Lodging and sustainable architecture.
Indigenous home-building from local, renewable materials. The way our ancestors built, refined for today.
An Indigenous sanctuary. Est. KWAJI:YÄ K'NÖGÉ.
A sanctuary for those returning to themselves.
Six ancestral workshops on KWAJI:YÄ K'NÖGÉ land. Twelve to sixteen seats per circle. Space is limited.
I
Banarema Hiama
The Sister Sanctuary
II
Tawari Hiama
The Brother Sanctuary
III
Tawari Yáro
Guardianship & discipline
IV
Abunuhi Yáro
Household crafts & incense
V
Abunuhi Yáro
Traditional lifestyle
VI
Hiaro Yámoni
Edenic food & chinampa
VII
Tawari Eden
Eco-village & resilience
VIII
Yäro Amotí
Arts & transmission
IX
Tawari Yámoni
Rites of passage
A covenant.
Not a retreat.
Wākale Amotī is a sovereign fellowship of the KWAJI:YÄ K'NÖGÉ Nation. We welcome guests as relatives, not customers. The work is offered as instruction, not entertainment. To live in this place is to learn how leadership and breath move together.
Land stewardship and permaculture.
Soil rebuilding, native re-seeding, water and food systems rooted in traditional ecological knowledge.
Cultural and holistic practice.
Storytelling, language, ceremony, movement, and the daily rhythms that carry ancestral memory forward.
Six workshops
Practices held
Practices held
by hand.
Six workshops. One land. Each is a complete course in one ancestral practice. Choose the one that is calling you, or walk the year and carry the six. Twelve to sixteen seats per circle.
Workshop i21 days
Hiaro Yámoni.
Sacred planting.
The covenant of the seed. Soil, water, planting cycles, and the food sovereignty of a Caribbean Indigenous garden.
From $4,800
Workshop ii21 days
Wākale Amotī.
The rite.
The 21-day initiation through the Five Pillars of Life. The covenant of rising.
From $5,400
Workshop iii21 days
Abaká Itîbo.
The house.
Indigenous lodging. Hand-cast hempcrete domes, timber ring beams, clay-and-lime skin.
From $5,200
Workshop iv. New for the season.14 days
Abunuhi Yáro.
Traditional lifestyle practice.
Daily ancestral practice for cleansing and care. Natural detergents, skin oils, hair foods, and ceremonial cleansing with roots and stones. Leave with a working apothecary.
From $4,200
Workshop v. New.Covenant of guardianship
Tawari Yáro.
Guardianship & tactical.
Discipline, self-defense, safe movement, and community protection. Indigenous tactical knowledge held by hand.
Tuition TBA
Workshop vi. New.The sister sanctuary
Banarema Hiama.
The sister sanctuary.
Women's councils, healing, and the transmission of wisdom. Guided by the Hiama Ahiaro. Aligned to the lunar cycles.
Tuition TBA
The land is a relative. To learn here is to be welcomed by a household older than memory.
From the elders of KWAJI:YÄ K'NÖGÉ
Fountain Villa sits on the southwestern coast of Saint Vincent, on Caribbean ancestral land. Every workshop opens and closes here.
When the circles open.
4 to 17 March
14 seats. Apothecary intensive.
From $4,200
10 to 30 July
12 seats. Hands-on building.
From $5,200
9 to 29 September
16 seats. Rite of passage.
From $5,400
1 to 21 December
16 seats. Sacred planting.
From $4,800
Five quiet
steps in.
Reservation is a conversation, not a transaction. A short application, a thirty-minute call with our admissions circle, then your deposit reserves the seat.
01
Choose your workshop.
Read each one. Pick the practice that is calling you.
02
Apply.
A short form: contact, intentions, dietary, fitness, why this workshop.
03
Conversation.
A 30-minute call with our admissions circle.
04
Reserve your seat.
$800 deposit. Final payment due 60 days before arrival.
05
Prepare.
A packing list, reading list, and arrival guide are sent on confirmation.
A covenant carried in practice
Six workshops.
Six workshops.
One land.
Space is limited. Secure your seat.