Amala Oliveira is a priestess, witch, independent researcher, facilitator, and practitioner of ancestral spiritualities, with a focus on Iberian Paganism, European-rooted shamanic practices, and Sacred Sexuality. She is dedicated to the historical and symbolic study of the pre-Christian deities of the Iberian Peninsula, Earth-based spirituality, and the rituals associated with sacred stones, trees, and natural cycles. She leads circles, workshops, and ritual walks that invite us to remember that the Earth is alive and sacred.
Manuel Calado, Archaeologist. PhD from the University of Lisbon, with a dissertation entitled “Menhirs of Central Alentejo.”
Since the 1980s, his research has focused mainly on the study of megalithism and rock art in southern Portugal and the Brazilian Amazon. He is currently collaborating on the Montado do Freixo do Meio project, namely in the creation of MEGA – the Interpretative Centre of Alentejo Megalithism. This project focuses on the origins of agriculture and megalithism at a regional scale, as well as on rock art from a global perspective. It also includes the implementation of an open-air museum structure featuring the reconstruction of an Early Neolithic village.
Alfredo Cunhal Sendim, Farmer and Coordinator of the Freixo do Meio Protected Area.
Living at Monte da Herdade do Freixo do Meio since 1990, he has been steadily developing a structuring project in both the agricultural and social fields. On this Alentejo estate, Alfredo has represented, over the past thirty years, a new generation that has embraced the challenge of managing this agricultural property as a “Common Good,” based on a model of interaction with both the community and nature.
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