Common Vision
The university is the fruit of the experiences and reflections of Nadezhda Makarova (Esperanza) and Luis Bermudez (Lucho) regarding the need for creating a more harmonious and peaceful world grounded in the teachings of Mother Earth, a space for conscious creators, and connecting us with our true purpose of our soul.
Here is the story of their lives, injustices and the reason to being inspired to create a new world in peace and harmony.
In 2001, they created the Minka Center in the US. A family center where based on an infusion Montessori/Waldorf system and the use of Earth Medicines, empowered individuals to find their own life purpose, while healing themselves and families, by walking the path of sovereignty. In 2023 they moved to la Sierra Nevada in Colombia, to support a new way of living, by creating the foundation of a Gnostic University of Philanthropy to support a world of peace based on sovereign land from the ground up, by developing the concepts of parches, villages and micronations.
Esperanza 💃
Nadezhda Makarova (Esperanza), born in Australia, is a visionary, and 1st Generation Australian/Russian-Chinese immigrant. Esperanza is an adept, entrepreneur, visionary, mother, teacher and holistic practitioner. Esperanza has over 15 years in corporate and education and over 20 years of alternative healing modalities assisting families, couples, and troubled teens through the transitions into adulthood.
At twenty one, she developed up a successful, high-end healing center. She created her own oils and creams, healing protocols that provided better result than the expensive high-end products. For example, to enhance the glow and natural lifting and toning of the skin, she recommends, as one procedure, to use natural healing through the use of bee therapy.
Later, she excell in the corporate industry managing and training staff at large telemarketing centers in multiple languages. This job allowed her to discover her gifts of multicultural relations and better understanding diversity and adaptabilty.
This lead, for she getting hired in the US as Sells, Training and Quality Assurance Manager for a multicultural call center to help on the deregulation of the Telecom Industry in the US.
When her first child, Giselle was born, she followed her teacher’s passion running Montessori mommy classes for kids with challenges at home for the Eastern Europe a community in Gaithersburg.
She then took the position of leading teacher in the Manor Montessori School, the most prestigious Montessori school in the Washington DC area. She understood the importance of education based on individual gifts and self exploration and self motivation which enable children to be the leaders of a new world, in love, order, peace and harmony.
Esperanza struggled in her childhood with dislexia, that guided her to understand the patterns of languages, symbology, phonetics, etc, as well as, understanding the cause of those challenges. This lead her to advance research in repatterning the mind, and go deep in tools like reverse speech and Auditory Integration Training (AIT).
After her son, born with challenges, was treated by a Russian Shaman, she reopened her interest in energy healing and natural medicines. She then dedicated her life to further understanding the physical, emotional, and spiritual development of her son. She continues her research and teachings on bridging the gap of learning disabilities, using energy healing, alternative medicines, gnosis, family empowerment and integration of Montessori principles.
She has helped children and adults (mostly couples) with challenges, terminal illnesses, sexual trauma and addictions. She had a successful kambo training practice, and an earth medicines healing practice in the US, treating trauma not only for the children but the parents as well. She also trained and empowered the parents to be responsible for the healing and empowerment of their own child. The centers operated as family centers where families participated in group healing activities.
Esperanza, has always dreamt of a world in peace, where individuals thrive as sovereign beings, in sovereign lands.
Lucho 🕺
Luis (ala., Lucho, Lucxo, Pachacuti) Bermudez is a visionary and leader in geospatial technologies. Dr. Bermudez has more than a 100 publishings in scientific publications. He holds a doctorate degree in Environmental Informatics at Drexel University, Philadelphia, US. He has taught courses on statistics, strategic planning, Geographic Information Systems in Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, University of Maryland in the United States and University of Villanova in Spain. His papers has been cited thousands of times, like the following paper published in the prestigious Journal of Web Semantics, which set the bases for today’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) frameworks.
He has run several startup companies and has worked in innovation centers around the world. Has dictated conferences worldwide about using technology to monitor the Earth and support sustainability and harmonious living with mother earth. More about his professional profile in Linkedin.
After his experience with Ayahuasca in upper state New York he open his world view perspective and artistic vein connecting to his ancestral roots in a more creative ways as a world builder, musician, writer and video producer.
