The Terra Livha project is an eco-village in the making located in southern Portugal, born of a vision that appeared to Quentin during a meditation in early 2017, on the banks of a river in the mountains of southern Spain.

“A land where everyone can live happily, consciously and in harmony with each other and with nature.”

With enthusiasm and a sense of alignment, other beings joined him through this vision that also became meaningful in their hearts. A very broad and complete project quickly emerged, in which we invested our efforts and energy to bring to life. There are some of the key aspects that we believe are essential to the success of this project, and that, in some way, describe this future eco-village. Those are:

• Inner foundations:

From the experience of existing eco-village projects, we all know that the most difficult task is not exactly building a house, or, for example, managing a self-sufficient food system. The hardest thing to manage is the human factor.

This is what we like to call the inner foundations. It is first needed to build oneself inside, to genuinely get to know ourselves, before imagining being able to live together in harmony with other people in the same place, on the same land. This is what we call the inner foundations.

This project is inspired by the spiritual values shared by Quentin, which are of cultivating an open heart and consciousness so that we can live in harmony with ourselves and, just after, with everyone around us.

By building this stable inner foundation, 80 to 90% of the success of such a project has already been achieved.

• A concrete, well-grounded vision:

While it’s essential that this kind of project is based on an inner process of openness, and raising consciousness, we also want it to be a living experience that balances “Heaven and Earth”.

In other words, we don’t want to be neither at one extreme of the “hippie” style, rejecting entirely the system, without questioning it, nor at the other extreme, too materialistic, seeing money for money’s sake.

So, we are working with local entities, to try to be part of an evolution in favour of creating, developing, and supporting more ecovillages, collective and social projects.

• Co-create, share, redistribute, pass on:

The eco-village is also seen as an open-air laboratory. We would like to share and pass on what we’ve learned, experienced and know about living together, personal and collective fulfillment, permaculture, ecology, ecological construction, water and energy resources management, etc.

We want it to be a place where everyone can find their own place and develop their individual skills and qualities, while strengthening and growing the collective.

In our view, the only way to live in harmony together and move towards a more conscious society is to create harmony within the collective, by actively listening, and opening our hearts and minds to the needs and aspirations of every being who is part of it. That starts, of course, by creating that openness in ourselves and listening to what makes us truly happy, so that we can welcome others.

To find out more, please visit the Terra Livha project website.