The BIGGEST INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES in the World | ECO VILLAGES that you will want to Visit

[@maiak846]

While there are many communities and of course I haven't been to them all, Damanhur is in a league of its own. It is one of the most extraordinary places I have ever seen. The Temples of Humankind should be on the list of the seven man-made wonders of the world. It's like an ancient, advanced civilisation that is here and now. Well worth prioritising for a visit.

[@latitudeselongitudes1932]

I know someone who went to Findhorn. I am interested in the portuguese, german and italian ones you show in the video. My main interests are oriental art and culture, hiking, Yoga, the Himalayas, music(specially indian instruments like Sitar and Tampura). Would be nice to share those interests with people in these communities and to be part of a retreat, workshop, experience of such themes, hobbies at these places

[@transequitur]

Thanks you for the wonderful, informative tour. Damanhur and Findhorn are on my list of places to visit later this summer.

[@gameazoed6735]

You're beatiful thank you for sharing

[@Bluemoonjellyfishh]

Wow thank you so so so much! I am in Canada, in my 20s, this is exactly what I’ve been searching for 😍😍😍 Bless you!

[@celastrinarebecka]

I'm so happy for that! thank you!

[@mathildesulah]

Thanks for this great video!!

[@KodeyWhiteWolf]

Great video. Awesome info. I have visited several communities here in the USA. So glad they are doing well overseas

[@celastrinarebecka]

🥰🙏🏻

[@annetaxis-yogatherapeutin7300]

Thank you Celastrina for this perfect overview! You are so amazing, love ya Sister. I was at the community campus with Celastrina, for all who are interested - it is worth participating in order to get an overview of how Damanhur works, how they live and how super friendly they are!

[@celastrinarebecka]

Thank you Anne! Much love to you too! I will see you very soon again I hope 😍

[@lisaquick1196]

Thank you so much for the information you share! I had never heard of Damanhur. What a magical place! ❤

[@MegaSnail1]

Thank you for sharing these forward thinking villages. Sadly I've found living among folks who think similarly to myself to be a bit unfulfilling. As a teacher I prefer to walk among and share my views with those yet seeking a balanced way of living. We can all participate in healing ourselves and our environment while finding joy in doing so. Be well.

[@Natalia-sm2yo]

🙏Cпасибо за видео🙏.Мне тоже хочется создать Эко-поселение.У меня есть 9 соток земли в частной собственности в центральной части Молдовы.Multumesc pt informatia🙏.Am și eu un vis sa organiza un Eco-sat.Am în proprietate privata 9 are de pământ în parte centrala ale Moldovei🙏

[@etienne1813]

Thank you for providing this content

[@GRINDETHIKSMIXTAPESHOW]

Yo I always picture living in those type of communities but its the first time seeing it outside of my head

[@celastrinarebecka]

@@GRINDETHIKSMIXTAPESHOW 😀😍

[@aloisiobruske]

Thank you so much to help me with this helpful content! Gratitude 🙏🏻

[@celastrinarebecka]

Thank you! I'm happy that it was valuable! 🥰

[@melodyhansen1507]

I'm surprised you don't recognize Ananda Village, which was founded in 1969 in California. Over 50 years old and thriving beautifully.

[@dhrubamaharjan8732]

Thanks very much for this video. Please create more videos.

[@celastrinarebecka]

Thank you! I will :D

[@mirellacrapanzano8555]

Molto bello, un buon lavoro!

[@celastrinarebecka]

Grazie!!! 😍

[@JB-yg3ew]

Great video thanks, I hope to check most of these out😃

[@celastrinarebecka]

Thank you 🥰

[@ASMRaphael]

Astounding video :) so super good and so magnificent :) wonderful stuff :)

[@celastrinarebecka]

Thank you 😍

[@drsteviejasengnsangma8739]

Very informative and the best part is your are citizen in one of them..

