Living Valley present Permaculture Design Course (PDC) in Cabella

Living Valley – Cabella Eco-Skills & Meditation Centre, Cabella

“….when Adi Shakti started working on this Mother Earth. The first thing is we must know, that she created a Kundalini in the Mother Earth itself and She created Shri Ganesha out of the Mother Earth, it’s very interesting. So the Mother Earth becomes a very important thing for us. If we do not know how to respect the Mother Earth, we do not know how to respect ourselves.”
(Adi Shakti puja, 1997.5.25)

Dearest Brothers and Sisters,

Some of you may remember last year’s launch of the Cabella Living Valley project, which aims to bring together a beautiful marriage of Sahaj principles and ecologically sustainable agriculture and lifestyle.

The idea is for those who are interested to help lead a change in the world, where Divine vibrations combine with permaculture design and other eco practices.

To this end we are delighted to announce a very special Permaculture Design Course (PDC) to be held in Cabella on:

June 13th to June 25th 2017.

The course will be held by renowned permaculturists John Button and Francesca Simonetti of the www.naturedesignsjohnfranci.com   (in English)

The PDC is a world renowned ecological course which is recognised everywhere as one of the most powerful and comprehensive ways to learn about sustainable agriculture and lifestyles. Contrary to many myths, it is not just a ‘gardening’ course, but instead looks deeply at the concept of living with nature in a holistic and very practical way. In the course we will:

* Learn about the 9 methods of bio-region design
* The critical importance of water and how to optimise its usefulness
* Rehabilitation of degraded soil
* Integrated ‘pest’ management

...and much much more

The course offers an excellent foundation for anyone who is seriously interested in food production, living with nature and ecological livelihoods, and is especially important as we move through a time of increasing climate uncertainty.

The 12 day course will be centred at Centrassi Villa, and all attendees will obtain an official Permaculture Design Course Certificate at the end of the time. The full course costs are:

€ 400 per head for sahaja yogis
€ 550 per head for non sahaja yogis

We would also like to offer course sponsorship for 3 refugees, as well as 2 yuva shakti, depending on need.

Accommodation is available for 13 days at Centrassi Villa for €15 per night, with food only at €10 per day.

Work days will include theoretical study in Centrassi Villa, plus site visits and study on the land at Mulino and the land adjacent to the Castle.

The object will be to apply the lessons of the course to our very own Sahaj land as a primary goal for the future.

Spaces unfortunately are very limited due to the number of people that can be taught at one time, so preference will be given on a first come first served basis. In other words, apply immediately to ezio.prandini@sahajaworldfoundation.org

THE PROGRESS OF THE FIELD OF WHEAT

THE PROGRESS OF THE FIELD OF WHEAT

This is a selection of pics taken during the year until now, it is nearly ready!

It's winter time in Val Borbera...

time to rest and... meditate

Sowing the field with the children

Finally a greenteam's dream come true!
On the hillside where will be built the next Camping we have many field.
In the meantime we decided to sow some wheat. We went to our friend Giuseppe Oglio, a farmer and seed saver, asking him some old seeds. As he knew we wanted to do a festival of sowing with our kids, he made a gift to us of 30kg of "senatore capelli" an ancient quality of local seed. We wanted to sow in a natural way, we ask a local farmer to plough only a little bit the soil, not more than 15cm.

Shri Bhoomi Devi Puja at the Castle

In the 9 of april the we performed a Shri Bhoomi Devi Puja in the ground in front of the Castle. It was an auspicious occasion for to praise Mother Earth and announce the work of the Green team to the international Sangha, as for go and browse in the garden around and have inspirations.
JSM and let's follow the Green team!!!

Let's design the green!

Palazzo Doria Gardens

Dear green,

Over the last few months we have had the opportunity to meet in Cabella and to develop some ideas about the restyling of the gardens around the Castle.

Individually we have lots of ideas, but our desire is to develop projects collectively as a Sangha. We would, therefore, like to invite anyone who wants to share their ideas, projects and commitment to kindly fill in this form and send it to us before the end of February. We plan to hold a practical seminar in March in which we can start work for the Spring.

Let’s work togehter to create an Eden around the abode of the Devi.

JSM
Green Team of Cabella

Snow in Cabella

Look at the Snow in Cabella!!! Wonderful Pics from Valerio.

the Forest Game

Today was raining in Cabella, and the Green team lead a game called: "the Forest Game".
We ask to the children to chose one living being both from vegetal than animal world, to be represented. All of them chosen to be trees, squirrel, fox, frog etc. Than we gave to the first child, the tree, to start the story with a rope in the hand. "I am the tree and I like the birds on my branches" and passed the rope to the child/bird, that continued the story, making a nice tale. All of them was part of the tale and passing the rope among them they create a strong net. When all the children was connected with the rope, they all felt to be one, part of the same system, and that system very strong. They could feel themselves through the net connection, as an experience. Than we start rewinding the tale, saying "now we cut the tree", and the child/tree left the rope, than the bird, and all the others one by one. They could feel the system became weaker and weaker. At the end all of them was on the ground and we finish the game. But they could feel that a forest is strong when all the part of it are healthy and strong, and they all are needed as a part of the all. And the forest is an example of Mother Nature.

