Join our forest home where music, nature, and community meet in Newham, Victoria, Austalia

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  Description

  About Us ❤️
  Hello! I’m Charlotte - a musician, composer, and facilitator of creative voice and meditative arts. I live with my playful 3-year-old son Henry and our gentle Cavoodle Willow on a beautiful bush property surrounded by forest and wildlife.
  
  Our home is a creative family space that also welcomes artists, travellers, and friends who love to live simply, connect deeply, and share music, dance, art, nature, and laughter.
  
  Just down the road, we have a non-profit music and dance studio where we host community events, creative gatherings, and cultural exchanges. We’re gradually growing a small intentional community that celebrates creativity, mindfulness, and connection to the land.
  
  The Exchange 🌻
  We offer a flexible rhythm of shared help and time off - this isn’t about strict hours, but about balance, communication, and mutual care.
  
  We can negotiate the exchange that suits both our rhythms at the time of your visit:
  
  Option 1:
  🌞 Around 4–5 hours a day, 5 days a week — food and accommodation included
  
  Option 2:
  🌿 Around 2–3 hours a day, 5 days a week — accommodation only (you buy & cook your own meals)
  
  Days and times are flexible, so we can work around your energy, study, or travel plans.
  
  
  What You’ll Help With 🪴
  Our “help” looks like being part of family and community life - practical, creative, and sometimes playful. Examples include:
  • Simple cooking and cleaning
  • Tidying shared spaces
  • Gardening or light outdoor work
  • Playing or spending gentle time with Henry (usually while I’m nearby)
  • Helping prepare our retreat spaces for workshops
  • Optional: creative contributions (music, art, photography, writing, community ideas)
  (And translation of children’s books to Spanish is a bonus job!)
  
  We welcome your personal interests - whether that’s permaculture, music, yoga, crafts, or mindful living. We’ll find ways for your gifts to fit naturally into daily life.
  
  
  Accommodation 🏡
  You’ll have a private room and/or small caravan and access to:
  • Shared kitchen, bathroom, and laundry
  • Wi-Fi
  • Musical instruments and creative studio space
  • Bush trails, swimming holes, and campfire spots
  
  It’s simple but cozy and surrounded by forest and stars.
  
  
  Practical Bits 💡
  • We’re in a peaceful rural area with no public transport walking distance, but I go to town most days and can offer lifts.
  • 15 minutes to Kyneton or Woodend (train, cafes, shops).
  • Non-smokers only
  • Couples and small families welcome.
  • Spanish speakers encouraged! (I only speak Spanish with Henry.) othet languages also ok!
  
  
  What You’ll Experience 🌈
  • Connection with a warm, creative family and local community
  • Space to explore your own art, music, or practice
  • Shared meals, song, dance and laughter
  • Quiet rest and nature time when you need it
  • Invitations to come as a guest/s to community events, music sessions, or workshops
  
  We live slowly-ish (I have a toddler), kindly, and creatively - where “help” feels more like shared rhythm than “work.”
  
  Our Ideal Guest 🌿
  You might be a great fit if you:
  ✨ Love children, nature, and creative living
  ✨ Enjoy both quiet and connection
  ✨ Are respectful, responsible, and open-hearted
  ✨ Value community and simple joys more than perfection
  ✨ Want to share something of yourself - language, art, laughter, or stories
  
  
  Interested? 💌
  If this sounds like your kind of home, send me a message introducing yourself -who you are, what you love, and what draws you to this experience.
  
  We can arrange a friendly WhatsApp chat to see if it’s a good match.
  
  Warmly,
  Charlotte, Henry & Willow 🐾

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  Types of help and learning opportunities

  Art Projects

  Language practice

  Help with Eco Projects

  Teaching

  Gardening

  DIY and building projects

  Animal Care

  Farmstay help

  Babysitting and creative play

  Creating/ Cooking family meals

  Help around the house

  General Maintenance
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  Interests

  

  Self development

  

  Performing arts

  

  Music

  

  Languages

  

  Drawing & painting

  

  Gardening

  

  Camping

  

  Cycling

  

  Yoga / Wellness

  

  Fitness

  

  Outdoor activities

  

  Nature

  

  Dancing
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  Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

  Creative music and movement is something we specialise in and can share about. We live in an area that has a lot of Old volcanic rock, my parents live down the road, and my mum especially is very interested in native plants and they are part of the local Landcare group, and very knowledgeable-there are beautiful walks and places to visit in the area

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  Projects involving children

  This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.

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  Help

  We are open to a combo of things- may change depending on when you come!!….Childcare, Cooking, cleaning, gardening, basic home care tasks: gutters, weeding, planting, dishes, a sweep and a mop would be amazing! Cooking. Doing laundry! Help getting studio more beautiful and home! Gardening help!

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  Languages

  Languages spoken
  English: Fluent
  Spanish: Fluent

  This host offers a language exchange
  I’d like to practice Spanish
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  Accommodation

  Room in a home with a bed and bedding, or a caravan and studio

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  What else ...

  Hanging Rock and Mt Macedon and Turpins water Falls are near by

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  A little more information

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    Internet access

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    Limited internet access

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    We have pets

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    We are smokers

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    Can host families

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  Can host digital nomads

  Good Internet

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  Space for parking camper vans

  Lots of space

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  Can possibly accept pets

  Well trained and socially good dog

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  How many Workawayers can stay?

  Two

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  My animals / pets

  Willow

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