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RIGHT NOW LOOKING FOR:
HELP IN THE GARDEN
HELP FOR CLEANING THE BIG HOUSE
HELP FOR RENNOVATION (all kind of building abilities are required, especcially self construction, carpenter)
If you have any of one of this skills, give us some information about it.
ABOUT US:
We are a swiss family with 2 kids (10 and 7), Living with other two people.
We traveled around the world in the past years and in 2021 during Covid crazyness we have decided to settle down in a beautiful place in the mountains above the LAGO MAGGIORE's lake.
We are therapists but we call us more attendants; we make massages, help people healing process, agopuncture, ayurveda and so on. We believe everyone can heal him/herself, sometimes people just need to be remember how.
Our mission is creating a small community of people (10/20 people) and experience a new way of living, more connected to real life, nature and our innerworld; Living and respecting the nature working on ourselves
OUR PLACE IS A PLACE OF THE HEALING SOUL
We are vegan/vegetarian, we practice yoga VIPASSANA meditation on a daily basis. Our group practices the circle way (Manitonquat)
we try to take decitions by socrociaty.
We organise workshops, seminars, open days, massages, therapies, groupworks and so on.
We have a big garden of 800mq, we adopted the Masanobu Fukuoka method, by mulching the soil.
we can provide a free sleeping place in the dormitory, space for tends or camper, if requested we have also private rooms with and without bathroom.
ONLY LONG STAY WORKAWAY min. 3/4 Weeks maximum 1 month, afterwards we diceide how to proceed. It's possible to renew the stay.
For short therm visit you can make an experiencial exchange (for more information visit our homepage)
in Exchange you can partecipate all our activites, eat healthy local and organic food, practicing healthy lifestyle, enjoy the surrounding nature and breaht fresh mountain air, drink fresh mountain spring water.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Language practice
Help with Eco Projects
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
learn community style, spirituality, learn about yourself and your inner soul, gardening, general building maintenance, healthy meals, "be happy, no worries"
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
In Spring summer 2024 we start to rebuilt casa Gecko a 3 storage house, which will become the community house. We need any kind of constuction skills, just write us what you can do in this field.
One special project is the building of a wood maisonette, if you have skills about it would be nice.
We need help also in the big garden, every day a few hours
Cooking and cleaning are also tasks to be done on a daily/weekly basis
If you have tuya domotics skills or programming domotics in general, write us!
The plan is to create an eco-village for about 50 people, with sustainable lifestyle in the middle of the nature. We would need any knowledge of buildings, agricolture, susteinability, cooking, taking care the children, meditation, teach yoga, IT, or any other activity.
Languages
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
French: BeginnerThis host offers a language exchange
in the comunity we speak ITALIAN / GERMAN / ENGLISH
Accommodation
dorms, single or double rooms with shared bathroom. very healthy food included
What else ...
we are surrounding of beautiful hilking, in less than an hour you can go at the top of Lema's mountain (switzerland). The lake with wild beaches is reachable in 20 min by car with also a very nice and touristic city called Luino.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
We have already some digital nomads here, wich help us sustain economically our place, they help little with works but pay a monthly fee. in Exchange you can partecipate all our activites, eat healthy local and organic food, practicing healthy lifestyle, enjoy the surrounding nature and breaht fresh mountain air, drink fresh mountain spring water.
Space for parking camper vans
we have place for campers and tends, pls read this:
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
Hours expected
5 hours a day, 5 days a week
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