✨The Souls  Behind Najash ✨

We were born in a small City Called Pereira, Colombia, surrounded by beautiful landscapes of nature and the Embera Chami Community. Enchanted by their weaving and beauty, our interest in art and the ancestral culture of our country was born. We founded NAJASH with the purpose of bringing light into the world through the ancestral magic that you can feel when you use a real treasure. #Najashsouls Join this dream and together we can bring the light that this universe needs to become a better place to live. With Love Sigrid y Cata.

The WAYUU or GUAJIROS ( in the ARAHUACO language meaning „Sir, Master, powerful man“) are Colombian aborigins living since ancient times on the Guajira peninsula on the shore of the Carribean Sea. Their language originates from the linguistic group of the ARAWAK idioms. It is traditionally their women who weave the so-called „mochilas“, passing on their art and knowledge from generation to generation, thus establishing themselves as the main source of the family livelihood. Many of the designs woven into each mochila show the elements of nature surrounding the WAYUU, their animals, the sun, the plants they are used to, and the stars, and last - but not least - they represent their spiritual beliefs. The designing and weaving of just one mochila takes about a fortnight and is totally handmade by one woman from beginning to end.- We work directly with each one of them, paying a good and fair price for theit wonderful art and contributing socially to the wellbeing of their communities.

The village Kamentsa is a unique town in the world, they are native to the Valley of Sibundoy in the department of Putumayo, in their language their territory is called BËNGBE WÂMAN TABANÔK, which translates "Our sacred place of Origin" His practice is linked to the teaching of his ancestors, through generations, a life woven with the threads that come from TSËBATSANA that represent trees, water, plants, animals, light, night, day, language, the moon, the sun, everything that is part of BËNGBE WÂMAN TABANÔK. This community is always in permanent contact with nature as a fundamental source of their creativity. They weave on handcrafted looms, the oral tradition is an inexhaustible source of inspiration; next to her the visions that Taita Yage gives them, disturb the spirit of the weavers so that the faces of the soul sprout from their hands.

The EMBERA CHAMI are a Southamerican indigenous people dwelling on some areas of the Colombian Pacific coastline and bordering zones. They share their name EMBERA CHAMI with all those indigenous who occupy the west and central “cordilleras” (mountain range) of the Colombian Andes, living therefore in he departments of Antioquia, Caldas, Risaralda, Quindío and Valle. An outstanding feature of their traditions is their communication with the spirits “jai“, through the guidance of the jaibanás, chamanes who teach their wisdom to each new generation. It is important to know that the jaibanás do not inherit their position, but submit to the teachings of experienced masters, who reveal to them the spiritual force and power that guides life itself, health, survival and nature. The spirits JAI are divided in three groups: the DOJURA, spirits of the water, together with the WANDRA, mothers of animals and plants living and growing in the headwaters of rivers; then there are the ANTUMIÁ, spirits of the deep rain forests; the third group are the spirits JAI responsible for the wild animals of the rain forest, considered seats for the transformed souls of human beings after their death. The traditional handicraft of the EMBERA CHAMÍ is to weave on homemade looms using “mostacilla” or “palo barba de indio” of different colours. “Mostacilla” is the common name for Cynophalla flexuosa, a bush or tree bearing fruit in the form of long threads, thus providing the wonderful natural material for the weaving. Under the busy hands of the EMBERA CHAMÍ it is transformed into geometric designs, into images of animals and into linear drawings inspired in their spiritual beliefs and their God KARAVI.