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Govardhan Ecovillage

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About the Communities

  • Established
  • Hindi
  • Ecological
  • Rural

Founding year

  • 2003

What we do

Govardhan Ecovillage established in 2003 spreads in 100+ acres of land in Palghar, India. It is home to 350+ diverse residents as families, students, volunteers & monks. With foundational principle ‘Simple living and high thinking’; community strives to live in harmony with divine, self, nature, community members & neighboring communities.
GEV has modeled Symbiotic Sustainable Development. SSDM models circularity propounded by UNEP. Inspired by Natural systems interconnections, GEV is Sustainable Zero waste community.
GEV houses biodiversity spiritual park replicating holy place Vrindavan from India to promote cultural heritage. The park has water bodies & plants with hundreds of birds & butterflies. GEV is home to 8000 trees & plants belonging to 130+ species.
GEV has platinum rated green buildings built with 400,000 locally made compressed stabilized earth blocks (CSEB). GEV receives 15000+ guests every year in 120 well-furnished eco-friendly guest rooms awarding convenient stay. GEV hosts corporate retreats, school visits and study abroad programs for students.
Immersive activities blend philosophy, music, tours, yoga, ayurveda, sustainability, permaculture, animal care, mindful leadership, philanthropy leaving hearts transformed. Thus, catalyzing social transformation of rural India.
GEV drives 7 categories of rural development programmes in 78 tribal villages impacting over 1.5 million lives. They include eye care for 100,000+ cataract patients and primary health center for all, innovative education for 9000+ students, organic farming techniques for 1300+ farmer, Water resource support for 7000+ communities, entrepreneurial initiatives for 300+ women SHG’s, skills development for 70+ students and forest land cultivation for 50+ landless families.
GEV’s is honored with 34 national & international awards including UNWTO award in 2017 for “Eco Tourism as a catalyst for rural development.” GEV is accredited to ECOSOC and UNEP. GEV contributes to 13 UN SDG’s.

  • Purpose
  • Ecological
  • Languages
  • Hindi
  • English
  • Community type
  • Ecovillage
  • Land-Based Communities
  • Spiritual Retreat Centers
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Commemorative dates

  • January 1, 2003
  • Started living together

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  • India

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Healing Love Healing Money: Trust As The Foundation For A New Culture

Money, love and power are among the hardest things any community works with, and many of us carry the same fears into both: not having enough, losing what we have, and the sense that if someone else gets money or love, we won’t. Healing Love, Healing Money: Trust as the Foundation for a New Culture is taught by two intentional communities. Karen McAllister and Duncan Cryle are from Clear Sky Meditation and Retreat Center, a Buddhist-lineage community in the BC Rockies. Monika Alleweldt and Benjamin von Mendelssohn from Tamera Healing Biotope, a community of about 160 people in southern Portugal that has spent decades studying love, trust and relationship. Clear Sky has spent years working on its relationship with money, and our two communities found surprising parallels in the fears beneath both. Over four sessions we explore the roots of fear around money and belonging, love, possession and power, trust as infrastructure (community as a container for healing), and ethical livelihood. We use short meditations, body-based practices, reflection and small-group conversation. You do not need to be in a romantic relationship or live in community. When: October 27, Nov 3, 10, 17. All four sessions: 12–2pm Vancouver, 1–3pm Alberta, 7–9pm UK and Portugal, 8–10pm Central Europe. Note: US and some Canadian provinces change clocks on November 1, so the US west coast is 12–2pm on October 27, then 11am–1pm for the remaining sessions, and Eastern is 3–5pm on October 27, then 2–4pm for the rest. Cost: sliding scale Details and registration: https://www.clearskycenter.org/event/healing-love-healing-money-online/  
October 27, 2026 13:00 – November 17, 2026 15:00
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Affordable Cohousing in California

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For Sale: Brick Home in Solterra Cohousing Community, Durham NC

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Do you feel called to help co-create a small, newly forming eco-spiritual community?

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Equity & Power Dynamics Course

FIC is fighting for a better world and working to foster intentional communities that can meet the challenges of our time. As a global foundation, we are mandated to fight against inequality, injustice, oppression, and exploitation. Our organizational vision is for a socially just world, and our commitment is to the work of diversity, equity, inclusion and justice. Our upcoming Equity and Power Dynamics course is a profound reflection of these values and will show how the movement for intentional communities can stand as a living example of a liberated future. Join us and register for course here! We price our courses to be as accessible as possible to all income levels but please reach out to me if you would like to attend but it is financially out of your reach. https://www.ic.org/communiversity-library/course/equity-power-dynamics/
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