I help people explore intentional community living and find a place to call home.
I’m the author of Intentional Community: Choosing Community Living for Better Housing, Health, and Happiness, and over the past decade, I’ve visited more than 200 intentional communities around the world.
I now live in an ecovillage in Vermont, where I built a natural home and tend a permaculture garden.
Through my work, I support people in discovering, joining, and creating community-led housing. I’m the founder of Community Finders, which helps people find and join intentional communities, and Ecovillage Tours, which offers immersive trips to visit communities around the world. To date, we’ve hosted more than twenty tours, giving participants a rare opportunity to experience a wide diversity of communities firsthand.
Earlier in my career, I served as Co-Director of the Foundation for Intentional Community, where I helped expand its educational programs and outreach. I continue to work as a spokesperson and educator in the field, including hosting virtual tours of communities and teaching courses on how to find your community.
I have a degree in Sustainability from Goddard College, along with certifications in Ecovillage Design, Permaculture Design, and Yoga Teacher Training.
Begin your journey here by taking my short quiz:Â https://communityfinders.com/quiz/
Community-founder and author, Yana Ludwig has dedicated her life to fostering cooperative cultures. She is the author of Building Belonging: Your Guide to Starting a Residential Intentional Community, released in May 2023; Together Resilient: Building Community in the Age of Climate Disruption; and co-author of The Cooperative Culture Handbook.
Yana lived in community for 26 years and was a founder four times – all of her work is grounded in deep community experience. She served on the Board of Directors for the Foundation for Intentional Community for over a decade and is the former Executive Director of the Center for Sustainable and Cooperative Culture at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage, Commonomics USA and North Coast Food Web.
She is a dynamic, compassionate and thoughtful speaker and teacher, committed to creating a more just and resilient world.
Learn more about Yana here.
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May 6 – June 3, 2025
A residential project: people live here as their primary home.
An institution, business, network, or project that isn’t a residence (e.g. a learning center, farm, or network with no one living there full-time).
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