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For millennia, our societies have been trained to look for the origins of the problems we face, but what happens when we uncover the origins of solutions that transcend time, space, culture, and race? Afterall, the challenges we face stem from moving out of balance and alignment with nature, ourselves, and each other, so it only makes sense that by stepping back into ancient wisdom and sincere connection harmony will arise and reestablish the sacred imperative for life to thrive and flourish.

On August 8th, hear from Global experts and leaders in sacred ecology, regeneration, impact economies, and social wealth. Join us online to learn about the powerful ways that place, person, and peace are creating and supporting positive changes environmentally, globally, locally, and individually. Learn how you can get involved in Root to Heaven’s Family Tree Initiative and sign up for our first ever Permaculture and Reforestation retreats this coming November and next May.

Support this amazing symposium and all of Root to Heaven’s fundraising efforts for projects you will learn more about on 8.8.2022 by donating and registering below!

PRESENTERS

Paul Hawken

Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, author and activist who has dedicated his life to environmental sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. He is one of the environmental movement’s leading voices, and a pioneering architect of corporate reform with respect to ecological practices. His work includes founding successful, ecologically conscious businesses, writing about the impacts of commerce on living systems, and consulting with heads of state and CEOs on economic development, industrial ecology, and environmental policy. Paul is Founder of Project Drawdown, a non-profit dedicated to researching when and how global warming can be reversed. The organization maps and models the scaling of one hundred substantive technological, social, and ecological solutions to global warming.

Paul authors articles, op-eds, and peer-reviewed papers, and has written eight books including five national bestsellers: The Next Economy (Ballantine 1983), Growing a Business (Simon & Schuster 1987), and The Ecology of Commerce (HarperCollins 1993) Blessed Unrest (Viking, 2007), and Drawdown, The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (Penguin). The Ecology of Commerce was voted as the #1 college text on business and the environment by professors in 67 business schools. Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution (Little Brown, September 1999) co-authored with Amory Lovins, has been read and referred to by several heads of state including President Bill Clinton who called it one of the five most important books in the world during his tenure as President. His books have been published in over 50 countries in 30 languages. Growing a Business became the basis of a 17-part PBS series, which he hosted and produced. The program, which explored the challenges and pitfalls of starting and operating socially responsive companies, was shown on television in 115 countries and reached more than 100 million people. Paul co-authored and edited Drawdown in collaboration with its extraordinary research team. He is currently writing Carbon, The Business of Life, to be published by Penguin RandomHouse.

Paul has founded several companies, starting in the 1960s with Erewhon, one of the first natural food companies in the U.S. that relied solely on sustainable agricultural methods. He went on in 1979 to co-found Smith & Hawken, the retail and catalog garden company. In 2009 Paul founded OneSun, an energy company focused on ultra low-cost solar based on green chemistry and biomimicry that is now known as Energy Everywhere.

Alma Olea Servin

Alma Servin Olea was born in Santa Maria de Huatulco and arrived in Puerto Angel and immediately began working on a restoration project of El Capy Hotel, an icon of Puerto Angel 1985-1995. In 1990, she met her husband, Paolo and after getting married they moved to Naples, Italy, where he is from. There they had three children and from 1991-2017, Alma dedicated herself to raising them, keeping house, and caring for the family while also participating in a community of local Mexican expats who dedicated themselves to sharing their tradition at the Cervantes Institute in Naples. In particular, they focused on "Day of the Dead," where they created an altar and were able to share the meaning of those who would be visiting within those days.

From 1998-2014 Alma and her husband Paolo opened and operated a home furnishing and interior design business. Through the duration of this enterprise, Alma received the opportunity to travel across many European countries and attend international trade fairs. Every summer they visited family in Puerto Angel and noticed how it fell into abandonment year after year. 

In 12015 Alma and Paolo returned to Puerto Angel out of love for her parents and to help recover the Hotel that the family had set up. Together, they were able to restore El Capy  and expand the business through different Social Sites. In 2016, Alma alongside a group of local citizens formed an organization called Helping Hands. This group of citizens was concerned about the culture of disrespect and subsequent environmental abandonment taking place at the hands of the authorities. Above all, they observed the plastic thrown in the street was being swept up by the rain and reaching the sea, where it was damaging ocean wildlife and the water cycle. Founded by this group of citizens, in 2016/2017 Helping Hands began to collect these plastics and sell it through a local business. With monies gathered, the collective supports preschoolers in the community. They also work with the cultivation of awareness of preschool and elementary age children to live in harmony with mother earth by using less and caring more for what they have. Alma has worked on many cleanup projects on local coastal beaches, has created beautification workshops to transform waste into art through collaboration with artists, and in 2022, she managed to open a zero waste store where the people of Puerto Angel can come and get their grains, beans, and basic nutritional needs without creating more waste.

