Freedom Ville: creating a new way of living
Become part of a living movement.
Freedom Ville is more than a place, it’s a prototype for a new world. A living laboratory where art, nature, and conscious entrepreneurship meet to prove that business can be regenerative, not extractive.
We are transforming an abandoned Portuguese village into a living sanctuary of renewal, where creativity restores the land, where learning nourishes the soul, and where community grows from reciprocity, not competition.
Our mission is to regenerate land, art, and human connection. One season, one story, one soul at a time.
But now, Freedom Ville has reached a critical moment.
The funds to sustain the project have dried up, the bank has declined my loan, and I now face a liquidity crisis that threatens my home, my business, and the vision I’ve devoted the past years of my life to. After my separation, I am navigating this transition alone; raising my children, managing the land, and trying to protect the dream that brought me here.
But Freedom Ville was never meant to be just a business. It is my way out of the matrix, a sanctuary for regeneration, creativity, connection, and a new way of living in harmony with nature. A living prototype of how we can build the world of tomorrow: joyful, conscious, artistic, and rooted in community.
That is why I am launching a new kind of funding campaign. This is not just about donations. This is an invitation to join the movement and become a Future Founding Member, a circle of pioneers building a new paradigm where business serves belonging, where land is regenerated, where art is essential, and where community becomes the heartbeat of a thriving future.
By joining this membership or by donating, you become part of a living ecosystem that sustains the land, supports my transition into full ownership, and helps Freedom Ville stand on stable ground again. You help protect a regenerative village in the making: a place where mindful living, creativity, gratitude, and collaboration create real impact.
What you help to build
- Build renewable water & energy systems - Water retention, solar energy, ecological infrastructure — creating a resilient village for future generations.
- Launch the Art & Regeneration Foundation - Co-creating an open-air art and nature museum, blending creativity, healing, and environmental stewardship.
- Secure Freedom Ville’s future & help Nadia buy out her partner - Creating independent, stable leadership for the long term.
- Legalize & license the property (Turismo Rural) - A crucial step to unlock future investments, growth, and sustainability.
- Support cultural and educational programs - Creating space for nature-based learning, creativity and emotional development through community-led initiatives.
- Restore the final ruins for future co-living - Housing for artists, families, creators, and long-term residents who want to live in harmony with nature.
We’re now opening the doors for our community to co-own this vision, not through profit-driven investment, but through shared purpose and reciprocity.
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Membership Option 1: Founding Future Membership
Freedom Ville is more than an eco-resort and retreat location.
It is a living prototype for the world of tomorrow, a place where we practice the shift from business to belonging, from competition to collaboration, and from everyone for themselves to everyone for nature.
Becoming a Future Founding Member means stepping into this mission as a pioneer.
You are not just helping to secure Freedom Ville’s future: you are helping to root a new paradigm and anchor one of the first real-life models of regenerative living, conscious leadership, and creative community in Europe.
Founding Members are the pillars of this vision. You help stabilise the foundation, complete the legalisation process, regenerate the land, and protect the blueprint that will inspire villages, businesses, and communities far beyond Portugal.
You don’t just fund. You co-create.
You don’t just support. You shape what the future looks like.
Together we build the world of tomorrow.
Shape the evolution of Freedom Ville, share ideas, and help influence the next steps of the land, the foundation, and our community.
Benefits of Becoming a Future Founding Member (€500 per month)
- Your magnolia tree on Freedom Lane - Your living legacy planted at the entrance of the village: symbolising renewal, hope, and your roots in the future we are building.
- Invitation to our yearly Co-Create Retreat - A yearly gathering of Future Founding Members to exchange ideas, collaborate, and plant seeds for Freedom Ville’s continued evolution. Your stay during this retreat is complimentary.
- Two weeks free stay per year - Spend two weeks per year for free during Freedom Ville’s regeneration season and regenerate yourself.
- 30% discount on holiday bookings - For friends & family
- Plus 30% discount on organising a gathering or regenerative retreat - for your team, family or friends.
