Gaia Vivência
Bringing Brazil to the UK for an intimate women’s experience designed to enhance feminine creativity through nurturing states of flow.
Summer Retreat with Jüjü Maschietto & Bruna Piazzi
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This is a special opportunity to join our Brazilian sisters Jüjü and Bruna for an intimate weekend at Gaia Cottage, Kit’s home, a biodiversity haven in the heart of the South Downs.
The weekend will start with a traditional opening ceremony and movement meditation to ease us into the vivência and ground us into the land.
Experiences will include a foraging/nature walk, a mud bath, sauna, yoga, and meditation, each augmenting the heart-opening effects of the Cacao Ceremony on Saturday night.
The weekend will follow the rhythmic movement of the breath: “inspir” (to breathe in, inspire) and “expir” (breathe out, let go), allowing time for reflection and integration.
Interweaving Brazilian Indigenous Wisdom, Ayurvedic Medicine, and ancient British Folklore, these three women will encourage you to ease into greater intimacy with your self, others, and the natural world.
The Practitioners:
🌹 Jüjü Maschietto dedicates her life to the study of medicinal plants and natural healing practices of native tribes. She spent years learning indigenous and herbal medicine practices with masters and healers from Brazil and still continues learning and practicing with them. Her passion for the Amazon rainforest, indigenous people and native medicines, led her to follow spiritual dietas within the Yawanawa and Shipibo traditions and presently Juju works with some of these tribes and acts as a bridge between them and people interested in indigenous cultures, and their master plants. She has a masters degree in Naturopathy, Clinical Aromatherapy, Bach Flower Remedies, Reiki, and Energy Alignment and has just finished her training as an Ayurvedic therapist in India. (kawa.eco.br/)
🌿 Bruna Piazzi, Tantra Yoga (rajadhiraja) Instructor & Therapist, trained in India at the World Peace Yoga School & Ananda Marga. In recent times, she’s been exploring ways to expand consciousness through the body, traditional knowledge and the arts, and researching physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing. (@bruna.piazzi)
🌱 Kit Ondaatje Rolls is a bio-designer (and budding forager), working at the intersection of culture, ecology, and the arts. Her regenerative projects have been showcased at International Biodiversity Conferences including the IUCN Congress 2021, COP26, and the ChangeNOW International Climate Summit, 2022. Currently, she is enrolled in Vital’s year-long Psychedelic Therapy course and works primarily with fungi. She is now finishing up her second book, exploring the relationship between art and play, spirituality and science. Kit also works as the After School Club Leader at London Steiner School, seeking to inspire the next generation to participate in this global, restorative movement through playful creativity. (kitondaatjerolls.com)
In the past years, Juju & Bruna have been conducting spiritual retreats based on Tantra Yoga and plant based healing in Brazil. It was here that they met Kit and ever since, the three have been sharing practices and finding ways to bring Indigenous Brazilian Culture to the wider world.
Gaia Cottage, Midhurst, GU29 0LQ
Jüjü, Kit, & Bruna
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