Let the moment become sacred.

2. Prepare the offering

Place a small, intentional portion of Hapé in your palm.

Use the long edge of your kuripe to flatten and gather it gently, removing any chunks.

Bring the kuripe to your heart.

Let your intention rise clearly, from the chest, not the mind.

A clear intention creates a clear path for the medicine.

Breathwork Protocol (Very Important)

This sequence protects the lungs, aligns the body, and prepares the spirit.

It must be followed before each nostril.

Breath 1 : Grounding

Inhale from root to crown.

Exhale slowly to the earth.

Breath 2 : Clearing

Inhale fully from the belly up through the heart and crown.

Exhale through mouth and nose to clear tension and open the channels.

Breath 3 : Protection Breath (Most Important)

Inhale deeply through the mouth until your lungs are completely full.

Hold this breath while positioning the kuripe at your lips and nostril.

Only when you exhale into the kuripe should the breath be released.

This prevents ash from entering the lungs, protects your respiratory pathways, and ensures proper ceremonial alignment.

3. Offer the first side : Release

Take the Protection Breath again, filling the lungs completely.

Hold the breath.

Place the short end of the kuripe at your lips and the long end to your nostril.

Exhale steadily not timid, not forceful, letting the medicine travel upward.

Allow the last moment of your exhale to include a gentle throat seal (a final small push), ensuring no blend remains in the applicator.

Release your breath through your mouth afterward.

Continue calm mouth-breathing for the next few breaths.

This first side supports release, clearing, and letting go.

4. Offer the second side : Renewal

Before serving the second nostril:

Take the Protection Breath once more -inhale deeply through the mouth until the lungs are full.

Hold the breath with steadiness.

Position the kuripe.

Exhale steadily through the kuripe to guide the blend up the second nostril.

Release your breath gently through the mouth.

Continue soft mouth-breathing afterward.

This second side supports balance, clarity, grounding, and alignment of the energetic channels.

5. Integrate in stillness

Sit quietly for 10 to 15 minutes.

Let the medicine settle without rushing or resisting.

Breathe softly through the mouth.

Wipe lightly if needed; avoid blowing the nose until the passage feels liquid.

Remain grounded, observant, and gentle with yourself.

Close the practice in gratitude for the breath, the forest, the ancestors, and your own presence.

For safe ceremonial self-serving, explore our own designs, handcrafted Peruvian kuripes from our Collectives

9-Quick Guide to Self-Serving Hapé (Non-Ceremonial Use)

Simple, safe, respectful for everyday grounding

This quick guide is for moments when you wish to connect with Hapé without entering full ceremony.

It offers a gentle, respectful approach while preserving the integrity and safety of the practice.


1. Sit in stillness

Find a comfortable seat close to the earth.

Keep your spine upright but relaxed.

Let your breath soften and become natural.

Stillness prepares the body; presence prepares the spirit.


2. Prepare the offering

Place a small, intentional portion of Hapé in your palm.

Use the long edge of your kuripe to flatten and gather the blend gently.

Bring the kuripe to your heart and pause.

Set a simple intention - clarity, grounding, release, or presence.

Even outside of ceremony, intention shapes the experience.


Breathwork Protocol (Very Important)

This protocol must be followed to protect the lungs and ensure safe, respectful practice.

Breath 1 - Grounding

Inhale from root to crown.

Exhale slowly and fully.

Breath 2 - Clearing

Inhale fully from belly to crown.

Exhale through mouth and nose to release tension.

Breath 3 - Protection Breath

Inhale deeply through the mouth until the lungs are completely full.

Hold this breath while positioning the kuripe.

Only when you exhale through the kuripe should air be released.

This prevents fine sacred ash from entering the lungs

and ensures safe, proper receiving.


3. Offer the blend

Take the Protection Breath again and hold it.

Place the short end of the kuripe at your lips and the long end to your nostril.

Exhale steadily - not weak, not forced - to serve the first side.

Release your breath gently through the mouth afterward.

Before offering the second nostril:

take another deep Protection Breath.

Repeat the same steady exhale and upward offering.


4. Rest and integrate

Sit quietly for 10 to 15 minutes.

Breathe softly through the mouth.

Allow the medicine to settle, clarify, and align.

If needed, wipe lightly;
but avoid strong blowing until you feel the back of the throat soften with moisture.

Close the moment with a quiet breath of gratitude.

Beginner-friendly kuripes are available in our Applicators Collection

10-How to Receive Hapé Safely & Properly- Step-by-Step Essentials

Receiving Hapé is a practice of humility, presence, and conscious breath.

When another person serves you, the experience becomes an exchange of trust - a moment where breath, intention, and lineage meet. In the forest traditions, the receiver’s role is as active as the server’s: your breath creates the safety, your presence creates the path, and your intention creates the opening.

Whether in ceremony or simple grounding practice, the breath sequence below is essential.


1. Prepare your posture

Sit close to the earth.

Keep your spine aligned, shoulders relaxed, and jaw soft.

