Yari from Peru and Paula from Germany dedicate their lives to the study of the Andean cosmovision and its master plants. Inspired by various traditions and local plants, their altar seeks to honour life by learning and growing in humility, doing their best for the land and future generations who will inherit it. Both are ceremonial music composers that draw inspiration from the forces of nature. They are a couple since 2018 and live in a little community in the south of Portugal. As guardians of a native forest, fruit trees, and vegetable gardens, kids learn to live in harmony with nature, honouring every living being on our mother earth and grateful for all the blessings of father sky.
Paula is a student of nature, its songs and its memory, as well as a ceremonialist, walking her prayer of simplicity and preparing the ground for varied seeds of joy to sprout.
Paula grew up in northern Germany as the youngest of four children. She was raised to develop her creativity in a variety of ways, including learning at a Waldorf school and playing several instruments from an early age. She became a student of nature after graduating from school.
She lives a simple life in a community in southern Portugal, where she built her own home. In addition to tending to vegetable gardens, fruit trees, and a natural forest, she is an artist, alchemist, musician, painter, and composer of her own songs.
Paula Katharina
Yari Bonilla
Yari, born in Peru, has been guiding ceremonies since 2014, with a focus on native medicine plants and sustainability. His major arrow leads to the Wachuma cactus, and he walks the bridge between two continents, South America and Europe, analysing how the calendar wheels align and complement one another.
Yari plays multiple instruments and composes his own music.
From a young age, he has been expressing the full cycle of a simple existence via gardening, growing a fruit forest, natural building, raising his daughters, co-creating a community, and studying the wisdom of his homeland's elders.