Project is about awakening Yantra (digital), Mantra (mind) and Tantra (Somatic intelligence). It cultivates IDG skills in Agriculture and Forestry work for planetary healing at the top of the world.

Country: NEPAL
IDG HUB: IDG Pokhara Holistic Healing Himalayas Hub
Link to website: https://www.instagram.com/holistichealing_himalayas/
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What feels most important to share is that our project is still emerging and evolving. We see it as a seed that holds the potential to grow into a regenerative eco-village model where inner growth, community resilience, and ecological regeneration flow together. We are experimenting with how stories, movement, and landscapes can shift mindsets and behaviors — helping people feel that mountains, rivers, and big cats are not just background scenery but living relatives and teachers. Questions I Hold How can we better integrate the IDG framework into conservation education in the Global South, especially in the Himalayan context? What are the best ways to build long-term partnerships between local universities, global IDG practitioners, and conservation networks? How can regenerative initiatives like ours measure subtle impacts — such as changes in empathy, connectedness, and worldview — alongside tangible conservation outcomes?

Our initiative, Holistic Healing Himalaya – Mountain Mind Movement (HHH MMM), contributes to the Sustainable Development Goals by weaving inner transformation with outer ecological and social action. Some key impacts include:

SDG 3 – Good Health & Well-Being

Through eco-somatic practices, mindful movement, and healing circles, participants report reduced stress, improved mental clarity, and stronger community bonds.

SDG 4 – Quality Education

By co-developing regenerative, eco-somatic curricula with universities and conservation bodies, we are enhancing transformative education that integrates Inner Development Goals (IDGs) with wildlife conservation and human–nature coexistence.

SDG 13 – Climate Action

Our project inspires climate awareness through embodied experiences of nature, helping communities and students understand the links between emotional resilience, ecological resilience, and climate adaptation in the Himalayas.

SDG 15 – Life on Land

Activities directly address wildlife conservation (e.g., coexistence with big cats, protecting forest ecosystems, respecting rivers as living beings).

By cultivating empathy and responsibility toward more-than-human life, we contribute to biodiversity protection in high-altitude protected areas.