Aotsi Tsinane

The Way of Nature

Aotsi Tsinane is a spiritual and ecological community rooted in the Ashaninka vegetalismo tradition of the Peruvian Amazon and the teachings carried through the Mayantuyacu lineage, bridging these traditions with compassionate participation in contemporary life.

Our purpose is to remember our essential interconnectedness with Self, within community, and with the divine spirit imbued in Nature through study, practice, ritual, and works of service to the greater whole.

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About Aotsi Tsinane

Aotsi Tsinane translates loosely from the Ashaninkan language as “The Way of Nature.” Our work draws from the vegetalismo traditions of the Peruvian Amazon, a spiritual and healing tradition shaped through Indigenous cosmologies, plant ritual practices, and healing work.  

Much of our orientation comes through the teachings of Ashaninkan sheripiari, “man with wisdom”, Juan Flores Salazar, who has carried these traditions for more than fifty years through healing, ceremony, and guidance in the Mayantuyacu lineage.

In 2001, guided by a vision, Juan Flores settled in Mayantuyacu, a sacred place in the Amazon rainforest surrounding a boiling river and ancestral Ashaninka lands. Over the years, people from many parts of the world have traveled there seeking renewal, healing, wisdom, and a deeper relationship with the living world.

While our community is informed by this lineage, we also hold that relationship with Nature itself remains one of the central teachers of this path. 

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We believe that humans exist within a living network of relationships, and that healing, wisdom, and spiritual development emerge through restoring a harmonic relationship with Self, Community, Nature, and Spirit.  

Our practices support:

  • Communion with Nature

  • Spiritual and ecological education

  • Ritual and prayer

  • Service and mutual support

  • Personal and collective healing

  • The cultivation of right relationship

Our Purpose

We believe humans exist within a living web of relationships: with one another, with the natural world, and with dimensions of life that cannot always be reduced to the material alone.

Our practices are rooted in the understanding that Nature is not inert or separate from us, but alive, communicative, and worthy of relationship, reverence, and care. Through ritual, study, prayer, direct experience, and community practice, we seek to cultivate greater harmony, responsibility, healing, and connection.

Rather than asking for belief alone, this path emphasizes participation, lived experience, and the gradual embodiment of values through relationship with community, the land, and the sacred dimensions of life.

Our Creed – Our Orientation

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Welcome

Membership in Aotsi Tsinane is an ongoing relationship with community, spiritual practice, and shared responsibility.

Members are invited into:

  • Ritual and ceremonial participation

  • Educational gatherings

  • Pilgrimage and seasonal observances

  • Community support systems

  • Ethical and spiritual development

  • Stewardship of the lineage & church community

We encourage all prospective members to review the Orientation Guide before joining.

Orientation Guide

Membership Information

Membership Contribution

Membership is supported through an annual contribution of $150.

This contribution helps sustain:

  • Church administration and operations

  • Educational programming

  • Ritual and community infrastructure

  • Stewardship of the lineage and teachings

  • Ongoing development of church resources

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Becoming a
Member

The membership process includes:

  • Completion of the online registration form

  • Review of church principles and agreements

  • Consent and Intake documentation

  • Payment of membership contribution

  • Confirmation email and membership certificate

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Frequently
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Questions

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  • Membership offers participation in the wider life of the Aotsi Tsinane community. Depending on availability and alignment, members may participate in ceremonies, educational gatherings, integration spaces, seasonal rituals, community support systems, and other church activities organized through the community and its ministers.

  • Yes, membership is supported through an annual contribution.

  • Yes. After registration, members receive a confirmation email and membership certificate.

  • Yes. Some offerings may vary depending on location.

  • Members are encouraged to participate in the life of the community and events regularly, preferably at least once per year.