Ararêtama is a Tupi-Guarani indian word

meaning land of light

the place from where light is born

and in this case it is consciousness

it is light as consciousness

as awareness

so this awakened consciousness

that has the capacity to choose its destiny

because destiny comes from design

so as humanity we have the capacity to design our destiny

our future from conscious choices

and Ararêtama is a system that brings

interfaces and instruments so that

we can make conscious choices for the common good

The first 7 years happened as this dive into nature

and in starting to comprehend the gestalt of this research

From the second block of 7 years

I started to design a therapeutic system

grouping together the researched plants

inside of this mandala, Ararêtama Mandala

that was created starting in 1997

as a process that each one could do

as a journey of self-discovery

to work on conditionings

So this issue of conditionings is very important

to be understood because

it is vital in the comprehension of the Ararêtama system

and of the therapeutic and educational system

that Ararêtama proposes to be

It is important to understand these blocks

in the process of the construction of the Ararêtama system

because these blocks opened ways in the foundation

of the process in a very clear way

So the first 7 years

were years of a dive into nature

absolutely guided by the consiousness

of this magnificent forest

and I always feel an eternal apprentice of

the mastering of this biodiversity

teaching me every day to become

a better human being or at least to look to this path

and the second block from 7 to 14 years

of the existence of the system

I dedicated myself to design this Mandala

and to position the researched plants

in a way that made it a journey of self-knowledge

and to apply this method

that started to be applied in an effective way

in Brazil, Czech Republic and Slovakia

so we have effective results of how much

this process can transform one

And the third block of 7 years that ends now

there was all of the search to bring diverse conceptions

that enriched the system and

grounded this trajectory and

these different instruments that were utilized

So the work on the body for example

I created a whole meditation work called Emotional Fitness

for the body, this 7-minute meditation

where the bodily affirmations of each one of the virtues

of the essences

bringing the body to participate in this journey

because the body needs to be present in a learning process

it is very important

the process becomes more complete

The production and creation of a whole

cosmetic line for the body too

Because, what happens?

Our mind is quantic by itself

so when I am here telling the story of the system

while I am here present I am also present

in my house for instance

I can also go to my house and come back in 3 seconds

What does this mean?

It means that the mind does not need to be

only present, it can also displace itself

in time and space

this is what a quantic mind means

it does not depend upon being here sitting in the chair

In order for my emotional body to go

to my house and come back

it takes a little more

because it is more synesthesic

it comes through sensations

My physical body depends upon going home and coming back

Because my mind is quantic and my physical body

does not accompany this process at the same time

there is a lag

and with the cosmetics that were created

the proposal of the system is to bring

a knowledge as close to the quantic as possible

so that we can go to the new in a more integrated manner

because sometimes the mind is too accelerated

and the body gets too tired with this process

From 14 to 21 years

there as a dedication to the creation of products

a deepening of all the conceptual side

the development of a whole theoretical and practical side

so that it could be followed with very assertive

exercises too

In this search as educator

I brought a series of elements to constitute

the emotional fitness

bringing a gym academy for behaviour

for the emotional body

because we understand really well

in the physical body the need for movement

Because what happens if I remain seated

in this chair for 20 years?

At the moment when I get up

I will move my leg and everything will be paralyzed

atrophied and I will have lots of pain

when I move

What happens with our behaviour?

When we are born we have in our neuroplasticity

a determined quantity of neurons and neurotransmitters

because we are neurochemical beings

we respond neurochemically to life

this functioning is very important

neuroscience is a very important dimension of science

for us to comprehend behaviour

We have available a certain amount of neurotransmitters

and what happens?

