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Help with our bioconstruction projects in the Mantiqueira Mountains, São Paulo

  • Última actividad : 13 feb 2025

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  2025 

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  • Descripción

    Descripción

    Olá, we are Ale and Tissy.
    In 2020 we left the bustling city of São Paulo in search of something more. We chose a very special place, in the middle of the Mantiqueira mountains, in a hippie village in the outskirts of Monteiro Lobato, and started building our little piece of paradise: a permacultural yoga retreat center.

    We fell in love with the amazing views, the civilization is distant, and we can appreciate the silence. We also choose here because we felt impelled to regrow the forest that once was here, but it was taken down to raise cattle in the 1990’s. So we have also been planting a lot of native trees, food forests, and gardens to bring back the biodiversity that belongs here. We love our community, our neighbors are mainly artists and organic farmers.

    We love making things. Creating, drawing and building. We have been on this journey for 5 years almost non-stop. Our main goal is to materialize places where people can connect with themselves, others and with nature.

    Throughout our projects we really connected with bioconstruction and building with wood. We builted two geodesic domes, one being a yoga hall, also a COB house, and we love doing green roofs. We are currently building a COB cabin, using only scrap materials that is designed to host more volunteers.

    One of our many favorite activities here is to walk on the hikes inside the farm, bathe on the waterfalls, and be amazed by the flying toucans at sunset.

    Today the farm hosts yoga and meditation retreats once a month, we also have ongoing construction projects, we have a garden and a lot of fruit trees to take care, and are always excited to plant new trees, specially since our rainy season is starting (from October to April).

    We put our hearts and souls in this place everyday and welcome those who are open to joins us on this journey.

  • Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Jardinería
    Construcción y bricolaje
    Mantenimiento general
  • Objetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión

    Objetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión

    Objetivos de las NU
    Fin de la pobreza
    Hambre cero
    Salud y bienestar
    Educación de calidad
    Igualdad de género
    Agua limpia y saneamiento
    Energía asequible y no contaminante
    Trabajo decente y crecimiento económico
    Industria, innovación e infraestructura
    Reducción de las desigualdades
    Ciudades y comunidades sostenibles
    Producción y consumo responsables
    Acción por el clima
    Vida submarina
    Vida de ecosistemas terrestres
    Paz, justicia e instituciones sólidas
    Alianzas para lograr los objetivos
  • Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje

    Throughout the last years we accumulated knowledge and experience on buildings (specially bioconstruction), maintenance, electricity and water systems.

    Also restoring the land, planting trees, and food, identification of eatable plants. An ongoing challenge is to always test new preserving food techniques with our crops.

    We love to share traveling tips in Brazil, as well as in South America, because we are very proud Latinos and excited to share more of our amazing culture.

  • Ayuda

    Ayuda

    We've just finished building our yoga hall so we are entering a new phase of our project.

    We will be focusing on a COB house to host more volunteers. A little cozy house with a simple project that uses only materials that we already have or are abundant locally. Bioconstruction is a lot of fun, and very empowering because we reconnect with the tradition of centuries of communities building their own houses. It will be extra special for the volunteers to build the house for the next volunteers.

    On this period we're looking for anyone excited to learn and get their hands dirty (literally). There is no need of having previous experiences since we will be sharing the instructions and work side by side.

    We're also looking for people that could potentially stay for more time and help us with specific parts of running the retreat (we offer paid positions for that).

    We love working with creative, committed and communicative people.
    If you have experience in hotels, refugios or shelters we would love to exchange practical informations to improve our routines.

    And if you are looking for a quiet place, in the middle of nature, to learn new skills and meet amazing people, you are welcome to join us!

  • Idiomas hablados

    Inglés: Fluido
    Español: Fluido
    Portugués: Fluido

  • Alojamiento

    Alojamiento

    The volunteers are hosted at the same rooms that we host our retreat guests.
    We provide rooms with amazing hot shower, a lot of personal space and also a stunning view of the mountains. It's a great place to connect, rest and restore.

    Since we are in the mountains, the closest village is 40 minutes walking, the place is more suited for quiet and chilled activities such as reading, resting, writing and contemplating.

    If we have a weekend retreat during your stay and all the rooms are full, we would provide tents for you to stay during those few retreats days.

  • Algo más...

    Algo más...

    Some important rules are that we have a veggie space and no alcohol or drugs of any kind are allowed in our land.

    We are currently 2h15 away from São Paulo center, and 1h45 away from Guarulhos International Airport (GRU). It's easy to get an UBER directly to our farm (we have some good contacts that we really recommend). Also, it's possible to come by bus, from the city of São José dos Campos to Monteiro Lobato center. From there you can take a taxi from the bus station of Monteiro Lobato depending on the time you arrive (20 min from our land), or if we're already there, we can give you a ride.

    Our volunteers work for 5 hours per day, 5 days a week. We really like to start early to finish the working day by lunchtime.
    We'll provide all ingredients for you to take care of your meals.

    Let us know if you know good vegan recipes! :)

  • Un poco más de información

    Un poco más de información

    • Acceso a Internet

    • Acceso a Internet limitado

      Acceso a Internet limitado

    • Tenemos animales

    • Somos fumadores

    • Puede alojar familias

  • Puede acoger a nómadas digitales

    Puede acoger a nómadas digitales

    internet connection is good and easy to do conference calls. it may vary depending on the day, but it's mostly quite reliable.

  • Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas

    Espacio para aparcar autocaravanas

    Este anfitrión puede proporcionar un sitio para autocaravanas.

  • ¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?

    ¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?

    Más de dos

Número de referencia de anfitrión: 349671759115

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