Our Story
Living as Sacred is a path and journey that will guide you in reclaiming and expanding your sacred connection with all aspects of creation: with yourself, your relationships, with the human and more-than-human world, supporting you to remember how to live in reciprocity and harmony with life and questioning how to better serve our common home, the Earth. It is a journey of remembering, re-imagining and reclaiming in which we are all called to actively participate and contribute in recognition that we all behold wisdom that is needed in the world.
OUR STORY
Living as Sacred was born with an understanding that together we are stronger. Like trees in a forest who mingle their roots to exchange information and nutrients so that the whole ecosystem can survive and thrive, when we unite we can birth a more beautiful world.
With such vision we created the educational platform and school that Living as Sacred is in order to address modern day issues and topics around ecology, culture, spirituality, health and healing and seeking ways to offer alternatives to how we perceive and are in relationship to self and the world.
At its very core the spirit of Living as Sacred holds the remembrance that all the universe is indeed sacred and that as humans we are here to remember how to live harmoniously here on planet earth.
We have run four online six months journey with different council members from all around the world and with over 200 students attending in total. Topics included: deep ecology, embodiment, ancestral crafts and skills, creativity, herbalism, farming, grief work, ritual work and more. We are incredibly grateful for this.
OUR MISSION
We assume the spiritual and physical responsibility for our common home, the Earth.
We are committed to rekindle our connection to the natural world, calling back ways that infuse our lives with sacredness, creating rituals and new narratives that are rooted in reciprocity, wakefulness, co-liberation and loving kindness. We acknowledge that our world is undergoing a very profound transformation and that we are all being called to take our part in this change. As humans we are asked to also undergo a similar transmutation in our paradigms and how we relate to the earth and all beings. Through the journeys and programs we offer, we hope to support this inner shift and weave a container that can hold us as a community, and as individuals, as we re-imagine new ways of living, as we expand our perception and see the world with new eyes.
OUR PURPOSE
Living as Sacred was born out of the understanding that we are collectively at a turning point.
Our programs are rooted in the understanding that ecology, spirituality and culture cannot be separated, that the human and more-than-human realms are deeply interwoven and interdependent. We work towards eradicating colonialism, human supremacy, separatism and oppression by offering new narratives that encourage belonging, intimacy, co-liberation, creativity and acknowledge the sacredness of all living beings. We are dedicated to offering education that bridges ancestral, earth-based ways of knowing with the demands of our modern world, finding ways in which we can weave together past and future. We are devoted to creating containers where everyone’s wisdom can arise from deep within, where we can re-enliven our own hearts to remember how to live in harmony on earth and contribute positively.
OUR VISION
We envision a future that is built on interdependence, reciprocity, responsibility, belonging, beauty and embodiment.
We envision a future that is built on interdependence: remembering we are all interrelated; reciprocity: which invites us to acknowledge the agency of all living beings; responsibility: questioning the stories we live by and becoming sovereign of our actions and our impact in the world; belonging: we are of the earth, she is our home and we are called to becoming more intimate with all of creation; beauty: to walk in beauty is to recognize the sacred and to be in harmonious relationship with all things, at every step we take; embodiment: we are connected to our senses, to our earth body, we are erotic beings and oracular vessels for creation to express itself through us, through our bodies we connect and we build intimate relationship.
Our Values
INTIMACY
RECIPROCITY
EDUCATION
CONSCIOUSNESS
RESPONSIBILITY
INTERDEPENDENCE
EMPATHY
CURIOSITY
INTIMACY RECIPROCITY EDUCATION CONSCIOUSNESS RESPONSIBILITY INTERDEPENDENCE EMPATHY CURIOSITY
Our Team
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Maria Peres
FOUNDER
Feminine Health: Natural Gynaecology, Ayurvedic Practitioner, Herbalist -
Emilia Cianci
CO-FOUNDER
Soul & Embodiment Work, Birthwork, Ceremony, Feminine Mysticism, Poetry -
Inês Theriaga
DESIGNER
Design, Research, Weaving & Natural Dyes
Our Offerings
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Learn from a council of 13 women from around the world that will share with you their own personal healing path, their wisdom and tools that can support you to find ways to reclaim your own wilderness, connect to the wider web of life and return to a harmonious relationship to all things.
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Connect to a circle of inspiring humans from all around the world that, just like you, are asking themselves what it means to be living in sacred connection with their bodies, themselves, with each other, with earth and spirit. Only when we bring our forces together can we truly shift paradigms. We are here to guide each other home.
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Be part of a container where you will receive weekly inspiration, simple, yet powerful, practices and rituals to infuse your life with meaning, radical educational content where you will be challenged enough to invite deep transformation in your life and in the life of the ecosystems you inhabit, shed separative thinking and return in connection to soil and stars.
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Thought as the fabric that weaves us, through the telegram group we will create a sense of togetherness, share the wisdom we all behold. be inspired bv each other and remember that we are not walking this path alone and in isolation, that our voices are asked to be shared and offered.
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We will cover a wide range of themes: from embodiment to plant wisdom, trauma healing, deep ecology, indigenous ways of knowing, creativity & the imagination, re-wilding, land protection, ancestral crafts and much more. All devoted to support you in your journey of reclamation and remembering.
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As we do the inner work of deconstructing and re-imagining we become sovereign agents of change, we travel beneath the mainstream colonial, oppressive, separative voices within us and we find that more authentic voice that knows how to be in intimate relationship with all things. As we shed these old paradigms we then in turn can affect those around us.
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We will create a safe container for vou to work with old belief patterns, unhealthy behaviours, to heal ancestral wounds that are not serving you, your relationships and the earth anymore. We will also support you in resting in the inquiry of what wants to be birthed and re-imagined, slowing down enough to listen and be ready to bring transformation.
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As we go deep in the work of releasing and transforming, as we meet our rage and grief for the collapse we are living and what we are longing for but are not receiving, as we encounter our own edges we are called to remember how to celebrate our lives and the lives of all beings. We will take time to keep reminding each other of our capacity to be grateful and live in joy.