2017 Working with the Czech Republic Foundation Mosty-Puentes.
Our work with the Czech Republic Foundation Mosty-Puentes has produced good results and an active cultural exchange. Monica Michaelova, internationally recognized spiritual leader, has brought various groups from Europe to Tierra Negra to live alongside and study with the Kogi. They have been received by Mama Pedro and the women leaders (sajas) who have taught them the art of making the ubiquitous shoulder bags and the spiritual significance of this tradition as well as other spiritual and cultural knowledge. Mosty-Puentes invited to Europe jaba (mother) Irma Segura, member and leader in the Uaí, the fox clan, also known as hippie-Kogi, who have been accepted by the original four tribes of the Sierra. Irma and her companion Jairo Vargas have lived with the Kogi for over 50 years, birthing and raising their children in the Sierra. With her years of experience as a midwife and natural healer using clay, sunlight, water and herbs, and her sharp intuition and knowledge of human nature, she is an invaluable wealth of information. She was invited to teach and share this knowledge in several places in Europe. Jate (father) Jairo was also invited, his knowledge of natural healing and spiritual insights are equally valuable, but he chose to stay in the Sierra, where he feels most at home and in harmony and communion with God and nature. Their son Yeroham with his daughter Sofia went instead. He was born and raised in the mountains, he and his family still live in the high Sierra, under the laws of the Kogi, respecting the Mother. |