About us

Quiet, open-minded and unique

A small, slow, creative community in an old stone village.

Who we are

Made by misfits, for misfits

We are a quiet, open-minded bunch. Many of us are neuro-evolved, many of us are queer, and all of us love animals. We do things our own way and we are happy that way.

Myoho Valley started in 2023 as a mystery school: a place for retreats, music, ritual, rest and learning from the land. Since then it has grown a recording studio, two radio stations, a veggie kitchen and a family of rescued animals.

How days work

Freedom with a little rhythm

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Volunteers

Volunteers follow a simple weekly schedule, so everyone knows what is happening and nothing falls through the cracks.

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Paying guests

Guests who pay for their stay are free. Join in as much or as little as you like, no schedule needed.

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Cooking

Everyone takes turns cooking in the shared veggie kitchen, to keep it fair. Food shares are always welcome.

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Your ideas

Want to run a workshop, a jam, a circle or a project? Bring it. The valley grows through the people who come.

The team

The MV Fam

The people who hold the valley together.

M

Mabel

Co-founder, taxidermist

R

Ruairi

On-site handyman and saxophonist

H

Hels

Co-founder, hermit in a room

S

Sanne

Co-founder, tattoo artist

A

Ansis

Handyman, engineer brain, youngest dad of the oldest people

C

Charlotte

Active member, land worker and social media extraordinaire

C

Cat

Co-founder

M

Martin

Co-founder

D

Daniele

Co-founder, mountain mover, shamanic alien

N

Nicolas

Canine department, amazing handyman

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Fee

Forest Fee, keeper of their own corner of the woods

M

Maria

MV Fam

C

Cragg

MV Fam

J

Jouna

In loving memory, who built our first website

Hels

Co-founder of Myoho Valley, and part-time hermit in a room. Hels left home at 17 and travelled the world for years: teaching scuba diving, founding a coral reef conservation project in the Andaman Sea, nursing, care work and fostering, and assisting tantric and shamanic retreats. In 2019 Hels founded the off-grid community Bohemia in Portugal, then answered the call to create Myoho Valley. These days Hels studies Hermeticism and esoterica, makes Lives of Tribes, and hangs out with the animals.

More faces and stories coming soon.

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