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Pictured above: The streets of a busy market in Delhi, India.

Natural Villages is a 501 c 3 charitable organization.

Tax ID # 87-0769918

1123 SW L Street Grants Pass, Oregon 97526 USA

This is our main office. You can call to see if your check was received, and your name put on our registration list by calling 831-425-3393.

Make all checks payable to: Natural Villages

Natural Villages Programs

1) Wounded Knee Building Sustainability Camps: Help showcase environmental and community redevelopment by helping complete a model family village in Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on Pine Ridge, a Lakota reservation. Earthen Home construction training and/or food production planning. Building Camps. For more information about volunteering in Wounded Knee call Elmer at 605-867-1619.

2) Hummingbird Women: Help establish formal response networks for women who need environmental or self sustaining community support. Join in the ancient guidance of native traditions by attending a women’s empowerment gathering. Learn the value of ancient ceremony. Santo Daime Ceremony practitioners welcome. For more information go to www.1000hummingbirds.concarino.org

3) Earth Art Construction: For sustainable spiritual community building: Become a certified guide or host. Train with experts. Get credit or units from your school. Kiln and ovens, small homes, all stages of building taught. Permaculture and wild landscape management education is available. Green jobs available soon. Contact us. Help us help everyone! Please do donate if possible! Certifications lead to employment. Program Open: year round: Soon to be a green job provider. Women especially welcome!

4) Tune To The Sun: Learn Ancient Village and SOLAR worship principles. Discover the SOLAR healing used by ancient villagers to remain healthy, spiritually in tune with consciousness and nature. Learn Natural Law Spirituality through an authorized, supervised Solar Dynasty Lineage: Knowledge taught by authorized Solar Yoga and Ceremony practitioners trained by lineage Teachers and Masters. Kriya, Kundalini and Solar Yoga energy mastery courses make sustainable village leaders…certifications available. Formal connections to leadership within ancient and current day ceremony practices. Program open: year round

HOW OUR BUILDING and SUSTAINABILITY CAMPS WORK:

The Building Guide: is the one who shows the group how to follow the village building plan. This person has been verified as a natural building expert. He/She has been certified as competent by our organization, and holds a certificate to show this. He is paid by the month.

All Building Camps Sustain Learners and Villagers:

We consider our camps to be educational centers for compassionate village – style economic, environmental and cultural recovery for any community.

Participants become eligible to work and live within the natural villages – village building circles. A community hoop of village building and learning for families.

COST: $250 per seven day week, per learner, paid to NV before arrival.

This can be given at a donate button on this site or paid by check or money order put into the mail to. Paypal is also available. For more information see our Donation page.

Those who give financial support are creating a foundation and a backbone for this home and village delivery system. You are our heroes, and we will, indeed honor you. How we choose to do this, may become a surprise!!!! WE LOVE SURPRISES! –So why not join us, help us, or keep us in your prayers. Thank you. Obrigada. Pilamaya. Gracias. Bitte. Namaste.

ALL donations and payments go to administering to and providing homes and gardens to those who need them most. WE are deeply grateful you took this healing action on our (your) behalf.

~ All learners bring all weather camping gear, and food donations to cover this week.

~ All learners must be of age 18 or accompanied by another learner-parent or guardian.

This money only goes toward paying for operating costs, hosts, guides, houses, gardens and villages.

What learners receive:Basic Education about the method and process of building all stages of an authentically stable natural village.

We are currently working towards credit and unit provision for students. We work in cooperation with UCSC in Santa Cruz. For utilization of the building projects at our Wind Tree site call Elena at: 408-842-2902. View examples of a natural, earth based home with a greenhouse and gardens. Information received depends on project stage ie; foundation building, wall building, plastering, window installation, are all activities determined by building stages. One week is adequate time to learn one building process such as “foundations” or, “plastering walls”, basic food gardern design, etc…

When working with trained and certified Natural Villages Building Guides:

A learner will receive a “hours of experience” certificate. This certificate will also outline this person’s obvious strengths.

For learners who have completed a full month, they will receive a letter of recommendation that outlines their strengths, focus of experience and depth of knowledge. All full – time participants receive this.

Even family members who are hosting a camp can receive certifications. . A learner will receive a letter of recommendation after each completed month.

An experienced learner can apply to be a paid building guide after completing three total house and village constructions, with clearly outlined strengths and competencies which are recorded in the letter of recommendation.

The camp building guide will be giving certificates and letters of recommendations that will be sent to you from NV, after the completion of your stay.

To REGISTER FOR A CAMP, or to ASK QUESTIONS about the camps, please call us– or use the mailing address listed above. Or email : Johanna@natural-villages.org

To call: 831-425-3393

Please do leave your questions there, and someone from our organization will call you back as soon as possible. This is the best way to verify that we received your application, payment or gift.

Currently we have camps ongoing in Wounded Knee, and in the Santa Cruz mountains where we are supporting the fire survivors who lost everything and cannot afford the profoundly expensive building permits issued by Santa Cruz County. To inquire about programs at Wind Tree call Elena to see if there are work trades or learning opportunities available. Wind Tree: 408-842-2902.

HOSTS and FAMILIES OF CORE SUPPORT VILLAGES:

HOSTS will earn $1,000 per month for their work. The host is someone from the family of the onsite village. For Pine Ridge residents, the village is chosen by a first come, first serve basis according to the applications turned in for core support.

Families that meet our criteria; ie; they have a building site with available clean water, and a deed for the land; or a letter of permission to build from the owner of the land.

This person is in charge of making sure campers are comfortable, meals are timely, and the plans for garden, greenhouse, home are attended to, while the family contributes in the ways that feel most comfortable to everyone onsite.

The host is paid $1,000 per month to supervise comfortable feelings and activity, general organization, meal planning and cooking for the group.