The Institute for Collective Development

Coming home. It's one of the most overused phrases in personal development. It's what we are all seeking, this sense of home, beyond a mere place, a sense of returning, remembering, melting back into the source of everything. Coming to Nabi Nunhue is indeed like coming home. Not to a place, but to a way of being. A way of relating to the natural world, your own body, the earth, life, that we all remember deep down in our cells, in a place not accessible for language, but feelable through presence, connection, experience. That home. The home before we severed all connection with the sharp sword of language, semantics, difference, discrimination.

Nabi Nunhue is not a place devoid of language, but the people living here are preserving a precious almost forgotten way of being in relationship with life that has been carefully passed down through generations for thousands of years by different indigenous lineages. A way of living that was never forgotten here, that was protected against the reductionisms of the western mind, so that one day, we may come home with humility and ask to remember how it felt to be at home as this living planet.

Kajuyali, Jaba Saka and their beautiful family are granting us the priviledge to remember, by inviting us into their sacred world of ancestral wisdom, indigenous ceremonies, and plant medicine, that they have been humbly nurtering in the sanctuary for ancestral traditions that is Nabi Nunhue.

Every year we have the opportunity to come home, learn, remember and go back to our lives with an invitation to live deeper, more present and more connected to this living cosmos, Pachamilli.

I can't put into words how deeply my life and the life of my family have been touched by the generosity and love of this family, this place, and these traditions. This work is real, intense, bringing you to your edge, forcing you to surrender, yet it is profoundly gentle and generous. I am touched and honored beyond comprehension that every we are invited to open this door for 16 other invidividuals who want to take a sip of this remembrance.

Next year in January it is time again, we will spend two weeks in the Andes Mountains of southern Colombia to journey deeply into ancestral wisdom and plant medicine, to remember who we are, and how to feel ourselves as part of all life. The journey will be supported by delicately weaving our experiences into a western philosophical, scientific, developmental and spiritual tapestry, to support us bringing these profound impressions into our cultural context, without losing its essence.

I have gone through some footage and testimonials of the last years to share with you the beauty of this journey, and to let you take a peek into how it has impacted others in the past.
This is my most precious offering, and I hope you will have the opportunity to experience it.

Do you want to join us?
Dates: January 15th - January 28th 2024