Communities List

I’ve compiled this list of communities. Many of them were taken from lists compiled by others: full credit goes to them!

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Content

• Other Lists of Communities
• BY CATEGORY
• Spirituality & Healing Communities
• Meditation Communities
• Plant Medicine Communities
• Ecological Communities
• CoLiving Communities
• Communities In-Development
• Retreat Centers
• Workshops & Trainings (In-Person)
• Festivals & Gatherings
• Communication / Relationships
• Thinking
• BY LOCATION
• USA
• UK
• Europe
• Africa
• Asia
• Latin America
• Global
• Online / Global Networks
• HOUSING MATERIALS, RESOURCES ETCv36)
• RESOURCES
• Lists
• Resources & Inspiration
• Video
• Posts
• Movies etc

Other Lists of Communities

A list of lists, yo!

• https://www.agartha.one/map — “curating a creative community at the intersection of art, technology and ecology”

• https://www.ic.org/directory/ — Directory of Intentional Communities

• https://cabin.city/ — “network city of modern villages”

• Coliving — https://coliving.com/ 

• Workaway

• WOOFing

BY CATEGORY

Spirituality & Healing Communities

• Ängsbacka, Sweden — courses and festivals centre in Sweden

• https://www.oshoafroz.com/ — Osho Center in Greece

• PachaMama, Costa Rica (video & article)

• Tamera Peace Research & Education Center, Portugal (video)

• Findhorn Foundation, Scotland

• Damanhur, Italy (video)

• Ängsbacka, Sweden

• Krishna Village Eco Yoga Community, Australia (video)

• Mindfulness Project, Thailand (video)

• Auroville, India (video)

• Inanitah, Nicaragua (video)

• Momentum Collective, Central America (video)

• Tribal Village, Lake Atitlán, Guatemala

• Source Temple Sanctuary, Brazil

• Tierramor, Costa Rica

• Teal Swan’s Philia Center, Costa Rica

• Yoga Farm, Costa Rica

• Awakeland, Portugal (video)

• Temple of the Earth, Portugal (video)

• Ashram Ram Dass Guru, Portugal

• Nikkilä Temple, Finland

Meditation Communities

• https://www.sanghaseva.org/ - “Meditation for Activists, Actions for Meditators”

• Vipassana Goenka Meditation Centers, Worldwide (video)

• Hridaya Yoga, Mexico and France (video)

• Hridaya Family, San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico (video)

• The Hermitage, Guatemala (video)

• Mooji’s Monte Sahaja Ashram, Portugal (video)

• Osho Meditation Resort, India (video)

• Amma’s Amritapuri Ashram, Southern India

• Sadhguru’s Isha Yoga Center, India

• Sadhguru’s Isha Institute of Inner-Sciences, Tennessee (video)

• Plum Village, France (video)

• Blue Cliff Monastery, New York

• Deer Park Monastery, California

• Spirit Rock, California (video)

• Osho Risk, Denmark

• Karme-Choling, Vermont (video)

• Ananda Village, California (video)

• Bhakti Center, New York City (video)

• The Abode of the Message, New York

• Zen Mountain Monastery, New York

• Yogaville, Virginia (video)

• Lama Foundation, New Mexico (video)

• Sat Manav Yoga Ashram, Maine (video)

• Gampo Abbey, Canada (video)

• Anuttara Ashram, Canada

• Sivananda Ashram, Bahamas (video)

• Gaia House, UK

• Osho Afroz, Greece (video)

• Shunyamurti’s Sat Yoga Ashram, Costa Rica

• Zen Community of Oregon, USA

• The Korinji Rinzai Zen Community, Wisconsin

• San Francisco Zen Center, California

• Tassajara, California (video)

• Abhayagiri Monastery, California

• Rocky Mountain Ecodharma, Colorado

• Two Arrows Zen, Utah

• Integral Zen, Iowa

• Transcendental Meditation Center, Iowa

• Roots & Water, Puerto Rico

Plant Medicine Communities

• Temple Of The Way Of The Light, Peru (video)

• Lotus Vine Journeys, Peru (video)

• Novalis, Peru

• Iboga Wellness Center, Costa Rica

• Brave Earth, Costa Rica (video)

• Soltara, Costa Rica (video)

• Munto Gente Medicina, Costa Rica

• Florestral, Costa Rica (video)

• Rythmia Life Advancement Center, Costa Rica (video)

• Flor da Montanha, Brazil

• Carioca’s Ciranda, Brazil

• Ambiwasi Ceremonial Center, Colombia (video)

• Portal Xibalba, Mexico (video)

• The Psychedelic Society, UK (video)

• Amoraleza, Spain

• Alquimia Centre of Healing Arts, Portugal

• Soul Quest Ayahuasca Church of Mother Earth, Florida

• Iboga Church of America, Florida

• Pachamama Sanctuary, New Hampshire

• Sacred Garden Community, California

• Temple Mother Earth, Washington, D.C.

