ACTIVATING US

ACTIVATING

We are sharing with you in premiere extended information about the events and some news while we are preparing the newsletter in 4 languages 😉

We know that many of you have not yet been able to participate in any of the ONLINE meetings that we have opened since Christmas and that you are trying to do it in one of the following dates that are left this month.

NEXT MEETINGS

Below, we remind you of the remaining dates in February and give you a preview of the new dates that we have opened in March.

We look forward to seeing you at the different dates depending on your language!

INTIMATE ECO-VILLAGE PRESENTIAL MEETINGS

 

FEBRUARY: 25th to 27th February

MARCH: Still to be scheduled

 NEXT ONLINE MEETINGS OPEN TO NON-MEMBERS

FEBRUARY

 

ENGLISH: 13th of February from 19 to 20:30h

FRENCH: 20th of February from 18 to 19:30h

SPANISH: 20th of February from 20 to 21:30h

MARZO

INGLES: 6th Marzo

ALEMÁN:13th Marzo 6 p.m.

FRANCÉS: 20th Marzo 6 p.m

ESPAÑOL: 27th Marzo 8 p.m.


ONLINE INTIMATE MEETING FOR MEMBERS

We have created these 2 formats (online and in person) in order to get to know each other and the possible synergies that may arise after these more intimate meetings with those of you who resonate with our project and our moment.

We would like to take this opportunity to inform you that we have already scheduled February's monthly intimate online meeting for this Sunday 13rd from 8pm to 9pm to deepen our knowledge and collaborations with those of you who are already sympathetic members (you have taken step 2 of our process of getting to know each other).

In March it will be on 13ten.

In the intimate meetings you are the protagonists. We will be happy to dedicate space to listen to your feelings and concerns about the project and we will try to answer your questions as best we can.

 

If you are a member of our association, we invite you to send us your questions before the meeting so that we can prepare some additional material that may help you to understand some aspects.

INTIMATE FACE-TO-FACE ECOVILLAGE MEETINGS

Every month we open our space and hearts to those of you who are moving forward in your process of following the call to join an ecovillage project and resonate with our proposal, so that you can get to know a large part of the founding core group and the wonderful place of the Healing Biotope and its key projects.

FEBRUARY: from the 25th to the 27th of  February

MARCH:  to schedule

To participate in our intimate cohabitation meetings, it is indispensable to have taken step 2 of our Approaching process and to have read the extended information that we share with the members. Very limited vacancies!

SLOW-TOUR OF PERMACULTURE IN FEBRUARY (FORMATIVE WORKSHOP)

 

Due to the amount of requests we are receiving from people who want to do the approaching with us taking advantage of a training, we have decided to make a gap in our busy schedule (due to the process of growing to ecovillage 😉 we are not focused on trainings right now). It will be next Saturday 12th February.

At the same time that we can get to know each other better, in this Permaculture course you will have the opportunity to see and learn about the advantages of Permaculture and its tangible results in one of the farms that we have been coordinating for years in Macharaviaya (Málaga)

For more information about the course see the following link

EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES IN FEBRUARY GAIA EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY

We return to give focus and structure to the extra-curricular activities 3 days a week (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) with enriching and very original learning proposals for our kids and their families. Always in the afternoons from 15h to 20h/20h30h.

MONDAY: EXTRACURRICULAR CLASSES OF MUSIC AND PERMACULTURE

 

We return to accompany the little ones in an environment of musical and sustainable learning.

On Mondays the music classes (piano, double bass...) and the school organic garden will be guided and accompanied by the great jazz double bass player and renowned Swiss permaculturist Daniel Stocker.

More information about our proposal  here

WEDNESDAY 9 FEBRUARY FROM 15:00 TO 17:00: FAMILY YOGA PROPOSAL

Led by Cristina Sosa, a yoga teacher trained in France and specialised in the transmission of Yoga adapted to the world of children.

We inaugurate yoga workshops in tribe once a month. Yoga in family, accompanies us to share in a positive, creative and loving form. Where play and compassionate attention are our guides. The sessions are made up of exercises of concentration, attention, balance, breathing through duo practices. At the end of the session, we return to calm, centre ourselves and share our feelings.

