Participants of the Wellness Congress of the Wellness Fest – Vilcabamba 2025

Talk

Christian Gallardo

Spanish

What are well-being, coherence, and inner truth? How do we view these concepts today versus traditional understandings? Are these two visions in conflict? How can we harmonize the different perspectives on well-being, put this inner wisdom into practice, and inspire the community?

Understanding, as the human ability to become aware of a truth or a certain knowledge, is the key to consolidating a harmonious reality, or even a true paradise of well-being. This truth, understood as a law or principle, enables us to act coherently.

Modern visions, based on rational thinking, often conflict with ancestral worldviews, which are grounded in intuitive and holistic wisdom. It is possible and necessary to bring order to this cosmological disarray. The first step is to organize our inner garden; this process of returning to our personal paradise can be the seed of a nascent communal paradise.

My participation in the conference is part of the divine plan for the expansion of consciousness and the awakening of inner wisdom. For me, well-being is living in harmony and coherence with inner truth, allowing both the individual and the community to flourish fully.

At the age of 16, on an island in the Canary Islands, I began my journey of meditation. Three years later, I began self-taught studies of everything related to spirituality that came into my life. Twenty years later, I have undergone extensive training in various disciplines: philosophy, Buddhism, macrobiotics, natural medicine, hygiene, yoga, biological biodecoding, and ecology.

I have studied philosophy at PUCE, traditional Chinese medicine at the Neijing Center in Tumbaco, and macrobiotics at the Center for Life Education with Santiago Portilla. I have also practiced Zen Buddhism with Vera Schiller of Khon for over 15 years and have studied Raja Yoga at the Brahma Kumaris Center in Barcelona, Spain. With over 20 years of yoga and meditation experience, I trained as a yoga teacher at the Latin American Center for Integral Yoga in Chile and in Biological Biodecoding at the Latin American Center for Holistic Psychology in Argentina.

This diversity of studies and experiences has allowed me to integrate multiple approaches into a holistic vision of well-being, in which coherence with inner truth is fundamental to living in harmony with oneself and the world.