Friends of Camphill India

Friends of Camphill India Friends of Camphill India,A life-sharing community dedicated to quietly uplift the dignity of friends who are special and face developmental challenges.

Camphill Movement

Camphill movement was founded in 1939 as a form of silent spiritual resistance to the cruelties committed by the Nazis at the brink during the Second World War. In a way, one can say that even today, a Camphill community strives to do the same: trying to build a silent resistance to the mainstream’s refusal and rejection of wrongly quoted non-productive, differently abled, differently constituted human beings. Within a life-sharing community, all members practice the art of caring throughout the day. Caring for the nature and surroundings like gardens, animals — and above all caring for each other. Social relationships here are seen as a matter of destiny. Therefore we open the possibility to generate impulses for individual growth: both for residents and co-workers! Social Therapy

Social Therapy is the term used for the beneficial dynamics of a life-sharing community based on the ethos of Camphill. The ethos is focused on upgrading the dignity of people with developmental challenges. Social Therapy is an impulse of healing. The tools lie in the metamorphosis of our soul-forces (thinking, feeling, and willing.). The main focus is to unfold well-being for each and every member of the community. Bangalore Residence
Our first residence lies south of Bengaluru in the village Bannerghatta. Coming from the noise of the big Bannerghatta road you enter a basin amidst trees, bushes and flowers. The noise slowly fades and you will here the song of birds and the chatter and laughter of our community members. Sure, once in a while you will also hear more angry voices. The area holds three houses. The two living houses Antaranga and Panchanga give room for 24 Special Friends in total, each housing a Ladies and a Mens side of six People. They also house our Co-Workers. Antaranga holds the bakery while Santvana holds the kitchen and our community library Jagruti. Panchanga is the name of our workshop building and communing space. In its four arms our workshops are located and it’s pentagonal center is used every morning for our prayer and for many other community meetings and celebrations. In the garden we grow our own produce, which is used in our kitchen. Mysore Farm and Residence

For a long time we have dreamt of spreading our community. Now this dream becomes more and more real, as we manage to get governmental permission to use a plot of land in Mysore and the first building, a guest house, is entering the finishing stages. For now groups of our Bengaluru residents will stay in that house temporarily to help with the work on the attached farm. Eventually we want to grow Mysore in a full-fledged community however, also hoping that it will help our community in Bengaluru to self-sustain. If you want to support this project, please consider donating.

Latest additions to our community! Happy Sunday 🌞
31/01/2021

Latest additions to our community! Happy Sunday 🌞

Last week we celebrated the wedding of Prashanti and Fernando. Beautiful day with lots of dance, decorations, smiles and...
22/12/2020

Last week we celebrated the wedding of Prashanti and Fernando. Beautiful day with lots of dance, decorations, smiles and of course a very happy couple!

Wow....We made it.Champions of garden from Camphill made their new harvest of sweet potatoes.In the photo Kanav Mehta, J...
03/11/2020

Wow....We made it.Champions of garden from Camphill made their new harvest of sweet potatoes.
In the photo Kanav Mehta, Juanita, Fernando and Shalika.

Our Volunteers, in rest hours...(Click below the link to play)They connected to our social life, our environment.Juanita...
01/11/2020

Our Volunteers, in rest hours...
(Click below the link to play)

They connected to our social life, our environment.
Juanita from Colombia and Antonia From Germany, they are making beautiful spaces inside the community.
Who wants to be part of us as a volunteer?
Folks come and join with us. Make your life beautiful and meaningful.

Candles Stock from August 2020It's all made by the hands of beautiful friends Gowri and Neha.If anyone interested to buy...
29/10/2020

Candles Stock from August 2020
It's all made by the hands of beautiful friends Gowri and Neha.
If anyone interested to buy the candles just contact or WhatsApp 9633052122.

Thanks to Gowri and Neha.

29/10/2020

In the present age we are not thrown together by chance with other people. That the path of life brings us into contact with certain people and not with others depends upon the working out of indiv…

Our community had wonderful Michaemal festival.....Beautiful Play by community " George and The Dragon" Delicious dinner...
04/10/2020

Our community had wonderful Michaemal festival.....
Beautiful Play by community " George and The Dragon"
Delicious dinner, Memorizing our own Play "Mahayuddham".

When Man, in the enjoyment of his freedom, lets himself be seduced by Ahriman, he becomes caught up into the intellectual process as into a spiritual automatism, in which he is a bit of the machinery, no longer himself. All his thinking becomes an affair of the heart; and the head severs the thinking from the life of his own individual heart and individual will, and altogether blots out his own individuality. In making himself an expression of his own separate self, the man becomes ever less and less the expression of his innermost, characteristically human, being. In seeking himself, he loses himself. He withdraws from the world from which he withholds his love. Man realizes himself in truth, only when he loves the world.
But if there be this Love, as cherished in the Michael-mind, the ‘Love for Others’ will be reflected back into the personal Self. The Self will then love, without loving itself. And on the paths of such Love as this, Christ is to be found by the soul of Man. He who follows Michael, cherishes Love in relations with the outer world, and thereby finds that relation to the inner world of his own soul, which brings him together with Christ.
Rudolf Steiner

Grateful for our jackfruit trees
12/06/2020

Grateful for our jackfruit trees

08/06/2020
Cooking dosas over the fire
03/06/2020

Cooking dosas over the fire

Please spread the word! We are looking for enthusiastic people interested in becoming coworkers in our community
27/05/2020

Please spread the word! We are looking for enthusiastic people interested in becoming coworkers in our community

Shots from around our garden
27/05/2020

Shots from around our garden

Address

Bangalore

Opening Hours

Monday 7am - 1pm
4pm - 8:30pm
Tuesday 7am - 1pm
4pm - 8:30pm
Wednesday 7am - 1pm
4pm - 8:30pm
Thursday 7am - 1pm
4pm - 8:30pm
Friday 7am - 1pm
4pm - 8:30pm
Saturday 7:30am - 1pm
4pm - 8:30pm
Sunday 7:30am - 4pm

Telephone

+919945326740

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