Spirit Horse Eco-Village

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About the Communities

  • Established
  • English
  • Ecological
  • Rural

Founding year

  • 1991

What we do

SPIRIT HORSE is a place like no other! Hidden in a secret valley, it appears as an ancient tribal village, nestled in the wild woods, under a waterfall and glittering rock face. Spirit Horse has flowered into something unforeseen; an ongoing experiment in off-grid, eco-community living. But with tribal style!
The dream began with a few tipis pitched at the far end of a farm in a huge meadow. One of the aims was to host retreats on a shoe-string budget, the only budget we had back then! We did not know it at the time but something much bigger was destined to happen. People fell in love with the place and with something else that cannot be named. We grew, and a community was born.
A charity was created in 2002, and after ten years of fundraising something impossible happened; we bought 200 acres of land, with the sole intention of letting it all grow completely wild!
That land now surrounds our hidden encampment that has become a settlement of roundhouses, yurts and temples. Today it’s called rewilding, but back then we spoke of it as “returning her original face”.
If your wild side is calling then come, sit by our fire – there is a seat with your name on it. Come away to the wild! Let that part of you be addressed and blessed.
You can also join our monthly internship program, or our volunteer program or our building team, where you live and learn with us for weeks or months of immersion – welcome home!
Come! Come for ecstatic creativity, candlelight suppers, nights of fierce drumming and dancing, silent enquiry, tribal togetherness, stillness among the groves, temple living and saunas by the rock pools. Come to learn, lend a hand, laugh and be silly. Come to deepen and dream and give life to new dreams. Discover, learn, build, realign – and play in waterfalls!

  • Purpose
  • Ecological
  • Languages
  • English
  • Community type
  • Ecovillage
  • Intentional Neighborhoods

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 1991
  • Started living together

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Location

  • United Kingdom

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Gaia Ashram Internship

The Pioneers of Gaia Ashram , 5th of July– 2nd of August 2015 The Gaia Ashram Internship is a one month program on Ecovillage Design, Permaculture and Deep Ecology. The internship will be a holistic participatory learning experience & process. Interns will experience being part of the Gaia Ashram Community and we will live together for one month at– Gaia Ashram-. At Gaia Ashram we belief in holistic learning that balances the head, hands & heart. Gaia Ashram encourages participatory learning & values the power of community in holding the learning space. We design the daily & weekly structure of the internship and of our lives here based on these values and principles. Theoretical learning (Head) The theoretical sessions will be participatory and interactive. It will cover the 4 keys of Ecovillage Design Education (Social, Economical, Ecological and Worldview inspired by Gaia Education). Each week will cover one of the Ecovillage Design Keys and integrated into this we will be introduced to Permaculture Design & Deep Ecology in terms of philosophy, movement and personal experiences. Overall, We will have a maximum of 2-3 hours of theory per day on the session days, to also create lots of space for practical experiential learning. See more details of the key content below. Practical learning (Hands – on) For the hands – on practical learning we will be developing the Gaia Ashram’s farm and restoring nature on the Gaia Ashram land using permaculture strategies & techniques that are appropriate for the Rainy Season & the land and its local context. The hands-on work will focus on Gardening work i.e. developing the vegetable gardens, planting seeds & seedlings, transplanting, propagation of plants, making composts, growing and maintaining a Food Forest, planting green manures, planting lots of trees, planting seasonal crops. Apart from the Gardening we will also will be doing some natural building which mostly will focus on creating natural finishes usi

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