About Us

Since ancient times, people have gathered - drawn by an unseen impulse calling them to remember, to create, to transform.

 

Who, essentially, while drinking a tasty and refreshing coffee, would be able to imagine and feel the dark and, at first, bitter seeds from where this coffee comes from?

 

Who, when breathing the essence of a mountain plant, recalls what once lay hidden underground - the seed’s striving toward light, through wind, rain, and storm, until its fragrance reached me today?

 

The Way that Baraka carries is rooted in the depths of time. In 2008, it took on the external form of a café-bistrôt in Thessaloniki, Greece. Since 2011, Baraka has also been publishing books; the first was The Herald of Coming Good by G.I Gurdjieff, translated into Greek.

 

Like a tree, its branches expanded to Corfu, Athens, Madrid, and now Geneva.

 

The gatherings within Baraka are not meant as education, but as living research and experience. At its heart, Baraka is a meeting point where everyday life and inner Work come together.

 

In Geneva, the alchemical transformation of plants and other natural materials into aromas, essences, dyes, textiles, pottery, and subtle forms of beauty became a living exploration. Activities in the vibration of Speech, Music, and Dance will also unfold, in a path that may reveal itself only as it is walked. 

 

The Way is unique for every traveler.

 

No one has ever traveled on someone else’s Way before them or will ever travel on it after them.

The trail through the desert is governed by its own rules. The desert winds erase each and every foot-print or trace.