[@celastrinarebecka]

Thank you I'm glad you find this valuable :)

[@drsteviejasengnsangma8739]

@@celastrinarebecka I am really fascinated by you and people who live in the Eco village. I once visited Auroville and when I saw people from all over the world living there I was really impressed & mesmerised..

[@celastrinarebecka]

@@drsteviejasengnsangma8739 Yes intentional communities are really interesting experiences and experiments with new ways that we can live together on this planet. I never went to Auroville but I will for sure visit sometimes soon :)

[@drsteviejasengnsangma8739]

@@celastrinarebecka Sustainable living, off-grid living, living in Eco village, living in tiny house, minimalist/essentialist lifestyle FIRE etc.. feels so captivating & attractive. Kindly visit Auroville one fine day and enjoy the Puducherry town which has many French influences in architecture & cuisine. Thank you for your warm reply..

[@celastrinarebecka]

@@drsteviejasengnsangma8739 Yes I totally agree! More of this in the world and the world will slowly become a more healthy and happy place :) Thank you for the tips I will!

[@yvonnehyatt8353]

Very good video.🌎😇❤️ please study Kristen Dirksen and Bryce Langston thanks

[@angeluslaver]

Thank you for sharing this very important information 😊

[@celastrinarebecka]

Thank you I'm glad that you liked it! 😊

[@pierrelabbe3173]

Merci Canada M.T.L Québec wow

[@sparksmacoy]

What about the Amish, they are much bigger and have lasted for over 400 years. Or the Huttites same story. They are nearly a million strong. Another promising option is the Venus project.

[@celastrinarebecka]

Yes there are many of these groups, the most important example is indigenous peoples and tribes that have kept a relationship with their territories and community line for as long as humanity itself. I haven’t spoken about these examples because they don’t represent a movement of intentional community in the sense of people and groups who have consciously decided to start “moving back” to these principles of life from after having growing up in or being surrounded by the modernised society. I have also not included any community of strict religious background, but those with a more open spirituality and also open for anyone to join or connect with

[@sparksmacoy]

@@celastrinarebecka The thing is though the strict religious ones are also vastly more successful than these other ones, they have hundreds of thousands or even millions of community members. These other ones only have hundreds of members. Not sure why that is but it seems to be true. I think we would all be better off if everyone lived in an ecovillage type setting but how to attract enough people to them is the hard part. These intentional communities also tend to die out because they don't have that many children in them whereas the Amish kind of have the opposite issue. Perhaps each could learn from the other?

[@kriste949]

That is very incorrect info why and how Findhorn started. It has a magnificent start - I encourage everyone to look that up

[@realrefuge]

An expanding concept

[@celastrinarebecka]

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[@realrefuge]

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[@celastrinarebecka]

@@realrefuge Thank you! interesting!

[@Starfire5D]

❤❤❤

[@kimhartmann9317]

Beutifull, well done! Thank you very much!

[@celastrinarebecka]

Thank you so much 😍

[@dopeybrew7006]

I would love to come to Damanhur! It’s my dream to be part of a spiritual based community. Is amplified electric music allowed as part of artistic expression there? What would you recommend to someone to start preparing? How much money is needed to join and do you have to earn an outside income if you become a citizen to pay for your housing or are there options to work to sustain and better the community for everyday necessities?

[@celastrinarebecka]

Hello! The artistic expression is as varied as humans on this planet, even if something doesn't exist yet there's always the openness to explore new things, so yes :) First of all I would recommend to visit the webpages damanhur.org and damanhur.travel and also the youtube channel of Damanhur, these sources in themselves gives a lot of answers and insights. We have citizens who work both outside and inside of the community, when working inside it's in our associations or own businesses. There is however the possibility for people to come to start out doing some work exchange if that is what you mean :) If you want to know more you can find information on the website

[@aryanarose6293]

Kahna Shanti Vanam in Hyderabad, India -

[@Tyr-not-mars]

Definition eco village..OIL FREE PEOPLE..🎉🎉..Free of oil addiction and its carnage the only hope for survival of the human and homo sapiens..feeders of the soil.. full support for this

[@Holliysmokes]

I'm really interested in Damanhur, However I have a few questions. Is money used in Damanhur? To be a citizen to you need to follow a specific religion or spiritual path? Are there laws? like what's the view on reactional substances? Do you make a house? Or "buy" one? what about taxes? I know that's a lot of questions but I'm very curious! Thank you ahead of time if you do answer!

