🌞 priestess in service to Life
Weavers Tent, with Franz and Elodie
Arts of Ecology Residency LIOS Labs. Błędowska Desert, 2021
captured by Emilia Tapprest
what matters and what’s holding me
is a
creative community
for incubation
and activation
of dreams
&
a living Gaia with all her gifts
mycelial networks and fruting fungi
fresh water srings and rivers
mountain peaks
and
the buzzing of insects
beauty and fragility of butterflies
Community weaving comes naturally in a world of privatisation, individuality, and mistrust — as an irresistible need in the face of fragmentation. Who am I if not a part of a planetary network?
Bringing people together around shared moments, as simple as meals and raves, as sublime as sunset-gazing, and as exciting as conspiring together on how to abolish the current system — not by fight, but by creating an alternative so abundant and juicy that no one can turn their head without tasting it.
The Birth of a Pilgrim that is the Fool
The
Wandering School, Dirty Art Department, Delphi, 2018
captured by Jasmine Alakari
what i’m doing for FUN (Fulfillment, Unison, Nourishment)
is living the sacred ordinary—
reenchanting the the world
through gestures and songs
starting from gratitude
i dance with devotion
...in my perfect day
i pay attention to the breath
sing raaga, listen to the land
make love at dawn
with my fingers covered in mud
praise the mystery in the multitude of her petals
One of my lifelong embodied investigations is the art of pilgrimage. Re-framing what pilgrimage means, and composting tourism (understood as “frustrated pilgrimage,” in the words of Rupert Sheldrake).
This research is rooted in our hunter-gatherer ancestry and explores the terrestrial and metaphysical origins of consciousness and its foundational building blocks: movement, presence and memory.
Planetary Dance at the Tree of Life
HELIOŚ Summer Solstice Gathering LIOS Labs, Błędowska Desert, 2025
captured by Felix Geen
as an agent of transformation
i cherrish creating spaces
for emergence, home-coming
and belonging
&
sharing practices
of (re)connection
and remembering
through ritual
The origin of the word ritual stems from root. Just as a culture’s traditions help maintain its identity and heritage, rituals sustain those traditions.
Cultures formed around rituals — not only to bring people together, but to honour and preserve what was sacred to the land itself.
Ritual technologies, such as the Planetary Dance, help us to reconnect with our geologically rooted cultural identities — beyond borders and nation-states. We belong to the soil we are born from. This deep sense of belonging is the very foundation of our Earth-centred agency and care for the planet.
Singing foundations for the School of Magic
learning how to truly be with the land
to become both guardian and gardener
is something I’m deep-diving into
in awe 🌱
We are currently building a nest for a de(school) garden called LIOS: Leadership Institute of Self-development.
This dream-coming-true is a cooperative land project nestled in the Alcantara Valley. It offers project-based education and serves as an experimental lab for heliogenic living — focusing on organic materials, biotech, ancestral regenerative practices, reforestation, food and energy sovereignty, and the creation of a river sanctuary.
The first seeds were planted this summer in our capsule lab in Santa Caterina, at the feet of Mount Etna.
Reach out if you're curious.
jo@lios.io
♡✧˚ ༘ ⋆｡♡˚ I give thanks to my creative guides
elders and maestras
to the Apus (mountain spirits)
the waters and flickering rays of light
bouncing from the water mirror of the Lake Titicaca
to the jaguars and owls and ants
for their teachings
I am grateful for Joanna Macy, Rupert Sheldrake, Alan Watts, Terence Mckenna, Cecilia Vicuña for sharing their wisdom and beauty across time and space
& for my spirit guides Wara Wara, Guido Hanko, Ganesh Mishra, Jesus Gamarra
& friends Travis Broussard, Thomas Schindler, Xtina Ariaz, Jasmine Alakari and many other family members from Pirate Partners and LIOS Labs community. Love you and thank you for inspiring me.
© JOJO VÁVRA