FRIDAYS: GAIA-SLOW TOURS

After a short break, we are excited to inform you that we have started  with this venture that promotes multicultural and intergenerational exchange, while we value our environment, culture and customs of the hand of Rakel Dominguez (anthropologist, permaculture, sustainability educator, manager of the Gaia Learning community and main promoter of the ecovillage IKI-GAIA).

Would you like to know more about the new educational project of IKI-GAIA from its promoter?

If so, great, because we have started the period this new year with the Friday afternoon excursions from 15h to 20h open to families who want to get to know us or complement the educational proposal of their children in the open air and learning about sustainability.

The next excursion of our educational project where you can join us and learn more about the IKI-GAIA educational cooperative project that is being developed will be next Friday afternoon, 11 February in Maro.

Don't miss the GAIA-SLOW promotional excursion next February 18th to a wonderful corner of the Axarquia. There are only a few places left!

An ideal opportunity to get to know each other in a relaxed atmosphere in nature and see what synergies are taking place!

To know more about our Gaia Slow tours please you  read  the following post 

We wish you a wonderful week in alignment with your individual, group and planetary ikigai.

Hugs and blessings for being part of the change

 

STEPPING FORWARD WITH CONFIDENCE

LANDING IKI-GAIA ON THE GROUND

Closing contracts, last days to benefit from the 20% founder's discount bonus

IKI-GAIA SEED GROUP

It has been 15 months of great effort and full dedication since we made the call to find the guardians of the IKI-GAIA vision that has been 8 years in the making from our Association Semilla Monte Alegre.
To consolidate a group of pioneers with economic and emotional stability ready to take the step and continue with our monthly meetings and great common dream in the middel of this systemic crisis we are going through, has been an adventure full of learnings !

WE ALREADY WANT TO THANK YOU FROM THE HEART, for having approached and resonated with our proposal, even if you only formed part of our process in a meeting or a call.

Like everything in these moments, it can be overwhelming, but we feel that we have enough RESOURCES, CONFIDENCE, and enough economy gathered NOW!!! and above all, with a wonderful and sincronized IKI-GAIA SEED GROUP!!! Strong and determined to bet on co-creating this Healing Biotope in Malaga. An opportunity for our chikis and all generations where care for GAIA, life and relationships are back at the center.

LET'S GO FOR IT! WITH CONFIDENCE!!!

We want to start 2022 creating the foundations that encourage the entry and participation of more beings that are approaching and all those who want to join us to create our parallel reality in the near future. An opportunity for our kids and all the generations where the care of GAIA, of life and relationships will again be at the center.

For this, we would like to hear from you, to know what your current moment is, how you imagine your approach with us, and above all, what you can collaborate with it now if NOW IS YOUR MOMENT.
…every little grain adds up to the great CAUSE

UPCOMING MEETINGS TO KNOW MORE ABOUT IKI-GAIA

We would like to invite you to an intimate online meeting and introduce you to the new models of participation that we have been fine-tuning this last month, detailing all the variables and casuistry that may arise, as well as the timeline of IKI-GAIA so that you can assess your involvement and project yourself in this great communal dream WHICH ALREADY HAS SOLID FOUNDATIONS.

We have 6 different types of contracts to welcome all the profiles and to guarantee your rights and your reimbursement in case you want to leave.

If you would like to know more we invite you to fill in our questionnaire to start the process.

ONLINE MEETINGS

 

Send us an  email to semilla@semillamontealegre.org and fill this questionarie if you can participate in any of the meetings so that we can send you the invitation link to the meeting or tell you more details about the meeting face-to-face (very limited vacancies!!).

We would be grateful if you could share with us how is your present moment, as well as your doubts and concerns so that we can answer them privately or in the meetings.

We invite you to read all the information we have published in the ecovillage section of our website to come with as much information as possible to our meeting. If you haven't read anything yet, you can start with this post.

