"Wayra" in Quechua language means "wind", and Chakapa is a Quechua word for a shaker or rattle constructed of bundled leaves. Shrubs of the genus Pariana provide the leaves for the chakapa. Chakapa is also the common name for these shrubs. It is built by tying the leaves so that they are in the shape of a fan.
The Waira, Wayra, chacapa, also called shakapa or chakapa, is a sound instrument made with dry leaves used by shamans and healers in traditional Amazonian medicine rituals. The bushes of the genus Pariana provide the leaves for the chacapa.
In an ayahuasca ceremony, for example, a healer may shake the chakapa around the patient while singing an icaro (healing song). The sound of the chakapa is said to comfort and "cleanse" the energy surrounding the patient.
Healers have a wide variety of chakapa movements that create different sounds and energy waves; These movements coincide with the Icarus and the healing that is being done at that moment.
Some people report seeing green, blue, and gold ribbons of light around the chakapa, and then moving in tendrils around the room.
Chakapa is therefore an important energy cleansing tool. In the Amazon, once the healer traps the evil spirits in a chakapa, he expels them from the leaves into the forest. Spirits are distributed and absorbed throughout nature.
I bring the Wairas from the jungle of Mocoa in Putumayo/Colombia. Here you can purchase your Waira.