• Psychedelic Therapy Training, Worldwide

Ecological Communities

• Traditional Dream Factory is a creative coliving in rural Alentejo, Portugal

• Punta Mona, Costa Rica (video)

• Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, Missouri (video)

• Possibility Alliance, Maine (podcast)

• Sirius Ecovillage, Massachusetts (video)

• Earthaven Ecovillage, North Carolina

• Ecovillage Ithaca, New York

• Rooted Northwest, Washington State

• Aloha Salt Spring, Canada

• Acorn Community, Virginia

• Twin Oaks, Virginia (video)

• East Wind, Missouri

• Occidental Arts & Ecology Center, California

• Sacred Nectar Sanctuary, New Hampshire

• The Garden, Tennessee

• Unadilla Community Farm, New York

• 42 Acres, UK

• Refugio Terraza de la Tierra, Mexico (video)

• Crystal Waters Community Cooperative, Australia (video)

• Fruit Haven Ecovillage, Ecuador (video)

• Kalu Yala, Panama (video)

• Eco Truly Park, Peru

• Finca Sagrada, Ecuador (video)

• Finca Morpho, Costa Rica (video)

• Alegría Village, Costa Rica

• Catfarm, France

CoLiving Communities

• https://coliving.com/ 

• https://www.minoma.co/ “mindful nomads”

• Canticle Farm, California (video)

• Los Angeles Ecovillage, California

• K9 CoLiving, Sweden (video)

• Liminal Village, Italy

• Lightning Society, New York

• Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage, Maine

• Zunya, Costa Rica

• Desa Alam Indah, Bali

• Rizoma Field School, Uruguay

• Mars College, California

• Tribe Coliving, California

• Embassy Network, Worldwide

• The Garden, northern Portugal

Communities In-Development

• Future Thinkers Smart Village, Canada (video)

• La Tierra, Costa Rica

• Nuanu, Bali

• Next Gen Village, Switzerland

• Traditional Dream Factory, Portugal

• Coalesce Ecovillage

• Mothership, California

• Jordan Hall’s Civium (video)

• Oceanix (video)

• The Venus Project (video)

• ReGen Villages

• The Auravana Project

• Montanoso Crypto Co-Operative, Texas

• Cohere Co-Living, Worldwide

Retreat Centers

• Esalen Institute, California (video)

• Garrison Institute, New York

• Omega Institute, New York

• Shambala Gatherings, Sweden (video)

• New Life, Portugal & Thailand (video)

• Blue Spirit, Costa Rica (video)

• Finca Mia, Costa Rica

• The Ekskaret Foundation, Sweden

• Shanti Space, Portugal (video)

• Osheanic Retreat Center, Brazil

• Orphan Wisdom School, Canada (video)

• Lost Valley Education Center, Oregon

• Sky Meadow Retreat, Vermont

• Res Artis Arts Residencies, Worldwide

Workshops & Trainings (In-Person)

• International School of Temple Arts (ISTA), Worldwide (podcast)

• Path of Love, Worldwide (video)

• Experience House, Worldwide (video)

• Highden Temple Mystery School, New Zealand (video)

• Animas Valley Vision Quests, Worldwide (podcast)

• Awaken As Love, Worldwide (video)

• Power Path One Year Shamanic Studies Program, USA

• Jamie Wheal’s Flow Canyons Leadership Course, USA (video)

• Luminous Awareness Institute, USA

• Richard Rohr’s Living School for Action & Contemplation, New Mexico

• Pacific Integral’s Generating Transformative Change, Worldwide

• The Human Awareness Institute (HAI), Worldwide

• Tao Tantric Arts, Costa Rica

• Baravara, Sweden

• Aum Tantra Yoga, Worldwide (video)

• Casa Tilo, Spain (~30 mins from Barcelona)

Festivals & Gatherings

• Burning Man, Nevada (video)

• Lightning In A Bottle, California (video)

• Emerge Gathering, Worldwide (video)

• Summit, USA (video)

• Science & Nonduality (SAND), California

• Tribal Gathering, Panama (video)