LAST DAYS TO BENEFIT FROM THE 20% DISCOUNT AS FOUNDER OF IKI-GAIA

Just one step away from closing the purchase agreement, we remind you that if you confirm your participation as a collaborator or AME (aspiring stable member) of the project, you will benefit from a 20% discount on the established fees and you will enjoy all the advantages that IKI-GAIA founders acquire. Ask us for more information to find out about them.

HAVE A LOOK AT THE OPTIONS YOU HAVE TO ADD YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO IKI-GAIA AND COLLABORATE WITH THE FIRST PROJECTS OF THE BIOTOPE

We would like to use this internal communication to let you know that we are working on the launch of the first open crowdfunding to cover the minimum investments that the project needs in this Phase I to take off with force, and that we have calculated in 300,000 €: reforms of some infrastructures of the farmhouse that allow us to have larger communal rooms for the educational project and the Music Academy, tanks to store the water of the fountain, implementation of the food forest, earthworks to prepare the space where we will install the first caravans, etc.

From the IKI-GAIA motor group we feel that we can reach at least 225.000€ of the 300.000€ we need with your help. On the one hand, we would like that this first economic impulse that we need arrives blessed from this closest circle, with money coming from your hands. And on the other hand, we are aware that launching crowdfunding campaigns of more than 75.000€ are very difficult and there is a risk of having to return everything if it is not reached.

!!For us it would be wonderful to undertake the first investments with the economy gathered by our motor group and your trust before launching the more open campaign that we are preparing!!

To support us and/or take steps towards IKI-GAIA, you have the option to donate, or to contribute as a collaborator or lender of IKI-GAIA.

To make it easier for you to understand the options, we have created these simple cards that we invite you to take a look at here

 

 

CONTACTO

e-mail:
semilla@semillamontealegre.org

Teléfono:
+34 / 659 10 98 09 (Rakel)

 

DONATIONS

All of you who donate at least 50€ will be included in the list of supporters of the project so that you can be informed of important developments. In addition to all the advantages we offer to supporters. You can ask us also for more information about the characteristics of each model of participation.

We share with you the account of abundance enabled for the IKI-GAIA project in case you would like to contribute with a donation to contribute to this very first Phase

#bank account #sma

Beneficiary: Semilla Monte Alegre

ES56 3058 0769 4427 2002 7693

Concept: donation IKI-GAIA + mail (so we can include you in the internal list and keep you informed)

Blessings to all those of you who have the WILL
to contribute to the CHANGE

 

NEWS IKI-GAIA

We leave you the direct link to subscribe to our newsletter if you are interested in following the progress of our Permaculture projects, educational project, IKI-GAIA ecovillage, training programme and events.

https://semillamontealegre.es/es/start-3/

 

WHAT YOU ❤️ WERE LOOKING FOR!!!

If you feel that this is what your heart is looking for, it is your moment to take the step to create what you believe and live in a tribe in an ecovillage of children and beings committed to their role of being referents and willing to do individual and group work, or, you are preparing to take the step to join a project like this in the coming years, we invite you to become a member of our association by clicking here and ask us by mail for more confidential information about the project, so we can start the process of rapprochement on both sides 😉

Donaciones de todo tipo, con los mejores deseos de prosperidad y bendiciones son muy bienvenidas para seguir avanzando con la materialización de este modelo replicable que pronto podrá servir, como se contempla en la visión, a tod@ el que lo necesite en esta fase transitoria que vivimos donde hace falta surfear las olas mientras el colapso civilizatorio está tocando fondo, y una nueva humanidad y un nuevo paradigma emergen con fuerza y luz.

Permaculture Slow Tours

PERMACULTURE SCHOOL SEMILLA MONTE ALEGRE

For the whole family

A day at a very inspiring permaculture farm full of unforgettable surprises for big, small and medium. Depending on the group (more beginners, professionals of the sector, with majority of adolescents or children) more or less demonstrative practices will be made, and, the theoretical explanatory part, will be more or less technical.

