• Description

Do you want to learn to create a sustainable life while enjoying an unforgettable experience in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta?

Madre Sierra is a virgin and sacred paradise of 80 hectares, located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, also called the Heart of the World. Home to the most preserved ancestral cultures, with crystalline waterfalls and native forests, Madre Sierra is dedicated to the development of an Eco Community and Nature Reserve.

We are a cosmo-living laboratory rooted in an Ancestral Deep Ecology, home of the Hummingbird People, a community whose purpose is to co-exist with Mother Earth and live in harmony with all their relationships.

We frame this proposal of co-existence with Mother Earth with a Deep Permaculture, which allows all aspects of life to be woven into a deep systemic design, aiming at the survival of our life in our home, the Earth. We created a new movement, the Hummingbird People, assuming the need to return to the earth, forming with ancestral cultures, wise heirs of living in harmony with Nature and the Cosmos.

We collect all the innovations that are indispensable for the construction of a modern sustainable world, such as Permaculture and Sustainable Design, Bioconstruction, and Green Technologies. The integration of ancestral and modern Wisdom is organized through a unique educational training, which is developed by the University of Earth Wisdom, whose ultimate purpose is to "graduate" as Hummingbird People, Guardians of Mother Earth, and " to sow "in our community home on this sacred mountain, or to bring the seed of wisdom to new territories.

LOCATION:

Our operating base and programs are developed in the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, in the Rio Ancho watershed, just 10 minutes from Palomino, the Caribbean town with the most tourist growth in Colombia, and just an hour's drive from the paradisiacal Park. Tayrona, one hour and forty from the city of Santa Marta

The arrival to the Eco Community is from the town of Rio Ancho a mototaxi of 30mins duration and then a gentle walk and full of natural beauty of 20 minutes (crossing several streams and forests!)

Type of Help.

  • We have FOUR types of Volunteers, depending on the interest of each participant, and their level of experience:

o Volunteering in Bio Construction - help in building our community and University while you learn innovative and ecological techniques.

o Volunteering in Agriculture - help in our productive processes with organic agriculture while you learn applied innovative and ecological techniques.

o Volunteering in Conscious Food - helps develop conscious feeding practices and nutritious cooking for the entire work team.

o Volunteering in Eco Education (child and adult) - helps develop pedagogical processes for children and adults to learn how to take care of the earth.

Help

Bio-construction with Universal Sacred Geometry and Biomimetics:

The original architectural design envisioned by Mixed Architecture, with biomimetic and sacred geometry ... integrating patterns of nature and ancestral thought. Mixed Architecture with Madre Sierra and Universidad de Saberes de la Tierra are in the development stage of a School of Ecological Design that will be an Eco Studio undertaking as the project is developed in Madre Sierra.

The daily activities are around: design and construction of community infrastructure (Maloka, Dry Bath, Kitchen, Houses.)

Permaculture:

The whole project is conceived under parameters of permacultural design in the component of bio-construction, agriculture and coexistence.

Healthy food

We are looking for at least two people who support the specific service of preparing healthy and vegetarian food with experience.

Eco Education We seek support in the development of our pedagogical proposals for children and adults. Welcome Workshop!

Spoken Languages

English, Spanish

Accomodations

  • Due to the fact that the project is starting in infrastructure construction, you should bring a tent to sleep with. We also have a hammock space for volunteers. Please let us know your preference.

Something more...

What the volunteer contributes:

* ️ We all contribute together towards food and expenses (approx. $ 20,000 daily PCOL per person) is prepared in a community kitchen that has a wood-burning stove, cooking utensils, and basic ingredients.

* We all contribute in community services such as cleaning common spaces, and basic place maintenance.

* ️ 4 hours of loving service helping in kitchen, tasks, organization of meetings, gardens, bioconstruction, etc. (depending and flexible in the interests of each person).

Free afternoons to enjoy ecological walks, visits to waterfalls, time in nature and silence, creative activities, workshops and therapies that we offer.

* ️ Instructions are given on how to get to the farm in Mototaxi and a gentle walk of 20 minutes.
* ️Weekly rest activities:

* guided visit to the waterfall and ecological walks,

* visit to native communities,

* Beach,

* Tayrona Park,

* City of crafts Riohacha,

* tourist site Camarones

*… and much more.

Additionally we offer on the site: or meditation sessions, or yoga classes, or temascal and ancestral ceremonies or holistic therapies or workshops (creative and therapeutic) o Meetings, Festivals, Workshops ...

In addition to our volunteers we offer: - Access to Casa Madre Sierra, our house and central office located in the town of Rio Ancho, near the beaches of Palomino, Tayrona Park. Here you can cook in a community kitchen, check the internet, rest in a hammock while doing activities in the town relevant to your service in the mountains.

Un poco más de información

internet limited

no animals

No substancesas alcohol tabaco o drugs-

How many volunteers can we recieve?

8 to 10

Intercambio cultural y Oportunidades de Aprendizaje:

We offer an experiential learning experience in ecological construction with innovative techniques, through our expert team Madre Sierra, with training sessions, participatory design and opportunity to be part of this project weaving family relationships with mutual care while entering deep nature. They have been accompanying us wise and knowledgeable of the native peoples of the Sierra Nevada, Kogui, Wiwa, as well as Muisca, Putumayo, Amazonas, and North American roads. Ancestral thinking brings us closer to the methodologies of spiritual construction, thus becoming the foundations of material construction. Together with experts in permaculture, bio-construction, ecology, we build the thinking of life, we develop this territory and we wake up as the New People Guardians of Mother Earth ... the Hummingbird People.

For More informatión:

  • Facebook Grupo: Madre Sierra - Ayllu Colibrí
  • Fundación Saberes de la Tierra: