Carola von Szemerey, Founder
My mission is to create experiences that bring joy, adventure, and magic. The book is one part of this mission!
My responsibilities: Content (main texts, templates, design), project organisation, legalities, marketing, finances, coordination of the team.
THE TEAM
Maori Atumchury, illustrations
Maori is Colombian and lives in Brazil. He illustrated the book with his drawings and is guardian of the traditions of the "Tribo da Lua" in Brazil. He doesn't want to appear on any social media.
Harumi Okamoto, layout and graphics
Harumi is Brazilian with Japanese roots. She is a lawyer and is responsible for the text design and layout of the book. She is also a guardian of the ancestral memories "Tribo da Lua" in Brazil.
Instagram: memoria.ancestral
Manuella Franco, Website
Manu is from Brazil and takes care of the homepage and the online portal.
Instagram: manumelofranco
Moritz Lenz, Crowdfunding Video
Moritz is director and filmmaker from Germany and he supported me producing the crowdfunding video.
www.moritzlenz.com
Editorial Office: Louise Plessen (German), Justus Wachs (English) , Natalia Trentini (Portuguese)
+ Stories from my very inspiring Sisterhood
Marie - Isabelle Heiss – Lawyer, Politician and Activist
Charifa Radji – Healing Artist
Harumi Okamoto - Lawyer and Guardian of the ancestral memories "Tribo da Lua"
Bel Saide - Doctor and Natural Gynecologist
Ilaria Nardini Gray – Holistic Life Coach and Mentor
Irina Mainka – Musician, Teacher and Dragon
Dr. Julie Moltke, MD – Human Connector, Cannabis specialist and Mental Health Advocate
Lea Valentina Limbrunner – Human, Musician and Explorer
Lisa von Tettenborn – Mother, Medicine Woman and Doula
Mar Michelle Häussler - Woman, Coach and Entrepreneur
Mattea Kratochwil – Ethnologist, masseuse and musician
Mariana Munay – Psychologist and Therapist studying Medicinal Plants
Re Mozzini – Entrepreneur and Yoga Teacher
Rita Loureiro Graça – Poetess, Therapist and Bio architect
Sasha Giovanna – Founder of SHA, Sasha Healing Arts
Felicitas Dora - Doctor and Natural Gynaecologist
MY STORY IN SHORT
In this book, I have combined experiences I have gained over the years in different areas of my life and work. I didn't feel the call to study at university. Instead, I did my Ph.D. in "the school of life and love."
I don't know where the story starts. It probably never started and will never end. One experience had an unexpected impact on my life. When I was 17 years old, I took a trip to Papua New Guinea. I feel like I entered a portal that brought me all the way up in the highlands with the natives. There, I was shocked by a reality so different from my own - an entirely new world. After school, I was curious and wanted to discover the world.
When I first set foot in Brazil almost ten years ago (when I was 19) to start my voluntary service in a Waldorf school in the favelas of Sao Paulo, I discovered another new reality of life. This experience also had a massive impact on how I see the world. All this turned all my plans upside down. I had no idea what I had to do instead of it. I couldn't see myself on any of the paths that were presented to me in those days. I know now that I was extremely privileged, so I decided to make use of this privilege and make a positive impact on this planet. I got back home and started searching.
While searching I
- became part of the Youth Future Project, with which we organized youth conferences with the alternative Nobel Prize winners.
- experienced working in a consulting company
- studied at Knowmads, an alternative business school in Amsterdam.
- hosted and organized "Education on Tour", an alternative educational project in Brazil and Europe
- switched from working in social projects to bodywork, meditation and practiced the connection to nature
- found Bahia's empty beaches - my home for four years
- started my love story with surfing, singing and dancing
- immersed myself in healing trauma, meditation, and bodywork and went through a lot of personal transformation
- was giving massages sessions at the beach while I was being trained as bodyworker
- became a bodywork therapist (Osho Rebalancing) and started working in a retreat center and supported the retreats with my presence
- sold sauerkraut and coconut yogurt at the market to survive low seasons
- opened a hostel for a year in Itacare, a surf paradise
- found myself in the Tribo da Lua family, who initiated me into the traditions of the mystery of being a woman and helped me to remember
- was trained at Mindful Talent, a top coaching academy
And much more. Of course I cannot mention everything, but at least you get a picture of who I am :)
For me, these insights in this life journey have brought fundamental changes and shifts in my life: knowing where you are heading and being able to clearly define the goal (my German soul) - at the same time enjoying this path with ease and joy, having fun in life (my Brazilian soul), creating relationships that are not characterized by jealousy, fear, and distrust, but by friendship, love and trust.
Here you can find some videos of the experiences I had
ENGLISH
Me explaining an educational Project we initiated in 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeoA2fiBykU
Global Seed Your Moon Day, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnXhUVUgqhY
PORTUGUESE with english subtitles
About me living in an ecovillage in brazil working in a holistic health center in 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZP3m8Sy9G8&list=LLMDUgcNjhPcppJZ_ZtPcIdw&index=3&t=9s