Good for the environment

This route of "slow tourism" with small groups and in a rural environment of the Axarquia of Malaga, is designed to generate the minimum impact between the community of people who inhabit it, and the Nature around which they are hosted. In addition, all the food and gifts offered to the visitor are organically produced, vegan and as local and seasonal as possible.

Educational and environmental awareness tour

Seeing, hearing, touching, smelling and feeling why certain practices collaborate to take care of the planet, while we take care of people, will be an unforgettable sensory experience that will help us understand why we have reached the state of declared climate emergency and reflect on what we can do to reverse the situation in our daily lives; at home, school, work, holidays, etc.

SENSORY JOURNEY

"Learning with the 7 senses about Permaculture and its advantages for humans, their environment, and the next 7 generations", is a sensory journey that immerses the visitor in an integral life project; an invitation to co-create a better future.

"Eco-Experience on an Inspiring Sustainable Permaculture Farm", is without a doubt, a very inspiring educational route that will captivate and make us reflect on the simple solutions that we can implement in our daily lives - at home, at work or on the farm - to live more in tune with Nature; contributing, at the same time, to do our bit to reverse the state of climatic emergency and minimize our ecological footprint.

Through the explanation and vision of different regenerative practices -compost, edible forests, etc.-, techniques of water retention in the landscape -Swales- and recycling of grey water, the visitor will develop the 7th sense, -the capacity to recognize which practices and actions are in our hands and contribute to a better world; besides receiving a holistic formation in the world of Permaculture and sustainability.

ROUTE OVERVIEW

After a brief introduction about the educational day and the place that hosts it, the guide, a renowned Swiss permacultor and musician based in the Axarquia, will offer several tours/sessions that will introduce the visitor to the world of Permaculture and holistic design through the viewing of the different areas of Permaculture, water retention techniques in landscapes; creation of compost, etc.

The highlight of the day will undoubtedly be to share the impressions/reflections of the inspiring experience by tasting a vegetarian-vegan lunch with seasonal organic produce grown largely on the farm.

 

SLOW TOUR DETAILS

Meeting point: Benaque

Meeting time: 10:00 h

Dates available:

From February to June and from September to November
Promotion-Tour every 2nd Sunday of the month 65.-€
Promotion first year of private tours outside this date, from 5 people, for 89.-€ -call for availability-.
Languages: Spanish / English / German

Total duration: 6 hours

 

CONDITIONS AND PRICES

Prices:

Promotion 2nd Sunday of the month: 65.- € / adults (Min. 8 Persons)
Children under 5 years old are free,
10.- € / children 6 - 12,
50.- € / young people from 12 to 17 years old
Promotion first year of private tours at another date, from 5 people, for 89.-€ -call for availability-.

Possibility to organize transport to the space. Consult conditions

What it includes:

  1. Tour with small groups of minimum 5 to maximum 16 participants through a sustainable farm with explanations - training in Permaculture - and sensorial experiences.
  2. Tasting of fruits, products and wild/cultivated plants from the farm
  3. Vegetarian/Vegan Lunch
  4. A souvenir gift
  5. Didactic material

 

Choose your best option!

Buy promotional tour!

Promotional tour 2nd Sunday of the month. 65.-€
Pay with Paypal or credit card.

Safe 24.-€

Choose a date

Private tour on alternative dates besides the promotion: 89.-€

Contact us for availability.

Contacto

Look at other educational offers!

We offer a wide variety of excursions through our Eco-Gaia Learning Community, as well as courses and seminars on agro-ecology, water retention in landscapes, vegan and healthy cooking, etc.

Cursos

IMPRESSIONS OF PERMACULTURE TOURS FROM LAST YEAR

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ITINERARY

After a dynamic welcome and introduction of the Permaculture day in the upper part of the farm, - enjoying the wonderful views of the Sierra de Tejeda and Almijara and the sea - we will go down to the kitchen area to get to know the history and the owners of the place.

We will start the immersion tour by recognizing the different "Permaculture zones" as a game; as well as some "Water Retention" techniques that help the aquifer to regenerate, while avoiding erosion.

