Yantreya - Bulgaria

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About the Communities

  • Established
  • English
  • Ecological
  • Rural

Founding year

  • 2012

What we do

Hi :)
We’re a small group of friends who have settled in an existing village we like.
We dream about the young and old settling in villages, living closer to nature, breathing clean air and growing and eating healthy food. To make things again with our own hands, and to reconnect with the earth.
To be part of a tribe of like-minded people, to help and support each other and to grow as human beings. To continue to learn new skills. To be creative. To be respectful of the choices and lives of others, both in the tribe and the wider world. To be free to choose your own path.
We dream of a place where children are running and playing outside, in the village, in nature. They are free to learn new skills when they are ready and interested and their natural creativity is nurtured. Life is one big exciting learning and discovery process, for children and adults alike.
We’re almost at a point now where we’re ready to develop more. Also see our website yantreya.com for more info.
Thank you for connecting with us and be well.

  • Purpose
  • Ecological
  • Languages
  • English
  • Bulgarian
  • Dutch
  • German
  • Community type
  • Ecovillage

Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2012
  • Started living together
  • Not open to new members
  • Open to visitors
Total
10

How to join

This is an existing village where we all have our own homes. There’s no community center or formal structure to our community. We’re more like a group of friends with similar ideas about life, nature, gardening, and society. If you’re interested in joining, we’d encourage you to find out more and get to know us to see if we’re a fit for you. We welcome anyone in our group who is looking for a life closer to nature, but not completely outside of ‘normal’ society. If you wanted to live here you’d need a house or a piece of land to build something on. Unfortunately, this is a little bit harder here than in some other places in Bulgaria. The reason is that this village is quite popular, also with people looking for a second home. So you’ll find property prices here to be higher than average. Also, there is not so much available. We don’t monitor property availability in the village and we could offer you only limited help if you were trying to find a place here. We’re mostly families with young children and some of us have chosen to home-school. Most of us are also self-employed or working from home in some way. If this sounds like something you could see yourself being part of, we’d love to hear from you. Please get in touch so we can tell you more. Thank you : )

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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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International Communal Studies Assoc July 2019

The ICSA, founded in 1985, is a network of scholars and communitarians that gathers every three years, usually on the site of a contemporary intentional community. Recent hosts include Tamera, Findhorn, Emek Yizrael, Damanhur, and ZEGG. The 2019 host communities are part of the Camphill movement, an international network of schools, villages, and urban households where people with and without intellectual disabilities create life together. Most Camphill communities host biodynamic farms or other environmental initiatives. Call For Papers: Our thirteenth international conference will explore strategies that intentional communities use to promote the inclusion and empowerment of persons of diverse abilities, cultures, races, economic backgrounds, religions, ages, genders, and sexualities. We especially welcome proposals related to intentional communities and community movements that focus on the experiences of particular groups that have historically been marginalized—as, for example, the Camphill movement does for persons with intellectual disabilities. What can the field of communal studies learn from the unique experiences of such communities? We also especially welcome proposals that explore the implications of community choices that seek to increase or to limit diversity. How have communities succeeded or failed in their efforts to increase diversity or strengthen inclusion? Under what circumstances is it appropriate or necessary for an intentional community to limit certain forms of diversity? What is the relationship between the mere presence of previously excluded persons in a community, and the full inclusion and empowerment of those persons? What lessons might intentional communities share with other persons and organizations committed to diversity, inclusion, and empowerment? We welcome proposals in the following categories: 1) scholarly papers, 2) scholarly panels with 2-4 presenters, 3) workshops, and 4) cultural events.

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