Samui Mala
Inspired by our annual Samui Mala festival, we are a small group of local residents on Samui island that supports a vision for a clean and green Samui.
We looks for ways for visitors and residents to meet via action, events, education or networking to share their skills, knowledge, techniques and suggestions and help us all live together in a more harmonious, healthy and regenerative environment.
We call this "LIVING THE MALA"
A "Mala" is a string of beads, representing individual elements united by a common thread.
See our calendar for information about events -- clean, green, nurturing, educational, healing or fun -- happening on our island.
Please keep us informed of anything you are hosting or know about for our calendar and newsletter by emailing us at samuimala@gmail.com
We know that many share the same vision: Surprise, surprise! We all want to be healthy, live on a green island, swim in a blue sea, drink clean water, and have nurturing relationships with kind people.
'Living the Mala' is
when we realise that instead of being pessimistic about the problem and
wondering “Why don’t they fix the road? Why don’t they clean up the
garbage?” we can actively choose the world we live in by contributing
to the solution. We can choose not to regard our world as a reactive,
ugly, complaining and disappointing place. Instead we choose to
actively see and shape our world into a clean, green, nurturing,
proactive and regenerative environment.
For many attending the
Samui Mala festvial this message resonated very strongly, and many were also
touched by the common thread of community spirit. The mala is a string
of beads, and ‘living the mala’ reflects that movement as the beads rub
up against each other – we are not so much counting or keeping score,
we are just moving the energy, keeping the beads connected, and
inspiring change.
So by 'connecting the dots' by networking, sharing and action, the Samui Mala hopes to inspire others to be proactive instead of reactive. To be part of the solution. To write our own script for the world we want to inhabit.
We invite you all to 'Be the change' you want to see in the world....
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In the past, Koh Samui’s Mala festivals (called 'Global Mala' in 2007 and 2008) have been one day events focusing on healthy living in a healthy environment.
In 2009 Samui Mala grew into a more diverse multi-day and multi-venue festival of events between 19-27 September.
The entire festival is run by volunteers, and supported by the local community in the form of time, services, food, support, venues and more. See our Thank you page for more details of how generous the community on Samui and beyond has been.
See the video clip below to meet some of our volunteers, host venues and supporters, as well as local residents talking about the community spirit of the Samui Mala: