🍁 9 Regenerative Co-Living Experiences This Fall 🌊
From Portugal to Tunisia and from North Carolina to South Africa, a new wave of intentional living is quietly reshaping the way we live, lead, and belong.
Since I was 18 I’ve been determined to discover a new way of being—experimenting with living in different communities around the world, learning new languages, building new skills. This theme is coming back into my life as I am now working on a regenerative co-living experience with my beautiful Tunisian bride, so I did a little research and began compiling an initial list of regenerative co-living experiences in communities around the world. Some are more about inner regeneration (writing, meditation, conscious communication) while others focus on the outer (natural building, community design, etc.).
There are some amazing opportunities ranging from longstanding eco-villages in the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina all the way to surf and yoga experiences the coast of Cape Town, South Africa. If you’re curious about immersing yourself in a new culture, making new friends and building skills for a regenerative future, take a look!
1. 🌾 Earthaven Ecovillage (North Carolina, USA)
Indigenous land: Tsalaguwetiyi (Cherokee) and Catawba lands
Where: Appalachian Mountains near Asheville, NC
When: Ongoing residency with Fall/Winter workshops
One of the OGs of regenerative living, Earthaven has been walking its talk since the ‘90s. With solar power, organic farming, natural building, and a full curriculum through the School of Integrated Living offering ecovillage tours as well as courses on sociocracy for communities and non-violent communication.
Their capstone Re-Membering Retreat from October 23-26 is an intimate four-day journey into connection with self, community, and the wider web of the living Earth. Through guided practice, ritual, story, song, and time in nature, participants will explore what it means to be present with ourselves and each other, and to belong here on this land.
🌀 Why it matters: Decades of wisdom on how to live off-grid and in community.
2. 🐚 Open Field Co‑Living (Castlemaine, VIC, Australia)
Indigenous land: Dja Dja Wurrung (Jaara) people of the Kulin Nation
Where: 10-acre permaculture homestead near Castlemaine, Victoria
When: Ongoing—seasonal residencies available now
Nestled in the bushlands of central Victoria, Open Field offers a humble and welcoming regenerative co-living model focusing on regenerative agriculture, community living and natural building. They’re new in their journey and have a really nice community and family-friendly feel…
and did a lovely write-up about Open Field Co-Living on their Substack recently if you’re curious about their origin story!
3. 🏄 Conscious Fitness Co‑Live (Peniche, Portugal)
Indigenous land: Ancient Lusitanian territory, rooted in pre-Roman Iberian cultures
Where: Maverick Surfvillas near Peniche’s legendary surf breaks, west Portugal
When: October 19 – November 15, 2025
A month-long fusion of fitness, flow, and deep community—this is co-living with a purpose. Hosted by my friend Harry at Innate, the Conscious Fitness Co‑Live invites you to rise with meditation, power up with daily functional flows and strength sessions, then work remotely by the pool with fast Wi‑Fi—all steps away from prime surf shores. Evenings weave in yoga, sound ceremonies, firelit dinners, and tribe-led gatherings .
4. 🌆 Unity Coliving (San José, Costa Rica)
Indigenous land: Indigenous Huetar territory (Central Pacific region)
Where: San Pedro neighborhood, San José, Costa Rica
When: Ongoing—open to stays from 1 week up to multiple months
A vibrant urban oasis, Unity Coliving lives at the intersection of permaculture, personal growth, and communal rhythm. Nestled in the artsy, culturally rich San Pedro district, this shared home hosts around 12–15 residents—yogis, digital nomads, healers, changemakers—all co-creating daily life.
5. 🌲 Tertulia Forest Co‑Living & Co‑Working (Mugello, Tuscany, Italy)
Indigenous land: Traditional lands of the Tuscan population and legacy Etruscan cultures
Where: Apennine hills near Mugello, Tuscany
When: Ongoing seasonal residencies; stays from 2 weeks to 2 months
Set amid rolling Tuscan woods, Tertulia offers a contained, forest-immersed co-living experience for professionals and creative changemakers. Spread across a sustainable eco-lodge, it blends co-working with ecological living and intentional community. 100% off-grid, nature-immersed co-living that balances work, wellness, regeneration, and social connection—without land ownership or city distractions.
6. 🌄 Findhorn Ecovillage 28‑Day Residency (Moray, Scotland)
Indigenous land: Traditional territories of the Picts and Dàl Riata peoples
Where: The Park ecovillage, coastal Moray, Scotland
When: Ongoing—28 nights self‑directed residencies year‑round
A deeply immersive month-long stay at one of the world’s most revered regenerative communities. As a resident, you’ll live within a spiritual-ecological village that’s won UN‑Habitat’s Best Practice award, embracing shared meals, permaculture, natural building, and daily meditations. Program highlights include devotional song and prayer, ecstatic 5‑Rhythms dance, forest bathing, barefoot beach walks, sauna, and nightly fire rituals by the sea. Rates vary seasonally: 28-day residencies cost £750 in winter, £900 in shoulder seasons, and £1,100 in summer .
7. ✍️ Writer’s Haven at Château Coliving (Normandy, France)
Indigenous land: Traditional territory of the Parisii and Normanni peoples
Where: Château de L’Isle Marie, Normandy countryside, France
When: November 2–29, 2025 (also available in 2-week blocks: Nov 23–Dec 7 or Dec 7–Dec 21, 2025)
Brought to life in a 12th-century French château, Writer’s Haven offers a co-living month for writers of all levels—solo creatives, professionals mapping out book projects, and day-job writers craving flow. You’ll live and work alongside 10–20 fellow wordsmiths in private or shared rooms, with shared meals, fireplaces, and castle grounds as your backdrop. This is for all the regenerative storytellers out there looking to get their vision of the future out into the world!
8. 🌍 Cape CoLiving Surf & Yoga (Cape Town, South Africa)
Indigenous land: Khoikhoi and San territories near Table Bay
Where: Green Point neighbourhood, Cape Town
When: Ongoing—stays available from 4 weeks to several months
Ride high‑energy surf sessions in the morning, then stretch into yoga, focus on deep work, and unwind with community dinners in the evening—all while living in a beautifully restored nine‑bedroom Victorian villa just minutes from the shore.
✨ Why this matters: Cape CoLiving offers a polished, modern, month-long co-living experience in nature-fringed urban terrain—ideal for your audience of global seekers.
9. 🌕 Coon Harvest Co-Living Residency (Tunisia)
Indigenous land: Amazigh peoples of North Africa
Where: Coastal Tunisia, between sun, sea & soil
When: One-month residency, Fall 2025
Harvest is a 30-day lunar-aligned co-living and co-working residency that invites you into a sacred rhythm of living—rooted in the ancient cycles of nature and designed for modern creators, builders, and seekers to do the most meaningful work of their lives.
Hosted in a stunning seaside venue on the Mediterranean coast of Tunisia, the residency brings together 24 global professionals—social entrepreneurs, artists, coaches, facilitators, and regenerative leaders—into a curated and diverse experience for a month of connection, creativity, and ceremony.
🫒 Why it matters: This is co-living as it was meant to be—a return to rhythm, a hub for regeneration, and a shared invitation to live, work, rest, and rise together.
Co-living as a pathway toward a regenerative future
If you’re longing to live differently—to ground your work in the earth, to build in alignment with your ancestry, and to create futures worth passing down to your descendents—consider these co-living experiments your map as you plan your fall in the months ahead.
Have you lived in or dreamed of creating a regenerative co-living experience? I’d love to hear your story or feature your vision in a future post!