Maestra Laura Lopez De Fernandez - Chononyavi - 'Swallow bird that flies in unity' is Shipibo-Conibo, born in the Native Community of Royaboya, in the Ucayali region of the Peruvian Amazon. She is the eldest daughter of renknowned Shipibo Maestra Ynes Sanchez Gonsalez, and the inheritor of generations of ancestral plant wisdom. She has been deeply immersed in the world of plant medicine from a young age. Laura was given a small diets by her grandparents from the age of 10 years and by the age of 16 began her apprenticeship to learn about ayahuasca and learning diets. At age 20, Laura entered a more active phase in her apprenticeship, and traveled throughout Peru with her mother, sharing medicinal plants and ayahuasca ceremonies with local Peruvians. She has also worked extensively with her mother and sisters Maestra Lila and Maestra Edelin both in Peru and abroad. She brings an incredible wealth of knowledge that has been passed down for generations in her family line. Laura is known for her dedication to the path, constantly dieting and doing long spiritual fasts to increase the depth of her knowledge, as well as the refinement and skill and artistry in her embroidery of Shipibo kene (designs). Her beautiful ikaros (medicine songs) pour out her with love and devotion to each of her patients.