Welcome, dear heart. Thank you for being here.

In Sanskrit -- the root of our native Indonesian language, Cinta means love, Bumi is the Earth. This space is here to guide you nourish your relationship with the Earth and your inner artist. It's a place of co-creation with plants, fibers, and colors. It's a learning vessel that you can explore through our natural dye courses, creative retreats, community initiatives, and heartmade wearable poetry.

Since we started our journey in 2013, we've been through metamorphosis that has gradually supported us and brought us here. From being a small business focused on products to a heart-centered one that integrates heritage, artisanal creations with skill-sharing and learning experiences.

In the past five years, we've gone on to create naturally-dyed artisanal works for individuals and organizations, run 80+ in-depth courses and introductory workshops, and reach 700+ students age 3 to 72 years old from over 30 countries. But beyond the numbers, the thing we are most grateful for is the deeply nourishing life we get to share with you by co-creating with the plant world and amazing artisans of our home archipelago Indonesia. We are so glad you're walking with us.

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It all started with an afternoon hike around the megalithic sites of the Bada Valley in 2013.

At that time, I still worked full-time in the tourism field and I was running a two-year independent research on community-based ecotourism initiative in Poso, Central Sulawesi. One of the key aspects I focused on was the intangible cultural heritage of the indigenous communities around the Lore Lindu National Park. This included Bada Valley.

That afternoon, in the middle of a rice field, I met Ina Rii, a topobéa (ranta / barkcloth maker) and our beautiful connection started there. She's my first teacher who personally taught me about ranta-making and dyeing process, the values and meaning of the cloth, while often sharing her feelings around the vulnerable status of this centuries-old heritage.

It was the gateway that brought me to my awakened self; the bridge that connected me to the path where I truly belong: artisanal craftsmanship; the vessel that rose my dream and courage to birth Cinta Bumi Artisans, an embryo I had kept safely in my heart for over a decade by that time.

So after 10 years being a tourism practitioner -- and was in an intersection regarding that sector for quite sometime, I decided to let go of it and embarked the new path. Since then, I've been fully dedicated in artisanal craftswomanship, and proud to call it my soul path in this lifetime.

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It's about love, and love needs time.

Many people normalized fast as a part of core quality, unexceptionally in cloth-making. But when you get deeper and tune in with your heart... you realized that to fully embrace true love -- unexceptionally self-love, we need time to get there.