• Envision, Costa Rica (video)

• Garbicz, Poland

• Boom Festival, Portugal (video)

• Fusion Fest, Germany

• VOOV Festival, Germany

• Pura Vida Festival, Germany & Costa Rica

• Primavera Sound, Portugal

• Waking Life, Portugal (video)

• Waha Festival, Romania (video)

• Medicine Festival, UK (video)

• Yes& Conscious Living Festival, Australia

• Rainbow Serpent Festival, Australia (video)

• Earth Frequency, Australia (video)

• The Town, Australia (video)

• Wonderfruit, Thailand (video)

• Bali Bloom, Indonesia (video)

• Lucidity Festival, California (video)

• Totality Festival, California (video)

• Soul Play Festival, California (video)

• Shambhala Music Festival, Canada (video)

• Ecstatic Dance Festival, Greece (video)

• Colibri Spirit Fest, Greece

• Rainbow Gathering, Worldwide (video)

• Bhakti & Shakti Fest, California (video)

• Firefly Gathering, North Carolina

• SoulPlay Festival, California (video)

• Arise Festival, Colorado

• Cosmic Convergence Festival, Guatemala

• Healing Turtle Island, Maine

• Daybreaker, Worldwide

Communication / Relationships

• https://festivalsandretreats.com/even-more/ 

• Regional Burns

• Authentic Relating

• ISTA

• Dance

• Contact Improv

Thinking

• Microsolidarity

• Thread by Rich Bartlett

• https://twitter.com/RichDecibels/status/1597294708010934274 

BY LOCATION

USA 

California

• The Neighborhood SF (see The Commons — “A fourth place dedicated to meaning-making, personal growth, and self-expression in community in the heart of San Francisco”)

• Esalen Institute

• New Yorker article about it

San Francisco

• https://archive.house/ — Big techie house in SF (~15ppl)

• OAK

• FB post about it

Tribe SF — https://www.tribecoliving.com/ 

Spirit Rock Meditation Center — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_Rock_Meditation_Center 

https://www.instagram.com/spirit_rock/ 

New Hampshire

Natural Dharma Fellowship

New York

• Fractal — https://fractalnyc.com/

• The Neighborhood NYC (See “Fractal University — “Aim[s] to democratize enjoyable, community education and public research culture by creating an easily replicable model for a decentralized university — and the economic, social, and creative opportunities they create”)

Oregan

Mt Caz Ranger Clubhouse

Renegade community art and cultural space. The residents and creatures of Mt Caz in Corvallis, Oregon welcome you to explore the grounds within

Pennsylvania

EA / Rationalist group house with focus on healthy community

Virginia

https://www.twinoaks.org — Intentional community in rural central Virginia. ~90 adult members + 15 children. Est.196. Values cooperation, sharing, nonviolence, equality, and ecology. Can schedule visit

UK

• https://newspeak.house/ - Communities focus — London — 7 people

• https://eahotel.org/ - Blackpool — 14 bedrooms + next door from 2023/2024 (for people working on projects related to the Effective Altruism community)

• https://www.findhorn.org/ (Near Inverness, Scotland)

• Ark, Wembley — “A place you can feel at home. Relax, host, work, all under one roof. Fully furnished studios for flexible stays with access to a state-of-the-art gym, wellness studio, rooftop terrace with 360-degree views and multiple workspaces.”

• &Soul, Southall, London

• Selgar’s Mill

• www.braziers.org.uk 

• https://www.thecollective.com/locations/old-oak 

Europe

Bulgaria

Future Thinkers

FB group

Other FB group

Building more capacity for the real world. 

Community component - visiting thinkers and scien

Spaces used as “consciousness trip wires”

VR rooms

Floatation tanks

Meditation center

Courses

Seminars

Weekend and weeklong and 3 month retreats

CoWorking

Cognitive Operating System Upgrade

Practical Applications Of Sovereignty And Shadow Work

Practicing Collective Intelligence

France

• Cultural Catalyst Network — The thing Johnson did in Bergerac. Train for 1 week then live together for 3 months, France

• Life Itself

Germany

• ???

