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Welcome to our
Tribe!
HOW YOU CAN BE A PART OF THIS COMMUNITY​
Are you interested in or curious about living in a community? Maybe you can come and try it out with us! We have various programs you can join depending on your interests.
We are always building and learning, and we are always looking for people with an insatiable desire to grow and work on their own skills and development through projects like ours. As of July 2025, we are re-focusing on what we came here to do: Connect people and help them remember why their soul came to Earth. At this moment, it is too hot to build our house, so we all shifted our attention to our HIGHEST EXCITEMENT!
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- Avalon Student:
If you are interested in starting your own community or want to learn about permaculture and natural building, then the student program might be for you! What excites Adam most is teaching and showing people about one of the things he is most passionate about: Permaculture. You can join his one-day Permaculture Experience.
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- Avalon Volunteers:
What we are doing varies week to week, month to month, season to season, but generally the work will involve looking after animals, gardening, social media and marketing, and keeping our Avalon space clean and tidy. If we are building something and you are handy, you can lend your hands and efforts there. In the hot summer months we are not building our house but instead we are building on the retreat part of this project. We will start accepting volunteers again from October onward so if you are interested in volunteering at Avalon when we start our build again please send us an email.
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Spend your day at Avalon
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Living so closely with nature, experience has taught us that life works best when we shift the course of our days with the seasons. For example, an earlier start to beat the heat in summer, compared to a slower beginning in the winter. I have also found that leaning into a co-created routine helps us to work harmoniously and spend as much time carefree as possible - though the structure flexes to meet people’s needs, and we create space for people to express those needs.
Here is a rough guide to a typical day in September last year:
06:00-08:00 - Morning practices like meditation, tai chi, and yoga (optional)
08:00-08:30 - Breakfast
08:30-09:00 - Sharing circle, team orientation, and daily tasks
09:00-12:00 - Helping on the land
12:00-14:00 - Free time for those helping for three hours
12.00-14.00 - People who are in the building/studying program have two more hours of that
14.00-15.00 - Lunch
15:00 onwards: Freetime! River swimming and relaxation. Getting lost in nature. Sometimes people choose to carry on with a project they’re enjoying - that’s welcome but not at all expected of course. Just like being at home, cooking breakfast and dinner plus doing the dishes and cleaning are not included in the hours of help but are rotated tasks, equally divided among everyone here.​​
DO WHAT YOU LOVE
We believe people are at their best when they are doing what they love, and are in their flow. In flow, things are easy and don't feel like hard work. That's why we are trying to have people help with things they like doing. Of course, some tasks are not super exciting (like doing the dishes or dealing with the compost toilets). These tasks are done on rotation and when everyone washes their own plate, cup, and cutlery + 1 more item it's done in a jiffy. ​
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We have lots of things to do outdoors:
- Craftswo/men (designing buildings, working with machinery, sewing, building structures, or doing repairs)
- Carpenters (building and repairing furniture and wooden structures)
- Caring for the animals (we have chickens and cats)
- Managing the food forest (pruning, tidying, watering, etc.)
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It's also very welcome to have people donate their efforts in other ways than working on the land directly like:
- Social media and content creators (very welcome if you have the skills and love doing this)
- Photography enthusiasts (It's great to have pictures for social media and our website)
- Chefs and hobby cooks (We can always use some help in the kitchen and cooking together is so much fun)
- Event creators (If you love to provide entertainment while you are here, you are welcome!)​
Adam
Originally from: The United Kingdom
Energy: Masculine
Positive traits: Creative, focused, hardworking, and kind. Visionary. An avid learner and disciplinarian.
Lives for: The simple things in life, moments of co-creation, and experiential growth. Portuguese pastries.
Doesn't deal well with: Lateness, littering, and loud drunk people.
Specialties: Thai massage, Qi gong, permaculture, and eco-building.​​​
Growing up on the beaches and cliffs of West Cornwall, United Kingdom, my childhood was filled with adventures in the natural world. I had rock pools, long golden beaches, and stone circles as playgrounds and tales of pirates and mysterious Celtic folklore as world-building fantasies. Whether it was building sand castles or painting landscapes, running up sand dunes, or surfing in the summer, the rugged and seasonal exposure of that northern coastline had me captivated.