Let your breath settle naturally.

Stillness creates the container.

Alignment prepares the body to receive.


2. Hold your intention

Whether you prepared the portion or the server prepared it,
let your intention rise gently from the heart not the mind.

Intention shapes how the medicine enters and how it works within you.


Breathwork Protocol (Very Important)

Must be followed before each nostril.

This protects the lungs from fine sacred ash particles and ensures a safe, aligned receiving.

Breath 1 : Grounding

Inhale from root to crown.

Exhale slowly.

Breath 2 : Clearing

Inhale fully from belly to crown.

Exhale through mouth and nose to release tension.

Breath 3 : Protection Breath (Most Important)

Inhale deeply through the mouth until your lungs are completely full.

Hold this breath gently while the server positions the tepi.

While the lungs remain full:

  • do not inhale
  • stay steady and present
  • allow the medicine to be offered upward

Once the medicine reaches the upper bridge of the nose,

release your breath slowly through the mouth only.

This prevents ash from entering the lungs and keeps the experience safe and balanced.


3. First Offering - Release
  1. Take the Protection Breath again.
  2. Hold your breath with full lungs.
  3. Receive the medicine through the tepi.
  4. Do not inhale during the serving.
  5. Once the server finishes, release your breath gently through the mouth.
  6. Continue soft mouth-breathing for a few breaths.

This first offering supports letting go, clearing stagnant energy, and opening the path.


4. Second Offering - Renewal

Before the second nostril:

  1. Inhale deeply through the mouth until the lungs are full.
  2. Hold the breath with steadiness.
  3. Receive the medicine on the second side.
  4. Release the breath through the mouth when the serving is complete.
  5. Maintain soft mouth-breathing afterward.

This restores balance and alignment between both sides of the breath and energetic channels.


5. Integrate (10–15 minutes)

Sit quietly in stillness.

Breathe softly through the mouth.

Allow sensations, emotions, visions, or movements to arise naturally.

Do not rush; do not resist.

If needed, wipe lightly -

but avoid blowing your nose until the medicine liquifies and moves toward the back of the throat.

Remain grounded, observant, and gentle with yourself.

Close the moment with gratitude for the medicine, the breath, the server, and the forest.

Browse our Tepi Collection.

11-Ritual Benefits & Energetic Effects of Hapé

Hapé is a ritual of return;

a return to presence, to breath, to the quiet wisdom of the forest,

and to the remembrance of your own center.

When received with intention, Hapé supports:

  • mental stillness
  • emotional release
  • energetic cleansing
  • grounding of the nervous system
  • prayer and meditation
  • clarity and inner sight
  • heart-opening and softening
  • alignment of the breath and mind
  • activation of intuitive awareness

In forest traditions, Hapé is often described as a “clearing wind” or a “pathway of breath.”

It does not distort the mind;

it clarifies it.

Hapé brings you into yourself, not away from yourself.

Energetic and Emotional Responses

It is natural for the body to respond in different ways.

Some may experience:

  • warmth rising through the chest
  • tears flowing softly
  • trembling, shaking, or subtle vibrations
  • laughter or a sudden feeling of relief
  • emotional unwinding
  • a sense of spaciousness in the mind
  • energetic movement along the spine or head
  • activation of the third eye or inner vision
  • grounding into the lower body
  • a quiet stillness settling into the heart

These are not disturbances.

They are expressions of renewal -

the body releasing what it no longer needs

and opening space for clarity.

Hapé works through the energetic channels,

harmonizing the masculine and feminine currents within the body:

the grounding, stabilizing energy and the intuitive, receptive one.

For many, the medicine clears fog from the mind, softens emotional density,

and sharpens intuitive perception.

The Role of Sound, Vibration & Silence

Sound is a bridge in Amazonian tradition.

During or after receiving Hapé, you may feel called toward:

  • icaros
  • humming
  • mantras
  • breath-singing
  • maracas or shakers
  • soft drumming

Vibration moves energy.

Sound opens pathways.

Breath carries prayer.

Equally, silence can be the deepest teacher.

Stillness itself becomes sacred medicine,
a space where insight emerges naturally

and where you can hear your own inner knowing again.

The Medicine After the Offering

After the serving, the true ritual begins.

Stillness is part of the medicine.

This is where:

  • breath deepens
  • inner clarity sharpens
  • intuitive awareness awakens
  • the body integrates the offering
  • prayer arises from within

Allow the experience to unfold without force or expectation.

Hapé teaches by clearing, aligning, grounding,

and opening the subtle spaces where wisdom lives.

It does not amplify illusion.

It amplifies truth.

12-Sacred Commerce: Our Ethical Commitment & Lineage Values, Ethical Sourcing & Sacred Commerce at Collective Journey Art

Our work with Hapé is rooted in lineage, reciprocity, and community - not commerce.

We move through the principle we call Native with Natives: an ethos that honors the families, traditions, and forests that safeguard this sacred preparation. This is not a brand built around a product; it is a living community built around prayer, medicine, art, and shared responsibility.

