While 2022 was marked by the construction of our physical space, in 2023 we were able to begin our activities. Thinking about a long-term plan is somewhat challenging, because putting oneself in the place of the Earth – whose breath of life is much greater than ours – implies patience and knowledge about the cycles of...Continue reading
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We are looking for an Agroecology Coordinator
Open position for agroecology coordinator
2nd Brazilian Forum on the Rights of Nature: The Earth is alive and has rights!
From October 6th to 8th, the Mãe Mirra Portal was present at the 2nd National Forum on the Rights of Nature in Ilhéus, which aimed to discuss the importance of reclaiming ways of life in harmony with other beings and biomes, and to encourage federal, state, and municipal bodies to establish laws and...Continue reading
Pure Reason and Intuition
We can acquire knowledge about plants in several ways. One is to rely on a book or a trustworthy person who has told us about some medicinal properties of a plant. Another way is to use our mental apparatus, which can reason and reach conclusions through assumptions such as if A=B and B=C, therefore...Continue reading
The Advent of the New World
A few days before Luz was born, I was with Kalya in São Paulo, and Tiôssa and Flavia were at the Portal with Leo and Jenny. Flavia had been immersed in the book "The Divine Life" by Sri Aurobindo, and we were discussing the clarification that the volunteer program is actually a program called: "Becoming-to-be," becauseContinue reading
Útero Amotara Zabelê, the proposal of a school of philosophy led by indigenous peoples
In January 2023, the Mãe Mirra Portal sought to learn about initiatives to regenerate, repair, react, and share in the Una, Ilhéus, Itacaré, and Maraú region, the coastal area of southern Bahia. The southern region of the state of Bahia suffers daily from the environmental impacts resulting from the development of commercial cocoa farming.Continue reading
Project Rainbow childhood: Energy, matter and vibration
The "Rainbow Childhood: Matter, Energy, and Vibration" Project aims to stimulate self-awareness (of the physical, vital, emotional, intellectual, social, and environmental/cultural aspects) in children aged 3 to 14 through the languages of art, technology, science, and the environment in multicultural actions that seek to unite ancestral and contemporary knowledge and practices, enabling these individuals to make positive future contributions to the environments they inhabit. It is a journey of self-discovery and understanding of our role in the "planetary web," seeking to facilitate and encourage individual, social, scientific, non-scientific, artistic, cultural, and ecological development.
Integral Agroforestry and Sumaq Kawsay
This project aims to strengthen the relationship between the communities of Ramal do Pé de Serra, Uruçuca, and Aldeia de Itapuã and their respective forms of production with the forest and its surroundings, reinforcing the culture and economy of well-being through the implementation of integrated cropping based on successional agroforestry systems; and through associative work.Continue reading
Annual Report 2022
Starting a new project, at the dimensions it was at the subtle plane was very challenging. Sometimes, we dream of beautiful and beautiful things or we reach very subtle states of consciousness. The great learning of this whole year that passed was about that. Strengthen structures: both our internal structure and external structures so that something could be materialized.Continue reading
Differences between education and orientation
How to collaborate for the world I dream of? A fraternal world, where all beings can be free and happy? I spent many years dreaming of transforming the world, it took me a while to recognize that I needed, above all, to transform and heal myself. The work is hard and constant.Continue reading
Yoga online and Fasting Retreat | Portal Mãe Mirra
Silent and fasting retreat: next dates May 8-28 (21 days) and May 17-28 (12 days). The Mãe Mirra Portal offers online yoga practices and facilitates fasting and silence processes. Both techniques are ancient traditions that promote the withdrawal of mental activities, allowing the flourishing of other states of consciousness. This isContinue reading
River
River life, boat goes, in the curves of the waters towards the sea When the waters calm down, the moon appears When the waters calm down, the sun opens below, above and inside us breaking the waves of Time, breaking the waves of Space we arrive at sunny infinity No light, signal light, light fromContinue reading
Macrocosmos x Microcosmos: the “self” and the SELF
Presentation of a point of view on the similarity of macro and micro, Cosmos and Universe through scientific and non-scientific perspectives
Navigating the consciousness of Dreams and Sleep
Description of the four states of Atman Consciousness, waking state, dreaming state, deep sleep and turiya, described in the Mandukya Upanisad. Followed by a brief description of yogi methodology for consciously entering the Deep Sleep state. The text accompanies Sri Aurobindo's commentary on the reality and illusion of the waking state and the world of dreams and sleep.
Combing hair at home
Hair, lice, straw and roofs.
Combing and performing a mental cleaning in our mental body and in our home too
The first little hands that built here
Our first experience open to public took place in March. It was funny, neither Diogo nor I felt very confortable in publicizing a lot. The house was still a zone, we lived in tents, without bathroom, a shower, construction work scattered everywhere, floors still with bamboo slats...Finally, we felt like we were a hurricane. Constantly IContinue reading
"I have already built 3 clay ovens with garbage"
It was one of the phrases that marked me in my living with Diogo. I got to know Diogo's work through Rede Permaperifa at Casa Ecoativa in Grajaú. Returning to talking about stitching and networks, this network supports the development of permaculture on the outskirts of São Paulo. I was very surprised at this meeting at Casa Ecoativa,Continue reading
"I came from there, I came from there, little, little
But I came from there when I was little! Someone warned me, to step on this floor…slowly. Today I remembered Of my spirit dissolved in the Universe Every second on Earth It's millions of years in Space My spirit waits I remembered why I came To feel the damp earth touch my skin Hear the orchestra of birds The danceContinue reading
Sabijam Samadhi steps
The first chapter of Patanjali's Yogasutras describes the states of consciousness traversed by the mind until it reaches the state of Samadhi and, later, Kaivalyam
Who is the "Self"?
A philosophical journey about the states of Ahamkara, or the “fluid of consciousness” that we call ego, from the dense and physical plane, to the mental and supramental plane
