SAPHICHAY
Arts • Nature • Medicine
Saphichay is an evolving cultural initiative at the intersection of arts, nature and medicine.
It emerged from years of clinical practice, embodied movement work and cross-cultural immersion. What began as an inquiry into individual healing gradually expanded into a wider question: how can knowledge travel between cultures without extraction?
How can regeneration move beyond the individual and return to land, community and reciprocity?
The name Saphichay [Sa-pee-tschäi], derived from Quechua, refers to the act of taking root. It reflects a commitment to continuity rather than consumption — to learning that grows through relationship and context.
Today, Saphichay develops and co-creates international cultural formats that bring people into dialogue with living traditions and place-based knowledge systems. Projects are shaped through long-term partnerships and collaborative authorship, with attention to ethical engagement and shared responsibility.
Rather than positioning healing as intervention, Saphichay approaches it as relational practice — informed by ecology, memory and embodied experience.
Saphichay is not separate from clinical work; it grows from it. It represents an expansion from individual facilitation toward collective and cross-cultural exchange.
About me
For over fifteen years, my work has been rooted in clinical practice as a naturopath, herbalist and movement educator in Switzerland.
Early in my life, I felt a strong pull toward my ancestral roots in Peru. Long journeys through Central and South America shaped my understanding of land, culture and embodied knowledge. The Andes and the Amazon left a lasting imprint — not as destinations, but as teachers.
Returning to Switzerland, I established my practice combining health and movement — an approach that integrates naturopathy, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), yoga and fascia work. This foundation has shaped my therapeutic work and continues to inform it today.
Over time, my path deepened beyond individual healing. Personal transitions, loss and global shifts led me to question not only how we heal, but how we live — and how we relate to land, community and collective responsibility.
What began as clinical practice gradually widened into a broader inquiry: How can regeneration move beyond the individual? How can knowledge travel across cultures without being extracted or simplified?
From this question, Saphichay — Arts, Nature & Medicine — emerged.
Originally founded as a platform supporting artists and artisans during difficult times, Saphichay has since evolved into a space for cultural dialogue and international collaboration. It represents the natural expansion of my work — from individual therapeutic practice toward collective, cross-cultural formats rooted in reciprocity and embodied learning.
Today, my work unfolds in two interconnected spheres:
- Clinical practice in Switzerland
- Cultural and educational projects developed through Saphichay
Both are guided by the same intention: regeneration through relationship — with the body, with community and with land.
Saphichay is not a departure from my work.
It is a widening of it.
Silvia Angelica Fischer
Founder of Saphichay — Arts, Nature & Medicine
Rooted in healing practice — in relationship with land, culture and living knowledge.
Naturopath · TCM Practitioner · Movement Educator