Belonging
is the most powerful tool for resilience.
Start Your Belonging Journey
The School of Integrated Living (SOIL) at Earthaven Ecovillage welcomes you to join us on a FREE month-long guided journey…
Recipes for Remembering How to Belong.
Learn four simple, yet profound, ways to cultivate a sense of connection.
Join a special LIVE cohort working with our Recipes for Remembering How To Belong. Move through the four practices in the month of January with guidance, support, and companionship.
Learning these tools can help you feel more grounded, connected, and empowered to feel at home within your life.
Ecovillage Experience Programs Info Call
Free Online Call
Monday, January 26, 7-8:30 pm US Eastern Time
Curious about the Earthaven Experience programs? Have some questions?
Join program facilitators as they share about our 2026 experience programs, including our new Marshes to Mountains program. They will also answer your questions so you can gain clarity about joining us this year.
Free Online Offerings
Check out our live, recorded, and email-based free online offerings.
About SOIL
The School of Integrated Living (SOIL) is the educational branch of Earthaven Ecovillage that teaches whole-life skills for a radically different and sustainable future. SOIL is operated by Culture’s Edge, a charitable nonprofit organization.
SOIL’s mission is to populate the world with empowered, skilled, and conscious leaders dedicated to creating regenerative change and healthy relationships.
We offer online and in-person education and experiences with a broad curriculum that includes Community Building, Non-Violent Communication, Cooperative Self-governance Systems, Nature Connection, Grief Tending, Belonging Practices, Ancient Wisdom, Renewable Energy, and Eco-conscious Building Practices.
SOIL is located at Earthaven Ecovillage.
Our unique setting will inform your learning on multiple levels.
Earthaven is an ongoing experiment where – for over 31 years – the skills we teach have been developed, refined and lived.
Connect with nature, meet the village, and exhale deeply in the Blue Ridge mountains outside of Asheville, NC.
Upcoming Programs
SOIL offers in-person programs and ecovillage tours at Earthaven Ecovillage, and online programming, including virtual tours.
Here we highlight several upcoming programs in our extensive lineup.
Earthaven Ecovillage Tours
[In-person or Online]
Experience the magic of ecovillage living with a tour! Zoom in for a virtual tour or come out to Earthaven and take a stroll through the ecovillage with an Earthaven member. Learn about living in community and strategies for living life another way.
Virtual tours: Live: February 20, 2026
Recording available now!
In-person tours: Most Saturdays & customized
Death Midwifery Training
[In-Person Workshop]
March 27-29
Caring for our dead is a practice as old as humankind. This deathcare training is a deep dive into the physical, emotional, legal, practical, and spiritual care of the dying and dead, as well as their families.
Join us if you wish to reclaim a more meaningful, hands-on experience at end-of-life and gain the skills and knowledge of midwifing death with grace and confidence.
Working Effectively with Three Kinds of Community Conflict -- What You Can Do
[Live Online Workshop]
Jan 17 – Feb 28, 2026, 1:30 – 4:00 pm
Learn practical, workable solutions to resolve or contain three types of group conflict.
Join communities expert Diana Leafe Christian in this lively workshop for people in communities of all kinds who may have felt confused, baffled, or even hopeless about ongoing conflict in their group and seek grounded, field-tested solutions. There are things you can do!
There is a river that runs through our lives, an underground stream that carries our essential being. Once we enter that stream, life is no longer lived in the ordinary sense. It becomes a journey, an adventure into unknown waters. May you discover your own river and may your life become a meaningful voyage.
Customized Programs
We also offer customized, nature-based, team-building and educational programs that inspire creativity and empower authentic leadership with connection to place, others, and self.
Come learn with SOIL, where village life and the natural world come together for a powerful group experience.
How is SOIL Unique?
Our curriculum sprouts out of an intergenerational, place-based, residential community experiment with over 30 years of lessons to harvest from. It’s truly real-life learning.
Our in-person programs offer participants an experiential learning journey nestled in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains that is held by a stellar team of dedicated staff and instructors within a village setting whose community members open up their lives and hearts for you to have a life-changing experience.
Our online programs bring our village instructors to your place, making them accessable world wide. We are expanding our online programs to include more that are free or offered by donation, with live and recorded options available.
Listen to past participants to get a feeling for the unique experience that awaits you at SOIL.
We hope you join us soon!
“Spending a week at Earthaven was a profound intellectual experience that I will carry with me throughout the rest of my life. I met, learned from, and interacted with some of the most revolutionary and intelligent people in the field of sustainability.”
– Lizzy B.
“Compassion Camp was a place to build community with a concentration of folks who care deeply about showing up as lovingly as possible. I perceived extremely skillful folks offering wisdom for healing, growth, and meaning. A place to be playful, authentic, and vulnerable. I left with an abundance of interior clarity that lingered and feeling so nourished in my soul.”
– Brian S.
“Every instructor/member showed a great deal of intense passion in their work, inspiring me to know what their life entailed as well as find my own passion. These people are absolute geniuses who have changed my worldview with their dense lectures and mind altering realities. I really hope to ‘work study’ participate with one of these incredible souls.”
-Jule L.
“Reclaiming Nature Connection was a profound experience for me in more ways than I can list. The women of the Academy of Forest Kindergarten Teachers have a message that they simply can’t contain. I felt like I absorbed a week’s worth of material within the span of two days. There was a graceful flow between discussions and activities sending me off energized and inspired to take these skills and share them to my colleagues and children. Earthaven was a lovely site to host such an epic weekend.”
– Georgia C.
“Hands on experiences, working and learning from the farmers, becoming integrated and participating in community rituals and celebrations, and just genuinely being able to express myself and form genuine connections with community members and other SOIL participants.”
– Jessica M.
The road to Earthaven...
Travel the Blue Ridge Parkway on your trip to Earthaven,
and enjoy the most spectacular scenery in the Eastern US.