Aldea Cuatro Aguas

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About the Communities

  • Established
  • Spanish
  • Ecological
  • Rural

Founding year

  • 2015

What we do

The first family that migrated from the city 15 years ago and got to Cocorná, an autochthonous and beautiful village located in the middle of the Andes Mountains in Colombia, arrived from the calling of the mountain in search of new meaning and purpose of life. Along with the countryside neighbours, they built an Eco-hotel and later, they destined part of the land for a community and an Ancestral School. The community grew wider as more families arrived and we started buying land within the same mountain guided by our common mission as guardians of nature and protectors of the seed of life. We are around 10 neo-rural families and “La Aldea” is a one-hectare cell part of this wider community where we protect around 70 hectares of native wild forest and 25 hectares of regenerated land as we co-create a “life-based” educative alternative for ourselves, our families, neighbours, and people who are longing to recognize their higher purpose by learning and remembering our ancestral and spiritual origins. Several indigenous leaders accompany our process as they also come and settle with us to keep learning, co-creating, and merging the wisdom of both worlds through pedagogic processes that unite the countryside and the town converging in the foundation of a Transition Town.
We live in gratitude and peace, together gracefully enjoying the celebration of life.
“La Aldea” is the name of the main headquarters of the Multiversidad Mastay, envisioned to colour the land with student residencies, an animal farm, a cultural house, a central “Maloka” temple, edible gardens and timber forest, perennial food gardens, lots of art and communitarian education processes.

  • Purpose
  • Ecological
  • Languages
  • Spanish
  • Dutch
  • English
  • French
  • Community type
  • Ecovillage
  • Intentional Neighborhoods
  • Spiritual Retreat Centers

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2015
  • Started living together

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How to join

Once people arrive, they are invited to live with us either running one of our courses, as volunteers or as temporary residents with previous agreements. After a period of getting to know each other, our connection and also the embrace from the mountain is vital for people to make the decision to either buy their own land or merge with one of the projects and lands already established.
It’s a “come, relate and co-create” invitation :)

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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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