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If meditation, breath-work, yoga, living foods, juice fasting and inner cleansing resonate with your calling and you are a dynamic, self driven, conscientious, happy and hard working individual - we need your help at our co living village home in central Portugal.
Catherine and Robert are raw vegans with years of knowledge and experience in health and healing, we offer space to work, play and heal.
Meals are organic, raw vegan fresh daily, we forage wild herbs for teas and salads
General jobs, help with household tasks, laundry, harvesting, garden jobs, firewood collection, some light DIY or creative projects
Meditation, breathwork and chanting at 6.30am (invitation)
We are community minded, conscientious humans, non smoking, non alcohol but plenty of kombucha and juice!
We ask for a 5 hour contribution each day except on weekends
This work is an opportunity to learn new skills, whether in the permaculture garden or food forest. We have many creative projects such as clay sculpting on walls, we can teach you life skills such as pointing a section of stone wall.
Depending on the weather
We offer an opportunity to work in the self, we offer loving feedback to assist personal growth
This is not the regular workaway experience- in many ways we give more than we expect in return
Work rest and play are integrated during the day - meditation, self awareness and reflection has space here
6.00am silent walking meditations and evening kirtans are what makes our exchanges different.
Enjoy the peaceful nature at out place, enjoy sharing yoga classes, eating delicious raw vegan food and smoothies
Walk barefoot, swim in mountain streams, walk towards the sunset from 6.00am
We are a challenge
Send me a brief about yourself, what is your human design type and number? I don’t do the research on your behalf!
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Help with Eco Projects
Light gardening
Creative DIY projects
Help around the house
Light maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
Interests
Politics / Social justice
Events & social
Sustainability
Vegetarian or vegan
Self development
Music
Books
Photography
Carpentry
Animals
Cycling
Beach
Architecture
Art & design
DIY & crafts
Plant care
Languages
Gardening
Cooking & food
Yoga / Wellness
Nature
Dancing
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
What you put in makes the difference to what you will experience with us, we live as a small community when there is a small group of individuals who are working, living, eating and sharing life experiences together we become family during your stay!
We are open to language exchange, practice your English with us!
Learn how to live within a community construct, non violent communication - being clear, open and honest in all transactions.
We offer space to create, space to just be yourself!
Spaces are available for you to make art, play music, practice yoga, wild swim, food forage, ramble over the hills..
Work can be used as a meditation, focusing on the task to the best of your ability, the outcome is an offering to the next person who comes to work with us
Catherine and Rob raw chefs for many years can teach how to make life force foods from simple ingredients, such as plant based milks, healthy sweet treats, soups and salads from raw vegetables, nuts and seeds! Learn how to select herbs from the garden to make vibrant healing teas.
Learn about natural bee keeping in our apiary
Catherine can teach you how to make natural plaster from lime and sand, also clay and show you how to apply to walls to a good standard
We can show you how to make natural cleaning products from a few basic items
Learn how to grow food on a terraced garden, using traditional Portuguese gardening tools!
Relax in the hammock, or on the sun terrace during the summer months
During Autumn there may be an opportunity to harvest olives with the Portuguese families in the village, helpers get to join us for a day at the olive press to see the olives being processed into oil.
Spend time with our friendly cats, hens and ducks - collect fresh eggs, and organic produce from the gardens
Invitation to join in our 6.30am meditation, chanting and breathing practices
Help
Day to day -
Taking care of household chores, dish washing and putting away!
Help with laundry
Garden maintenance
Keeping the house clean and organized
Feeding cats and hens, putting kitchen waste into compost
Fetching and splitting wood, collecting green wood for the fire during winter
DIY tasks and interesting projects - help create a mosiac wall
Furniture painting with chalk paint
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
French: Beginner
Portuguese: Beginner
Accommodation
Comfortable private room and shared bathrooms with one or two workawayers
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Information for volunteers - getting here
IMPORTANT PLEASE READ AND CONFIRM YOU (DO OR DO NOT AGREE) TO THIS BEFORE APPLYING! What we ask of you during your stay, no chemicals please! (all shampoo, conditioner, bodywash goes directly to the septic tank system, big brand, high street and supermarket products contain high toxic chemical contents killing the tiger worms that act as bio digestors. Purchase biological products for you stay, available for health food shops
Use the toilet bin for all waste paper no exceptions
Kitchen etiquette - Washing the dishes and keeping a clean and tidy kitchen is part of living in a home! All volunteers are expected to take care of dishes
Whats available in our local area of Arganil?
Mountain walks, river beaches and mountain waterfalls, nights out, conscious dance events from time to time, local markets
Arganil has a dance school, music school, indoor swimming pool and gymnasium
If you are taking public transport our nearest City is Porto
From Coimbra - Bus Terminal Rodoviário de Coimbra → Moita da Serra -free wifi at Café Paisanas next to the bus stop
is a great resource for arranging travel
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Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
Work desk for digital nomads Mountain View’s and great high speed connection
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
My animals / pets
Nárnia (2 years)
Narnia
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There's a lot of construction work to be done and all the tools you need - and that a workawayer could only dream of - are available.
Cathrine, it have been wonderful three weeks with you… read more
Catherine is the sweetest person, an amazing cook (we had the most delicious meald ever!), she thought me so many things and gave me some super important advices that made me think a lot about my self and my way of… read more
Always with a smile and good humour Angelo took up each task willingly, finishing his tasks in good time.
One evening I experienced his… read more
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There's a lot of construction work to be done and all the tools you need - and that a workawayer could only dream of - are available.
Cathrine, it have been wonderful three weeks with you… read more
Catherine is the sweetest person, an amazing cook (we had the most delicious meald ever!), she thought me so many things and gave me some super important advices that made me think a lot about my self and my way of… read more
Always with a smile and good humour Angelo took up each task willingly, finishing his tasks in good time.
One evening I experienced his… read more
