Hello!
Welcome to "crappa e plema", the online magazine for more nature connection! Besides many inputs and interesting blogposts you'll also find my many other offerings, like yoga classes and nature rituals, here in this little corner of the internet. All my offerings are dedicated to spiritual nature conservation. What that is, you'll get to know here.
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My name is Silvana Candreia. I'm a writer, yoga teacher, forest bathing instructor, musician, water priestess, dreamer, forest fairy, green witch, creative and spiritual nature conservationist. The rhythms of nature fascinate me and I see it as my current mission to inspire others to live more attuned to nature again and therefore find a connection to oneself. Here you can find out more about myself and my story.
"We have to re-learn to love what we are:
nature."
spiritual nature conservation - what's that?
Spiritual nature conservation is nature conservation on a spiritual and individual level. I'm convinced that we can all make this world a better place by starting with ourselves. Our world needs more mindfulness and connection. People, who dedicate themselves to their own contentment, not out of the ego, but because they feel that there must be more to life than what we originally thought. By connecting to nature, you'll understand that you are a part of it as well and that what we do to nature, we hence do to ourselves.
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We protect what we love.
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And so I have made it my mission to bring you closer to nature, which you are, too. For you to enter into a deep relationship to nature, to honor the natural rhythms again and to feel that you are part of this wonderful and magical world and you therefor start to advocate for its preservation.
Become a spiritual nature conservationist, too!
As individual as we are, as individual is spiritual nature conservation. By becoming more mindful and entering into a deep connection to yourself and nature, you automatically become a spiritual nature conservationist, because you realize that there's no separation between you and nature.
Here on "crappa e plema" I teach you my kind of spiritual nature conservation ...
... in my online magazine,
... in my yoga classes, nature rituals and forest bathing courses
... and with my music as the effect of art is highly underestimated and I believe that art will change this world, because it moves something true very deep inside of us.
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Subscribe to my weekly newsletter (which is in German, but is easily translated into English with a translating app), which gives you practical and tangible tools for spiritual nature conservation. Additionally you might want to follow the hashtag #spiritualnatureconservation on instagram.
My story...
For years I saw this image before my eyes: a small house on the edge of the forest; me barefoot in the garden, a cup of tea in my hand and a cat at my feet.
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It was this image that stuck with me in 2020. A lot of things in my life changed then. I finished my twenties and quit my secure teaching job because it just didn't fulfill me anymore. I wanted to have time for life and to devote myself to my passion, creating. If I hadn't dared to take this step back then, I might never have done it. But with the sudden death of one of my best friends in 2019, I knew that life is too short to postpone dreams.
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Suddenly my life took on a completely different meaning and I wanted to have time for it. So I not only quit my job after six years, but also my first own apartment. I moved into my family's three hundred year old house in a small mountain village surrounded by nature. Because that's what I still want. Connection with myself and my surroundings. Silence. Time for myself to be creative and learn new things. Simplicity. I want to go back to my roots.
And now I'm on my way. Try things out, fall down, build up. What I couldn't have known in 2020 is that I was entering the deepest and most life-changing process. I began an apprenticeship with Mother Nature (and also completed my 250-hour yoga teacher training and forest bathing training). Because it was the call of nature that I unconsciously followed and now I document my learnings here on "crappa e plema", write about personal things, about my work in and with nature, spirituality and the simple life, seasoned with a pinch of magic. I show this wonderful place at retreats, create a sense of connection through rituals and yoga in the rhythm of nature, accompany people on their way back to their true nature, connect to the spiritual world as a water priestess and try to pass on everything I have learned here so that our earth becomes wilder and more natural again.
What you might not know about me:
I love animals, especially cats and sea turtles.
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I have worked as a primary teacher for six years, while studying acting and musical theater.
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I have synaesthisia and I see words and numbers in colors in front of my inner eye.
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I'm scared a lot. Especially in the dark.
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I'm a highly sensitive person and often prefer the company of trees and flowers to the one of people. But when I'm with people, I can enjoy that, too.
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I write my own children's songs, among others, and published a children's album.
crappa e plema
"crappa e plema" is Romansh, my second mother tongue, and translates to "stones and feathers".
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Stones and feathers for me are symbols for the heavy and the light occurrences in life. They stand for all that lets me grow personally. For sad and happy moments. For moments, in which I can feel the earth beneath my feet and for those who let me fly. In any case those are the moments that let me go deeper and that always turn out to be crystals.
"crappa e plema" is a place of inspiration. A small sparkling corner in the wast cosmos of the internet that lets you dream, supports you to find back to your true nature and lets you see the beauty of this world. "crappa e plema" is a homage to all the enchanting beings out there. I call that spiritual nature conservation or quiet rebellion, because we have to re-learn to love what we are: nature. And in my book this can happen gently and quietly because therein lies an enormous power.
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