Terra Mirim, Centre of Light

Terra Mirim Terra Mirim is a center of light and community movement dreamed up by XamAM Alba Maria and built and lived by countless seekers from the most diverse backgrounds, nationalities and vocations.

In a moment of meditation, in what is now the temple of the earth, XamAM received a vision of a sacred space where people, plants, divinities and animals would be free to fulfill their destiny. A sacred space where food and medicine would be cultivated, people would share learning and care in community, the waters of the river would flow clear and fluid and Nature would be the great teacher. And so it happened and so it still happens.

32 years of the most enchanting stories of healing, self-discovery, liberation and ecstasy. These are 32 years of encounters between each person and themselves, their personal mythology and their people. It's been 32 years of establishing the greater purpose that unites us in devotion to the Mother Goddess, to Pachamama, to the four elements and to the original medicines. 

Terra Mirim, our mother house, is the materialization of two basic truths for our tradition: that dreams are possible and that today is the best day of our lives. 

In our daily lives, we take care of the temples and spaces in a powerful and aggregating movement, in which each one offers the best of themselves in the certainty of always receiving the purest nectar of good living. We don't give ourselves out of obligation to one authority or another, out of fear or insecurity. We give ourselves out of a love that transcends the individuality that separates us, overflowing with the diversity that makes us One - integrated with Life, with Time and with the powerful web that endears us to each other. 

We come from many different places, ethnicities and religions. We are multiple and changeable. We are women, men, cis and trans, blacks, mestizos, Celts and caboclos, children, young people, elders, trees, lianas, lizards, snakes, capybaras, devotees, artists, activists, healers, brave, seeds, gifts, people, earth, water, fire and air. 

Terra Mirim makes us believe and realize the unimaginable. 

Terra Mirim makes us be the inconceivable. 

Terra Mirim doesn't hide a box of superpowers in some secret chest. 

Terra Mirim reveals, dreams of and strengthens the original beauty of every being who says yes to life. 

Terra Mirim summons, blossoms and unleashes the unique immensity of everything that was born to shine. 

Terra Mirim is the awakened dream of reality. 

Terra Mirim allows us to see that the good thing about life is living.

Terra Mirim, Terra Grande. 

Text: Kura, June 2024