Tag: <span>chakras</span>

Project launch

The municipality of our hosts in Archidona posted this nice little video with segments from the project launch: Municipalidad de Archidona welcomes Power of the Chakra, a research collaboration to explore the Kichwa (or Napo Runa) “chakra”, which traditionally is a family’s network of intergenerational forest gardens in the Upper Napo region of the Amazon. As civilisation marches forth the forest falls and from the ashes rises the chakra, because subsistence matters. What the chakra of the future … …

Power of the Chakra

Power of the Chakra is also known as Espacio de Vida – a community investigation project in Ecuador and Peru that has its own subdomain/website here: https://chakras.subsistencematters.net. My first project as PI, funded by AHRC and hosted in Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience. Short intro: Why is the chakra important? What can we learn from the chakra? What are the biggest problems that indigenous communities are facing, and how can the chakra help? What spiritual teachings does … …

Revival of indigenous agroforestry

Applications are now closed for this PhD studentship on the revival of indigenous agroforestry systems. We were overwhelmed by the interest in this project, as well as the quality of the applications we received. We could have recruited several very good candidates for the project with relevant competences, experiences and networks in the Upper Napo region. For that reason we are currently exploring further funding options, including crowdfunding. If you are interested in joining this effort, do not … …