What You’ll Learn

This hands-on workshop focuses on building an outdoor kitchen from start to finish, using a variety of natural building methods and techniques. You’ll gain practical skills, theoretical knowledge, and the confidence to carry these practices into your own life.

Practical Skills

Testing clay sub-soils to create the perfect earth mix

Making adobe bricks

Laying foundations and constructing walls, roofs, and floors

Mixing and applying cob, slip straw, and natural plasters

Working safely with power tools

Building a reciprocal roof structure

Learning basic woodwork and carpentry

Creating earth-based sculptures and artistic designs

Theoretical Learning

Ecological House Design: How to design energy-efficient, climate-conscious homes

Global Building Techniques: Methods from around the world, tailored to local environments

Earth Floors and Reciprocal Roofs: The science and art behind these natural systems

Beyond Building: Celebrating the Feminine

This workshop is as much about self-discovery as it is about natural building. Alongside the practical skills, we’ll explore our shared feminine energy through optional morning and evening activities, including:

Women’s circles and meditations

Dance, singing, and movement practices

Sauna, hot tub nights, and evenings by the firepit

It’s a time to laugh, share, reflect, and celebrate everything we are and can be.

About SoLua

We will be staying at Solua (https://www.luna-solua.com/), a beautiful homestead surrounded by the rolling hills and wild nature of Alentejo, Portugal. 

Solua founders Tamir and Luna said;

We are a family of four, arrived in Portugal in July 2015 on a journey exploring our core belief system, consciously creating our daily reality in tune with our vision: to live a sustainable life of trust, in contact with ourselves and others.

SoLua was born in Alentejo, Southern Portugal, to cultivate a platform, a safe haven that facilitates and enables the experience of transformation and freedom, authenticity, and creativity.

SoLua Vision

For us, the experience of The Oneness of life is embodied in containing the paradox of life, both shadows and lights, the divine and the human, the masculine and feminine, the sun and the moon = SoLua.

We wish to create an ever-changing space for exploration, growth and connection, human to human, human to nature, and human to life itself. A place that allows us to grow, play, change, evolve, explore our core beliefs, studying ourselves and life itself together with a lot of fun.

We wish to give back to life, to support it via a sustainable approach to living, both physically and spiritually, and add our energy to the joined pool of energy of those who strive to make this world more harmonious, and the human species a kinder species.

We wish to share our journey with like-minded people who care about nurturing their inner passions, and experiencing life to its fullest.

Accommodation & Food

We’ll create a cozy base camp during the workshop, and you’re invited to bring your own camping equipment or camper van. If camping isn’t an option for you, let us know, and we’ll discuss alternatives.

Meals will be fresh, local, vegetarian, with vegan options always available. Prepared by our experienced chef, each meal will nourish your body and soul. Please let us know about any allergies or dietary needs in advance.

Come Build With Us

This is more than a workshop—it’s an opportunity to connect with the earth, yourself, and a vibrant sisterhood. Let’s celebrate, create, and bring your dream of natural building to life.

We can’t wait to build with you!