it happens that during the first 2 years we

sculpt this neuroplasticity in such a manner

that we leave out a potential of connections

and consequently future perceptions of reality

that are not driven due to our conditionings

that come from family, culture, where we are born, live

It is not that this is bad

this is a a necessary process

but this does not mean that we cannot work on this

so this sculpture, this sculpted design

in our neuroplasticity

makes us look at life from determined points of view

they end up generating conditionings in our perception

and we already know that as humans we

utilize a mean of 5% of our cerebral and neurochemical capacity

It is incontestable that we have a potential of 95%

to be explored

I want at least 6%, from 5 to 6%

and as an educator I feel an impulse to create

possibilites so that we extend from 5 to 5.1, 5.2, 5.3%

So the contribution of the Ararêtama system

is like a little ant that carries a little leaf of the forest

and contributes to a bouquet of methodologies

of all of the fields

so that the human being can evolve using potentials

that are here to be used but

dut to the conditionings are not

So the Ararêtama Mandala is

a method to exercise this potential

As the essences are arranged in a certain way

it is like a gym academy when we are to do a circuit

when we enter a gym circuit we don't do one movement only

50 times and then go home

and return the next day to do the same movement

we rather do a chain fo 10 exercises here

another there

and then do a chain with the trunk

one with the legs and foot

So it is by guiding a chain of movements of

perception of reality where during 7 days

we are guided by one essence, one virtue, one worldview

so that then we are guided by another perception

another worldview and another chain of movements

of percpetion of reality

This makes us tone this sculpture

that I said is designed by our conditionings

and that we can flexibilize this line

Because flexibility is one of the keys to evolution

without flexibility we have no way to experiment

our life potential in its diverse properties

forms and functions

If we don't have flexibility there is no way to

acquire another key to evolution which is life repertoire

When we are born we come with a "little bag"

