The goal of these workshops is to restore a ruin with time tested natural building techniques. We will be rebuilding the stone walls, creating new roof structure from native timber and installing a traditional clay tile roof. There will be opportunities to engage with the Design / Build process as we create rooms and select finishes. In addition we will be making improvements to the land so that it may become a refuge for the healing that will accompany these workshops. This is a great opportunity if you want to gain proficiency with traditional natural building techniques, make time mindfulness, and build a creative community.

$800 investment per workshop includes:

Building Instruction and experiential learning
Two daily meals provided + kitchen access
Tent camping on the land, bring your own gear
Group meditations, yoga, breathwork, + conscious connection experiences,

Bring a friend & enjoy 15% off (one friend only, discount goes to you)!

Location specifics, island info, travel logistics and detailed preparation/packing instructions provided after registration. Space is limited to 7 participants per workshop.

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Three great workshops to participate in!

Stone + Timber
August 18 - 22
Stone Masonry, Timber Framing

Raise the Roof
September 1 - 5
Clay Tile Roofing, Carpentry

Windows to the Walls
September 15 - 19
Cob Walls, Earthen Floors, Plaster Finishes

Volunteer Days

Camping on land and access to facilities is offered in exchange for the following days of labor support.

Carpentry
August 25 - 29

Finish Carpentry
September 8 - 12

Plastering
September 22 - 26

Meet Nick

**Nick Ihley** is a multilingual, multi-disciplined: builder, artist, creative, with two decades of Design / Build experience in residential and commercial construction. Rooted with a formal education in Sustainable Landscape Horticulture, he approaches challenges with a holistic focus and mindfully incorporates environmentally regenerative practices. Natural building projects in: Germany, Madagascar and Mexico; reinforced his creative and communicative skills. Further his experience with alternative schools and hands-on education, means that he thrives as a guide, teacher and mentor. Plus he’s just fun to hang out with! Learn more about Nick’s work: https://www.ihley.com/

Meet Levitie

Levitie is a certified Shamanic Breathwork Facilitator, yoga instructor (500+ hours), professional organizational facilitator, transformational guide, and event organizer. She leads groups and individuals to the heart of their own wisdom, and provides tools and guidance to assist them to operationalize it to transform their lives, and our world, for the better.

Next to her grace in holding spaces for individuals and groups, her presence is a powerful transmission of joy and aliveness. She will bring us together for reflecting, sharing, and embodied practices (yoga, meditation, breathwork), creating and fostering a sense of community and intimacy.

The Land - Isidora Refuge

Isidora Refuge is the realization of an invitation extended by the island to Levitie during a psilocybin journey in Nov 2021. The small property is nurturing and inviting (while still having plenty of prickly things to make sure you stay alert). There are 11 olive trees, 6 fig trees (available for snacking during breaks!), a few walnut trees, and some young wild pear and pistachio trees. The neighbor has a large mulberry tree that extends some of its branches conveniently beyond his fence, with some of the juiciest mulberries to be found anywhere. The Refuge has a beautiful 360 degree view, from the ocean, to a ridge of the mountain, to the rock formation that sits above nearby. There is a creek that runs next to the property with a beautiful old stone mill right outside the fence (pictured below).

The land is a place to come home to yourself, and your innate ways of BEing. Her invitation is one of sacred reciprocity, to nurture and to be nurtured in kind. She delights in knowing that you feel her magick and are thus reminded of your own. Its a place to restore, to remember, and to leave renewed and ready to go out and do the work that matters in this world, whatever the fullest expression of your soul gifts may be.

Join us to support the realization of this dream. For Levitie, yes, and also for the community of those committed to seeing our world into its next iteration, rooted in conscious evolution and centered in love.