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Founding year

  • 2010

What we do

We are a small eco-community in tropical rural part of Yucatan, Mexico very close to the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. In the future, we would like to incorporate a small hotel and run courses so that others can come and stay and share the experience in more comfortable surroundings and to input and take ideas too.
We wanted to live in a fantastic place, work hard, eat awesome food grown by us on our ‘farm’, in season and without chemicals, to relearn what our food is and where it comes from and do this whilst improving the local surroundings and economy. Our aim is to be 100% self-sufficient for food, energy and water, to have zero waste whilst improving the land on which we depend. We get people involved and to inspire them to do the same. To achieve this, we aim to fully integrate a careful mix of new technologies (such as photovoltaic panels), with those older and largely forgotten due to the discovery of cheap oil (such as wind turbines for pumping water) and combine this with holistic systematic approaches (such as permaculture design). We even have wind powered web servers!!!
We wanted to open the door, so that you can do the same – from soaking up the scenery, the sunshine, the culture,the delicious fresh food and air – to getting truly involved, getting your hands dirty and learning about a life more ‘ordinary’.
We believe that we (us and humanity) can continue to develop at a local and international level without harming the future of our planet which provides us with all that we have. We believe we can all do something to lower our footprint WHILST enjoying most of the luxuries of modern life with some careful thought and planning…

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2010
  • Started living together
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2

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Non-working Guests welcome, Work Exchange welcome, Volunteers welcome,

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12 years ago

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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