Our Story
Even though our music studio and study center is spread across the world, most of the work started by Maia Earth Village (Palawan, Philippines) 17 years ago by Pi Villaraza. His transformative journey was led by the great intuition and acute reasoning that human well-being could benefit from simplicity, autonomy and communion with Nature and other humans.
He conducts independent research-based studies alongside his global community of trainors and peers interested in the applications of induced REM-sleep experiences through the mechanisms of layered soundscapes. Alongside with his life partner, Iituli Aalto, they are continuously running projects on advocacy work on their homeland Maia Earth Village in Palawan, as well as global courses on the works of Music and its substantial role in Health and Cognitive Development.
The ongoing study took an inspiring turn during the Covid-19 pandemic, when his soundscapes and playlists were shared within his online courses so that participants could go into the experience within the safety of their homes in varied countries: Spain, Australia, Belgium, The Netherlands, Brazil, Cape Town, United Kingdom, United States and others.
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In 2022, the first playlist to be used during sleep was composed, “Sleep Entrainment”, upon request by a British member of our community who was assisting the case of a child with TDAH. The positive results were only the doorway for the current community led projects that seek to study the effects of induced REM-sleep experiences within different contexts: addiction centers, jails, schools, single cases, corporations and others.
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With more than 60 trainors spread around the globe, our community is interested in slowly building quantitative and qualitative data from its project-based oriented research that could help bring non-invasive healing processes to households and different organizations.
REM.ember in Palawan, The Philippines

Pi Villaraza
Pi Villaraza has facilitated and trained in 22 countries in the last 16 years. His work has global reach in its various forms, slowly helping to apply the theories and methods of his life work in birthing, corporate wellness, medical systems, schools, jails and addiction centres across Asia, the Americas and Europe. He is the co- writer of Transformation Medicine, along with Dr. Romy Paredes.

Iituli Aalto
Iituli Aalto from Finland has also facilitated wellness programs for over 20 years. She is a seasoned facilitator of community, energy, yoga, bodywork. In the last five years, has lived in the Philippines to contribute her rich experiences in advocacy work, wellness and ecology within local communities. She is currently managing Maia Earth Village in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan.

Graziele Burmann
Gra Burmann is a Brazilian facilitator and trainor who has been travelling across Asia and Europe conducting important coursework patricianly focused for Brazilians, Spanish and Portuguese. As her main passion is in working with children, she is deeply interested in bringing healing processes within education systems. She is currently working with local schools in Palawan in designing how to bring healing within the MAPEH curriculum.

Cristina dos Santos
Cristina dos Santos is a Spanish healer, facilitator and trainor who has moved from her home in Mallorca, Spain and now lives in Maia Earth Village. She conducts year-long online study modules for Spanish participants out of her small hut in Palawan. She brings with her an array of many healing modalities, which she carefully integrates into the regular trainings that take place in Maia Earth Village.
REM.ember in Cebu, The Philippines

Romy Paredes
Romy Paredes, M.D. finished his BS Chemistry in UP Dilliman and his medical degree at the UP College of Medicine and UP-PGH Medicalby Center. He is the founder of Wellnessland Health Institute, a leader in the field of natural and complementary health care and education. He has authored 2 books, Integrative Medicine (bridging conventional and alternative medicine) and Health Made Incredibly Simple, the latter published by Shephard's Voice Publications. His integrative medical work is based in Cebu City, Philippines where he resides with his wife, Dr. Mila, and thier son, Michael.
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