Welcome
Punta Mona is an 85-acre organic farm, a Community and Center for Sustainable Living and Education located on the southern Caribbean coast of Costa Rica.
FALL COURSE : November 8- 22 - Punta Mona and Eco Villa Kopali/ Tacotal Community in San Mateo de Orotina Plant Medicine Journey: Sacred Plant Medicines of the Rainforest * Each course will focus on the ecology, history, and ethnobotany of culturally significant tropical plants, hands on medicine making, and an experiential process of forming relationships with the plant spirits of the rainforest. * Explore plants such as Cacao, Hibiscus, Guarana, Passionflower, Ginger, Coffee, Yerba Mate, Coconut, Plumeria, Tilo, Guava, Sugar Cane, Noni, Bitter Melon, Tea Tree, Galangal, Citrus, Jackass bitters, Cinnamon, Sarsaparilla, Nutmeg, and many others. * Courses will be a combination of rainforest plant walks, medicine making, plant spirit journeys, explorations in ethnobotany, and connecting to the history, culture, and spirits of Meso/Central America. Healing journeys with the ocean and rainforest will be a part each course, as well as exploring the deep history and spirit held in the land of Meso/Central America Course Fee: $650-850 sliding scale, for course, 3 organic meals per day, lodging, yoga & other activities Course taught in English with Spanish Translation Course taught by: Sage L. Maurer Sage lived in Oahu, Hawaii studying anthropology, ethnobotany, and Hawaiian herbal healing. During her time in Hawaii, she experienced the healing power of Pele and Hawaii's native plants, while journeying through the medicine and spirit of the island's rainforests. Sage is currently teaching in Southern Vermont and Boston, Massachusetts, where she offers apprenticeships and workshops throughout the year. Trained in The Wise Woman Tradition of herbal healing, anthropology and ethnobotany, she seeks to help reawaken our ancient memory of healing with plants, and renew our connection to the earth. Sage is devoted to changing the way natural and alternative health care is provided, and reawaken the earth-honoring traditions of the past. Please reserve your space at contact@puntamona.org or go to www.thegreenwoman.com PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSES
$1295: includes course work, Certificate, lodging and 3 organic meals per day
For more info or to reserve your space please email: contact@puntamona.org
Shamanic Herbalist, Plant Spirit Medicine Practitioner, Deep Ecologist, Artist
Our mission at Punta Mona is to expose all people who come to the farm to the ideals of Permaculture and educate about sustainability. Punta Mona does this while living sustainably, off the grid and communally. The ideals of sustainability, conservation of energy and reduction of waste permeate our everyday lives. Our houses are built from local, fallen trees, solar panels provide our electricity, we compost our leftover food, make our own dirt and our chickens provide eggs for us to eat. To support our diet and local communities, we grow over 100 tropical fruits, vegetables, herbs, medicinal plants and shop locally. Our washing and drinking water is collected rainwater from our water-catchment system.
In addition to living as sustainably as possible, we are dedicated to teaching environmental awareness and consciousness. As such, we invite new people to come to our community, whether as part of an educational or retreat group, as an intern, or just as a guest for a few nights. Here, you get to be immersed in a sustainable-living, energy-conscious, off the grid experience, complete with composting toilets, hand powered grinders, extremely loud howler monkeys and a complete lack of any extraneous noise. Where else could you experience a power outage from leaving a light on or have entertainment consist of dancing around the fire and taking mud baths in the nearby river? We believe Punta Mona is a unique place and one that has much to teach about the things we take for granted, the power of community and shared intention and the beauty of living a simple, unplugged life. As such Punta Mona's door is always open to those who wish to contribute to the farm, experience a new way of life and catch a glimpse of our beautiful jungle farm and community.
Our website contains a wealth of information about Punta Mona and how you and others can join our community– we encourage you to explore it. We invite you to immerse yourself in a community working in harmony with nature.
Con paz and lots of love,
The Punta Mona Team
You can email us at contact@puntamona.org
Also you can check out a few videos of Punta Mona on YouTube (links below)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7Gg1Ds6hlk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvi0fZhRnuw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbuIdQA-BE4
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