Chambalabamba

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About the Communities

  • Spanish
  • Spiritual
  • Rural

Founding year

  • 2011

What we do

Chambalabamba is an intentional, mostly latino, clown/ artist eco community (dec.2012) in Vilcabamba, Ecuador. We have flat land in the Andes next to the Chamba River. We have had workers build the infrastructure, such as electricity and water from the gov’t and from our well, plus an irrigation canal for agriculture. We have obtained adjacent properties, adding up to 6 hectares.
We have implemented many features: swimming pond, 6 teepees, all with water, electricity, and wifi, and some with small kitchens. 3 dry toilets, 2 hot showers, a malokka (round building with no walls, 12 meters in diameter, with large kitchen), 2 bodegas (storage spaces), washing machine for clothes, compost for hot shower, gardens for veggies, and cultivation of fields. Fruit trees, oranges, mandarins, coffee, and bananas were already here, we planted around 140 more, 38 chickens for eggs and a large area for them. School with bottle walls, green house for plant propagation, house with tree in center overlooking property for future workshops and retreats, wood working shop, vermiculture, one yurt, well and pump, tree house, family houses, an outdoor stage facing the swimming lake, recording studio for music and film, many circus things, music setup, and much access to the river.
The new property has the new road, a new well and water tank above, and underground pipes for water and electricity throughout, and we will make a new, larger woodwoorking shop next to the well in the far corner of the property. At the highest level of the new property is a large flat space for a center for healing arts, which will be run by donation only and feature the use of our plants and other practices. It will serve all of Vilcabamba.

  • Purpose
  • Spiritual
  • Languages
  • Spanish
  • Community type
  • Intentional Neighborhoods
  • Spiritual Retreat Centers

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2011
  • Started living together
  • Open to new members
Total
15

How to join

people should contact me. we are looking for mainly latinos or people who speak spanish, with artistic skills, technical, agricultural, construction, etc. we like to keep a gender balance, at this moment we could use a few more females. we are all volunteers. people begin as volunteers and after awhile see how it feels to live here. volunteers should bring a tent, stay at least a month, work 4 hours a day, pay $15/ week for food we don’t grow here.

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Location

  • Ecuador

Promoted Needs and Offers

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10 years ago

Immersion of co-creation ...

We call for people to: – nourish our Ecovillage Laboratory project, – joining the rotating team, or even – co-creating a permanent community here. Especially we are looking for people who have experience living in an Ecovillage or Community and bring expertise in any of the following: Permaculture design, organic gardening, construction and maintenance of green buildings (cob, wood, tree houses, clay), green technology, administration of an NGO (in the Spanish reality), education related to Eco-village living and group process knowledge. In this one week of immersion we wish to get together with the existing team members (4 at present) and potential team members to co-create together in running the Eco-village laboratory. At present, some of our goals and objectives include (but are not limited to): running the Ecovillage Laboratory to provide maximum opportunities for experience of living in a temporary community and learning together; creating workshop facilities to provide a service of cutting edge workshops on different subjects of our focus (Sexuality in community, permaculture and natural building, arts and creativity in nature, spirituality and shamanism, feminine wisdom and balancing of masculine and feminine energies, community building tools); accomplishing building of a cultural centre; and establishing a permanent community on the adjacent land. Bringing your own projects and subjects are very welcome. In the project we developed: – the “Community Mandala” – a game approach for organising the day by day life of community, – the concept of “Ecovillage Laboratories” – providing the infrastructure for process work in the Ecovillage context – “Apparatus communitus creativus” – an interactive tool for flexible administration of community economy (is being developed at the moment) Sharing about what is important for us: – Balancing feminine and masculine aspects in each individual – Sensual contact with nature – Creativity – Spiritual
  • Events
7 years ago

ECOVILLAGE DESIGN COURSE (EVD)

Join our very first Ecovillage Design Course at Rancho Mastatal! Ecovillages are intentional settlements that include indigenous villages, urban neighborhoods and new intentional communities. They are living laboratories for the development of regenerative tools to address the challenges that we face in our time. In this course we will consider personal and systemic solutions in a creative, nourishing and sustainable way and that help us address the complex situations we are facing in our society . We will use a holistic approach and learn how to co-create a regenerative culture within a wide-range of topics: social and ecological regeneration, economy and energy systems, governance and decision-making, nature, our inner nature, and more. We will equip ourselves with the skills needed to create a diverse and regenerative culture that connects humans with nature, all life and ourselves. A culture in which we see each other as part of the bountiful and generous natural ecosystem that is the livelihood of every living being. A culture which gives us a greater feeling of belonging to the Earth and the Earth belonging to us. You will Learn: Social tools for personal and group transformation, empowerment and community building Urban and rural solutions for transitioning to a resilient society Local organic food production and right livelihood Permaculture design introduction Cooperative social economies and complementary currencies Holistic decision-making processes, including nature and deep ecology Communication skills and dealing with conflict Distilling inner and outer resources to support your personal or professional project Ecological building and community design Cultural and Spiritual diversity practices

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