Upcoming In-Person Classes
SOIL’s in-person origrams offer experiential learning in the unique living laboratory of Earthaven Ecovillage. Classes at Earthaven are informed by over 31 years of experience with village life in an intentional community dedicated to sustainability, education and activism.
You’ll have the chance to learn, live, work and laugh alongside our pioneering residents in a biologically diverse forested mountain setting.
We also offer in-person and virtual tours of Earthaven Ecovillage.
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Upcoming Programs
Tours are a great entry point into learning the history, purpose, and development of Earthaven Ecovillage. These tours are designed to provide a deeper understanding about living in community as well as the strategies and solutions possible for doing things another way.
Reservation required.
A pair of Permaculture fundamentals, hands-on workshops, homesite tours, and design practices exploring how to create more resiliency in the Southern Appalachians. Join Earthaven residents in exploring what has and hasn’t worked and what we’ve learned in over three decades of homesite design. The workshops build on each other and are also available and valuable separately.
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An intimate four-day journey into connection with self, community, and the wider web of the living Earth. We’ll ignite authenticity, meaning, and pleasure by approaching belonging as a skill set that we can all learn, Through guided practice, ritual, story, song, and time in nature, we’ll explore what it means to be present with ourselves and each other. Held in a secluded neighborhood at Earthaven Ecovillage; includes delicious and nourishing meals
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Caring for our dead is a story as old as humankind. This deathcare training dives into the physical, emotional, legal, practical, and spiritual care of the dying and the dead, as well as their families.
Please join us if you wish to reclaim a more meaningful, hands-on experience at end-of-life and gain the skills and knowledge of midwifing death with grace and confidence.
Our annual event focused on Nonviolent Communication, featuring classes and experiential learning. An experience designed to foster compassion and connection in our hearts, communities and world, and to spread the seeds of justice and love.
Develop new relationships with Nature Spirits, Ancestors, Star Beings, and those of universal wisdom. Drawing on the ancient shamanic practice of merging with compassionate spirits, you will safely become an interactive and divinational channel, allowing for a deepened spiritual dialogue not often experienced with traditional journeying.
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So many of us yearn to be seen and known, to feel that we belong… yet we hide away our sorrows and struggles, carrying them as lonely burdens. The truth is, loss is one of the most universal human experiences.
Join us for an all-day ritual of guided practice, community care, collective release, music and song, and Earth connection.
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Join residents and their homesteads, farms, and businesses at Earthaven Ecovillage for a hands-on, skill-building program in sustainable and climate-resilient community life. A residential immersion into the interconnected physical and social systems of our unique off-grid intentional community.
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Explore the vital connection between our waterways and the communities that rely on and cherish them. Join us for an immersive and intergenerational journey dedicated to the health of our rivers and streams. You’ll be joined by a cohort of College of Charleston students at Earthaven Ecovillage, an ideal setting for a whole-life skills curriculum – a place to see regenerative systems in practice, food production and riparian restoration in action, and experience community living on an intimate level.
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Do you want to learn skills, gain insights and get to know the Earthaven community? Get an inside look at the radical social and ecological experimentation that has taken place in this land-based community for over 31 years.
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Be an active participant in the everyday rhythm of life and work at Earthaven Ecovillage. In this hands-on, service-based program, you’ll work side-by-side with residents, making meaningful contributions while exploring Earthaven’s neighborhoods, and expanding your ideas of alternative living.
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Join us for hands-on learning in Nature’s playground!
Gain educational tools, songs, games, and much more while learning the importance of risk to healthy childhood development of confidence, competence, and self-regulation.
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What to Expect
You’ll find certain things true at all SOIL in-person programs. Whether you pop in for a quick weekend class or immerse yourself in a longer hands-on service learning project. You might camp out, cozy up in a private cabin, or share space in our residences.
You’ll have the opportunity to explore Earthaven Ecovillage while meeting and interacting with our visionary residents. We’ll share group meals prepared from nutrient-dense foods often grown on the land.
There’ll be time for you to recharge and refresh however suits you… walks in the forest or impromptu group movement. Our passionate instructors will lead you through sessions in the classroom and out on the land.
And you’ll have the opportunity to meet, celebrate, explore, relate and grow together with an amazing group of fellow adventurers. Go home excited, recharged, and empowered to help lead the way to a radically different and more sustainable future.
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