KAREN GUTIÉRREZ,

Textile Artist, Mindfulness Facilitator & Visual Designer

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After finishing her studies at The Fine Art Collage Of Xalapa, Veracruz, she started a Master in Textile Art at the Universidad Iberoamericana, México City. 

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She moved to Oaxaca to study the traditional textile and pottery techniques. A truly life changing experience to be involve with the indigenous women in the Sierra and all of the wisdom they lived in.

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By then fully immersed in the art of slow living and traditions. She studied Permaculture & organic farming in California, USA for a year.

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Then moving into a Mayan Land with the indigenous communities, ready to create her own label Laguna Collective honouring the ancient knowledge and sustainability leaded by nature and its natural rhythm.

 

Since 2014 she is has been based in the Yucatán Peninsula constantly traveling to rural communities & other countries to facilitate retreats and workshops, her mission is to create a connection with the wisdom and knowledge of the native Mexican culture as well as create opportunities of work for its people.

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"Being connected with my ancestors & honoring their cosmovition & simplicity of live

makes me feel alive" -K.G.

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