At Portal Mãe Mirra, we believe that honoring life goes beyond working the land. It's about cultivating awareness and caring for our inner selves, so that we can act with greater clarity and harmony in the world. In this spirit, every year-end, we offer a free retreat of silence and a cleansing diet based on...Continue reading “O Silêncio e a Terra: Um Convite ao Retiro de Silêncio e Jejum Gratuito do Portal Mãe Mirra”
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Community Engagement and Education: Integration of Ancestral Knowledge and Modern Science
Community engagement through rural pedagogy and griot pedagogy: uniting astronomy, agroecology, and ancestral knowledge to transform the education of children in southern Bahia.
Regeneration and Consumption Habits
Once upon a time, in a serene corner of Ceará, where the sea breeze meets the firmness of the land, two women heard the profound call of nature. Fefe and Dione, connected by the roots of their homeland, realized that the true essence of life is intrinsically linked to the soil that sustains us and to food.Continue reading “Regeneração e hábitos de consumo”
Celebrating Our Common Unity: Caring for the Body, the Land, and Planet Earth
The current development model on the southern coast of Bahia has generated serious socioeconomic and environmental consequences due to the expansion of cocoa farming, predatory tourism, the real estate market, and the absence of public policies for the production, storage, and marketing of family farming products. This has led to social exclusion, decreased well-being, and a loss of belonging, resulting in...Continue reading “Celebrando nossa Unidade Comum: cuidando do corpo, da terra e do planeta Terra”
Learn more about our Agroecology journey in the Pé de Serra community
Our journey is one of remembering our origins and our connection to the Earth, honoring every act in service to Life. We also understand that to honor well-being and Divine Life, we must preserve the abundance, beauty, and magnitude of Nature and act in every way to build ecological settlements.Continue reading “Conheça um pouco mais da nossa jornada de Agroecologia na comunidade do Pé de Serra”
Annual Report 2023
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 “Relatório Anual 2023”
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 “2° Fórum Brasileiro dos Direitos da Natureza: A Terra é viva e tem direitos!”
Support the Mãe Mirra Portal
This is a recurring campaign aimed at supporting the administrative and maintenance activities of the Portal Mãe Mirra community space. Our initiatives primarily focus on offering free early childhood education activities and projects for the regeneration of the Atlantic Forest. Portal Mãe Mirra is a community center located in Uruçuca, in the cocoa-growing region of southern Bahia (near...).Continue reading “Apoie o Portal Mãe Mirra”
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 “O Advento do Novo Mundo”
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 “Útero Amotara Zabelê, a proposta de uma escola de filosofia conduzida por povos originários”
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 “Cultivo Integral e Cultura do Bem-viver”
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 “Relatório Anual 2022”
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 “Diferenças entre educação e orientação”
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 “As primeiras mãozinhas que construíram aqui”
Learning to speak is learning to listen
To see in Spanish, click here. As Mirra Alfassa said: “to truly be able to express oneself for 10 seconds, a person would have to remain silent for an entire day. (…) Thus, to be able to speak for 10 minutes, a person would have to remain silent for an entire year.” In recent years, I have reflected a lot on “knowing how to speak,” “knowing how to communicate,”,Continue reading “Aprender a falar é aprender a escutar”