and in this bag there are series of virtues

inherent to each one of us

This bag, we have a way to bring new instruments to it

new forms of interaction with life

so that we can bring and fill this bag with new experiences

we need to be flexible

otherwise we will always have one type of experience only

So the Mandala proposes to be a field of experiences

so that we can flexibilize and from flexibility

fill our field of repertoire

with possibilities that make us leave from 5%

and can evolve and make good use of

all our potential that is here to be used

The issue of flexibility is very important

because we have a tendency to stagnate

in our internal victims

so because my father did this, my mother did that

because I did not get food at the right time

so there is a tendency to justify our difficulties

through events of our childhood

and without doubt our phisiology

is formed by larger or smaller traumas

so we are not diminishing profound trauma

the issue is that we will never be able to

dissolve the trauma of our biography

that is an illusion

they are there, they are even part of our richness

what we are able to do is to integrate this trauma

to understand this trauma in the light of

a new perception

without having to always come back to the same issue

but to have the capacity to recognise rapidly

and to integrate to the present and react adequately to events

In the process of the Mandala

and one of the proposals of this journey

is the capacity to get in touch with certain deep pains

but not to remain in this process for too long

to get in touch and have the capacity to come out

and to face life in a new moment

when entering again, to have diverse tools

because teh emotional fitness runs 31 essences

31 different ways to face and relate to life

so tehy are 31 new ways and tools inside

our "little bag" when we end this journey

so rapidly we exercise entering an issue and coming out

diving and coming out

through these different ways

So we have the Mandala

with 8 different levels which are

Origin and this one has to do with our identity

who we are, honoring who we are

having space to flow and through our innocence

without needing to resort to social masks all the time

The second level, Vital Strength

is to have strength so we can wake up in the morning

and interact with life

Movement, the third level

is to perceive life as a platform of experiences

where all that is stagnated is an illusion

movement is a principle of life

the movement of our unconscious to the conscious

as much as from inside ourselves in an interaction with life

Relationship, the fourth level

because we are social beings

this occupies our thought sphere

either because we are in a relationship

or because we don't, or our relationship is complex

so we are all the time in this inner dicussion about relations

the fifth level is Life Experience

it is to perceive that life is an opportunity and that

many times we through away years of

our existence because we don't perceive

opportunities and are always playing victim

or giving attention to what we don't have

instead of giving attention to what we have

and amplifying our possibilities

so coming back to that issue

of the 5% and reaching 6%

And then we have the Cleansing level

which is the capacity we have to discard what has no use

and to focus on what is indispensable

to exercise and go from the microcosmos to macrocosmos

and from macro to micro again

they are exercises that make us clean the field of priorities

so we can have Grounding, the next level

to bring our life projects in a way

that makes us happy in our work

so we can't suffer with our choices

and then going to the eigth level

which is Wisdom

and the concept fo wisdom of the system

is the dance, it is to bring to the heart

the paradox between the intellect and the instinctual

and at the Center of the Mandala

we have a complex, an essence

which is Rudá, which brings the need to metabolize

our life experiences so we can get the best out of each event

we have a physical metabolic system which is fundamental

in relation to what we ingest, our food

because we are not only what we eat

we also depend on a metabolic system that works

We have our lives but we are part of a species

of the human species

and it is very important to understand how habits are

incorporated in a species

because from there we can also understand

how much we are responsible

for our development, the quality of our relations

and the quality of this species that we are part of

so we have a choice to make

we can participate passively because we participate anyway

even if we are doing nothing

or to actively participate in a process of evolution

So let us understand how a habit is incorporated by a species

Let us imagine that I am a mother monkey in the forest

with my monkey puppies

and suddenly when strolling in the forest

one fruit falls, a new fruit that I had never seen before

and I pick up this fruit, scratch my teeth on it

I hit the fruit on a rock

and I start to interact with this fruit

and my puppies jump over me

and by instinct I realize it is not venom

and I start to chew it

and this repeats itself for a day, a week, a year, 5 years

until all of the monkeys from nearby groups

start to also know that this fruit is eatable

there is a certain number reached of monkeys that

when they know this fruit is eatable

this information is passed on to all of the species

in all of the places in the world

through an invisible field of information

which is invisible to our field of perception

but we must understand that our field of perception

is a field of 5%

so in this invisible filed of information

the information is passed to the species

and this is called Morphogenetic FIeld

and one of the great researchers of the

Morphogenetic Fields is Rupert Sheldrake

an academic of Cambridge University

who I had the honor of knowing and accompanying

in a certain moment of his research

and today through research he brings the foundations

of this Morphogenetic Field

of this field of invisible lines where the information transits

All of what we don't like in the human being

and that we easily hear in a circle of friends

"this is absurd! when I read the papers I hear this

absurd news" etc.

But all of this absurd is part of a human species

where we are co-producers of this construction of knowledge

As educator and human being, mother, friend, companion

I start to research the ways that can make the human

a better human being

I start by bringing the issue that was very well

explored by the Sufis

First of all of the 3 centers of the formation of personalities

which is the Instinctive, the Emotional and the Intellectual

So there are many issues that intellectually

we can ground ina a brilliant way and that we can feel

in our emotional center

but the great problem is when we get to the instinctual center

because instinctively we are beings that separate

ourselves from one another

by the issue of sameness

we separate by clans and culture

you don't see white cows and black cows

separated in the field by colour

but you see human beings separating based on colour

This is in the instinct of the human being

The only way we can work on the instinctual

and I don't know another

I am not closed to other ways

I am only saying that the system brings this contribution

is through a conscious way, a daily choice

of what one wants from life

and from this conscious choice

Ararêtama system proposes a work on the 3 Ecologies

How can I work on myself

becoming a better being at every moment?

This is the 1st Ecology

How can I deal with my relations making them

qualitatively better through choice, too?

This is the 2nd Ecology

How can I bring to the community where I live

the society I am part of

a reflection of my actions and thinking

of the community in a positive way?

This is the 3rd Ecology

How can I contribute?

