Namaskar! I loved staying at Ananda Valley, it was a really inspiring experience for me.It was a unique experience, I have never worked on a farm before, at least not like this.I was only there for ten days, but I felt like I fitted in, and was able to play my part.I want to thank …
Dia Internacional do Yoga é comemorado no dia 21 de Junho, data oficializada pela ONU.Esse dia foi escolhido em alusão ao solstício de verão. Neste dia realizam-se diversas acções relacionadas com esta actividade, como aulas ao ar livre e on line. Além disso, vários praticantes reúnem-se para celebrar a data e mostrar um pouco mais …
How to write a “Volunter-Review” about Ananda Valley? That’s a tough one I would say. In my opinion Ananda Valley is a place you need to experience in person to feel and understand it. It is really hard to put the magic and energy this place is radiating into words. But I will do my …
Estamos com saudades de unir nossas culturas e linguagens. E também de sorrisos e abraços.Antes da pandemia tivemos alguns encontros culturais na vila de Paul.Num deles, tivemos uma Adufeira, músicos de Cabo Verde, Portugal, Austrália, França e até um Monge americano a tocar música juntos.Uma junção inimaginável, à qual mais músicos e mais nacionalidades se …
What is it like to volunteer at Ananda Valley? I thought about this question for a couple of days now, and I feel like it‘s almost impossible to answer that question in a satisfying way. Of course I could now tell who I am (Emma, 25, from Germany), how I found this place (workaway), how …
Here, with the spring, the fields have blossomed and so has Lavender. Its flower, which gives colour and smell to our fields, is quite famous all over the world for its immense properties. In Portuguese there are different names according to the types of Lavender. There are the Lavandula species known under the common name …
Bees are very important to mankind. Their greatest importance is not to produce honey and other food. It is the contribution they make to plants all over the world by pollination. Thus they generate a huge natural chain of flora on which life on the planet depends a lot. They play a fundamental role in …
Among the so-called small fruits, raspberry is one of the most cultivated species here in Portugal. And in our farm in Ananda Valley, it was one of the fruits that we started planting from the beginning. Exotics, raspberries have a mixture of acidic and sweet juices. Raspberries are from the rose family, as well as …
My name is Alexandre Seguro and I’m a Portuguese 17-year-old boy finishing high-school in Lisbon. I’ve become more conscious about the world around me in the recent years being concerned about its problems and striving to find and learn effective solutions. In the quest of making sense of my reality I started to question the …
Happy moments for all of us For me it was not just the end of 2018 but the end of living two years abroad – in Portugal and finally in Romania. 2016 I moved from the very very north of Finland (Utsjoki) to Oijärvi, from there to Espoo (south of Finland) and finally to Portugal, …
