Gipsy Chef - Cocinando Tour 2012. Asturias República GastronómicaGipsy Chef - Cocinando Tour 2012. Asturias República Gastronómica

Gipsy Chef – Cocinando Tour 2012. Asturias República Gastronómica

Would you like to participate in the Gipsy Chef Tour around Asturias? It’s Easy! we will be all cooking together surrounded by the stunning Asturian Nature. Cooking the best asturian local products at the producer’s farm. Asturian beef, pork and lamb cooked on a real bonfire, and the best vegetarian...
Sense Experience 2012

Sense Experience 2012

Visit our New Web Site: www.sense-experience.com Transformative Learning through the Senses. In November 2011, a small group of men and women – all having connections with Schumacher College – gathered in Asturias Northern Spain to begin working together through Trans-formative Learning with the aim of addressing the global crisis that...
Los Ciclos de la ComidaThe Way of Food

The Way of Food

Walking, Agriculture and Cooking Hotel Posada del Valle’s Working Community 15th – 20th October In this course participants will live as part of Posada del Valle’s community. Getting involved in the processes and activities that give life to the Organic farm and the kitchen. Learning how to grow and cook...
Los Ciclos de la ComidaThe Way of Food

The Way of Food

This course is open for bookings. Walking, Agriculture and Cooking Hotel Posada del Valle’s Working Community 17 – 23 October or 17 – 29 October In this course participants will live as part of Posada del Valle’s community. Getting involved in the processes and activities that give life to the...
Eco-Workshops GatheringEncuentro de Eco-talleres

Eco-Workshops Gathering

The “Eco-Workshop Gathering” consists of series of four events at different establishments belonging to the Foundation Ecoagroturism and organic farms in Asturias. The event will be held in Spanish.   Four weekends of Eco-workshops that invite you to recreate your senses, reflect and learn by participating. A landscape born of...
"Seguridad Energética" o "Energía sin Miedo""Energy Security" or "Energy without fear"

“Energy Security” or “Energy without fear”

“Energy Security” or “Energy without fear” is a Spanish written essay by Sebastian Burch on the issue of energy, prompted by the fatal tsunami and nuclear accident in Japan earlier this year.
Sobre Paisajes, Bosques y HongosLandscapes, Forests and Fungi

Landscapes, Forests and Fungi

Landscapes, Forest and Fungi is a phenomenological essay written in Spanish by Sebastian Burch, on landscapes, understood as books in which we write and read from, on forests and fungi as complex landscapes that read a story of interconnectedness and flow.
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(Español) Gaia y Sofia Experiencia Ejemplar en el Medio Rural

(Español) Gaia y Sofia Experiencia Ejemplar en el Medio Rural

  Gaia y Sofia ha sido seleccionada en el mes de julio de 2012 como ‘Experiencia Ejemplar en el medio rural’ por la Fundación Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente. Leer el artículo entero
Asturian eARTh

Asturian eARTh

Collagraph Printmaking and Creative Workshops An opportunity to explore printmaking techniques, playing with textures and colors! Collagraph is a basic method of printmaking, using a board with collage materials glued onto it. We will collage all kind of materials, mostly recycled and organic materials, such as recycled cardboard, yarn, old pieces of textiles, leaves, coffee,...
Sensing & Reading Landscapes

Sensing & Reading Landscapes

Exclusive Walkshops for Groups (2 – 6 participants) Sebastian Burch We sense the landscape and the landscape senses us, what are we sharing? When landscapes are felt the same way as friends do, a place is created for us, a friendship with the environment, enjoyment of each others company and free expression of each others...
Drawing and Embracing Nature

Drawing and Embracing Nature

Celebrating our senses! Lidia Fanjul & Gill Coombs 22nd – 27th of October The course is not only about creativity and art, it is also about our insights and facilitating of healing processes by finding our “place”, our “role”, and new ways of expression Whoever is interested in rediscovering their creativity, to feel free and...
Bringing Sustainability "Down to Earth"

Bringing Sustainability “Down to Earth”

Exploring practises that reconnect our inner and outer nature. Yvan Rytz & Rupert Hutchinson 12th – 17th of November This course is suitable for anyone interested in exploring the wider topic of sustainability and practical ways in which to live with awareness and mindfulness on the Earth. Educators and those working with groups (especially outdoors)...
Sensing your Vocation

Sensing your Vocation

Gill Coombs & Sebastian Burch 7th – 12th of November On this inspirational course we’ll explore the notion of vocation, and attempt to answer some of the big questions: why am I here? what is my life all about?   This 6 day programme is for those who would like to feel more fulfilled through...
II Earth Pilgrims Retreat

II Earth Pilgrims Retreat

Celebrating Life as a Sacred Journey Satish Kumar, Sebastian Burch and Hotel Posada del Valle’s Working Community 13rd – 19th April, 2012 A pilgrim is someone who sees life as a sacred journey, who sees the Earth as a sacred home, who sees the universe as a process – Satish Kumar. “Earth Pilgrim” In this...
Good Food for Everyone Forever

Good Food for Everyone Forever

Everyone who is ever likely to be born on to this planet could be fed to the highest standards of nutrition and gastronomy—and this could be done without cruelty, or destroying our fellow creatures. By 2050 we will need to feed 9.5 billion people—which is as big as the world population is ever likely to...
I Earth Pilgrims Retreat

I Earth Pilgrims Retreat

  The Earth Pilgrims Retreat was the first event organized by Gaia y Sofia, and it took place in October 2010, at the Hotel Posada del Valle. It was a retreat of six days, in which participants were able to combine a relaxing holiday enjoying the stunning landscape and nature of Picos de Europa, and...

The Age of Stupid

The Age of Stupid is a Spanish written essay by Sebastian Burch to introduce screening of the film “The Age of Stupid” (2009). The film is a drama-documentary-animation hybrid which stars the late Pete Postlethwaite as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, watching archive footage from the mid-to-late 2000s and asking...