If I become a better human being I am already contributing

to the 3rd Ecology

If I make my relations better I am already contributing

to the 3rd Ecology

and if I do something for this society

I also contribute to the 3rd Eoclogy

So this is a model where by incorporating

the vibrational and floral essences

when I bring the essences

I bring an interface of the intelligence of this biodiversity

inside our neurochemical field

so that it can be a help to our evolutionary process

If this forest was able to solve a serious problem of survival

on an infertile soil, constructing a complex web of life

where 75% of the active life on this forest

rests on the tree crowns that comes from this

social and biological intelligence

so when I bring this intelligence inside of my physiology

I learn with it

also the way to solve this relation with my inner complexity

with my shadows, my dichotomies, my paradoxes

which is a difficulty

it is our richness but at the same time

our paradoxes can be obstacles to growth

so when I propose diverse mandalas

as ways to exercise perception and behaviour

I propose an exercise of life to a process of evolution

that is personal, social and planetary

The first Mandala, the original one

of the Ararêtama system

is the heart of this methodology

and that gives origin to the Basic Course

and is a program made as a process of rebirth

it has the duration of approximately 10 months

where the essences are incorporated in the process

and it can be made in 2 ways

One as a passive mode where you simply take the essences

and observe the results

and the second way which I find more complete

is that when taking the essences you are

at the same time paying attention and

exercising to become the virtue of the essence

This is a work in the formation of this

methodology that comes from the research

on transpersonal psychology of Stan Grof

which has foundations in the dramaturgy coming

from shamanism because dramaturgy

ha as initial source, shamanism

the performance and dances in relation to the humours

of the Earth, are perfomratic processes in ancestral

and more primitive cultures

they give birth to the dramaturgy and theatre

so this is also an aspect that can and I recommend it to

be incorporated in the journey of the Mandala

in the sense of becoming that virtue for 7 days

so it is a conscious exercise

where you teach your reaction meachanism to life

to have new ways to deal with the events of life

It is a known fact that all that is alive communicates

communicates between themselves

so the human being has an arrogance of thinking that

it possesses the most sophisticated forms of communication

or sometimes even that only humans communicate

Nature communicates all the time

and all of the research and production fo the floral

and vibrational essences take into account

the communication of virtues

the messages that are brought by this nature

When we reasearch and produce an essence

we collect messages coming through these plants

that are intelligences of the ecosystems

In The Secret Life of Plants, a book published

a few decades ago

researches were reported to be made in an university in India

whith scientists putting electrodes on plants

and these plants communicating through sound

So it is very important to understand that the floral

and vibrational essences can also be understood

through mathematics

So when I report that at the beginning of my experience

the portal that is opened through a liana that communicates

or through a mushroom that speaks

I consciously choose to bring to the world

this speech a as if it were a child reporting an experience

because when I bring the child I bring the portal of innocence

when I connect to the portal of innocence

I reach the language of the heart

The Mandala can be travelled

many times during a lifetime

so it is not a process we run through once and that is it

it is a method that can be worked on innumerous times

I have facilitators of the system that have

travelled the Mandala 10 or 12 times

because at each moment, new content emerges

And when I cite the transpersonal influence

in teh process of the construction of the Mandala

it is related to rebirth and gestation

we have issues that are absorbed during gestation

especially fusion phases with the mother

that end up being printed in the physiology of our behaviour

and that emerge during the process of taking the essence

I have a case of a person whose mother suffered

a possibility of aborting during her 3rd month of gestation

and when this person reached the 3rd month of the

Mandala, some impulses came and wishes to abort

the work and to stop doing the Mandala

of wanting to change work and end relationships

so it is very interesting how it arises processes

that are printed from a long time

So teh Mandala is a filed of possibilities of

transformation and self-knowledge that is very multiple

It is important to understand the difference

among the fields of allopathy, homeopathy

and floral and vibrational essences

In allopathy we have the presence of 100%

biochemical elements

so when we buy a tablet and analyse it

we have 100% of inserted products in the tablet

In homeopathy we have biochemical presence

but in more elevated potencies

we have the presence of information through waves

because we study in quantum physics life in

the form of matter or wave

in quantic bioogy which is the study in loco

in nature and not in the lab

as it is in quantum physics

we have the presence of matter AND energy

they are different states of a same manifestation of life

So in allopathy we have 100% biochemical presence

in homeopathy we have half biochemical and half

with potentializations, the presence of information through wave

it si also where phytotherapy fits, with the presence

of organic material

and in vibrational and floral essences

we only have the information

the virtue of the plant

in an imprint on water which is an excellent conductor

of information

but it is through waves

Waves of knowledge that are absorbed by water

So they are waves of information printed on water

and we can understand this mathematically

In allopathy, phytotherapy and part of homeopathy

we have the presence of 1.0, an integral presence

in vibrational and floral therapy

we enter into fractions

