We are a husband-and-wife team devoted to building bridges — between cultures, worlds, and ways of knowing. Our work grows from a shared calling to serve our communities, to foster understanding across difference, and to help rekindle a sense of sovereignty, freedom, and belonging within the greater whole.

Our scars and our skills both tell the stories of where we’ve been. Through challenge and change, we’ve learned that gratitude, love, and joy are among life’s most reliable guides and precious resources. These are the qualities we continue to nurture and share as we walk — individually and together — through the ever-unfolding dance of light and shadow.

Through the healing presence of Nature, and through stories, songs, and prayers, we offer support to those seeking clarity, renewal, or deeper connection on their journey. Our work creates spaces for self-discovery and practical guidance in the art of living authentically and compassionately in a complex world.

My Story

I’m Minna Pyhälä, also known as Txana Siriani — a Finnish-born artist, storyteller, and bridge between worlds. Growing up across four continents, I was immersed from an early age in many cultures and ways of seeing life. This upbringing awakened in me a lifelong curiosity about the mysteries of existence and a deep desire to understand how we can live in harmony — with each other, and with the natural world.  

I am an eternal student and adventurer — a woman shaped by many paths: mother, wife, artist, storyteller, and guide. My life is devoted to creation, connection, and service; to walking with the medicines of Nature and the wisdom of Spirit while continuing to learn, listen, and grow.

My journey with the Huni Kuĩ people began in 2017. Rua Inu and I met in the village of Boa Vista in 2022, and a year later we were married — committing to walk and work together in service of Spirit, the sacred medicines, and our families and communities.

You can read the story of my first visit to Boa Vista – my own Hero’s Journey during the covid pandemic. (In the story, I carry an earlier Huni Kuĩ name, given to me before I married Rua Inu).

You can also find me on YouTube, Instagram and Facebook and SoundCloud

Rua Inu Keã Huni Kuĩ

Rua Inu Keã is a Huni Kuĩ man from the Kaxinawá Indigenous Territory of the Upper Jordão River in the Brazilian state of Acre, near the border with Peru. He was born and raised in the village of Boa Vista, founded by his grandfather and father when the Huni Kuĩ first regained land rights in the late 1970s.

From an early age, Rua Inu studied the traditions of his ancestors — their spirituality, stories, songs, healing sciences, and the use of medicinal plants — guided by his father, grandparents, and other relatives who are respected healers and teachers.

As chief of Boa Vista village and director of its Dieta Center, Rua Inu stewards both his community and the living knowledge of the forest. He is also leading the formation of an association uniting five neighbouring villages, working to secure resources for food, water, healthcare, and education while supporting cultural and ecological self-sufficiency. This initiative also strengthens the communities’ capacity to protect their territories, traditions, and ways of life amid the growing pressures of external development and extractive activities in the region.

Throughout his life, Rua Inu, a father of five, has served his community in many ways — as a teacher, builder, farmer, hunter, fisherman, and boat driver. He is a Txana (singer of sacred prayers), an artist, and a community leader dedicated to preserving ancestral wisdom while building bridges with the wider world.

Since 2023, Rua Inu has been living in Finland, working as an ambassador of the Huni Kuĩ and as a bridge between worlds — sharing ancestral knowledge and the force of Nature while learning new ways and gathering resources to support his family and community in the forest.

You can find Rua Inu on: Instagram, Facebook, SoundCloud and YouTube.