Besides being a mother, anthropologist, journalist, vegan cook, social permaculturist, educator in sustainability and accompanist/guide in the Schetinin holistic pedagogy and model, facilitator in the design of ecovillages and processes tending to the development of the New Humanity, Rakel feels like a free soul and traveller.
After living in many corners of the planet investigating other ways of cohabiting and cultivating the land, and getting to know other cultures, tribes, communities and ecovillages in 4 continents, she decided to return close to her place of origin (Malaga) to grow her food and continue learning about water management to contribute to the process of counteracting the pressing desertification she saw in the south, co-creating what she calls a HEALING-Biotope.
IKI-GAIA, the project under construction of ecovillage + School of Life from the basis of Permaculture (projected for children and the next 7 generations) + HEALING-Biotope located on a beautiful land of 240 hectares in the Axarquia region of Malaga with springs, oak and gall oak forests and a flora and fauna of great value is her great life project, the result of a life dedicated to the service of a Greater Common Good.
Through techniques of Water Retention in Landscapes such as those applied in Tamera (where she was trained), the vision is to increase biodiversity, reforest with native trees such as yews, Spanish firs, stone pines... and food forests in parts of the farm (where the bioclimatic campsite, the educational complex of Schetinin, the Adventure Park...) to renaturalise the area (rewilding project).
To practice, encourage and promote permaculture and regeneration of the planet, the holistic development of the BEING, as well as the recovery of sovereignty in the areas of food, health, energy and, with special emphasis, in education (to encourage rural repopulation around schools, communities, ecovillages...) as well as to remember the importance of THE RETURN TO THE EARTH in complete ecoheritage, are its ikigai, reason for BEING.