Yamati Roa’Ti - Noke Koî Ancestral Spiritual Delegation
The Workings of Nature
Yamati Roati Delegation is a cultural and spiritual collective representing the Noke Koî ethnicity one of the Indigenous peoples and guardians of the forest and all it wonders.
Led by the great traditional healer of the forest, Romeya Peño Kamãnawa, the comitiva also includes Rane Varinawa (Peño’s son), Kamayura Kamãnawa (Peño's daughter), along with his wife, Karine Vari. Together. They share their sacred practices and ancient knowledge in a journey of healing, reconnection, and personal transformation.
The Noke Koi, known for their profound connection to the forest, preserve a culture rich in rituals chants, and traditional medicines.
The name Noke Koî, which means "true people," reflects the essence of this ethnic group, deeply rooted in the forest and its spirituality.
Native speakers of the Noke Vana language. part of the Pano linguistic family. they carry a rich cultural heritage filed with collective practices, traditional foods, games, and communal activities.
Their connection to sacred medicines such as ayahuasca, rapé, kambô, and sananga is a testament to their harmonious relationship with nature and the spiritual world.
Spiritual Leader
Romeya Peño Kamañawa - ‘Pajé’
Paje Peno Kamanawa, is a spiritual leader of his Nation. Born April 9th of 1971, he lives in Saumoma Village, located in the village of pinas de campinas, Katukinas, in the state of Acre of the Amazonian Brazilian Rainforests.
The Noke Koî (Katukinas) are a First Nation of the Amazon. Pajé represents his culture and keeps the tradition of Romeya, (shamanic doctor/curandero), of & for his people. As all doctors of the Forest, he attends to his community, helping in all physical, mental and spiritual processes. He also works with communities all around the world, including other indigenous, to share and represent his techniques. He is working all the time around Brazil and different countries from 2008 to present.
Paje Peno is committed with his ancestors to keep the spirituality alive and bring the mysteries of the Forest to this tangible World. His Mission is to preserve the wellness of his people bringing healing to all of human-kind. His culture is very rich and they still keep their original customs, language, parties, songs, rituals, and ceremonies going. Paje Peno knows every single plant in the rainforest to heal body, mind, and spirit.
Karine Garcia - Varî
Karine Vari, an educator with a degree in Pedagogy, project coordinator, and a student of the forest medicines for nine years, has been working alongside her husband, Romeya Peño, for the past four years to promote the visibility and strengthening of Noke Koî culture, as well as assisting in the implementation of projects and experiential activities within the community. Her intention is to strengthen the image and importance of traditional Noke Koî healers, and she dreams together with her husband of bringing new possibilities to their family and community, such as access to quality education, healthcare, autonomy, and housing.
Rane Varinawa
Rane Varinawa, 14, a member of the Noke Koî ethnic group, has been studying ayahuasca medicine with his father, Romeya Peño, since he was 6 years old. Today, he is developing his skills to represent his culture through singing and playing the guitar. He has been an excellent percussionist since he was 10 and he enjoys taking Kambo monthly with his father.
Kamayura Kamanawa
Kamayura is a 21-year-old woman who practices the culture of her people, the Noke Koî, honoring their traditional medicines and performing traditional songs with her voice and guitar. She is the daughter of Romeya Peño and the granddaughter of one of the last female healers who practiced voice and breathwork techniques. In addition to performing the songs, she coordinates activities and practices at festivals, creates paintings featuring traditional motifs, and makes handicrafts.
Traditional Plant Medicine
The Noke Koî represent an ancestral culture and lineage working with Nature and the Spirits of the Forest. Within their tradition there is a fundamental understanding that Humanity is a part of, not separate from, Nature. In their connection with Nature, a bridge is built between the plants, animals, people, cultures, and the Universe;This bridge facilitates greater healing, alignment, harmony, and collaboration across species.
In the circles of Yamati Roa’Ti, participants are invited to deepen in their relationship with Nature and themselves. Through the sacred plant and animal medicines of the culture, recipients can receive greater self knowledge, healing, and greater balance.
In their prayers through-out California and the World, the Noke Koî and cultural delegation of Yamati Roa’Ti serve the traditional plant and animal medicines from the Forest with great reverence, humility, respect, and to hold an ever higher integrity within the work of individual and collective evolution and what it means to truly ‘Be Human’ and Honor the Earth & Family of It.
The medicines of Kambo, Oni, Romé Poto, and Sananga represent living spirits and natural medicines from the Forest to help bring forth Soul and Spirit Within.
Yamati Roa’Ti hosts prayers and private work in the Santa Cruz Mountains, across the United States, and hosts immersions within the Heart of the Amazon Rainforest. For participation and more information, please sign up for the newsletter and stay up to date in our ‘upcoming experiences’.
Noke Koî Ancestral
Kambo
Kambo is regarded as perhaps the most important medicine of the Noke Koî people. Traditionally, it is worked with by those who will then Hunt. The medicine of Kambo brings deeper connection to the Forest, warrior strength, and resiliency. Today, Kambo is shared across the globe, and it is the Noke Koî people (Known as the Kings of Kambo) that have been acknowledged as official stewards in sharing what is now regarded as the ‘Vaccine of the Forest’. Kambo cleanses, delivers an abundance of peptides, and serves to strengthen the recipient through resiliency and receiving the warrior spirit.
Uni
Oni, also known as Ayahuasca, is an admixture of two plants from the Amazon Rainforest; the leaves of Chacruna, known to the Noke Koî as Kawa, bringing Vision, and the Banisteriopsis, known as Caapi, bringing strength and connection. The traditional brew consists of only these two plants and is served by and under the guidance of ‘Pajé’ (The Shaman). In our ceremonies, Romeya Penó consecrates Oni to connect to the spirits of the Forest that then aide him in the healing process of those receiving the traditional ‘Cura’ (healing) in the technique of Pajélança (the traditional doctoring of a Noke Koî Pajé). Drinking Oni is revered as a school, study, and a Plant Teacher of the Noke Koî.
Rome Poto
Rome Poto, known to the world has Hapeh, is the traditional medicine of the Pajé. In the ancestral culture, only the Pajé could consecrate Hapeh. Hapeh is a mixture of Tobacco from the Amazon and the alkaline ashes of sacred tree bark (or various parts) depending upon the intention being imparted in the making of the medicine. Rome poto is the great ally of the Noke Koî Romeya in that Romeya literally translates to ‘One who holds the Wisdom of Romé’. Hapeh serves to cleanse the Aura, move stuck energy, and strengthen connection to the Earth and rooting one’s connection within their very own Body of Earth.