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🌳Eco-tourism in Ecuadorian Amazon, 100% community owned
🌿culture & ancestral wisdom: spirit, plants & dreams
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In this powerful clip, @manariushigua, Spiritual Leader and Sacred Relationships Advisor of the Sapara Nation from Ecuador, who spoke alongside Annie Goeke (Global Consultant for @community3.0x at @earthrightsinstitute) at the Green Economy Un-Conference, shares a profound reflection on the challenges of our modern civilization.

During his address, he reminds us that the answer to reshaping our way of life and healing the planet does not lie in repeating the models that brought us here, but in reconnecting with our roots, questioning current systems, and choosing a path of wisdom, harmony, and collective well-being. 💚

The shift toward a sustainable, life-affirming future depends entirely on us. How do we choose to live starting today?

👉 Learn more about our work with the link in our bio!

#earthrightsinstitute #greeneconomy #indigenouswisdom #climateaction #sustainablefuture

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Gracias por enseñarme a creer.
Gracias por recordarme el poder de la naturaleza.
Gracias por mostrarme el oro que habita en nuestros territorios y en nuestros corazones.
Gracias por cuidar lo nuestro.
Gracias por enseñarme a hacer magia.
Gracias por compartir su tiempo, su familia, si hogar, su energía y su sabiduría conmigo.
Gracias por enseñarme a caminar descalza sin hacer ruido.
Gracias por acompañarme en mi viaje de autoconocimiento, sanación, crecimiento y evolución.
Gracias por guiarme.
Gracias por permitirme encontrar mi propio camino de regreso a casa.
Gracias porque gracias a ustedes hoy puedo volver a mi.
🤎🐆

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Feliz #indigenas dia
Happy #indigenous day

12/10/2026

Un fin de dia llama un nuevo dia : ES AHORA!
End of the day is calling a new day : IT S NOW

@lamaisondelamazonie @amazonia_calling @amazonfrontlines @amazonarteperu @associationamazonia @amazonrainforestconservancy @naku.com.ec @sosamazonia @indigenous.futurisms @indigenousintentions @indigenous.tv @indigenousrising @indigenouscircleofwellness @indigenous_revolution_ @ekoa_movement

#amor #love #pachamama

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Climate week NYC 2026

This climate week, I’m looking for where style meets true substance because luxury should honor the earth 🌎, protect heritage and carry a story worth telling.#climateaction #sustainability #climateweeknyc

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IMMERSION TO THE HEART OF THE AMAZON
February 6–15, 2027

Many of you have asked and it is finally happening! We have opened new dates for the Amazon!

This February, we invite you to join us for a 7 day immersion in the Ecuadorian Amazon, in the ancestral territory of the Sápara people, followed by two days of integration in Ecuador’s Cloud Forest.

Together with Manari Ushigua, Sápara leader and wisdom keeper, Florencia Fridman, and Jacob Farris, we will enter into an intimate journey of connection, ceremony, ancestral wisdom, and deep relationship with the living intelligence of the Amazon.
•Sacred plant and cacao ceremonies •Jungle treks & river excursions • Dream interpretation and ancestral teachings • Time in Llanchama Cocha community • Two days of integration and reflection 
This is an invitation to slow down enough to listen to the forest, to the wisdom of the Sápara, to the plants, and ultimately to the deeper parts of ourselves.
A large portion of the funds from this journey will be donated to the NAKU Foundation, supporting Indigenous-led forest preservation, cultural resilience, and sovereignty.

Applications are now open through the link in our bio.

** Also keep in mind this journey is longer than our usual journeys through @florecercommunity

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Naku: donde el turismo comunitario, la cultura y la conservación se encuentran 🍃

En el corazón del territorio Sápara, la comunidad de Llanchama Cocha ha consolidado un modelo de turismo comunitario que fortalece la economía local, protege el bosque y mantiene vivas las prácticas ancestrales.

Durante los últimos años, Fundación Pachamama ha acompañado este proceso mediante el fortalecimiento de infraestructura resiliente, sistemas de energía solar, formación de capacidades locales y la restauración de espacios comunitarios que hoy reciben visitantes de todo el mundo.

@naku.com.ec es mucho más que un centro de ecoturismo: es un ejemplo de cómo las comunidades amazónicas lideran soluciones sostenibles para el futuro, combinando conocimiento ancestral, innovación y conservación.

💚 Energía renovable
🏡 Infraestructura comunitaria
🌱 Juventud y saberes ancestrales
🌎 Conservación del territorio Sápara

#Naku #TurismoComunitario #Amazonia

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From the depth of the Amazon jungle to the open roads back home, it’s always been about living fully, staying curious, and choosing a life that feels expansive and aligned.

