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  • From: Living Mandala <livingmandala@livingmandala.com>
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  • Subject: [permaculture] PDC in the Heart of Bodhgaya, India this Spring
  • Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:06:36 -0800

Dears Friends,

We are inspired to be holding this unique and very affordable PDC in
theBuddhist pilgrimage city of Bodhygaya, India this Spring.

The intention is to not only provide a high quality, information-filled, and
hands-on immersion experience for participants; but also to support the
on-going efforts of sustainable development in Bodhgaya by the humble people,
activists, and Buddhists monks & nuns in the local community.

Please help us spread the word about this unique and very affordable course
to westerners who may be traveling through India this Spring looking for a
quality course and life-changing experience at this unique setting.

More Info Below.

-The Living Mandala Team

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Permaculture Design Certification Course
in the Heart of Bodhgaya, India

25th March to 8th April, 2012

Sikkim House / Monastery, Bodhgaya, India

Only $175 - $525 US!

For More Information Click Here




In Association With

Sacred Earth Trust, Living Mandala, Itinerant Permaculture,

Instructor

Rico Zook & Support Staff

Course Description

Learn all about sustainability and receive your Permaculture Design
Certificate in the setting of the sacred city of Bodghaya and its many
monasteries, pilgrims and seekers who travel from all over the world to this
place of the Buddha’s Enlightenment. Do hands-on projects, face challenging
exercises, do a permaculture design, and learn about the many facets of
creating a sustainable lifestyle while benefiting the local community and the
efforts for sustainability in Bodhgaya. This is a full immersion experience
that will change your outlook and your life forever, as you begin to build a
life of resiliency.

Using a variety of learning techniques and strategies this course presents
Permaculture as an integrated design approach to create sustainable human
habitat. Course time will consist of traditional lectures, guest
presentations, group discussions, games, exercises, hands-on projects,
photos, movies and site visits. While we will focus on land systems, many
discussions and examples will be explored of applications in the 'Invisible
Structures'. These are the social, cultural, political, and economic
structures we create as humans that powerfully shape much of our world today.
Not only will the course be about Permaculture, but it will also model it by
its structure and the environment we create together during the course.

During the latter part of the course design teams will be formed and given
real life design assignments that are relevant to the course venue. The
course will culminate with each team giving presentations of their designs to
the class and interested local people and groups. These designs will be left
with venue to become valuable resources for them. Elements to whole sections
of past student designs have been incorporated by many sites were this course
has been hosted.

Join this course and be prepared for a life changing experience which will
leave you much more prepared to respond to the global changes that are
starting to happen with solutions, resiliency, and compassion.

The course will cover the soil food web, soil food web analysis, composts and
compost extracts, and the use of microscopes.



Bodhgaya, India - The Place of the Buddha’s Enlightenment

Bodhgaya in northeastern India, is one of the most spiritual places in the
Buddhist world and also an UNESCO WHS accredited town. Bodhgaya is the site
of the Buddha's enlightenment and the most important of four main Buddhist
pilgrimage destinations. Known as Uruvela in the Buddha's time, the city of
Bodhgaya is now a town of about 30,000 permanent residents. The two major
sacred sites in Bodhgaya are the Mahabodhi Temple and the Bodhi Tree, around
which many other temples and monasteries of various Buddhist traditions
(Japanese, Tibetan, Bhutanese and others) have been built. Every year,
millions of Buddhist pilgrims flock to Bodhgaya to be inspired, dissipate
negative karma and earn merit by visiting the holy site where the Buddha
became the Buddha - the "Enlightened One." There are many other sacred sites
located nearby including Mahakala Cave and others. It is rich in culture and
an international gateway, the busy winter season is frequented by pilgrims
and visitors from all over the Himalayas and the world.

Who Should Take This Course?

This course is both for those who want a general but comprehensive
introduction to sustainability and how to create it, for those wishing to get
a complete and in depth introduction to permaculture, all its component
elements, and the process and methodologies for creating a holistic
permaculture design, and for those who people traveling through India who
want to experience a truly life changing course that will give you skills and
a design framework you can take with you the rest of your life to any
country, continent, and ecosystem on the planet. We expect the course will be
filled half with International travelers, and half with Indian Nationals. It
is especially beneficial for farmers, ranchers, teachers, designers, all
types of agriculturalist, architects, urban planners, engineers, resource
managers, and anyone else who works with our physical world or does design
work in its many forms. However, one does not need to be going into a
permaculture career or a related field to benefit from this training. Many
artists, medical professionals, business people, housewives, cooks,
international travelers, and others have gained insights, understandings and
powerful life, changing experiences that have enabled them to both increase
their quality of life, as well as move all their endeavors towards creating a
more sustainable world.

Supporting Sustainable Development With Local Communities in Bodhgaya

This workshop will culminate with several groups doing a real life design
projects that will be relevant to the site of the workshop. Not only will the
teaching be about Permaculture, but it will also model it by its structure
and the environment we create together in the course. This workshop will
contribute to the enrichment of its site and each of its participants. With
the goal of having half international students and half local students this
workshop will not only be an opportunity to learn about Permaculture, it will
also offer an opportunity to understand we can create a regenerative,
sustainable world together. The person attending the Permaculture Design
Course will not only gain theoretical and practical knowledge on Permaculture
at the end of the workshop but will be handed a Permaculture Design Course
Certificate. This certificate will enable the participant to be a certified
Permaculture Practitioner.

Permaculture in Developing Countries

From its inception Permaculture has quickly spread to over One hundred and
twenty countries where farms and other sites are successfully applying its'
ideas, techniques and strategies. As further testament to its applicability,
Permaculture is now being applied in many urban and suburban areas. In many
developed countries these applications hold much promise for dealing with the
many issues associated with mass populations.

What is Permaculture?

Permaculture is a design system to create regenerative, sustainable systems.
Envisioned over 25 years ago by Bill Mollison and Dan Holmgren, from
Australia, it has now spread to over 120 countries. Though its conception was
as a land based system, its effectiveness has moved it into urban settings
and to being applied in various social, political, and economic environments.
Permaculture was created through the synthesis of many design systems, with
the emphasis on nature as the penultimate one. Similarly, the insights and
value of traditional and indigenous practices and knowledge are acknowledged
along with the necessity of molding these with our current understandings and
the appropriate technologies of today's world. What Permaculture seeks to do
is to create three-dimensional designs that are site specific and
sustainable. By bringing together elements (orchard, water system, farmer,
cow, etc.), techniques (organic framing, natural building, etc.) and
strategies (microclimate, relative placement, etc.) a system is designed or
altered based on regenerative relationships. It is these regenerative,
beneficial relationships that give a system complexity, three dimensionality,
and thus, resiliency.

About Sacred Earth Trust

Sacred Earth Trust is a not for profit organisation set up since 2009 to
support and encourage the sustainable development and environmental
protection of Sacred sites and UNESCO world heritage sites around the world,
through working in co-operation with the local, indigenous people and
international groups.

For More Information & To Register Click Here

e-mail: education@livingmandala.com
Phone: (707) 634-1461

Living Mandala
Organizing Education, Events & Initiatives for Personal & Planetary
Transformation
www.LivingMandala.com
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