Years later, after more adult responsibilities took precedence, I ‘woke up’ feeling somewhat despondent and very distant from that world. I was living a conventional life with a corporate job, in a distant city and mortgage, etc. Something wasn't right. Deep down in my own abyss, I found my treasure again - my adventurous spirit. This time I took off around the world - discovering yoga and the wonderful healing art of Thai massage. I traveled and worked in many countries learning many things picking up permaculture and various eco-building techniques. Despite the great lifestyle, something was still missing from living out of my bag. Then, the call to settle and build something became clear.
The year 2020 was time to start. Drawn by a vision of living in harmony with nature, I came to Portugal alone and bought this 1.4-hectare plot of land after feeling it ‘speak to me’. Back then, it had just a stone ruin with a very thorny and overgrown landscape by the river. The seasons and solitude have taught me an exceptional amount about what is important in life and where answers to meaningful questions lie. Over time I've discovered the importance of establishing community sufficiency, a concept of togetherness and mutual support between neighbors, ecosystems, humans, and all other beings.
I love working with my hands and that shines through what I do—bodywork, building with natural materials, and planting trees. Inspired by Taoism, Vipassana meditation, and Qi Gong practice, I feel a natural resonance with walking the path of presence, balance, and surrender. Every day, I open my heart and mind to learn from nature’s rhythms, and the subtleties of reality, believing in a way of life that is both simple and deeply connected to all that is.
Sabrina
Originally from: Gibraltar
Energy: Feminine, caring, nurturing, and loving
Positive traits: Compassionate, fun facilitator, generates a lot of energy, professional chiller, makes people feel loved and seen and helps them flow
Lives for: Personal growth
Doesn't deal well with: Animal cruelty and bullies
Specialties: Brings life to every place, Tantra Massage Therapist ​​​
Originally from Gibraltar, I have spent the last four years living in The Netherlands, navigating a world that, for a time, felt disconnected from my true essence. After years in the corporate world, I came to realize that my calling lay elsewhere—closer to nature, to community, and to a life in harmony with the elements that I feel deeply attuned to.
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For a long time now I have felt the pull to live in a way that honors both the Earth and the interconnectedness of everything. To co-create with others, to share, to learn, and to grow. Living in community is an invitation to expand, to be mirrored by those around us, and to embrace the lessons that arise in our interactions. Nature, in its quiet wisdom, provides the space for reflection, healing, and transformation, allowing the answers to unfold in their own divine time.
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My journey has led me to the exploration of energy work through the practices of Reiki, Tantra Massage, and Tantric Yoga as well as a desire to further deepen my connection and understanding of plant medicine, the sacred cycles of the earth, and the profound wisdom rooted in the Divine Feminine. These practices continue to guide me in deepening my connection with myself, others, and the greater flow of life around me.
I am excited to embark on this journey of conscious living, of building something sustainable and meaningful. To create a space where we grow together, nourish the land, and honor authenticity, connection, and balance in all its forms.
Dana
Originally from: The Netherlands
Energy: Versatile
Positive traits: Very open and non-judgmental, good with energy, people, and animals, empowers people
Lives for: Personal growth and learning, balance and freedom
Not crazy about: Dishonesty, passive aggression
Specialties: Helps people reconnect to their soul calling ​​​
As a spiritual coach, Dana helps individuals remember their Dharma and guides them go for what excites their souls. In relationship coaching, (and life) she is highly effective because of her loving but no-nonsense direct approach. Her strong empathic senses, and the ability to represent both the masculine and feminine in one body, enable her to easily feel her way behind any masks and help translate between partners.
Since age 24 Dana has wanted her own 'Garden of Epicurus'—a community of philosophers and spiritual seekers who help and empower each other. Settling in Portugal, home of the Templars, for her is a dream come true. With her Twin Flame Partner Sabrina and their two cats, she is now practicing what she preaches about living your life directed by your Highest Excitement, which is the language of the Soul, as an example for others.
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As a Tantra Teacher and Tantra Massage Therapist, Dana knows about energy and the Universal Laws and how to use them to manifest, alchemize, and transmute. An afternoon of building and chatting with her can be akin to the equivalent of months of therapy. Come see for yourself!
OTHER WAYS TO SUPPORT US
If you like what we do but are not in the position to come over to stay, help, learn, or live you can still support us!
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Below are some ways you can support our initiative, and help heal the world by raising its frequency and lowering the carbon footprint of the Earth.
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CHECK OUT OUR SUPPORT PAGE!
You can support us from a distance by funding one of our projects! The beauty of that is that you then later come over and benefit from your investment :)
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