Greece

• https://www.oshoafroz.com/ 

Italy

• Damanhur

Portugal

• Traditional Dream Factory is a creative coliving in rural Alentejo, Portugal

• The pink paper

• https://www.tamera.org/

• https://www.facebook.com/groups/consciousalgarve/ 

• House of the Rising Mojo

• https://newlifeportugal.com/ (Tamas’s place)

• The Garden 

• Ananda Kalyani — “Integrative Development Project and Spiritually Based Community in Central Portugal”

• Quinta Fonte dos Passos —Contact Improvisation community — A community farm for life of creative action. Combined with nature, development and deepening in contact improvisation dance

• Goia Portugal — A humble homestead in front of the Portuguese mountains with animals and multidimensional humans

Spain

• Casa Tilo (Microsolidarity hub) — Casa Tilo

• https://thehum.org/ (A hub for our network of networks: The Hum, Microsolidarity, Enspiral, TPOT, and more)

Sweden

Ängsbacka, Sweden — courses and festivals centre in Sweden

Lithuania

Užupis

http://www.vilnius-tourism.lt/en/what-to-see/vilnius-for-you/for-art-lovers/republic-of-uzupis/

Denmark

Christiania — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania

Spain

Marinaleda

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/marinaleda-spanish-communist-village-utopia

Sende (Spain)

• https://www.sende.co/

• https://www.facebook.com/Senderiz/community   

Nine Coliving (Tenerife)

• https://www.ninecoliving.com/ 

Sun and Co

• https://sun-and-co.com/ (Alicante, Spain)

Africa

Morocco 

Sundesk

• https://www.sun-desk.com/ (Taghazout) 

Asia

India

• Auroville

• Osho Meditation Resort, Pune

Philippines

MAIA Earth Village — Facebook page

Bali 

Nuanu Creative City

Latin America

Puerto Rico

Skyway home — Alton

Peru

Hare Krishna

Global

Intentional communities directory — https://www.ic.org/directory/

Rainbow Gathering

Psytrance party circuit - Many “psytrance” groups on FB (some location specific)

http://newstoryhub.com/resources/projects/

• Cohousing

Online / Global Networks

Impact

• Game B

• https://www.facebook.com/groups/gamebcore/

• https://twitter.com/GameBInsights

• Sensemaking

• Diagram of sensemaking web

• Rebel Wisdom

• Foresight Institute

• https://foresight.org/existential-hope/

• The New Modality (experiments in culture)

• http://thenewmodality.com/about/

• Existential Hope (a project of the Foresight Institute)

• https://www.existentialhope.com/about 

HOUSING MATERIALS, RESOURCES ETC

• Shiftpods

• Domes

• Dome homes with prices

• Articles

• Sara’s post on communities

• DAOs

• David Spinks’ tweetstorms on DAOs

RESOURCES

Lists

• https://tuckerwalsh.medium.com/transformational-communities-cd9e41053423 (copied and pasted at bottom of this doc, just in case)

• WorkAways

• WOOFing

• Meditation communities

• Ollie’s post on EA forum

• https://www.dharma.org/resources/meditation-centers-and-communities/

• https://plumvillage.org/community/international-sangha-directory/

• https://thebuddhistcentre.com/text/maps 

• https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/index

• https://www.monasticacademy.com/ (US$3k/month)

• Life Itself (~30min drive from Plum Village)

• In person cohort fellowships

• https://www.polaris-fellowship.com/ 

Resources & Inspiration

• Onwards to Utopia: How to Create Intentional Living Communities ($22) by Sara Ness

• A Collective Blooming by Joe Lightfoot

• Microsolidarity

• Enspiral

• Karl Steyaert: community catalyst

• Recapture the Rapture by Jamie Wheal

• Belong by Radha Agrawal

• Tribe by Sebastian Junger

• Lost Connections by Johann Hari

• Belonging by Toko-pa Turner

• The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace by M. Scott Peck

• Designing Regenerative Cultures by Daniel Christian Wahl

• The Turquoise Brick Road by Rhys Marc Photis

• Transition Network

• Possibility Now! Podcast

• Terrenity “A Dreamer’s Guide to Ecovillages”

• NuMundo

• Foundation for Intentional Community

• Global Ecovillage Network

• Ecoversities

Video

Arram on the Today show — EA Tech CEO lives with 15 roommates

Twitter interview with guy who lived in long-term successful intentional community

My interviews about communities, loneliness and connection

Posts

• https://simmosimpson.substack.com/p/finding-self-sovereignty

• Community Houses Substack

• https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/style/modern-love-we-needed-more-significant-others.html

• https://mobile.twitter.com/dickiebush/status/1301241480762339331

• https://twitter.com/utotranslucence/status/1377732421307666432

• https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/prospectus-on-prospera

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_design

• https://www.microsolidarity.cc/

Movies etc

http://newstoryhub.com/film/watch/

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