The Gardening Class

The Green Team has been invited by the principle of the Cabella Sahaj School to lead a Class of gardening to the children. This gave us a great pleasure and a great responsibility because we feel very important that our little angels grown up with consciousness about our Mother Earth. So thank to the fact that aunty Senny, who is teaching nature in the Dharamsala School, was in Italy for some time, we made a program and we start to have class with the little (class1, 2 and 3) at the green areas around the Castle, every saturday. It was very touching have such group of angels, and teach them about Mother Earth, about the soil, about what is inside the ground, starting from the living principle of Shri Bhoomi Devi. They were very attentive and very happy to stay in the outdoor, touching the earth with their own little hands, and they felt the vibration of the ground. We are very happy too, and let's pray our humble contribute can help in grow this new generation of human being with an higher awareness of our environment and ourselves as a part of Mother Earth.
JSM

The Green Team organize the second course of self building to complete the straw ball house, before the winter time. We will finish the walls, put the window and build the roof.
Who is willing to participate should contact Michele 3355330463 or Enrico 3356467620.
The course will start after the Navaratri, on monday.
We will have a lot of fun!!!

Great success in the clean the Borbera River with the children of the school

The Green Team invited the children of the Sahaj School in Cabella to the Italian version of the international event "clean the world", named "Puliamo il Mondo". Together with the people of the local community we will clean the Borbera River from the village of Cabella to Rocchetta. At the Hangar we will separate the rubbish in different boxes and we will enjoy the organic fruit juis of Michele!
www.puliamoilmondo.it

the house of straw bales

A self organizing course to learn how to build a straw bales house has been lead by Michele.

Enjoy the video of the house of straw bales that the Green Team built in one week before Ganesha Puja in Cabella.

Evolution of the Green team

Evolution of the Green team

On an international level within our sanga there has been a move to creating a Green team, this is seen as our outer movement for social, cultural and environmental security. Expression and understanding within sahaja yoga of what can be seen as inner resources or inviroment has been in progress for over 40 years, now we are becoming known as the yogis that bring self development. We provide this in our many systems of expression all of which give people the chance to gain spiritual experience. Nature offers this by providing it's natural capital through it's infinite beauty. As we are nature itself we are at our best when we are in balance with nature through mental, emotional and physical harmony so through development in ourselves we have come across different systems to fix the world. We know through meditation and getting into the sahasra we gain connection to the universal mother and our true nature is not just found but the whole universe starts working out through our harmony. 

Are there other ways we can find the seekers of Truth.

Now the Green team has been working extensively to bring together ways that without pain or insecurity we can share our skills to build a sustainable future thats gives us a chance to not just help on a social and environmental level but bring in the seekers of truth, many of these seekers have been bringing benefits to others similar to what sahaja yogis bring to the world. Through raising  the vibrations of this world to levels we truly understand but that gets lost in translation. There are so many great people in this world who are not ready to come into the inner ring of Sahaj to work with us, but  just like us they have found ways to help the world and many are one with mother and doing great work but they don't know how to found the sahaja yoga family. Humans look at things on face value most of the time and many are so business they miss out and never come to a meeting due to not needing to. We are founding that as we grow in Sahaj our real strong brothers and sisters in this world are not in such need of finding out about the technics of sahaja. Maybe we still need to find the right approach, if we did they would be the first to say "what great work sahaja yoga has done in pulling together such a family"

What does the Green team mean 

Green = Eco. Eco = Sahaj. Green sahaj is the outer expression of the inner development that Sahaja yoga brings to this world. The Green team is made up of a small team who understands sustainable systems that bring together ethical structures to help on many levels from health to education from all areas of social and environmental values. The goals are to found ways to share skills, create opportunities to work in teams for our outer expression and to social network with our family, and to be more away of caring for the needs of others, species of the world and the environment. Sustainability is a complex area to bring through to sahaja yoga as it is used by everyone in the world now. we need to talk about it as it is part of the way we deal with our transition. There is a Transitional period we need to go through and this is a great chance for us to be more collective and share out knowledge and skills. No world groups has such human resource, such cultural heritage, such a perfect gender imbalance to learn to respect and 110 different countries with a number of different backgrounds to work with. 

Where does this start and who can help

If there was a list of the human capital needed in building a green team the list would go off the page, what is important though is to understand that there is room for an ever-evolving  growth. We intend to take this chance to offer theses who relate to this field to put themselves forward, to help in the steps for us to start being more pro active in the area of social ane environmental and sustainable development. All of this work is close to starting a sustainable business but will be dealing with how we can be more efficient and will include ways we can gain finance from grants given to social groups who's aims provide human well being. There is a wall of money out there for groups like ours. One way we can get funding to build and grow

in our standards we need to build more professional groups and through the green team we can advice of how to run an ethical green community enterprise where funding will go back into the development of the project. The green team can advice groups into how to go about presenting projects and services, but we could also do with additional consultancy in social enterprises, charity and community work.

Our first projects

Any normal non-profit organisation needs to be self financing and the whole of sahaja yoga knows that Cabella needs a lot of income to keep it running. So as one of the first Green team projects we have been given advice from sahaj yogis who are specialists in renewable energy and energy efficiency, and we have manage to found a yogi from austria who 

will be running an education-led workshop providing knowledge in the more know field of sustainability know at solar power. The course will provide green job skills in solar, Plumbing and  some electric skills. This will be firstly offered to Yuva Shaktis and we hope that parents will be very supportive in this as the workshop will have at least 1 hour a day study as well as  whole day of practical. This level of course will be offered with a certificate through the foundation and all profits will go back into building a green valley. Once this system is up and running (Give further details of the system) it will be the first steps towards a self sufficient Cabella. This transitional period is being used throughout the world and we are lucky to be able to share our skills and provide a detailed video  with certificate to those who come along to the workshop. We will aim to continue to develop additional ways we can offer such workshops and wish to work with other yogis who might wish to offer such course.