About us

"Welcome to Sol de la Nueva Aurora. This is a shamanic institute because we come to learn; from each ayahuasca session, there is something to learn.

We have a flag that represents us, which is a sun with two beings on it, and you will be able to delve into its meaning.

We also have an old flag, the great ancestral standard of these lands. This is how we honor the path of our Charrúa ancestors, our grandparents, and all the tribes that were part of that great nation. That path is represented by the red stripe, which is the path of the heart. It connects two universes: the Great Blue Planet with the Great Blue Father, the Great Mystery. The white stripe is the path of purification, the ascent to the manifestation of oneself.

For the Charrúas, that flag was a symbol of peace. Artigas used it in his encampments as a message to the tribes, to the nearby encampments. The flag indicated that it was a peace camp. Our paths were sacred to walk. They were genuine lives; we had no stories of wars, no stories of taking anything from anyone.

We simply respected who each one was, and we knew that there was a time for things.

That's why we are here as an institution, and the only flags you will see waving are these because they have great significance for us."

Opening ceremony

Montevideo 12/02/22

Our history

We are a Shamanic Spiritual Institute founded in 2008 by Santos Victorino. We have legal status and the corresponding authorization from the Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay, providing a legal and cultural framework for our activities.

We work with different ancestral medicines, conducting ceremonies, retreats, and spiritual exercises for the expansion of consciousness, with healing and self-discovery as our main focus.

Santos Victorino was once part of the Santo Daime community, 'Flores de Amor,' led by sponsors Sueli and Antonio Hoff in Brazil. He also participated in other communities, enriching his experience in various rituals and ways of experiencing ayahuasca ceremonies. Currently, Sol de la Nueva Aurora is independent of this doctrine but remains connected to 'Flores de Amor,' sharing respect for the values inherited from the founder of Santo Daime, Mestre Raimundo Irineu Serra. It was during his time in this community that Santos Victorino received the instruction to bring ayahuasca to Uruguay. We see here that the origin of our institute is not a result of a bloodline but arises from a entrusted mission and a spiritual lineage that we recover by remembering our ancestral memories through the medicine. There is indeed a Charrúa bloodline in the case of its founder.

On February 16, 2008, the first ayahuasca ceremony that would give rise to our institute took place in the city of Rivera (Uruguay). Since its foundation, Sol de la Nueva Aurora has also incorporated other influences. Santos Victorino, in search of a design for ceremonies that would adapt to our context, channeled how it should be carried out. In this quest, he traveled to Pariquera (Brazil), where he came into contact with the 'Centro Espírita Céu Nossa Senhora da Conceição,' led by padrino Gideon Dos Lakotas. Seeing the ceremonial design of shamanic influence used there, he recognized similarities with what he had already been doing. He returned there on other occasions, enriching his training as a padrino. This shamanic influence intensifies over time, and other traditions and medicines are incorporated into our tribe.

In our institute, we recognize Santos Victorino as a padrino, using the term from the Santo Daime tradition, and as a shaman, referring to the concept used by various indigenous American cultures from which we draw inspiration. Another visible trait is the Charrúa heritage, evident in elements such as the Artiguist flag that accompanies us in every ceremony, and in the nomadic spirit of our tribe conducting activities in different parts of the country and abroad.

Currently, the 'Shamanic Spiritual Institute Sol de la Nueva Aurora' works with various ancestral medicines, especially ayahuasca, conducting ceremonies, retreats, and spiritual exercises for consciousness expansion. Since its foundation, different individuals committed to the path have contributed to sustaining and organizing the diverse activities we carry out. Responding to the call of mission, love, and service.

Our institute is syncretic and essentialist; the latter refers to the fact that our work centers on self-knowledge, exploring the question of who we are, through the power of the medicine that exposes us to ourselves.