Community Experience
Join us for a short-term immersion in community living
Join our community from 4th - 15th August
Arrival days: 4th or 10th August
Come and visit our dance, arts and meditation community at SerVivo. (We appreciate if you come for min. 6 days). Our open studio space welcomes you to share.
What to expect?
Curious about community living? Come experience it with us this August at SerVivo!
Join us for 6 to 12 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 movement.
- The chance to join our regular classes (see the calendar for details).
- A daily 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!
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 and is available for one person or a together-travelling couple.
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.
In the main building we have a toilet/laundry room. There are 2 more toilets and shower rooms on the side of the main house accessible through the garden, and 2 compost toilets outside.
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 frequent events which you can get involved in too (contribution based, discounted rates) and outside of class and event 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.
Kitchen
And of course extremely important: our 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.
ArrivaL
For this edition of the Community Experience, there are two arrival dates to choose from:
- Monday, August 4
- Sunday, August 10
To support a strong group dynamic and offer you the best welcome, arrivals are only possible on these two dates.
We recommend staying for at least 6 days (5 nights) to fully immerse yourself in the 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 6 days or more).
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 Telegram 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.
Prices
Accommodation (per night)
Min. stay is 5 nights / 6 days
Private room
35-45€
Shared dormitory
25-35€
Own van/tent
20-30€
Food
Per week
40€
Per day
10€
Per meal
5€
Other Costs
These activities are not included in the price of the Commuinty Experience :
- Weekly Contact Improvisation class
- Weekly Contact Improvisation jam
- Weekly Move Through dance class
- Ceramics and Glass Fusing
- Clowning
- Wheel of consent
The prices for these activities range between 5€ and 20€.
