26th May – 31st May 2017
Experience Community and Sustainable Living through sharing skills, creativity and celebration at Gaia Tribe. We are now in our 12th Year of beautiful, solar powered summer camps.
Workshops leading into discussion groups, heart space, green living skills and healing. A permaculture zone with eco cinema, drumming, singing, dancing, games, creative arts, circus skills, drama and performance culminating in the Cabaret! Lots of activities for children, men’s and women’s spaces, saunas and hot showers.
These are some of the activities we offer at this year’s Gaia Tribe Summer Wildcraft Camp:
Start the day with Yoga, Taize Singing, Qi Gong, Meditation or baking fresh bread. This leads into the morning sessions.
Participate in one of the morning workshops. Salsa with Claudia Nye and Biodanza with Noel Watkins, Drumming with Colin, Singing with Kate Howard, Green woodworking, Wildcraft, Arts and Crafts, Pottery, Felt making, Drama and performance. A Council of All Beings, Circus skills, Permaculture, Alternative Energy. Discussion groups on: fracking, building sustainable culture, sharing our stories, the work that reconnects and more. .
Lunch: enjoy wholesome food including soups, salads and fresh baked bread in the PeaceCake Cafe.
In the afternoon: camp market, healing work, Wild food and Medicinal Herb Walks including making ointments. Also in the afternoon there will be Sun and Moon Lodges and a Well Being Area.
Evening meal: around your own fire circle or in the PeaceCake Cafe.
Into the evening: Story telling: tales of magic and mystery, nurturing time, Eco Cinema, Singing, Scratch Band, Salsa, Silent Disco, and Drumming round a central fire, a Cabaret on Tuesday night, a late night sauna and swim or simply do your own thing …
Teens Activities: Body Percussion Street Dance, Silent Disco plus Film making
For the children: Baking Gingerbread, Drama, plus lots more fun and games
Dedicated space with arts and crafts for younger ones, toddlers’ crèche, Face Painting.
All set in a beautiful meadow surrounded by mature trees with camping in cosy Fire Circles, stunning traditional canvas marquees, warm cosy spaces, solar energy and LED festoon lighting by Green Dragon, wood-burning sauna and hot showers. Delicious veggie fare in The PeaceCake Cafe.
There is something for everyone, and all ages are welcome. At our camps we offer both dynamic activity and the space to rest and recover from the hectic pace of modern life. You can go at your own pace and choose the degree to which you want to participate in the activities on offer.
The Gaia Tribe was founded by Selma and Chris: We both share a longing for living more sustainably and for building grounded, sacred community. We believe that community offers us the best possible chance to learn the skills needed create a more just and sustainable society. We hope in some small way to recreate a sense of tribal gathering at our camps, to build community through sharing skills, creativity and celebration.
In thinking about how we could build longer term sustainable community, we had an idea that we could begin by offering short term experiences of community. We could bring together what we love to do with what we want to create. We love camping and the opportunity it gives us to slow down and to live life with more simplicity and presence. We love singing and dancing and creating beautiful spaces, but most of all we love bringing people together. We decided the time was right for organising some camps in the North of England.
