CAMBIO 16 MAGAZINE
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Our Founder:
Meet Andrea Bastidas. Andrea is the founder and creator of Makú Project, a boutique home designed to bring wellness to people. Born and raised in Colombia, her passion for healing practices lived within her since she was a child. Andrea fell in love with yoga more than a decade ago while living in New York. Always curious about energy, music, art and movement, she decided to leave her career as a International Business in Colombia and moved to New York in her search for freedom and learn more about herself, a curios mind in search of knowledge and self improvement she became a yoga teacher, studying with Sri. Dharma Mitra and the Dharma school in NYC. She also studied and developed a deep passion for Reiki and became a Reiki Master with the Open Center in New York City. Art, photography, sound and music are some of her biggest passions! She felt the power of sound for healing and settling unwanted emotions, while on her search to know more about music and its “power”, she met one of the founders of the Woom Center in New York City, whom became her mentor and teacher of the ancient techniques of the Gong, and other healing instruments.
Today, Andrea spends her time between Colombia and New York city, where she works as an Art and commercial printer facilitator. She believes she is the happiest when she is at balance and connected with her dreams and hopes - “we are like canvases and its up to us the colors, emotions and vibration we put into”. She believes energy is everything and speaks by experience of the power of Mother Earth medicines that had helped her to heal unresolved emotions and trauma. She goes with the flow and embraces the mystery…always thinking on the tribe that inspired her to built her dream, the indigenous group Nukak Makú. The Nukak are one of at least 32 Colombian tribes 'at imminent risk of extinction'. The Nukak live between the Guaviare and Inírida rivers in south-east Colombia. They are one of six groups known as the 'Maku' peoples, all nomadic hunter-gatherers living in the headwaters of the northwest Amazon basin.