Mountain Seas -- an artistic residential community
Mountain Seas Community offers a dynamic opportunity to live and work together on one of the world’s most beautiful remote islands. At a time when the world needs co-creative models, we at Mountain Seas are exploring cooperative efforts in community living: The potential for building cottage industries, organic gardening and farming, art studio use, and nature-based tourism accommodation. This offering creates the lifestyle of your choice: Be autonomous and private, or meet your neighbours for outdoor adventures, gardening, art projects or a good meal together.
We are currently offering strata title ownership of a stunning 160 acre property on Flinders Island, Tasmania. See details by clicking on the Strata Opportunity. The vision for this community is still young … but is growing rapidly more popular as people are seeking a way to live in a place of exquisite beauty, emphasizing organic locally grown food and expression through the arts. We also have potential opportunities for staff housing, particularly for the entrepreneurial visionary.
You can visit the Mountain Seas property as a guest at the eco-resort on the property which is currently managed by an independent operator (click here), or you can book into a self-contained unit called The Studio (for The Studio, contact Lila Sophia Tresemer here). There are a variety of art and health retreats available.
You are welcome to sign on for e-mail information
as the events are scheduled or check the Retreats page
for current information.
Play slideshow about Strata Opportunity
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Accommodation
If you wish to come visit, you are welcome to stay at our eco-resort on site, which is currently managed by an independent operator. A self-contained cottage is available as well by contacting Lila. Live links for both exist in the last paragraph of the Home page.
In the future, one of our main cottage industries for the Mountain Seas valley will be an eco-tourism resort, with more extensive accommodations which will be built into the Strata Title units, and provide for larger groups. Those who live here, and who have a deeper connection with the powers of this place, can welcome those who visit, and help them touch something deep in Nature and in their own beings.
Organic Gardens
We have the cleanest air and water on the planet (as measured by the meteorological station nearby - the world's baseline).
We are certified organic (NASAA 7088).
We practice biodynamics.
We have energy installations on the property - paramagnetic towers and other energy devices to work with the powerful energy currents and lines of healing that move through here.
We have a year-round supply of water coming from Fotheringate Creek.
We have excellent growing soils.
We provide an important portion of the Island’s needs for vegetables (and some fruits), and have much room to expand.
We have a Vegetable Processing Room approved by the Health Department...a cottage industry-use is possible here!
Our growing spaces are fenced against the wildlife so prominent here.
Our solar systems can be seen as a kind of garden too, harvesting the sun’s light to help power our systems here.
Arts Programs and Artist in Residence
We feel that an experience of Nature - its beauty, power, intricacy - can be integrated by expression through art. The arts for which we have chosen to provide materials are clay-work, drawing, and painting. Other arts are practiced here - especially photography and sculptural constructions.
An Artist-in-Residence program ensures that a steady stream of very interesting people is staying here and sharing their insights. Applications will be available later in 2012.
Wilderness Experiences
City living, including suburban living, is so busy with cars and shops that it veils the fact that we depend on the powers and generosity of Nature to support us.
We experience the mountain that embraces this valley to be a living intelligence from which we can learn. Many places on Flinders Island offer additional possibilities for deepening in relation to the foundations of the earth. Our valley is very special in that regard. The Enchanted Way Walk provides an excellent introduction, from which we can range further in our explorations.
We have 40000 acres of National Park on three sides, as well as the great expanse of ocean - Mountain and Seas.
To connect the wild powers of Nature with one’s own inner wilderness, one can live in a place such as this or one can visit regularly for a few weeks. The third option - never knowing this beauty and power - is not recommended for one’s personal life or for the future of humanity.
Sacred Time
We are meant to balance our time in houses and before a computer screen - with quiet listening to the vaster phenomena and cycles of life energy working through the land and through the cosmos.
“Sacred” means something that is not about career or FaceBook, but something that involves the deepest meaning one encounters in one’s soul. Everyone can feel how some parts of life require nurturing, yet defy explanation.
The production of art in response to personal experience of Nature can be seen as sacred time.
The regular seasonal festivals give an opportunity for sacred time at a community level (residents and reaching out beyond to neighbours).
Working with an internationally-renowned energy designer, we have installed dozens of small and large devices to manage the very strong energy working through this place. The designer said that he has not seen healing streams this powerful in any other place in Australia.