We are Mawu
Are passionate and apprentices of the knowledge and ancestral wisdom and contemporary that accompany women. Mawu was born in 2020 by Leire and Mayte, who, with love and drive, chose to share tools for self-knowledge and self-observation.
After much work, love, dedication, and five editions of Mandala Lunar, Mayte's cycle at Mawu concludes. To further advance the project and expand its purpose of service, Ares joins the team. She considers herself a lover of the human being's will to continue discovering their true purpose and of the sacred cyclical nature of life in sync with nature.
From Mawu, we invite women to reconnect with their cyclical nature so they can feel part of the Whole.
What will you find in Mawu?
In Mawu, you will have access to ideas, content, tools and experiences that seek to help us rescue the connection with our cycles, the awareness about the importance of taking care of ourselves but also of the collective.
In 2021 we begin this adventure by sharing the Lunar Mandala. This is a diary-book originally created in Brazil, where it is in its 10th edition and has already reached the hands of more than 80,000 people worldwide. The artistic, textual, and conceptual design are the result of a collaboration between three friends: Ieve Holthausen, Naíla Andrade, and Victoria Campello, from Porto Alegre, southern Brazil.
Mawu was born to make this powerful tool available across the pond and also in Spanish for the Northern Hemisphere. In 2022, we launched the Northern Hemisphere version in both Spanish and Portuguese. And with the sixth edition in 2026, we continue our goal of making the Lunar Mandala and ancestral and contemporary knowledge increasingly accessible, affordable, and always available.
We are now in a moment of change, feeling an internal impulse to expand this knowledge beyond the paper, which is why at Mawu we feel like going beyond the virtual to begin to put ourselves in the skin.
Little by little, you'll find workshops and meetings focused on women's care, observing cyclical events, and our connection with nature.
If you have any proposal that you think resonates with our work, do not hesitate to write to us. hola@mawu.es
Without borders
On this path that we have been sowing, we have nurtured a new collaboration. We have translated the book 'A Menina que Virou Lua', also of Brazilian origin, into Spanish, Basque and English. This beautiful children's and adolescent book comes to tell us ancestral wisdom - ancient memories, long forgotten and silenced -, from a time when we felt the honor, power and pride of inhabiting a female body. Written by Morena Cardoso and illustrated by Julia Vargas, it is undoubtedly a transformative tool for those who want to know more about menarche.
We are a global network that grows every day, where the main objective is to sow knowledge about ourselves and, based on a comprehensive vision and values of care for Life and the Earth, provide self-knowledge, healing and contribute to a culture of collaboration and love as fundamental principles.
Thank you for supporting our initiatives.
With love,
Mawu Team
