Magic Forest Community in Bulgaria

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About the Communities

  • Established
  • Bulgarian
  • Ecological
  • Rural

Founding year

  • 2015

What we do

We are Stanislav and Diana, a family with three kids ages 1, 5 and 7 and we are hoping to finding like-minded people to join us in co-creating a community of environmentally conscious people who walk gently on Earth and take ownership of our lives, health, education and the planet’s well-being, who have fun together, who share food, work, learning, resources and life’s bounties to the level each one feels appropriate. Since we set up this project, a couple of families have joined us and are in the process of acquiring their own places.
We are based in Bulgaria, an hour South-West of the capital Sofia, in a neighborhood of a village with a lot of abandoned houses, suitable to form a community within the same physical area. We are ready to help out with all legalities connected to purchasing real estate. There is also abandoned land that is currently public property that could be rented from the government and in the future purchased, which is suitable for partitioning and populating at almost no cost with mobile homes. This land is a few parcels – one is 14,000 m2 which includes lots of trees and shrubs (it’s not bare land); there is the magic forest, which is 5,000m2 which is very suitable for a common area for the community; and a few other options.
Even though we are close to Sofia and civilization, the feeling in this neighborhood is that we’re in the wild. The views are mountains, hills, forests, fields and a beautiful lake (Pchelina Dam).
Our personal interests are co-creating with Nature (using intuition and Perelandra’s techniques – http://www.perelandra-ltd.com), permaculture, natural building, natural (home) birth, environmentally sustained technologies, Waldorf/Steiner education, Paneurhythmy, energy medicine, spirituality.
We are hoping for people to join us, so that we can create a sustainable community structure based on our common principles and experience, as well as on existing models and experiences from other communities.

  • Purpose
  • Ecological
  • Languages
  • Bulgarian
  • English
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Community type
  • Ecovillage
  • Spiritual Retreat Centers
  • Activities
  • Education

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2015
  • Started planning
  • January 1, 2015
  • Started living together
  • Open to new members
  • Open to visitors
Total
5

How to join

If someone would like to join our community, there isn’t anything they ‘should’ do in particular. We are flexible. We can accept guests over a longer period of time until we agree that we are a good match. We are happy to help with acquiring property or joining our common land.

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Magic Forest Community in Bulgaria

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2 months ago

Social Media Intern

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Social Media Intern for GEN International Hours: Up to 20/month, flexible around your schedule and availability Location: Remote, work with Eva Goldfarb Focus: Instagram + LinkedIn (TikTok if you’re into it!) Hi! I’m Eva, and I run social media for GEN International — the global network connecting ecovillages, intentional communities, and regenerative culture-builders across every continent. I’m looking for a co-conspirator to help me tell the stories of the people quietly building the future: off-grid villages in the Philippines, permaculture farms in Senegal, urban cohousing projects in Berlin, elders passing down land wisdom in the Andes. It’s a wildly rich, wildly underrepresented world, and I want more people to fall in love with it the way I have. What you’ll actually do: Dream up and create content for Instagram and LinkedIn (reels, carousels, stories, captions that don’t sound like a corporate newsletter) Dig into our global network and turn your findings into stories people want to share Pitch your own ideas. If there’s a series, a theme, a format, or a corner of the network that lights you up, that’s what I want you to focus on. What we’re looking for: A natural storyteller, someone who can spot the human thread in a project update or a photo from a faraway village Genuinely curious about ecovillages, sustainability, intentional community, regenerative living Self-motivated and communicative; this is a flexible, trust-based role Why this role: This isn’t a “post 3x a week and don’t ask questions” internship. You’ll have real creative freedom to work on what excites you, learn how a global grassroots network tells its story, and build a portfolio full of meaningful, purpose-driven content. Plus you’ll be talking to people living some of the most interesting, intentional lives on the planet. If storytelling for a better world sounds like your kind of fun, let’s talk.
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Autumn/Spring 2023 Golden Bay Sustainable Living Course

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