A Regenerative Village

We want to create a sanctuary where women give birth on the soil, held by earth.

A place where people are abundantly nourished by the foods received from a syntropic relationship with the soils and the waters they are living on.

A place where tending to the needs of this life-giving soil is a lived practice that unites us.

A place where we gather to accompany our loved ones into the most profound expansion of consciousness at the end of their lives, with reverence, presence, compassion, love, celebration, connection, and the time and space to listen to their wisdom.

Where their ashes fall onto the fields that nurture our children. Where our children grow up knowing that food and life are given by the soils, the soils that are the living gift of death.

A place where we heal our collective trauma, dive deep into our shadows, and heal our relationships to ourselves, each other, and the land. A place where we can share knowledge and invite other humans to have a lived experience of a regenerative culture, so that they can bring it back into their communities.

A place we can invite organizations and managers to, to expand their horizon on what this new paradigm needs from the current powers of our culture. A village in which we learn life in a new way, integrating our advances of humanity with the laws and truths of life in a syntropic and synergistic way.

Every human being is born with the capacity to belong to a culture, but also with an innate impulse as a soul to transform that culture into something more whole. In the industrial world, we have largely forgotten this truth of our children, and the capacity of us as adults. We come here to mature the world we were born into. Including more of the world inside of oneself, taking in the essence and meeting it with a creative, transformative impulse.

This project is also a place for souls to grow. The maturation of the soul happens in presence and in relationship.

We’re moving from a paradigm where I do everything by myself for myself, to a paradigm where I do it with you for all of us.

In traditional cultures, the primary task of the tribe was to care for the development of each individual’s soul in service to the tribe’s continued maturation and service to the world.

We want to reimagine the archetypal structure of human tribes for metamodern times. We are weaving a tapestry of souls coming from a wide range of ancestral lineages and cultural histories, learning together to root ourselves in the fertile soil of soul, while digesting and integrating the wisdom of our personal, ancestral, and collective histories.

This is our response to an increasingly fragile social and ecological world: to build resilience in the form of strengthening relationships with each other and strengthening our rootedness in the soulful depths of our beings and the grounding soils of this earth. As one cell of a planetary organism of temples, villages and schools, we are becoming Earth awakening as one soul.

In July we have identified two properties that can hold this vision, and two of us went ahead and signed the contracts and made the down-payments to secure them for this project in a state of deep trust and clarity that this vision wants to manifest.

The Azores

We have chosen the incredible islands of the Azores to be the place where this vision wants to land, or rather the Azores have chosen us to do so. The Azores are a vital paradise in the passed by the gulf stream in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, birthed by powerful volcanic activity. A wild, primal expression of earths vitality. Volcanic fertile soils, comfortable climate year round, abundant supplies of water, a complete absence of polluting industry, steaming hot springs and wonderful people.

The Azores are known for the sweetest pineapples in the world, and produce mangos, avocados, bananas, passion fruit, a large variety of vegetables and are a perfect place to raise healthy, grass fed animals. Even tea and wine are growing here. Due to the volcanic activity the islands are peppered with epic hotsprings and lush green mountains. The oceans around the islands are clean, healthy and offer a home to wales, dolphins, manta rays, wale sharks, sharks and all sorts of fish.

The juxtaposition of this vibrant, powerful, wild and alive land with our cultural idea of death seem like a perfect place to land this sanctuary, to heal the artificial dichotomy between life and death our culture is holding onto. Reachable with  many direct flights from Europe and the US, or by sail boat, it can be a bridge that brings communities together that usually stay among themselves.

These perfect conditions for regenerative agriculture and permaculture are also a great opportunity give back to the land by regenerating its destroyed forests - a result of centuries of monoculture forestry and life stock, leaving the islands covered in mostly pastures and empty commercial forests. Helping the island of São Miguel to restore its diverse, endemic and healthy primary forests, while offering a sustainable, regenerative home to transgenerational families, is our ultimate purpose and goal.

The Land

The Mountain

200 hectares of wild mountain slopes, juicy green pastures, seemingly infinite forests, old trees, two creeks with plenty of water and ocean view from every spot. We still can't believe we found this jewel waiting for us.

This is where we want to build a thriving village, a retreat and education center, a school, and permaculture gardens to feed its people. We want to regenerate the commercial monoculture forests into endemic, healthy, diverse woodlands and plant food forest and market gardens. The south-facing steep slopes are ideal make use of solar energy and hydropower.

The land already has two cisterns to collect fresh water and a road to access it. This is the home of Alma do Solo, the place where our project wants to land.