Our Story

Every field has a story.

Light of Hope was not born as a project on paper, but as the natural consequence of a life that kept choosing truth over comfort, again and again.

Before it became a Sanctuary in vision and an ecosystem for great life crossings, Light of Hope was a simple “yes” whispered in the heart—a yes to serve, to listen, to let old lives die so that something new could be born.

This is the story of how two souls met inside a temple,
walked through years of service and devotion,
built and released houses and structures,
faced the fire of the in‑between
and received the vision of a Sanctuary for the New Era.

It is not a perfect story.

It is a human one—made of love, fear, courage, doubt, faith,
and a deep trust in the intelligence of Life.

If you feel something in you resonate as you read, perhaps it is because some part of your own story is also standing at a crossing between lives.

Welcome to the path that gave birth to Light of Hope.

Before the crossing: seekers & servants

Before Light of Hope existed, there were two souls walking their own paths of search and service.

Natalia

Matheus

Natalia grew up feeling a deep connection with nature, animals and the invisible worlds — and, at the same time, a strong sense of not fully belonging to the environments around her.
Her early years were marked by books, imagination, horses and sport.
Through disciplines like Muay Thai and later Nutrition at university, she discovered strength, discipline and the power of the body—but also entered cycles of performance, control and self‑demand.
A first great turning point came when she met Ayahuasca.
What began as a personal search for healing and meaning opened a doorway into a much deeper path of consciousness, spirituality and service.

Matheus’ path was marked by a different kind of initiation. Before arriving at the temple, he had to walk through a profound process of overcoming addictions and self‑destructive patterns.
This inner battle became one of his first great crossings— a
moment of choosing life, truth and responsibility over the illusions that were pulling him away from himself.
It was after this turning point that he moved into a spiritual temple in São Paulo, dedicating his days almost entirely to service.
For years, his life there was simple and intense: supporting rituals, taking care of the temple, serving the community and learning directly through practice what it means to hold space for others. While Natalia was still moving between university, work and her own inner search, Matheus was already immersed in a life of service—almost like a monk in the city, learning about responsibility, discipline and devotion through the daily fire of spiritual work.

The Meeting

They met inside this temple (Jiboia Sagrada), where they fell in love and recognized in each other a familiar soul and a shared calling.
At that time, it seemed that their paths were defined:
Matheus would remain in the temple, and Natalia would continue her journey through nutrition and holistic food, bringing more consciousness into the material world.
But Life had other plans.
What they did not yet know was that their individual journeys as seeker and servant were about to merge into a shared path—one that would ask them to leave what was known, to listen to a deeper calling and to build something that did not yet exist.
This is where the seed of Light of Hope was quietly planted.

The birth of Light of Hope

After some time walking together inside the temple, a new question began to rise between Natalia and Matheus:

"How can we honor this calling to serve and, at the same time, build a life together in the world?"

At that moment, Natalia was still studying Nutrition and working with her family in a conscious food business.
What began as “A Dieta Gourmet” soon became “Prana – Holistic Food”, an attempt to unite spirituality and nourishment:
Reiki in the food,
mantras in the kitchen,
vegetarian and vegan meals prepared as offerings.

As their relationship deepened, another truth became clear:
if they wanted to truly build a life together, Matheus could not remain forever living inside the temple.

With a lot of love and respect, he chose to leave the temple where he had been serving for years
and to join Natalia in the Prana project—bringing his devotion, discipline and spiritual experience
into this new chapter they were creating side by side.

They poured their hearts into it.

The intention was beautiful, the feedback was loving—but, no matter how much they tried,
the numbers simply did not flow.
Month after month, they found themselves working hard,
barely breaking even, often ending in the negative.

It was as if Life was whispering:

“this is not the form through which your medicine wants to move.”

In the middle of this tension, during a ceremony with Shiva,
Natalia received a clear message through the Medicine:

“Close the kitchen.”

No explanation. No plan B. Just that.
Trusting this guidance was not easy.
The kitchen was their main source of income, a project built with family, effort and love.
But the inner yes was unmistakable.

They closed the kitchen.
Soon after, something unexpected happened.
One of their most loyal food clients—without knowing the depth of their path with Ayahuasca—asked almost casually:
“Do you work with Ayahuasca?”

At first, they said no.
Days later, she insisted:

“You really should work with Ayahuasca…”

Those words landed like a confirmation of what the Medicine had already whispered.
Even feeling young and, in many ways, not “ready enough”, they recognized the call.
They knew from experience that serving Sacred Medicines is not a light responsibility—
it means holding people in their most vulnerable states, with humility, discernment and deep care.
Still, the answer inside was clear.

They said yes.

The same house that had once hosted the holistic kitchen
became the first physical home of what would be known as Light of Hope:
a small, simple, grandmother‑like house, prepared with devotion to receive one person at a time.
The first person they served?
The same woman who had asked about Ayahuasca.