Jan Federico William Bird

Jan Federico William Bird credits his childhood on a remote coastal ranch in the vast wilderness of the Sierra de la Giganta in Baja, Mexico with launching him on a life mission to harmonize humanity's relationship with ourselves and with planet Earth, our only home. He holds a vision for us to co-create a beautiful world for all life to flourish in peace, health, and abundance, and believes that to achieve this we must do three things. First, optimize our own energetic, mental, and physical health, second, relate and transact with each other in ways that promote sovereignty and equality, and third, provide for our material needs while simultaneously restoring the living planet's ecosystems through regenerative agriculture, land and resource management, and ecological design and development of our communities, infrastructures, and industries.

In fulfilling his vision, Jan has for two decades been an avid student of human health and potential, inspired by and learning from such diverse sources as yoga, quantum physics, indigenous wisdom traditions, paleoanthropology, western medical science, and various spiritual and philosophical lineages. He earned a B.S. in Environmental Science and became certified in Permaculture Design, Holistic Management, Ecological Landscaping, Urban Watershed and Green Infrastructure Design, Keyline Design, and Regenerative Farm Planning with the unparalleled Regrarians Platform and Workplace Community.

Jan is putting his experience to good use founding and running a regenerative agroecological farming, land management, organic waste management, ecological landscape and healthy building design, and project development business based in Baja, consulting on these topics to some of the world's leading organizations, teaching classes and workshops, and creating immersive group and individual experiences designed to awaken, inspire, and teach people how to live their best life and become caretakers of the Earth. He is currently exploring the potential of Web 3.0 to organize and leverage collective land regeneration. In his free time he loves connecting with friends and family over home-cooked meals, wilderness exploration, surfing, and ocean sailing voyages.

Nicole Adriana Casanova

Nicole Adriana Casanova

Nicole Adriana Casanova is a Boriken born student of Maestro Manuel Rufino, a Taino Elder who founded the Golden Drum cultural center in Brooklyn and many communities around the world. She is a graduate of the New School in New York City. Her cross-disciplinary study included Food Justice and Sovereignty, Environmental Economics and Psychology.

Nicole is a writer, poet, songkeeper and storyteller. Over the past decade, Nicole has been blessed to travel the world and study with great teachers, elders, and spiritual traditions. As a healer, she has administered to 1,000s of people and her passion is to shift from individual healing to collective healing. Growing up, Nicole’s best friends were trees and this organization gives her the opportunity to keep good on the promises she made in the wisdom of childhood. Root to Heaven in Nicole’s prayer for the Waters of the Earth.

Danica Paulos and Lukasz Zeiba

Łukasz and Danica started their journeys as professional dancers in New York City with world-renowned companies such as Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, The Metropolitan Opera, and Aspen Santa Fe Ballet. Łukasz has presented his choreography in Poland, France, Hong Kong, and the USA. They are founders of a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and sharing traditional and sacred dance, called One Dance Foundation.

Their artistic explorations led them to a spiritual path where they found Yoga, meditation, breath work, and sound healing. Guided by the wisdom that comes from the sacred traditions of humanity, they hope to bring more peace, harmony, and self-understanding to everyone they meet on their path. They are students of Maestro Manuel Rufino, founder of The Golden Drum.

ATAYA Sound Collective

ATAYA is an international sound collective, musicians coming together for the love of our earth, music, and life.

Hillary Love Riley and Matt Canale

Matthew Canale and Hillary Love Riley are students of Taino elder Maestro Manuel Rufino, and study various healing and musical traditions from around the world. They create music to bring peace, heal and inspire. Aligned in their service and in their hearts, they weave together song and prayer to share with others they meet along the path.

Worldchangers Organization

Sanctorum Ecovillage is located on 40 acres of sacred valley land in Colorado, due East of the great Tava-kaavi (or “Mountain of the Sun”), which is an indigenous (Uto-Aztecan) name for the sacred mountain now famously known as Pikes Peak.

As a creative events venue, holistic healing center, educational campus and spiritual retreat space, Sanctorum Ecovillage also provides its own solar power, community housing and 30ft yurt, as well as residential and agricultural water supplies.

Current expansion includes a major permaculture project to ecologically rehabilitate the Sanctorum grounds by building soil, planting trees, retaining waters and growing organic vegetarian food.

As an Eight Limbs initiative of Worldchangers Organization 501c3 — Sanctorum Ecovillage is now preparing to host HeartFire Festival on September 15-18th, which includes many renowned musicians, artists, educators and elders from around the world.