
Summer of Sustainability 2025
A two-month immersive residential service-learning program providing an engaging in-depth exploration of sustainable and compassionate living, integrating hands-on experience with contemplative practice in a healthy and supportive environment in the lap of nature

Building a Better World: Empowerment for Compassionate Creativity in Action
A three-week training and introduction to our long-term experiential training program for people who want to make a positive impact in the world. This course is designed to empower you as an insightful, sensitive, and effective cultural creatives and agent of change.

Building a Better World: Empowerment for Compassionate Creativity in Action
A long-term experiential training program specifically for people who want to make a positive impact in the world. This course is designed to empower you as an insightful, sensitive, and effective cultural creatives and agent of change.

Open Volunteer Period
Earthville Institute’s Open Volunteer Period is a hands-on service-learning opportunity where you can explore foundational practices for sustainable living, including natural building, organic gardening, and permaculture principles, while supporting the creation of a new eco-campus for the study of compassionate living.

Touching Earth, Week 2: Building with Lime
A one-week residential workshop (part one of a two-part series) exploring natural building techniques (with a focus on lime this week) and our connection to nature. Will provide opportunities to learn and practice some of the foundational skills of earthen building and contemplate living in harmony with nature.

Touching Earth: Natural Building Workshop
A two-week residential workshop exploring natural building techniques and our connection to nature. Will provide opportunities to learn and practice some of the foundational skills of earthen building and contemplate living in harmony with nature.

Touching Earth, Week 1: Building with Clay
A one-week residential workshop (part one of a two-part series) exploring natural building techniques (with a focus on clay this week) and our connection to nature. Will provide opportunities to learn and practice some of the foundational skills of earthen building and contemplate living in harmony with nature.

Summer of Sustainability 2024
A three-month immersive residential service-learning program providing an engaging in-depth exploration of sustainable and compassionate living, integrating hands-on experience with contemplative practice in a healthy and supportive environment in the lap of nature

Building a Better World: Empowerment for Compassionate Creativity in Action
A long-term experiential training program specifically for people who want to make a positive impact in the world. This course is designed to empower you as an insightful, sensitive, and effective cultural creatives and agent of change.

Online Chat with Earthville founder Mark Moore about Building a Better World
A online gathering (via Zoom) hosted by Mark Moore, cofounder of Earthville Institute and Dharmalaya Institute, to discuss the Building a Better World program. This chat will be an opportunity to chat with Mark about the program, ask questions, and get a sense of how the program might support your aspirations.

Opening the Heart: Joy of Living 2 Meditation Retreat
A four-day meditation retreat designed by world-renowned meditation master Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, with special features unique to Dharmalaya Institute, including mindful movement practices, set in a beautiful Himalayan eco-campus with earthen buildings, healthy meals, and more.

Touching Earth: Natural Building Workshop
A one-week residential workshop exploring natural building techniques and our connection to nature. Will provide opportunities to learn and practice some of the foundational skills of earthen building and contemplate living in harmony with nature.

Touching Earth: Natural Building Workshop
A five-day residential workshop exploring natural building techniques and our connection to nature. Will provide opportunities to learn and practice some of the foundational skills of earthen building and contemplate living in harmony with nature.

Natural Building & Inner Exploration Workshop Series
A 27-day residential workshop series exploring natural building techniques and our connection to nature, to ourselves, and to one another. Will provide opportunities to learn and practice some of the foundational skills of natural building, including straw bale and earthen techniques, while living in harmony with nature.

Compassion & Diet: Chatral Rinpoche’s Teachings
Dharamshala Earthville Institute (DEVI) invites you to our Sunday@Sunset speaker series to hear and discuss Chatral Rinpoche’s teachings with special guest Geshe Thupten Phelgye, a Buddhist teacher and member of parliament (CTA), who will be joined by Zach Larson, editor of the book Compassionate Action (2009, Shechen Publications).