- Bi-annual Co-Creation Calls - Shape the evolution of Freedom Ville, share ideas, and help influence the next steps of the land, the foundation, and our community.
- Your name woven into an artwork at the Look-out point - The very first artwork of our open-air museum, that marks the beginning of our Fantasy Forest. A permanent recognition of your place in the story, overlooking the valley that is transforming before our eyes. Reminding us that the sky is the limit and the world is our home.
- Public recognition as a Founding Partner - Featured on our website, at events, and in social media, honouring your role in shaping this new world with us.
A call to pioneers for change. There are only 30 places.
Future Founding Member
This circle is intimate, intentional, and deeply impactful. If you feel the call to be part of a regenerative future, If you believe in shifting the paradigm of how we live, work, create, and belong, If you want your legacy to help seed a new world
Welcome to the circle of Future Founders. Together, we build the world we want our children to grow up in a world that is pure, authentic, and harmonious. A world aligned with the path of our souls and rooted in the home we all share: Mother Nature.
Membership Option 2: Become a Forest Keeper
Forest Keepers are the gentle but powerful heartbeat of regeneration.
You help anchor the soil that holds this project together: the reforestation, the water systems, the creative spaces, the Home School of Life, the open-air museum The Fantasy Forest, the ruins being restored for future co-living.
This membership is symbolic and essential. It represents the shift from everyone for themselves to everyone for nature. From passive spectatorship to active stewardship.
You don’t just give. You grow with us. You become part of the forest that protects the dream.
Benefits of Becoming a Forest Keeper (€50 per month)
- Tree certificate in your name - Your trees planted in your honour (or gifted to someone you love), rooting your legacy in the soil of Freedom Ville.
- Name sign at your first tree - A marker of your presence on the land, a symbol of connection, growth, and contribution.
- Invitation to the annual Planting & Regeneration Weekend - A hands-on community gathering where we plant, restore, regenerate, and celebrate nature together.
- Your name featured in our Fantasy Forest - A sign next to your first tree, honouring your place in the story.
- Discounted access to regeneration retreats and holiday bookings - A gentle invitation to return, recharge, reconnect, and deepen your bond with the land you help nourish.
What your contribution supports
As a Forest Keeper, your support, in any size or frequency, directly strengthens our roots:
• Reforestation and native tree planting
• Water retention systems
• Land regeneration and biodiversity
• The Art & Regeneration Forest
• Restoration of ruins for future community spaces
• Legalisation and licensing processes
• Financial stability during winter months
• Protection of Freedom Ville’s independence from banks
These are the roots that allow the rest of the village: the art, the community, the retreats, the learning, the healing, to not just survive, but to thrive and flourish in alignment with the long-term vision for the land.
A Call to the Forest Keepers
Every forest begins with a single seed. Every movement begins with a single act of care. Every contribution makes a difference.
If you feel called to support Freedom Ville in a gentle, accessible, and deeply meaningful way whether through a monthly contribution or a one-time offering you are welcome in the circle of Forest Keepers. Together, we grow the roots of tomorrow. Together, we replenish what the world has forgotten. Together, we breathe life into the land, the dream, and the future we want our children to inherit. Welcome to the Forest. Welcome to the circle of Forest Keepers.
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One Time Donations
Choose the amount that feels right for you.
With this donation option, you can make a one-time contribution for any amount that fits your heart and your means.
Every euro, small or big, helps keep Freedom Ville alive, growing, and open for everyone who needs a place to breathe, reset, and belong.
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Join our Raffall contest!
Where a small ticket can win you a big prize.
From a 3-month winter residency, to a 2-week summer holiday, to other beautiful Freedom Ville experiences.Tickets are affordable, the odds are real, and every ticket helps us keep building this sanctuary of regeneration and community.
All prizes will be drawn on the 26th of December.
Click below to enter the raffle and take your chance!
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Invitation to join our curated network of retreat partners (10 spaces only)
Dear visionary creators, facilitators, and catalysts of change,
At Freedom Ville, we are building something rare, a place where transformation is not confined to workshops, rituals, or techniques, but flows through every stone, tree, colour, breath, and moment. A place where nature is the greatest teacher, where play is medicine, where art becomes prayer, and where community is the actual container for change.
