The Escola da Terra is a community of like-minded families from Portugal, Germany. Iltaly, Perú, Usa and living in Sintra, Portugal.  What connects all families in this community is a desire to live life with fuller awareness.  The Escola da Terra is a school for adults and for children, a school where we put into practice and teach ways of being more present with each other and with the challenges we find in life.

 The School aims to be a sustainable school based on the principals of permaculture and in the  inspiration of the waldorf pedagogical philosophy.

We all share the passion for being an integral part of the upbringing of our children and raising them in a way that preserves their connection to Nature and their connection to their hearts.The people in the community have a wide range of talents and we share our knowledge by holding workshops at the Escola da Terra; some of the themes of these workshops are: eating with raw foods, baby massage, permaculture, music therapy, natural parenting, conscious pregnancy and birth, yoga for pregnant women, the connection of modern physics and eastern philosophy.