Common Tapestry Weaving for a World of Peace
Their relationship based on their astrology archetypes and the current universal energies that rule the world make them a “power couple” to build peace on earth. Here is the analysis:
They both emigrated to the US. Each one of them had three children and both had a son that was categorized as a challenged kid. Both kids had IEPs and went through multiple doctors including psycologists. They both found a better way by creating a new learning way that encompasses a thriven environment, using of Earth Medicines and conscious educators using philosophies of education like Waldorf’s and Montesori’s philosophies.
Esperanza and Lucho have both lived and traveled abroad extensively giving them a progressive understanding of cultures. Both have 3 children and have advanced research on using earth medicines to heal body, mind and spirit. They both have kids with challenges and they dreamed of a university where children can thrive by transitioning the use of synthetic drugs to the use of earth medicines in a proper environment.
They are passionate about fostering an environment, in peace and harmony with Mother Earth and our own nature. An environment where humans can thrive, following their own passion and freedom to build a new world, for humanity and by humanity, paved by the Aquarian Age.
They met in 2020 and agreed to walk the path of ascension following the spiritual teachings of Samael Aun Weor, in particular the Three Mountains by enhancing the path with Earth Medicines. After experimenting themselves and learning from hundreds of clients they develop the soul reading methods, as well as archetype astrological matching. They found a way to proper use Earth Medicines to heal karma, open consciousness and live in dharma.
💃🕺 opened the 1st Minka Center in Gaithersburg, MD in 2021 and the 2nd one in la Sierra Nevada in Colombia in 2023. The centers infused Luis’ and Nadezhda’s backgrounds creating unique learning and healing centers.
The centers provide teachings on gnosis and sacred union principles based on modern gnosis textbooks of Samael Aun Weor, enabling individuals to find their purpose in life, aligned with a grandiose purpose of building a thriving world in peace and harmony.
The centers also provide a place for hosting earth medicines ceremonies and advancing medical research. They are also based on Montessori and Rudolf Steiner philosophical approaches, including expressive dance and holistic healing, in particular, for youth with social and learning challenges.
Music Always in our Hearts
Esperanza has always being connected with the world of music. In her childhood years weekends were full of celebration. The immigrant Russian Families in Melbourne met and honored their culture around Bayas, Accordions and Balalaycas. Her father played the accordion and harmonica. Her Mother, was the director of the church choir, and was singing all day long joyful tunes.
Lucho, is the son of one of the most famous musicians in Colombia, Lucho Bemudez, who composed more than 1000 songs and is considered the father or popular rhythms like the Cumbia, Gaita, and Porro. His mother always dancing and inviting others to dance, was the queen of the parties, sharing her bliss and true escence.
Lucho studied piano and basics of music in his teenage years, but went through another path (Engineering, Business, Environmental Information Systems), until an Ayahuasca ceremony in Thanksgiving of 2018 changed his life. Lucho felt a heart explosion to sing and play guitar. He has lead peace drum circles and his favorite is to play in Earth Medicines ceremonies, drums, shakers, flute, harmonica, and his magical guitar. He has composed with Esperanza over a hundred medicine songs, with messages to promote love, peace and harmony. They can be found here:
Dancing: Expression of Souls Rejoicing
Esperanza competed as part of a character/theater ensemble dance group, performing all over Australia. Esperanza and Lucho also participated in multiple 5 Rhythms and Ecstatic Dancing venues. Their magic circles allowed souls to freely dance and rejoice. 👇is what we are talking 💃about 🌈💚.
Esperanza, has lead ecstatic dance circles in Australia, USA and Colombia. She wrote and read literature, and did improv, inspiring others and winning various competitions in her youth. Now she fuses music and inspiring conscious gnostic messages about Mother Earth, sovereignty, harmony, peace and love for this New Earth.
Mastermind Creators
Esperanza and Lucho are in constant creation, in particular they love to inspire the new generation to build this univeristy and a world of love, harmony and peace. Their passion is world peace, and this is the reason they created the Iryna Pax Initiative framing their vision and actions to build a thriving world in peace.
They shared their insights, gnosis, ideas and ❤️ @ the Micehelium G Vibes Podcast.