About the Hub
The Praxis hub space offers a conscious community experience exploring the “in between” the intentional community concept and the monastic way of life in a secular frame. We engage for community but still protecting our individuals needs.
WHAT ? : The residencies are an invitation to focus on one's own inquiries, food, and deep adaptative process while engaging in collective subject within conscious community practices held by a lightweight developmental frame. .
HOW MUCH? The monthly cost ranges between 450 to 950 euros depending on the room, plus 10 euros / day for food and amenities. Possibility to stay from 1 week .
Please check the rooms and price here
FOR WHOM? we welcome all system-thinkers, researchers, cooks, spiritual ecologists, bodhisattvas, peace makers, symbiotic entrepreneurs, poets, painters, eco-dharmists - any people ready to just be with what comes and welcome dancing within complexity.
The dynamic structure of our residencies :
In our mid-term residency ( 3 months) , participants arrive with a project or a question and explore it while being part of a systemic collective body. Every day, residents are supported by an invisible framework based on Minimum Viable Practices (MVPs): shared cooking, silent meditation, housecleaning, and garden care, all of which help us navigate our emotions in a dynamic way. During the evenings, participants can share, test their practices within the group, and explore new ones. Evenings are a blend of circling or simply unwinding, with a core circle where we can engage in deeper check-ins.
Instead of following a strict program of knowledge , it creates space to listen to what collective wants to emerge. On the way , feeling the rythm of a community and observes how the system adapts to what unfolds, light or shadow.
The space for each to do their own remote work within a lightweight developmental "frame".
Building upon previous residencies, where themes like contemplative activism, eco-spirituality, interbeing, collective intelligence were explored, the practices we engage in are designed to inspire a compassionate lifestyle, ecological balance, and a shift from individual isolation to a sense of supportive community.
Schedule (indicative and will change in august with one hour later start):
7-8 am: just sitting in Dojo
8-9 am: buffet breakfast
9-10 am: collective care for cooking, cleaning, gardening
10 am-1 pm: own time
1-2 pm: buffet lunch and dishes
2-6:30pm: own time
6:30-7:30 pm: sitting dinner and dishes
8pm: optional evening activity with 1 mandatory heart core circle.
Besides the daily structure, we have evening sesions where participants may offer their own sessions to other residents.
Regarding cooking we are on a plant based diet during the week cooked by the group with a head chef changing every day. We also have a weekly heart core circle and a weekly organisational Friday lunch to plan weekly roles and sessions.
Weekends don't have any frame. During that time spontanous cooking and eating organisation happens. This is a time that gives opportunity to discover surroundings such as Plum Village or prehistorical caves.
Ideal candidates are those who resonate with these principles and practices, have a project to work on and are ready to explore being community.
The Life Itself Bergerac Praxis Hub is a space where individuals can come together to explore, practice, and embody new ways of being and relating to each other and the world.
It is a space for experimentation, exploration, and learning, where people can engage in self-work, creative work, and spiritual practices within a supportive and structured framework.
This framework combines elements of monastic and secular practices. We believe it can facilitate the development of a new paradigm of living and being, one that is more connected, embodied, and expansive.
To Know more about the hub
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Subscribe to stay connected with us, even when you are not physically present. Join a metamodern community that seeks to transcend idealistic views while actively engaging in change. Be part of the second Renaissance movement and respectfully.
Be part of a network of people interested in discovering what constitutes the “ good life” ( la bonne vie) in a complex world.
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