[@celastrinarebecka]

Thank you for all these questions, I'll try to answer them as best as possible :) Money is used in Damanhur. We have several types of citizenships or ways to participate, in Damanhur we have a spiritual path, called the school of medit-action, but there is an option to be a citizen without being a part of the school. We don't have laws but we have a constitution with norms that is regularly updated and reviewed by all the citizens. In our school of thought we don't use any min altering substances, to achieve altered states of consciousness we use meditation and other techniques. The houses that people live in in Damanhur are owned by our associations, meaning that we all "own" them. But citizens can also have privately owned houses if they want. We pay taxes in accordance to the Italian law. Then we have a system in which the citizens living in central damanhur in Italy (we have citizens living all over the world) are voluntarily giving money each months to community services like our school, healthcare, our newspaper, the Temples and so on :)

[@jenifervanderveen8501]

How can I find out more about being a citizen? I’m very interested in this way of life and when I visit the link you offered I see so much great information ( thank you ) but I am not finding info on being a citizen, can u you up please advise

[@celastrinarebecka]

@@jenifervanderveen8501 Hello Jenifer, I found this blog post that speaks about becoming a citizen www.damanhurblog.com/spirituality/becoming-damanhur-citizen/ I hope it is helpful :)

[@arturgrabowski2845]

@@celastrinarebecka thank You!

[@arturgrabowski2845]

@@celastrinarebecka thank You!

[@Leon-cv7rw]

Beautiful!!

[@celastrinarebecka]

Thank you!!

[@yohanafranco]

Thanks 🎉

[@bzima1]

Thanks!

[@psyclonoughts316]

thanks for this heartening video

[@dmytroshmidt5981]

Thank you

[@auraajah3072]

Good song 😍

[@utopiaboardsandwheels9755]

Talking about Auroville without talking about the man who idealized it, Sri Aurobindo (ence the Auro in Auroville)

[@pulangkampung5421]

Sehat selalu warga Itali, salam dari Kampung Naga/Indonesia

[@bhagavatidasi2373]

You missed krisna-völgy in Hungary.

[@Magushinka]

Hi and thank you for the overview. I looked at the Damanhur website but didn't see many options for an exploratory stay. Should I write them an email?

[@celastrinarebecka]

Hello, you're welcome! this is a 10 day program that I'm also hosting here in Damanhur, similar to the one I arrived with, you can see all the dates of this year here: damanhur.org/community-life-campus/

[@Magushinka]

@@celastrinarebecka Thanks very much! I'd love to come for the exploratory stay, but your fixed dates don't fit my schedule. Perhaps next year.

[@celastrinarebecka]

@@Magushinka you can also check out damanhur.travel for shorter visits that are available all the time ☺️👍

[@kallasusort2986]

I get the sense that they are expensive Destination Vacation with the intention to make lots of money. Beautiful locations to lure people in. Spiritual - maybe for some.

[@ericchristen2623]

But all of these communities demand payment for living there, so exclude the poor, and are thus not inclusive.

[@noodlyappendage6729]

Great video! It would be great to mention Orania in South Africa in one of your videos. It’s an intentional community that has around 2500 people living in it.

[@fabriziobarrera]

that town is racist, for people with nostalgia of apartheid

[@pedromiguel9202]

Ithaca is a rich condominium housing for the wealthy. Cannot be named an Ecovillage.

