Community Experience
Join us for a short-term immersion in community living
Join our community
15th to 25th July 2026
Later dates:
30th Sept to 6th Oct
9th to 15th Dec
What does it mean?
Curious about community living? Come experience it with us!
Join us for 5 to 11 days to connect with wonderful people, nurture your creativity, co-create, and immerse yourself in beautiful nature. Responding to wide interest, we wish to offer an opportunity to get a taste of SerVivo’s community life — we’re opening our doors and hearts to welcome you into our shared rhythm.
What will you do here:
- One free, pre-organised activity each day — such as meditation, contemplative dance, nature-based practices, heart-sharing, or bodywork and massage.
- The chance to join our regular classes, such as CI Class and Jam, Ceramics and Glass-fusing (see the calendar for details).
- A daily dance and morning circle and check-in to ground and connect.
- A welcoming space to share your own gifts — offer workshops, lead a practice, or try out something you’ve always wanted to facilitate on a gift basis (no fees).
- Daily participation in community life: cook meals, tend the garden, and help nurture our shared space.
- Plenty of time to relax, enjoy the natural beauty of Arrábida Natural Park, or unwind by the sea.
Whether you’ve visited us before, you are simply curious or actively seeking a deeper connection with the community, we are excited to have you with us!
Co-Creation
At SerVivo Community Experience, co-creation means bringing your unique gifts, creativity, and energy to nurture togetherness and build a community. Freedom and responsibility go hand in hand here – we each take care of shared spaces, support each other, and contribute to the ecosystem we grow together.
Think of it as a garden. We, as SerVivo, provide the fertile soil, guidance, and care based on our experience, but your seeds – your ideas, talents, and initiative – are what make it flourish into a diverse, vibrant space. Together, we cultivate something beautiful that could never grow alone.
In practice, co-creation is about living, playing and working together in a caring environment. Everyone will be asked to contribute to the practical aspects of community life — from tidying common areas and washing dishes to cooking.
We also invite you to share your unique creative gifts. Lead a workshop, offer a practice, or try something you’ve always wanted to facilitate — all on a gift basis, free from fees. Every contribution enriches the community and inspires connection.
Arrival
Take a note of the arrival dates for the upcoming editions of Community Experience:
- First edition (two arrival dates):
-> 15th July, 4:30 – 6:30 pm
-> 20th July, 4:30 – 6:30 pm - Second edition:
-> 30th September, 4:30 – 6:30 pm - Third edition:
-> 9th December, 4:30 – 6:30 pm
To support a strong group dynamic and offer you the best welcome, arrivals are only possible on these dates. The welcoming circle will happen at 8 pm on each of the arrival days, so please make sure to arrive within specified hours (4:30-6:30 pm).
We recommend staying for the whole time to have a truly immersive and bonding experience. If that’s not possible, feel free to get in touch — we’ll do our best to accommodate you, depending on availability. Priority will go to those staying for the whole duration.
You’ll find detailed directions, how to get to SerVivo on our website:
www.servivo.earth/directions
Moreover, once you register, you’ll receive a link to a WhatsApp group where you can connect with other participants and arrange ride-shares. We also can offer a pickup service from Palmela (with prior booking via email) for a small fee of 5€.
Kitchen
And of course extremely important: our vegetarian communal kitchen. It’s a well-equipped room where all the nutritious magic happens. We arrange communal, contribution based, food shopping which covers the basics like fruit, veg, grains and legumes. We mostly eat organic, vegan and gluten free to favour as many people as possible but accept other dietary preferences too. Please discuss this with the team before your arrival. As a community we tend to cook and eat at least one meal a day together; in the mornings and evenings we cook individually but often find ourselves eating at the same time.
Private food can be purchased from local shops in Palmela (20 min. by bicycle) and stored in an indicated private box too.
Accomodation
We offer visitors and people attending our events a bunk-bed dorm. Consisting of two connecting rooms, simple but warmly decorated, with 7 and 8 beds in each.
There’s limited private accommodation available for visitors including our ‘sunset’ room, located at the back of the main house. This room gained its name from the gorgeous view of the evening sunset, in the warmer months.
As well as this we can offer private vans and caravans located near the main house and often available is a space for personal tents around our land.
For all availability and contribution enquiries please contact us via email.
Spaces
Beside the main entrance is a cosy quiet room which is the perfect cave for your rituals, reading or taking mid-day naps! On the other side of the wall is a large living room where you’ll find even more space for relaxation, reading, meeting others or simply, at least in winter, staring in the fire of the wood stove.
We have two large bookshelves with plenty of material in various languages and topics for your entertainment and education. There’s a small ‘free shop’ where you can leave your old clothes and allow them a new life with another owner and if you find something you like, give life to a piece somebody else left behind. There are also some craft materials available around the place if you are feeling creative.
Through large sliding doors is our beautiful studio. We hold weekly classes and outside of class hours it’s open for your free use. You can borrow our yoga mats for stretching and exercising or plug into the speakers and dance away! Our healing room is also available for use; treatments can be arranged through the therapitsts/practitioners directly.
Prices
Accommodation (per night)
Min. stay is 4 nights / 5 days
If you are facing financial hardships, you can pay up to 5€ less per night.
If you can support others, please pay up to 5€ more per night.
Private room
40€
Shared dormitory
30€
Tent from SerVivo
28€
Own van/tent
25€
Food
Per week
40€
Per day
10€
Per meal
5€
Other Costs
These activities are not included in the price of the Community Experience, but have special prices:
- Weekly Contact Improvisation class (5-15€ sliding scale)
- Weekly Contact Improvisation jam (5-10€ sliding scale)
- Ceramics and Glass Fusing (from 15-….)
- Contact Improvisation day (class 10-30€, jam 8-20€)
