FIRE · CEREMONY · CIRCLES · 1:1 WORK — KAUKITÁ, COLOMBIA & ONLINE
What will you
carry forward?
Some of what you carry sustains life. Some of it took shape in response to pain—and now keeps that pain in motion.
Learning to tell the difference is where change begins: in a life, a family, a territory.
For those moving through grief, burnout, or a life that no longer fits—and for those who accompany others through growth and change.
A real fire · A circle across distance
Living Fire
What we carry changes
when it is accompanied.
Once a month, I light a fire at my home in Kaukitá, Colombia. You light a candle wherever you are.
Grief can be witnessed. Gratitude can become an offering. Questions can be held without being rushed.
You don’t need an answer before you arrive.
About Andrés
I am inside
this work, too.
I spent five years at Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, and returned to Colombia as someone I had not set out to become. Change, grief, and uncertainty are not subjects I meet from the outside. The practices I share with others are the ones I return to in my own life.
Today I live at Kaukitá, thirty hectares of restored tropical dry forest in Pereira, Colombia. Here I write, tend fire, work with cacao, and meet people one-to-one and in circles.
Since 2012, my work has taken many forms: private sessions, ceremonies, training, and community processes. Change cannot be forced, but it can be accompanied—by listening without rushing, strengthening the capacity to stay present, and offering practices and structure when they are needed.
The direction is yours. I will listen with you until you can recognize it—and help you build the capacity to follow it.
Ajq’ij, Maya K’iche’ tradition
Initiated under the guidance of Nan Faviana Cochoy Alva and Tat Pedro Yac Noj
Trauma-informed practice
Compassionate Inquiry (Gabor Maté) · Internal Family Systems · nervous-system regulation with Deb Dana
Grief Educator
Trained with David Kessler
Mindfulness
Plum Village tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh
Going deeper
When the work asks
for continuity
Living Fire opens the door. These paths are for when something needs to be accompanied over time.
Seasonal circles
For times of transition.
A circle can begin before the way forward is clear. A small group that gathers every other week through a season, for when something in your life is changing form.
1:1 Work
For what asks to be met privately.
A focused space to meet what is asking for attention, at a pace your body and life can sustain, with practice and structure when they help.
Training
For people who accompany others—or feel called to.
A path for deepening the ground you stand on when you hold space for others: your presence, your discernment, and your care.
Writing · From Kaukitá
A place for questions to breathe.
Featured essay
Ustedes Son Nómadas
A teacher’s grief, a hunger I recognized, and what it costs to mistake longing for belonging.
Read the essayMaybe what’s missing isn’t a sharper definition of ceremonial. Maybe it’s fewer people trying to own the word, and more people willing to tend what it’s supposed to protect.
Not as a title. Tending isn’t a credential received once. To tend a fire. To tend a relationship. To tend a wound, a plant, the distance between what you long for and what you’re actually responsible to.
There’s no certificate in tending. No final arrival. Only the work that has to be done again tomorrow.