Afterwards, we will taste some products from the farm while enjoying a drink. Depending on the season, we will try roasted acorns, fig bread, smoothies with Aloe Vera and Moringa, products derived from almonds and olives, etc.

We will continue to walk down the paths of the farm to the Yoga centre and discover different techniques for creating compost to regenerate life in the soil. We will pass through magical corners with edible forests where we will try wild and cultivated plants, bushes and fruits that feed the senses and nourish the human being and biodiversity.

In the Yoga Center we will do a small group dynamic to enter the theme of Bioconstruction. We will explain how this Center was built, its wonderful rocket stove, as well as other spaces on the farm with sustainable materials.

The morning's educational day will culminate with a visit to the farm's greenhouse where the visitor will be able to recognize samples of fast-growing, pioneering tree and plant seedlings with minimal water requirements that are ideal for reforestation and nitrogen fixation in the soil. And, depending on the season, we will make a practice of sowing seedlings, pioneer or fruit trees etc.

At 14:00h it is time to share impressions around an original vegan lunch full of km 0 flavours, smells and colours of the season.

To finish, the visitor will receive a small gift along with the educational material of the day and it will be the moment, for those who wish, to acquire home made products from the farm.

 

 

CONTACT AND NETWORKS

 

Raquel Dominguez Segura
659109809
semilla@semillamontealegre.org

https://www.facebook.com/semillamontealegre/

www.semillamontealegre.org

EDUCATIONAL SLOW TOURS

GAIA ECO-LEARNING COMMUNITY

For the whole family

GAIA SLOW-TOURS: Friday excursions in a family and rural atmosphere full of unforgettable surprises for big, small and medium sized people. A wonderful opportunity to do slow rural tourism and, at the same time, to complement the education of your children in an environment of Nature, respect and sustainability that puts in value our patrimony, customs and traditions in a very amusing and original way.

Good for the environment

This educational route of "slow tourism", with small groups and in a rural environment of the Axarquia of Malaga, is designed to generate the minimum impact between the community of people who inhabit it, and the Nature around them. In addition, all food and gifts offered to visitors are organically produced, vegan and as local and seasonal as possible.

Educational and environmental awareness tour

Seeing, hearing, touching, smelling and feeling why certain practices collaborate to take care of the planet, while we take care of people, will be an unforgettable sensory experience that will help us understand why we have reached the state of declared climate emergency and reflect on what we can do to reverse the situation in our daily lives; at home, school, work, holidays, etc.

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GAIA-SLOW TOURS

Our exclusive program of excursions "GAIA-SLOW TOURS" consists of a weekly offer, always on Fridays, where the participants of our educational eco-community GAIA, both the children alone with our accompanists, or including their relatives, can enjoy a different educational day in rural environments - of explosive nature normally -, and where, in addition, the historical-landscape-cultural wealth of the municipality, and, especially, of the region of the Axarquía, is put in value.

Natural Parks, parks and botanical routes, centenary farms and estates, ecological plantations, edible forests, Permaculture projects, museums, beaches of the Maro cliffs, agro-ecology, livestock, mycology and sustainable beekeeping, are some examples of our proposals.

Due to the great acceptance and demand that exists on the part of tourists, foreign resident families, and Spanish families that want to complement the education of their children with a more outdoor educational proposal that puts in value the environmental education and in values, we have decided to open our program of excursions of Fridays also to visitors

SUMMARY OF A STANDARD ITINERARY

After a brief introduction about the educational day and the place that hosts it at the meeting point, the guide and coordinator of the Gaia Educational ECO-community, a renowned anthropologist, permaculturist and journalist from Malaga, will offer several sessions and charming walks accompanied, if necessary, by the owners or guardians of the place, immersing the visitor in the eco-experience carefully designed for that Friday. CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT WHERE THE NEXT PROPOSAL WILL BE!

The highlight of the day will undoubtedly be to share the impressions/reflections of the inspiring experience, tasting a vegan lunch or dinner with seasonal organic products in a circle.