From individual ceremonies, the work began to grow organically, through word of mouth and genuine transformation.
Without big marketing strategies or complex structures, people kept arriving—drawn by something they could feel,
even if they could not name it.
What started as a quiet “yes” in a small house was, in truth, the birth of a field.
Light of Hope had taken its first breath.

The great crossing: letting go of the temple

They said yes.

They closed the house‑temple, returned to Natalia’s parents’ home with a few boxes and many questions, and entered a period of deep emptiness.

There were moments of beauty and faith,
and there were also days of fear, doubt and despair.

At one point, they carried a debt close to R$ 100.000 and counted coins to buy an onion.

In the middle of this crossing, they both shaved their head as a living symbol of everything that was dying and being reborn.

Old identities, roles, certainties and images of “who we are” were stripped away, one by one.

What remained was the essence:
two souls, a shared vision,
and a trust that, somehow,
this apparent dismantling was not a failure—but a necessary passage.

This was one of the most intense “between lives” they had ever walked.

And it was precisely in this space of nothingness that the next vision began to arrive.

As Light of Hope grew, the little house could no longer hold the number of people arriving. What had begun with individual ceremonies soon became small groups, then full rituals, and the field kept expanding.

They moved to a larger house in Morumbi, and later to an even bigger temple in Tucuruvi. Each move was a leap in responsibility, structure and reach.

Week after week, the house was alive with ceremonies, therapies, initiations and gatherings. Hundreds of people passed through those doors, many of them living profound processes of healing, reconciliation, liberation from addictions, and radical changes in the way they saw themselves and life.

From the outside, everything looked “right”:
a beautiful temple, a strong community,
a full calendar, recognition, stability.

But inside, something quieter and deeper began to whisper again. There was a sense that the structure they had built with so much love no longer matched the vision that was trying to be born through them.

It was as if Life was asking:

“Are you willing to let go of even this—what you worked so hard to create—in order to walk into the next chapter?”

This question followed them for months.

In the midst of this inner tension, they traveled to Bali—a journey that opened new perspectives, expanded their vision of what was possible and made it even clearer that the life they were living was too small for the calling they carried.

Returning to Brazil, they could no longer ignore the truth.

They were being asked to do something that, on paper, made no sense at all:
to let go of the temple,
to release the structure that sustained them financially and spiritually,
to dissolve the team as it existed,
to donate or sell most of their belongings,
and to step into a space of almost complete unknown.

The vision of the Sanctuary & the New Era

In the apparent emptiness that followed the closing of the temple, something new began to take form.

Without a physical house to hold, Light of Hope revealed itself as what it had always truly been:

not just a place, but a field.

A living field of consciousness, woven through years of service, prayer, medicine and devotion—now asking to expand beyond the walls of any single house.

In this in‑between space, visions started to arrive with more clarity.

The vision of the Sanctuary they have always dreamed of—a living, breathing place where people from different parts of the world
could come to heal, remember and cross between lives - was becoming clearer and clearer.

A space in Chapada dos Veadeiros, surrounded by mountains, water and stars,
where ceremonies with forest medicines,
retreats, education, art and community
would coexist as one ecosystem.

At the same time, another layer of the vision unfolded:

Light of Hope was not meant to be only a local temple, but a global field for the New Era—
a movement that would support people and leaders from their first awakenings
to the embodiment of their soul’s legacy in the world.

From this place, new forms began to be dreamed:

• journeys and mentorships for great life crossings,

• spaces for leaders of the New Era to gather and co‑create,

• a Sanctuary that would serve as the epicenter for healing, education and community,

• and a network of beings around the world walking their own paths of remembrance and service.

The apparent “end” of the old temple was, in truth, the initiation into a wider calling.

Light of Hope was being invited to become what it had always carried in its essence:
an ecosystem for crossings between lives and a living prayer for a more conscious world.

Light of Hope today & the path ahead

Today, Light of Hope is a living field that moves in many forms.

It lives in the ceremonies with Sacred Forest Medicines,
in the journeys and mentorships that support great life crossings,
in the communities that gather around this work,
and in the vision of the Sanctuary in Chapada dos Veadeiros that is coming into form.

What began in a small house in São Paulo is now becoming an ecosystem for the New Era—a space where spirituality and daily life, inner work and outer creation, healing and legacy are not separate paths, but one movement.

We are walking this path step by step,
honoring the timing of Life, listening to the intelligence of the field and welcoming the souls who feel called to be part of this story in their own way.

If, as you read this, something in you feels a “yes”—
a desire to walk deeper with this field,
to participate in the birth of the Sanctuary,
to collaborate, support or invest in this vision—
we would love to hear from you.

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