Sachamama Center is a non-profit organization in the Peruvian High Amazon in the town of Lamas, Department of San Martin, dedicated to the bio-cultural regeneration of the region in collaboration with the indigenous Kichwa-Lamistas, the descendants of pre-Columbian inhabitants.  Founded in 2009, Sachamama is committed to the Kichwa-Lamistas’ worldview in which the human, the non-human, as well as the community of spirits, are all kin to each other. By ‘bio-cultural regeneration’ we mean to honor this integration of all life as well as the cyclicity of its rhythms. It is also meant to obviate the backward/advanced implications of more linear formulations.  Like the Kichwa-Lamistas, Sachamama Center recognizes the devastating experience and legacies of colonialism and together with them is engaged in healing these legacies.  Sachamama is bringing together an expanding collective of scholars, activists, healers, and shamans that cross the North-South divide. The Center’s mission is to integrate politics and spirituality, activism and scholarship, bio-cultural regeneration and fair economic practices, with the goal of nurturing intercultural dialogue.   Sachamama Center’s mission is to strengthen the ancestral legacies and other practices of the Kichwa-Lamistas in dialogue with them.
 
At once an educational, research, and retreat Center, Sachamama Center hopes to model a practice of a post-colonial, critical anthropology in horizontal, mutual, and inter-cultural collaboration with the Kichwa-Lamistas.  The Center operates out of the beautiful grounds of Casa La Sangapilla (www.casasangapilla.com), a complex of buildings and lush gardens designed collectively by the Sachamama team.   The architectural vision of Casa La Sangapilla draws on eco-friendly, local indigenous design and technology.  Casa La Sangapilla is located on the outskirts of Lamas on two acres of forested land, with panoramic views of the Cordillera Escalera mountain range.