About the name: “NAWAYA”
The word Nawaya translates to “Free...limitless,” an iluko word, from the language of the founder's paternal heritage. To truly be free.. What does that mean? Free from fear, and free to pursue happiness and to explore the curiosities, joys and truths of self, life, sustainability, history and mystery, and freeing of the mind..
Free, in the context of our reality today, looks a lot like empowering ourselves out of the traps of the dominant, consumer culture. So many people have hope: the knowing that this could all be better. Yet time and time again, after every rally, workshop or conference, many people do not know what to do. Everyday life calls them right back. There never seems to be enough time, and the bills need to be paid.
They say that a hungry man will have a hard time meditating. This is the empowerment aspect. Taking care of our basic needs first, will help us to ascend the ladder toward our bigger purpose. Instead of buying an isolated house in a neighborhood you may or may not feel connected with, where property taxes fluctuate, in a gentrifying town where others who have owned houses for decades are being pushed out; instead of working 3 jobs as a renter to cover all your bills, just so you can stay in a slower-paced, smaller-sized city; instead of wondering where your food comes from, or eating well at home and then going to restaurants who compromise on ingredients; the list goes on. Perhaps, just perhaps, there is another way to provide your housing, secure your home-land, earn income and connect with others, in a way that is more intentional, respectful, sustainable and rewarding?
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“It is arrogance to claim that we own the land, because it is the land that owns us. How can we own something that will outlive us?”
- Macliing Dulag, Kalinga Tribal Hero + Chief of Butbut tribe of Kalinga province, Philippines.
Opposed Chico River Dam Project, which displaced villages, sacred places, habitats.
Assassinated by Marcos April 24 1980.
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” - Lao Tzu
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them” - Einstein
“It becomes a permaculture when you pull things into a relationship with each other and when the humans are in a relationship with the land and with the animals and it becomes this ever-evolving system.”
- Heather Jo Flores
Mientras tengamos el capitalismo, este planeta no se va a salvar. porque el capitalismo es contrario a la vida, a la ecologia, al ser humano. hay que acabar con el capitalismo depredador para salvar este planeta y la vida humana.
As long as we have capitalism, this planet is not going to be saved. because capitalism is contrary to life, to ecology, to the human being. we must end predatory capitalism to save this planet and human life.
- Berta Carceres