Different landscapes, same mindset—keep exploring, keep growing, keep saying yes 🚐✨
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Follow along for 2026 van rental offers, road trips to stunning destinations, and intentional living 🌄
📧 DM us “SOCAL” to book your dates
🎥 Full van tour on YouTube 🔗 link in bio

#SoCalVanLife #LiveFully #ChooseAdventure #VanLifeVibes #WildAndFree ExperiencesOverThings

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Beyond the map, into the heart of the Amazon. 🌿✨

True luxury isn’t found in a catalog—it’s found in the moments that can’t be replicated. From private flights over the emerald canopy to the sacred rhythm of ancestral traditions, this is a journey into the soul of the earth. Unfiltered, unforgettable, and entirely unique.

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Naku— where the forest wakes you, the river leads the way, and stories unfold beneath open skies of the Amazon ✨

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Nos alegra compartir que Pachamama Journeys ahora forma parte de la red global de @TourismCares, una comunidad internacional comprometida con impulsar un turismo más responsable y con impacto positivo para las comunidades y los territorios.

Esta alianza reafirma nuestro compromiso con un turismo que protege la naturaleza, respeta las culturas y genera beneficios directos para las comunidades locales.

Pachamama Journeys ofrece experiencias de inmersión profunda en territorios indígenas de la Amazonía ecuatoriana, donde los viajeros pueden aprender directamente de los pueblos que han cuidado estos bosques durante generaciones y visitar territorios donde Fundación Pachamama trabaja junto a las comunidades, evidenciando el impacto de iniciativas de conservación, y fortalecimiento comunitario.

Para nosotros, el turismo es una herramienta poderosa para conectar con culturas indigenas, fortalecer economías locales y apoyar la conservación de la biodiversidad de la Amazonía ecuatoriana.

Ser parte de la comunidad de Tourism Cares nos permite seguir trabajando junto a líderes del sector para construir un modelo de turismo sostenible y regenerativo.

@naku.com.ec @kapawi_ecolodge

🌎 Más información:
www.tourismcares.org, www.pachamamajourneys.com.ec

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7. As we make our way home to the edge of Dartmoor, UK, we’re feeling immensely grateful for the warm welcome, friendship and sense of comradeship we’ve experienced in the Amazon from the different indigenous nationalities and communities we have visited: Naku and Llanchamacocha in Sapara Territory, and, in Achuar territory; Sharamentsa, Wayusenstsa and Kapawi Eco Lodge.

1: Canoe trip from Kapawi Eco Lodge
2: Being painted at Sharamentsa
3. With Chumpi Ramiro Vargas & shaman Entsakua Uyunkar at Sharamentsa
4. A mystery
5. Grandfather Menthe (Kapok) tree
6. Farewell from Kapawi
7. Marco at Sharamentsa
8. Sisa Grefa at Naku
9. A limpia/cleansing from a Sapara elder on arrival at Llanchamacocha, before being painted (10) to reflect my Sapara name: “Umaru” (rain). This is part of the extraordinary welcome we receive at Naku, who offer such a profound transition into the forest in which every person receives a Sapara name befitting them.
10. The immensity of the forest.

Each place so very different, and yet everywhere such warmth, kindness, strength, sensitivity, patience and gentle humour, such care for us, their guests, and such passion for their role as protectors of the forest from all the different extractivist industries which would bring such destruction to the rich biodiversity of the forest and to the cultures which are totally intertwined and interdependent with it.

Though I’ve now been so many times, this is part of what I learnt more about this time. I’m grateful and glad to be part of the international movement of allies with the Fundacion Pachamama. If you’d like to support this ground breaking (or rather, ground sustaining) work, find out more:

👉 fundacion.org.ec

Learn about our annual Movement Medicine ceremony to support the Fundacion Pachamama:
👉 movmed.me/longdance26

Read my blog about my Amazon experiences:
👉 movmed.me/amazonblog

This post continues from my last posts: (1,2, 3, 4, 5 & 6) which give a bit more of this story.

And lastly, great gratitude for being able to share this adventure of the soul with Ya’Acov Darling Khan so very very special to journey together through the years and decades.

With love and care,
Susannah

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Hot off the press, my latest for @suitcase looks at the rise of a trend that sits somewhere between sustainability and wellness: spiritual travel.

Thanks to my wonderful interviewees for sharing your knowledge @therealcharlottechurch @lisastardustastro @karen.hamdorf and Dr. Choe of Glasgow Caledonian University. And as ever thanks to @lucykehoe for the opportunity to write such interesting pieces.

Read the full thing here: https://suitcasemag.com/from-tarot-to-astrocartography-how-travel-is-getting-spiritual/
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#slowtravel #meaningfultravel #wellness #spirituality

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