We are now inviting 10 aligned organizations and facilitators to join us as part of our curated network of retreat partners: a circle of pioneers co-creating a new kind of retreat center for a new kind of world. This is not “just another retreat venue.” And we are not calling for “just another set of facilitators.” We are looking for partners who feel called to commit to this land, to steward this space with integrity, to safeguard its energy, and to become part of the community that helps Freedom Ville grow, thrive, and stay aligned with its soul.
We are gathering those who dare to create experiences that are: out of the ordinary, artistically daring, rooted in freedom of expression, alive with play, supported by nature, grounded in deep transformation without heaviness.
Because healing does not have to be heavy. Transformation does not have to be hard. And remembering who we are should feel like coming home — not like fixing ourselves.
What We Are Building Together
Freedom Ville is a regenerative village, eco-boutique retreat center, creative sanctuary, and open-air museum. We blend art, nature, play, community, education, and consciousness into experiences that help people reconnect with their inner truth, creativity, body, joy, sense of belonging and their personal and collective responsibility.
Our retreats will be rooted in our core values:
CONSCIOUSNESS — CONNECTION — COURAGE — and always… PLAY.
In the Dome of Transformation and across our grounds, we want to offer programs that bring: education, artistic expression, healing, nature immersion, embodiment, community, joy. A full-spectrum human experience — both light and deep, both wild and still, both creative and introspective.
Read more: Download our Retreat booklet (pdf) here.
Why Only 10 Retreat Partners?
Because we are not interested in hustling for retreats. We want alignment, not volume. We want long-term collaboration, not scattering energy. We want quality, not quantity. This curated network will shape the soul of Freedom Ville for years to come.
You will be part of the inner creative backbone of this place. Together, we will build a retreat center that stands out because it stands true. Your presence is not just for business. It helps root Freedom Ville’s vision, strengthen our community, attract the right people, and bring regenerative learning to the world.
In turn, Freedom Ville will support your work, your growth, and your impact. This is a co-evolution.
What we are looking for
We are calling in partners who:
• feel a natural resonance with this land and vision
• committed to organize at least 1 retreat per year for at least 20 people
• are pioneers, not followers
• create experiences that are embodied, artistic, inclusive, conscious, and bold
• see transformation holistically (not only spiritual, but also playful, creative, emotional, somatic, practical)
• bring healing without heaviness
• value collaboration over competition
• want to belong to a long-term community of creators
• wish to anchor their retreats in a place that matches their soul’s mission
If this is you, you will know.
What this collaboration offers
As one of our 10 Retreat Partners, you become part of an exclusive creative tribe that benefits from:
• priority access to retreat dates
• shared visibility, aligned audiences, and cross-promotion
• discounted use of the Dome of Transformation
• collaboration opportunities inside our Art & Regeneration Foundation
• co-creating festivals, seasonal gatherings, and community events
• belonging to the creative ecosystem that defines Freedom Ville’s identity
• input into the development of new experiences, installations, and programs
• long-term partnership pricing and benefits
This network will be the pulse, the creative force, and the signature identity of Freedom Ville’s retreat culture.
A call to the creators of tomorrow
If you feel a pull, a quiet or even better, a full body “yes” inside, this is your invitation.
To apply as a retreat partner, please send an email to: geral@freedomville.pt with the subject line: Retreat Partner Application
And answer these questions:
1. What is the essence of the work you bring into the world?
2. Why does Freedom Ville feel like an aligned home for your retreats?
3. What themes or experiences would you love to co-create here?
4. How do your offerings integrate nature, creativity, consciousness, and play?
5. What is your vision for a long-term collaboration with us?
You are not applying to rent a venue.
You are applying to shape the soul of a place.
If your values, your vision, and your energy align with ours,
you may be one of the ten holding the creative heart of Freedom Ville.
We look forward to meeting the pioneers who will co-build this extraordinary chapter with us.
With love,
Nadia & Freedom Ville
