Paripoornam🌕🌱☀️🪷🔯 is a self-sustainable living community originally started by conscious families who have had successful careers in mainstream life and have realised that living a sustainable life in nature is the most important thing to do right now for our better physical and mental health and the well-being of our children. We have come together and established a living community with the intention to “Live together in harmony with oneself, with others, and with nature.”

It started with the intention to provide holistic education to our home-schooled children where the emphasis is on natural learning but now the vision is not just limited to children.

A community where there is a private space for individual families and at the same time you get the benefit of common space, social culture, and security in the community.

We grow our own food, build eco-friendly structures by ourselves, make our daily essential products, and live a natural and chemical-free life.

Families in our community are inspired by Natural Farming, Natural Living, Natural Learning, Bharatiya cultural values, Permaculture, Gurukulam, Waldorf, Rudolf Steiner Philosophy, Nagaraj ji’s Jeevan Kala Vidya, J Krishna Murthy, and more.

Key highlights of the community:
✌️Slow-phased life.
✌️Natural Rhythmic Life.
🤟 Families from different parts of India (diversity).
✌️Inspiration is taken from Dharampal Ji’s research on the Bharatiya way of life.
✌️Desi cow-based natural farming and Biodynamics.
✌️Waldorf curriculum is customized to Indian Context and to help children to be rooted in local culture. NIOS is incorporated.
✌️Importance is given to life skills and academics(NIOS). A balanced approach where emphasis on the development of Mind, Body, and Soul. Enriching children’s lives with the love and affection of not just one parent but many. Health-giving education. Children will learn joyfully without any force. Learning will be in sync with the brain, heart, and limbs.

✌️Lots of storytelling. The appropriate format will be adopted for different age groups.
✌️Most daily essential products are made within the community.
✌️Spiritual practices such as Pooja, Homa, Bajan/Keerthana are part of community life.
✌️Yoga, Dhyana, and pranayama are part of the daily routine.
✌️We will do farming, harvesting, and cooking together.
✌️Junk food free, chemical free, TV free, toxic free, plastic free environment.
🤟No hierarchy, sociocracy way of governing.
✌️The community will have lots of singing, dancing, celebrations, fun-filled activities, skits, humour, play/sports, and more.
✌️Residential option for children whose parents cannot be actively part of the community.

Contact Paripoornam at +91 96116 96116 to join Paripoornam.

Important Note: The maximum intake for the community is 25 families and we are already 15 families.

History

Paripoornam 🌕🪷☀️ began as a concept around 5 years ago, with its physical manifestation unfolding organically in June 2023.

Initially, the idea was to buy a big parcel of land together and develop it. Later we realised that we should experiment with the concept in a smaller space and learn to live in harmony with each other, upskill ourselves in natural farming, permaculture, sustainable construction, and the skills needed to provide holistic education to our children, etc. A new venture like this needs a strong team with integrity and that is what we wanted to achieve first.

So we tried it on 2 acres of land near Madanapalle, Andhra Pradesh, which was offered to the community by one of the families in our community. The families, who were very committed, took the rented home near the farm. We took one extra home for rent for the community kitchen and for the school. At the farm, we started growing our own food and became involved in sustainable construction. We attended the workshops and training to upskill ourselves. 

We put a lot of effort in understanding each other to help create a harmonious culture. In the last one and a half years we believe that we reached the point where we are capable of addressing any conflicts holistically. We adopted Madhyasth Darshan (aka Jeevanvidya-Co Existential Philosophy) as the underlying philosophy for a harmonious life in the community.

We also got confidence in the skills required for natural living, making sustainable products, permaculture design of land, holistic education, natural and organic farming, eco-friendly home construction, establishing a friction-free culture, restoring the joy in people’s lives, nature cure, food processing, value-added products etc.

We established a very strong pedagogy team and those who have taken the role of teacher have undergone multiple teacher training programs (Waldorf, Gurukulam(IKS), J Krishnamurti, Open Learning, Montessori). We have learnt from our mistakes in this micro setup and now are confident enough to establish a bigger community on a large piece of land and make it successful. We are now open to onboarding more families by providing them with a soft landing and smoother transition.