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Is a little community that lives in three separate but adjacent houses. It is my blood family house and since my grandparents lived here it has been a center for meeting people, exchanging new ideas and for sharing happiness and union.
After almost 10 years of learning and designing in Permaculture, in 2020 me (Marco) and a group of professionals in permaculture, art and spirituality created PERMASOPHY, a discipline that integrates Permaculture design with Spiritual knowledge and Community development.
We love to give to volunteers that come all the information about it and some basic instruments to start playing and researching with it.
We love being together and we love knowledge and the deep understanding of ourselves that comes through relationship and direct experience. Beyond Permasophy we use, yoga, contact improvisation, conscious fighting, mushroom cultivation, stilts, crafts, music and massage to enjoy ourselves and know more deeply ourselves.
And finally we love to learn and experience new instruments and tools to be happy, healthy and to live sustainably on this planet.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Art Projects
Help with Eco Projects
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Interests
Sustainability
Van life
Self development
Gardening
Cooking & food
Carpentry
Writing
Plant care
Music
Art & design
Yoga / Wellness
Team sports
Outdoor activities
Hiking
Mountain
Dancing
Beach
Camping
Nature
Adventure sports
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
You can learn how to unite and integrate diversity in yourself and in your family.
You can learn Permasophy , cooking, DIY products (soaps, cleaning products, bread, pizza, fermented food or other things that we cannot do but that we can learn together), wood working, mushroom cultivation and many other sustainable activities.
Meditation, body work and shamanic tools to live free and happy.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
We offer a volunteering opportunity.
In this experience we will work on the end of winter maintenance and we will share the knowledge about Permasophy, a discipline that integrates Permaculture Design and Spiritual Knowledge and Community Development.
We will work 4-5 hours a day and we will have one or two hours of free lessons about Permasophy.
The works will be primarily:
- Pruning of olive, fruit trees and all the plant of the garden (even if for you is the first time we have time to learn it together)
- chipping prunings
- making biochar
- Planting new fruit trees
- Sowing and reproduction of plants
- Little Land artworks
- Maintenance and set up of the wood and metal workshop
- Artistic artwork
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Italian: Fluent
Spanish: Intermediate
Accommodation
We have an inspiring big tavern with private toilet and kitchen with 4 single beds and a double bed. There will be maximum 6 volunteers and you will share the tavern. It's quite big (100 m2) so everybody will have enough space!
Meals will be fresh, local and vegetarian and we will enjoy cooking and eating together! Sometimes my mother will cook for alla of us typicall local recipies.
What else ...
We love to be honest and clear first of all with ourselves and with others. We also believe that relation is the key for every important experience. Ask us everything you think or need and we will see if it is in harmony with our family life.
The house is in the countryside and it's two kilometers from the sea. You can borrow one of our bikes and discover the beauty of the sunrise at the beach or the social life of the town. If you have a car or other self transport there are plenty of beautiful places to visit in the mountains that surround us!
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Space for parking camper vans
only vans can fit inside the property. Camper and bigger vans can park nearby (it is a very calm and safe area)
How many Workawayers can stay?
More than two
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The approach at this workaway is explicitely a combination of physical labour and spiritual work. If you are not a… read more
We were able to use bicycles so we went to the beach (really close). We had nice talk and discovered Playfight.
We had a… read more
It's hard to find people more open-hearted than them.
The place we stayed (accomodation) with the others volunteers is amazing and independent, it's a big room where you can practice many activities like yoga, cook, everyone can leave his/her mark on the… read more
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The approach at this workaway is explicitely a combination of physical labour and spiritual work. If you are not a… read more
We were able to use bicycles so we went to the beach (really close). We had nice talk and discovered Playfight.
We had a… read more
It's hard to find people more open-hearted than them.
The place we stayed (accomodation) with the others volunteers is amazing and independent, it's a big room where you can practice many activities like yoga, cook, everyone can leave his/her mark on the… read more
I especially thank Marco's mother Anna who took me to her lovely hideaway in the mountains.
I spent a week with her at her newly restored traditional house in the Maiella National park,
creating a garden for her infitting with the natural beauty of Arbruzzo's countryside.
she was not only part of the family but I felt she has always been here with us.… read more
They really are teachers of happiness. You can learn a lot of them about gardening, permaculture, cooking, as well as about living a happy (family) life.
Thank you so much for this magical experience!
My experience with Nina, Cristina, Marco & co was more than I could ever ask from Workaway, was best than holidays (icluding work!), was a model of family, a model of living, a a model of healthy life..
I stayed with them 3 weeks and I… read more
Eternal love
Her smile is a gift that makes every instant colored and clear.
The message that she has brought us is UNITY. We are all part of the same common fire. Loving ourself is the way to love all the world around us.
Thank you
I'm here to write about my experience with Marco and Cristina (and Nina, Beijinho, Anna) but I actually have not enough words to describe it. I do have feeling and my heart is overflowed with love.
The feedback score just allowed me to give them "four starts" but I would give them the entire constellation <3
It… read more
At my first arrival i did not feel very much at home because it was quite the transition for me but that changed quickly after a few days. I started to feel more relaxed and could really enjoy every moment of it. They took us to Parkour which was a… read more
On the "basic… read more
They welcomed me in the last two weeks and they made me feel part of the family spreading their happiness and glee. There is a lot going on in this place: Marco, for instance, knows a lot about permaculture. He has an interesting, spiritual approach to it and to life in… read more