SLOW TOUR DETAILS

Meeting point: Depends on the excursion

Meeting time: around 9:30 a.m. or 15 pm (depend on the proposal)

Dates available:

Every Friday of the 2021/22 school year

Languages: Spanish / English / German and /Italian. French possible too!!

Total duration: 5/6h

PRICES (include:  Logistics, materials, reserves and vegan organics meals.)

CHILDRENS:
-BETWEEN 3 AND 15 YEARS OLD: 30 €

ADULTS:
-NON-MEMBER of our Association :           20 €
-SEMILLA MONTE ALEGRE  MEMBERS: 15 €
-GAIA LEARNING ECOCOMMUNITY:         10 €

PROMOTION DAY:
Promotion day are always the 3rd Friday of the month. In that day the maximum are 16 participants. The price Includes organic vegan breakfast and lunch or dinner)

CHILDRENS:
-
BETWEEN 3 AND 12 YEARS OLD: 20 €

ADULTS:
-NON-MEMBER ADULTS: 15 €
-MEMBERS: 10 €
-ADULT GAIA LEARNING ECOCOMMUNITY: 10 €

PRIVATE TOURS

Call us to see if we are availeble for private tours on weekend!!

Promotion for the 2021/22 school year of private educational tours on weekends: (from 6 children on)

CHILDRENS:
BETWEEN 3 AND 15 YEARS OLD: 35 €
NON-MEMBER ADULTS: 25 €

WE OFFER

Possibility to organize transportation to the space. Consult for more information

What it includes:

  1. Educational Slow-Tour with small groups of maximum 16 participants and many sensory experiences.
  2. GAIA Breakfast with tasting of fruits, products and wild/cultivated plants from the areas to be visited
  3. Vegan lunch
  4. A souvenir gift

Choose your best option!

View next tour

Excursion to the Sierra de Periana next Friday, February 7th

Children: 30

Adults: 20

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Buy promotional tour!

Promotional tour 3 Fridays of the month

Children: 20 euros

Adults: 15 euros

Compra

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Private Weekend Tours

Children: 35

Adults: 25 euros

Contact us for availability

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FEBRUARY'S PROMO GAIA SLOW-TOUR

Next Friday 14th of January we will visit a singular place of the Axarquia of Malaga in the surroundings of Periana near the mountains of Alhama - 1500 m- and Enmedio -1416 m.

During the visit, we will drink from pure water springs, eat nuts and pick up walnut seedlings, harvest wild plants and fruits and visit charming and historical villages of 1 inhabitant that are in the process of being depopulated.

After an energetic breakfast, we will get to know some very old cortijos and haciendas in the sierra where hundreds of sheep graze in a forest of basophilic oaks, gall oaks, oaks, musks, hawthorns, and bushes such as kermes oak and piornal.

Between the Sierra de Alhama and the Sierra de Gallo-Vilo we will go up winding on the road that goes up to Alfarnate to visit one of the most attractive places of its territory: the Puerto del Sol.

To end the day, we will have a picnic lunch at around 13:300h near the highest point and take an unforgettable walk around the sunny terraces near Puerto del Sol where hundreds of mountain goats, wild boars, rabbits, hares, foxes, etc. come down to drink from a natural spring every day. Spectacular sunny viewpoint protected from the north face by the mountains, from where you can see all of Axarquia and its spectacular Sierra de Tejeda and Almijara, Africa and the beyond...

On the way back, descending from the Sierra, we will visit one of the few remaining spas with sulphurous waters in the peninsula. These famous Baños de Vilo, came to be considered in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as one of the most important in Andalusia due to the important medicinal properties of its waters.

From the hamlet of Vilo to that of La Muela, we will pass through the nucleus of Guaro where the gentle slopes are covered with olive trees, pastures and cereals, and, where water is available, we will see varieties of fruit trees (especially peach trees) that are increasing as the orchards approach the banks of the river where orange and lemon trees abound, making this area one of the most productive.

CONTACT AND NETWORKS

 

Raquel Dominguez Segura
659109809
semilla@semillamontealegre.org

https://www.facebook.com/semillamontealegre/

www.semillamontealegre.org