waves are 0.0001 of biochemical presence

and this is the mathematical reproduction

of the waves imprinted on water

and water becomes the matrix of this source

of knowledge and wisdom

that then is transformed into bottles and products

So when I choose to speak about the experience

in the forest in a pure way

it is like voices that talk to me

like when children spontaneously interact

in the diverse dimensions of expression of life

it is not because one can't speak in another way

I can say that the information arrived through

some signs coming from the nature of a plant

because communication happens and this is a study

of decades in universities all over the world

the fact that the human being thinks

this is magic or sorcery

is absolute ignorance of the researches made

for several years already

So in quantum physics labs

in quantum biology labs

Bruce Lipton, Rupert Sheldrake

and various researches bring this knowledge

the issue is that there is a discrepancy

between what exists as research and

what is taught in didactic books at schools

in biology, and the quantity of information

that teachers have nowadays in relation

to research that is done

I consider Ararêtama and the contribution

it has in society

and that which moves me when I receive testimonies

that sometimes come from inner Brazil

or from cities of the Czech Republic

or from places in England

with gratitude for having made use of the essences

and of the system

for having surpassed very difficult things

I owe my trajectory and my contribution to society

to my group of friends with whom I coexist

for more than 30 years

I am certain that this style fo life

this choice made at the beginning of post-adolescence

this wonderful partnership of life that I have with

Susana Maiani, an architect, a wizard jeweller

a Nagual, a person that brings such

an uncommom existential love

this partnership with her and Mauro Liberali

who today goes with me many times to the forest

a very important presence after Zac passed

Ricardo Airoza, Daisy, Irene, Michel

so all of this pool of friends thati I have

and that I can bring a deep thanks to

for having had the opportunity to choose

to live with a group of friends that today

is on the 3rd generation in this coexistence

and it is a great challenge

but I believe it is the contribution of this

intelligence of the forest together

with the coexistence in community

is a small contribution to society

but I think that if each person brings their little leaf

it is possible for us to produce incredible things in the planet

so I feel very awarded by this choice and friends I have

How did I get to the Czech Republic?

Well, in 1997

I will tell a little about my trajectory in foreign countries

so I started the process of getting in touch

and deepening myself in the forest

starting at the beginning of the 1990's

and launched the system from 1992 to 1993 in Holland

and Belgium and later in England

From there the system spread

and in 1997 I went to represent Brazil

at the Findhorn Conference in Scotland

and when I got there I decided to do

a ludic game

I got a pendulum and the conference catalog

and I asked the catalog

"Catalog, catalog of mine

who of the people present here

is related to my life destiny?"

I got the pendulum and managed it

And to all of my friends and representatives at the time

the pendulum said No

It made big No's

They were really present people in my life

This way I went with the pendulum running No

until it made a big Yes on the name of a person

Cale Carson, a producer of essences from Hawai'i

and lived at the island of Kaua'i

and I had never heard of him

and he was also not part of the main conference presenters

So I thought, I will look for this person

I put the catalog under my arm

and asked many people in teh following days

hey do you know this person? and noboby knew

then on one of the days there was a presentation

of the people that were not main presenters at the conference

and I entered the room and sat on a vacant chair

and asked the person to my side with the catalog

"Do you know this person by any chance?"

And he showed his hand and said "It's me."

And there we established relations and contact for a year

and he invited me a yearlater to give a workshop in Kaua'i

at his house

and when I was arriving at the island at his house

an email came from an email from Prague

asking him if he recommended another system beyong his

and he said Sandra from Brazil is arriving at my house

so I will put you in touch with her

This way for a year I was in touch with this therapist

until he invited me to teach the first course

at the Czech Republic

and this way my trajectory started there

and he was a therapist that later

tried to steal my brands and register them in his name

but after a juridical process

Sirkova like a little warrior got the system in her hand

together with Veronika Sablova in the Czech Republic

and Slovakia

and with this a work vortex was created that

is very efficient in Eastern Europe

It was there too that I met Bea Benkova and Jan Polak

who are 2 work partners

Bea came to a workshop and at the time she worked at a bank

and she never imagined her trajectory

of creating a whole work for extraordinary women

and later giving origin to Diphil Institute

whose main nucleus and conception brings

all of the virtue of the atantic forest

in the contruction of a new planetary culture

The conception of the Institute and the idea

of the issue of the metaphor of the star that constructs

the constellations, bringing this as a model of leadership

The 3 Ecologies as a focus of work on

the personal, social and planetary improvement

weas incorporated by the Institute but has its origin

in the methodology of the Araretama system

Today, Araretama is present in diverse institutions

and NGOs, helping these communities to work on traumas

and to transform the biographies of children,

giving them possibilities for concentration, study,

and an emotional dignity making them more apt

to deal with the current world.

We are developing a methodology for childrenm based on

the Atlantic Forest.

We work on leadership for the 21st century,

with leaders working from this model of the forest,

tranforming teams into a community of

biodiversities of talents of co-management.