[@celastrinarebecka]

Thank you for your opinion. I have never been there myself, but after some research that's what I have understood that they're aiming for. It's always good to examine the meaning of an eco village :)

[@GnosticChild]

Well she did call it an intentional community in the video. But I don't see why their status financially makes it not an ecovillage

[@ThriveAliveJoshua]

An Eco Village can be wealthy or bootstrapped

[@Artisticwhit]

I fell in love with Ithaca when I visited one day I ended up not leaving until 6 months. What was the first place I felt at home everything was much more expensive than I'm used to but it's like you can actually see where the tax money and whatnot is going it's going back into the communities and there was so much more resources available for me and my children. Coincidentally I had to leave in December because it was way too cold for me and their winter was just getting started lol.

[@NostalgiaandChaos]

The ecovillage concept seems to embrace self-sufficiency, ecological awareness, and and communal living. While Ithica may skirt the self-sufficiency part, they do have space on the land that local organic farmers use, their homes are constructed from and use ecological techniques and practices, and they do embrace community there. You're not wrong about the price of living there, but I don't think they're excluded from the ecovillage definition.

[@oceanofpeacesound]

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[@risin4949]

Very out of date re Findhorn. Most activities take place at Cluny and are very expensive. The length of programs tends to be shorter too. I used to love the place and all it stood for. Not any more.

[@olegmaksyuk760]

Hello, beautifull human being I just have a question, is it possible to cover the expances of living in Damanhur by workin for the community? Or I has to have some outcome from the outside world? Love and peace from within my hearth♥

[@celastrinarebecka]

Dear Oleg, thank you! It depends of what kind of work you have. In Damanhur the works "inside" are works that are part of various associations or damanhurian companies, like the school, the agricolture and many other activities. If you work for these companies of course you can live on that, but if you choose you can also work outside. Much love 🥰

[@janlaag]

I came in looking for alternatives and yet in a way it seems like she's presenting the progenitors of the current societies... True that we live in one world yet seeing the base model altered but not revisited seems a bit patronising.

[@sammahmoudi7609]

🙏🙏

[@GreenJack451]

Do you know the Hutterite or the Bruderhof-Communities?

[@celastrinarebecka]

No I don’t know about them yet ☺️

[@GreenJack451]

@@celastrinarebecka Revised:The Hutterites have been around for many hundreds of years, most of the communities are now in Canada. The Bruderhof was founded in Germany after the first war and has existed for over 100 years. I know the Bruderhof a little better. And I think they have realised the 10 points you mention in your other video "The biggest challenges for intentional communities". With many, many struggles, of course. (Translated by a machine from German)

[@ayvari61]

🌟🌟⭐⭐

[@fireshine4105]

Lol first thing i Tought when i first watched a video of yours was: Shes from Berlin. Idk why haha. Guess that city never really leaves you

[@celastrinarebecka]

😂😂

[@alma_sacred.soul_hippie.ego3]

Which language do you speak in Damanhur?

[@celastrinarebecka]

The main language is Italian, but English is widely spoken as well 😊

[@pascalhersperger2799]

I d love to come to damanhur. Is there a possibility to come and work in exchange for something like a bed or meals?

[@celastrinarebecka]

Hello Pascal, yes you can write to our welcome office at [e-mail] to see all possibilities :)

[@stefanor3992]

I❤Damanhur

[@alexandervicero]

Ah...so you want to create the future for humanity? 😮

[@skinsandneedlesink]

Please tell me where you got your beautiful coat. 😍

[@celastrinarebecka]

Zazi vintage 🤩

[@Meirh]

Israel has larger communities (kibbutzho)

[@Bob-gn8ph]

Luke 21,36 KJV

[@Jammingonlinewithanyone]

Why can’t we all live like this?

[@spudspuddy]

because mixed race communities end up genociding the white race

[@johnnynick9115]

Not everyone wants to live like this. That's what makes communities like this such a great resource. Those who wish to live communally can do so without imposing this lifestyle on those who don't want that lifestyle.

[@uggali]

Soon we’ll be in a position to pull away from the government entirely and trade between villages

[@entheogenetisis5644]

Hold up yo°

[@entheogenetisis5644]

What's this all about over here? Hmm.. seems pretty chill, kind of like getting organized yo° exactly