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The World of WALA.

Welcome to a website that functions as a portal rather than merely a façade – created by a company that has been transforming nature’s treasures for you since 1935.

At WALA, we work together on topics that help safeguard the future of our planet and its inhabitants. We are dedicated to healing, caring and helping to thrive; committed to truth, goodness and beauty; supported by an independent foundation and driven by the ideas of our rebellious founders.

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11/23

Independence | Latest

A founding idea

How can both tangible and intangible heritage be tied to a company over the long-term so that more than just a few individuals benefit? The Steward Ownership Foundation has found answers to this. A new legal reform is expected to come soon. As WALA archivist Florian Öxler knows, this form of ownership has been embraced at WALA since 1986.
11/23

Health

Touching on all levels: Gerda Zölle

In our day-to-day lives, how can we become attentive to the need to look after ourselves and therefore others as well? Gerda Zölle draws from her rich stores of experience in providing care and attention through the art of ‘external applications’. A touching personal experiment.
10/23

Culture

Wolfgang Laib: The Beginning of Something Else

Pollen, beeswax and plenty of time: created in dialogue with nature and in harmony with the seasons, Wolfgang Laib’s meditative artworks pose supremely timely questions on our humanity in fragile environments.
10/23

Nature

Taking stock

Working in harmony with nature connects us to its healing and caring powers and teaches us to treat it with respect and appreciation. That is why we treat our environment responsibly out of conviction. And voluntarily take stock every year.
09/23

Health

Rhythm brings regeneration

The human time organism plays an important role in health and well-being, says physiologist and chronobiologist Professor Maximilian Moser. We talked to him about the connection between life processes and rhythm. And how rhythmically shaped daily life can make you healthy.
09/23

Partnership

The fruits of fair labour

The north of Pakistan is characterised by the highest mountains in the world and decades’ worth of territorial disputes. Here, in what is probably one of the most remote regions in the world, agriculture has long been ecologically and socially sustainable. Since 2004, the Mountain Fruit Company (MFC) has been offering training in organic farming, promoting fair commerce and strengthening the role of women. 
08/23

Independence

A woman making her own way

Few others have influenced anthroposophic medicine, pharmacy and curative education the way Ita Wegman has. A doctor dedicated to social causes, her many-sided life was shaped by fate time and again: in this article, we follow in her footsteps for a portion of it.
08/23

Culture

Approaching money with care

Money is useful. We should reclaim our power of interpretation and unleash its potential to shape our world, says GLS Bank CEO Aysel Osmanoglu.
07/23

Partnership

In search of amethyst

Mineral extraction is dangerous and represents a considerable challenge for WALA’s subsidiary naturamus: how can amethyst, the raw material that is used to manufacture WALA medicines, be sourced fairly? A procurement puzzle. 
07/23

Independence

Learning to fish

Wars in neighbouring countries and the devastating impact of the earthquake have made things worse in Turkey, especially for the most vulnerable. Waves of refugees bring seasonal workers who often work in substandard conditions. This is where the non-governmental-organisation Minerva comes in, which was founded by two strong women, Dr. Cigdem Cimrin and Dr. Pinar Kara.
06/23

Science

Simply doing what’s right

The Paris Agreement states that the global temperature increase should be limited to 1.5 degrees by 2100. Hannah Helmke helps companies meet this target by calculating a simple number of degrees Celsius. 
06/23

Culture

A celebration of seeds

Our gardeners nurture, cherish and care for around 150 medicinal plants in our medicinal herb garden. And a cabinet in our summer house conserves and protects the secret stars behind this incredible bounty: the seeds. We think it’s time that these wonders of nature got a bit more love and attention.
06/23

Health

A positive approach to health

Having fallen very ill multiple times, Dutch doctor Dr Machteld Huber recognised that, first and foremost, health starts with us. Together with the Health Council of the Netherlands, she established and developed a dynamic concept of health known as ‘Positive Health’.
05/23

Nature

Regaining ground

Soil is much more than just the ground on which we stand, move and build. It is the foundation of all life. And that is why it is important that we take care of its health, humus expert Gerald Dunst explains. We take a closer look at what is happening beneath our feet.
05/23

Culture

Strong sound on thin ice

Cellist and climate activist Tanja Tetzlaff is taking the initiative using boundary-breaking concert formats and interdisciplinary dialogue. She is daring to forge links to contemporary events with other art forms – ones that awaken, move and encourage people.
03/23

Beauty

Beauty is freedom.

‘There are two kinds of beauty: inner and outer’ – is Dr. Hauschka co-founder Elisabeth Sigmund’s motto, penned in 1967, still relevant today? And does inner beauty even exist? A philosophical discussion at Salon Luitpold, courtesy of WALA.

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