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Olá, we are Ale and Tissy.
In 2020 we left the crazy life of São Paulo in search of something more. We found a special place, in the middle of the Mantiqueira mountains, in a small village in 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 appreciate the silence. We've been planting a lot of native trees 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 small 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.
We put our hearts in this place everyday and welcome those who are open to joins us on this journey.
Types d'aide et opportunités d'apprendre
Jardinage
Bricolage et construction
Entretien général
Objectifs de développement durable de l’ONU que cet hôte essaie d'atteindre
Echange culturel et opportunités d'apprendre
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.
Aide
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.
We're also looking for people that could potentially stay for more time and help us with specific parts of running the retreat (we can offer paid positions for that).
We love working with creative, committed and communicative people.
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!
Langues parlées
Anglais: Courant
Espagnol: Courant
Portugais: Courant
Hébergement
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 village is 40 minutes walking, the place is more suited for quiet and chilled activities such as reading, resting, writing and contemplating.
Autres infos...
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 2h 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! :)
Informations complémentaires
Accès Internet
Accès Internet limité
Nous avons des animaux
Nous sommes fumeurs
Familles bienvenues
Possibilité d’accueillir les digital nomads
Internet connection is good and easy to do conference calls. It may vary depending on the day, but it's mostly quite reliable.
Espace pour garer des vans
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Besides from the plot being very quiet and peaceful, my room was also squeaky clean.
Just keep an eye on Ale when he is working, as he always wants to cut corners at the price… read more
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Besides from the plot being very quiet and peaceful, my room was also squeaky clean.
Just keep an eye on Ale when he is working, as he always wants to cut corners at the price… read more
We thank her openness to change plans and accommodate our needs, and her collaboration with other volunteers. We hope only the best things for her next adventures!
Also such amazing people, I will never forget my time with them there and… read more
Azi has an amazing estethic sense for decorations, interior design… read more
Ale and Tissy are great resources to learn about Brazil, culture and to talk about travel plans. They gave us amazing suggestions… read more
Ale and Tissy,, we're so thankful for all those days together! it felt like a real home and a safe family to be with. As a first voluntarily experience we can call it "perfect"😍 we hope others come… read more
Tissy and Ale are making the place even better with agroforestry and sustainable housing projects.
They are very nice and can cook delicious vegan food!
vegana. La cocinera (otra voluntaria) preparó una variedad de comida muy rica y… read more
