Our community is a “pop up” that currently only happens Jan/Feb of each year.

There’s not yet formal website … as it’s been mainly a “friends and friends of friends” event up until this point. But the group is expanding to more weeks to accommodate others that may want to join us.

Here are a few details: This trip is set-up like a “village” where kids are in an educational program for 6 hours per day from Mon-Thurs, with additional childcare available afterwards. The lead teacher is an An American woman name Leah Seagraves who is Waldorf-trained teacher with years of teaching experience. The second, Tahlia, who works with the older kids, is also American and is Montessori trained. Assistant teachers are locals from Mexico.

Parents have “free time” most of the day, and the majority of the parents are doing online work during the day, scattered with time at the beach, surfing, going to the small local town for meals, shopping, local live music or spa services.

Families are all living in the same hacienda, with rooms that are all side by side in a long line around an outdoor corridor… surrounding a pool and a little yoga bungalow. The hacienda is right across the street from the beach.

The village provides 3 meals a day that are prepared in an outdoor shared kitchen. There are also weekly activities each week. There is usually a “heart share” circle for parents one night per week, and usually one other activity, in addition to yoga a few mornings per week and an onsite massage therapist (people pay for this service separately). Past examples of weekly events include a pool party, salsa dancing lessons, music jam session, family dance party. Participants have also organized their own offerings including mastermind circles, men’s circles and women’s circles.

Each weekend we also usually do an optional shared activity. Examples include an excursion to a nearby beach with lunch, hike to a big nearby cave, paddling in a nearby estuary, day trip to a snorkeling location, participating in community service with a local school where we’ve been offering art, music and English language. A chunk of the group has also taken a shared weekend journey to the colonial mountain town of Patzcuaro (a several hour drive, where folks also stayed a few nights).

Below is an informal video that gives you a bit of a sense of the community: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J-lJwJ3OCc