Between 2012–2016, our founder Su-Ata lived among Matses and Shipibo families, learning through apprenticeship, service, observation, and relationship. These years shaped the ground on which Collective Journey Art stands today. This project arose from healing, remembrance, and a return to ancestral integrity, not from industry trends or marketplace demand.

Our way of carrying Hapé is guided by sacred commerce, where value flows in a circular, non-extractive way. The offerings we circulate are tied directly to:

  • ancestral preparation
  • prayerful lineages
  • Indigenous family collectives
  • sustainable, relational exchange
  • breathwork safety and education
  • cultural continuity

We commit to:

  • honoring traditional preparation, never altering or industrializing the medicine
  • transparent, real relationships with Indigenous families and communities
  • responsible circulation that never treats this offering as a commodity
  • teaching discernment, safety, and lineage context
  • moving medicine without hype, exoticism, or exploitation
  • uplifting the makers, not centering the marketplace
  • ensuring the medicine stays in its sacred orientation

We avoid buyer–seller language because it does not reflect our reality.

We are not “selling a product” - we are carrying a responsibility.

This is not a transaction.

It is a collective movement, a bridge between worlds:

art, medicine, Indigenous lineage, spiritual practice, and community.

We are here to carry these offerings with respect, humility, honesty, and devotion,

in alignment with the elders, families, and lineages who entrusted us with this knowledge.

About Us — The Collective Story

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These teachings arise from ancestral lineage, Amazonian apprenticeship, lived ceremonial experience, and the collective relationships that shaped our path. They are shared here to support safe, respectful, and intentional connection with Hapé.

Out of respect for the Indigenous families, elders, and communities who carry this knowledge, please do not copy, reproduce, teach, or share this material in any format ; written, spoken, digital, or instructional without written permission from Collective Journey Art.

This offering is not meant for duplication, commercialization, or reinterpretation.

It is meant to preserve the integrity of the medicine, protect cultural wisdom, and honor all who hold this knowledge.

Thank you for respecting the lineage and the responsibility we carry.

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Hapé as a Ritual

Hapé as a Ritual

A Pathway to Prayer, Purging & Spiritual Presence

Hapé is not simply a plant preparation, it is a ritual of return. A return to prayer, to presence, and to the intelligence of the body integrating with the wisdom of our Sacred Earth. In sacred moments, singing medicine songs, mantras, or prayers can amplify the experience of Hapé. These vibrations create a bridge between the physical and spiritual, allowing the medicine to flow more deeply through your energetic field. Even in silence, Hapé naturally guides the mind into meditation, often softening mental noise and activating inner stillness. At times, it may also open channels for purging or energetic release; including shaking, bowel movements, or emotional outbursts. Though less common with smaller doses, these experiences are not side effects. They are signs the medicine is doing its sacred work; clearing stagnation, releasing trauma, and restoring alignment.


Our collection features distinct hapé blends, each originating from diverse tribes across the Brazilian and Peruvian Amazon. Collective Journey’s hapé medicine remains deeply rooted in its traditional origins. Each hapé is meticulously crafted with prayer and intention by Indigenous elders and highly qualified medicine men or women in their ancestral villages, imbuing each blend with unique purpose, healing properties, and spiritual essence.

Some hapé blends are designed for protection, while others focus on cleansing or grounding. Within our selection, you’ll find blends that embody a feminine essence, enriched with flowers or plants, as well as those with a more masculine energy. For instance, the Rose hapé, created by the Huni Kuin women, and the rappeh Nunu from the Matses tribe, our founder's masters, are known for their warm and nurturing qualities that have tandency to open our hearts. Conversely, our Mulateiro and Murici hapé, also by the Huni Kuin, exude a masculine force that promotes focus and a warrior spirit.


Furthermore, each hapé blend activates specific chakras and energy channels within the physical and spiritual body. While some may anchor you deeply to the earth, others might open channels in the third eye or crown chakra.

When & How Often to Work With Hapé

When & How Often to Work With Hapé?

Hapé, embraced by various indigenous cultures, offers a multitude of applications on a daily basis or as desired. The importance is to remain balanced and harmonious with your body. Hapé is not only beneficial physically but also impacts the mental psyche, emotional state, spiritual alignment, and energetic field. It possesses the remarkable ability to clear mental static, facilitating focus and mental clarity, which helps ground the individual. Additionally, it can heighten physical and spiritual senses, enhancing self-awareness while purifying and activating the pineal gland.


In Amazonian traditions, hapé is frequently employed before, during, or after ceremonies to foster grounding. It harmonizes well with numerous rituals and sacred plant medicines, including Ayahuasca and Kambo. Traditionally, it serves as a focal element within its own ceremonies or as an adjunct to others. Hapé is also used recreationally or prior to hunting to enhance sensory perception, awareness, and concentration. Known to indigenous tribes, hapé poses no contraindications to human health beyond the individual’s personal comfort level.

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