Your NameDaniel Pardo
Email Addressdanielpardo78@gmail.com
Cohort AssignmentAmericas Online, Winter-Spring 2024/2025
1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life?

Mi primary work at this moment is co-leading the project of La Matriz which is located in the pacific coast of Mexico. Two years ago with some close friends and investors we purchased an 18 hectare piece of land which we have been working to bring a regenerative development to the project and region. Its a very big project which involves real estate development, living in community, regenerative agriculture, a wellness platform to host retreats and other experiences related to healing and transformation and last but not least bring a regenerative approach to the region in which we are located.

2. What role do you see as yours to play?

My role is to help root the project within a regenerative practice and vision, and currently working alongside Odin Ruz and Holger Hieronimi (who recommended the TRP course) which have many years of practice and work in the regenerative field. At present moment we are working on a plan to regenerate the watershed basin of Arroyo Seco(which is the town closest to us) which has suffered a lot due to the extraction of its native plants and rocks and has caused mayor floods and damages in the past years. Also I intend to participate in the creation of the wellness platform.

3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above?

- Continue weaving our relationship with the people of Arroyo Seco to be able to strengthen trust among both parts.
- Start conversations with different members of the Arroyo Seco community basin about the importance and necessity of bringing regenerative development to the region.
- Begin transition of monocropping agriculture to regenerative agriculture.
- Implement an urban development plan that respects and promotes the biological balance of the basin and coastal ecosystems.
- Develop and promote a sustainable fishing program to support marine conservation and local livelihoods.
- Establish a high-quality health center to provide accessible medical services for the Arroyo Seco community.
- Improve the quality and infrastructure of primary and secondary schools to ensure access to better education for all residents of Arroyo Seco.
- Promote a sustainable economy that generates prosperity and guarantees the security of all inhabitants of the basin.

4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are?

I strongly feel through my involvement in regenerative work a lot of personal growth will come through it.
I am also inclined in Councils, Circle of Words and any other tools that can help us improve our communication.

5. And for professional growth?

Have a strong desire to become a fully regenerative practitioner and in some future be able to share and guide people and communities with regenerative processes in their lives and personal projects.
Through the Matriz project I hope to be able to collaborate and co-create a project that can be an example of regeneration for the region, Mexico and to the world.

6. What have you invested in to get you where you are?

In the past two decades have been moving around not only physically but also on a professional and spiritual level. Spent some 10 years of my life working on the finance industry in Mexico, then on 2010 fled to India to pursue my spiritual path with yoga and meditation. After some time there came back to Mexico in 2013 to live in the pacific coast where i was partner and managing a restaurant for 10 years, in that time I also started my new approach to spirituality and connection to Mother Earth through plant medicines, sweat lodges and sun dances, areas which have provided a deep understanding of my self and my relation to everything that exists. And now I have the opportunity to put into practice many of the tools I have been receiving throughout my life and with the current project I strongly feel it is my life's project where I can integrate everything through the lens of regeneration.

7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life?

Have a bachelor's degree in Business Administration.
The path of Yoga has brought a lot of transformation, not only in the practice of asanas but as a way of life (Integral Yoga)
More recently the path of plant medicines, indigenous wisdom and red path also is bringing a huge transformation.
Important thinkers, mystics, philosophers, writers: Krishnamurti, Yogananda, Sri Aurobindo, Alan Watts, Henry David Thoreau, Nisagardatta, Eckhart Tolle, Jeremy Lendt, Black Elk, Ramana Maharshi, Joseph Campbell, Rupert Spira, Aldous Huxley, Ram Dass, Thích Nhất Hạnh.

8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it?

As the Lakotas say, "Aho Mitakye Oyasin" which means We are all Related, would resume my cosmology. Strongly believe and practice the wisdom and worldview of indigenous cultures around the world which since long time ago knew our role in this planet, it is not a coincidence that in this current times the expansion and spreading of many of their rituals an medicines is happening around the world. We humans are just another member of this enormous web of life and have the responsibility, chance and opportunity to make a positive and profound impact to help redirect the way in which we have related to nature, so yes, we do have a huge role to play if we plan to continue living on this planet.

Date CreatedDecember 4, 2024