25th May – 28th May 2018
Experience community and sustainable living through sharing skills, creativity and celebration at the Gaia Tribe Summer Camp.
We are now in our 13th Year of beautiful, solar powered summer camps, and we felt it was time to shake things up a bit. This year we are going back to our roots, to those early days of long weekend camps. The idea is to shake things up a bit, make it more accessible in terms of budget and time, to still have many of the wonderful activities and workshops but with more space and time to reconnect with the land and with each other.
Many favourite activities will still be on offer, such as: dancing, singing, drumming, music, games, creative arts, circus skills, drama, discussion groups, meditation and yoga., storytelling. There will be a range of activities for the children, a teen zone and a creche.
More news to follow about the content, but here’s what a typical day would look like:
- Start the day with Yoga, Taize devotional Singing, or Meditation
Or Bake fresh bread
Participate in the main morning workshop:
Dancing and Drumming, Singing, Movement Medicine
or one of the other workshops happening around the camp:
Green Woodworking and Wild Craft
Pottery and making a kiln
Arts and Crafts
Drama and performance
Circus skills, ‘ The Gaia Games’
Lunch: enjoy some wholesome soup, salad and fresh baked bread in the PeaceCake Café
After lunch: more workshops, camp market, Healing area, Sun and Moon Lodges, a massage in the Healing Tent
a walk up to Roseberry Topping…….
Evening meal: either round your own fire circle or in the café
Into the evening: Story telling: tales of magic and mystery
nurturing time, Eco Cinema , singing, Scratch Band
A Caleidh, Silent Disco, and Drumming round the central fire, a Cabaret, a late night sauna and swim
or simply do your own thing……….
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, a wood-burning sauna, 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.
