Permaculture Design 7-Weekend Course
This course is an intensive learning experience presented
by a team of instructors using lecture, discussion, hands-on projects,
videos, site visits, and student presentations as teaching tools. Be prepared
for an incredible amount of information to be shared during our short
time together!
Along with the intense intellectual and practical information of the Permaculture
curriculum, this program gives deep consideration to the cultural,
social, and spiritual aspects of sustainability. Recognizing that we were
born into a culture which is based on disconection from Nature, and that
our education, religion and media reflect that tragic mistake, a basic
aim of Permaculture education is to stretch our minds to grasp the enormity
of our cultural delusion – the delusion that life is possible without
living fully one’s connection to Nature and to community.
Ancient cultural traditions, whose teachings are naturally expressed in Permaculture principles, can help us to relearn those practices that connect us to our true Nature. In this program, Tantric teachings are interwoven throughout the Permaculture curriculum. Tantra is the tradition from which most of what we call yoga arose. It is the dance of the masculine and feminine principles operating within each of us and in our relationships with others; between consciousness and matter; and between humans and nature. With Tantra, we can begin to recognize the connections between our inner imbalances and the imbalances we seek to correct outside ourelves.
The format for the course is one weekend a month, for 7 months. We will meet from 9:00 to 6:00 on Saturdays and Sundays, with scheduled activities on Saturday evening. On the first weekend, we will meet on Friday for an Introduction, Overview, and Logistics session.
Register for the course at Earthaven Ecovillage.
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For course details and logistics for the weekend course at Ashevillage, see the Ashevillage Institute website.