A transformative new life program for sustainable living in Thailand ðŸ‡đ🇭

intentional community, Thailand

Revitalize your soul, mind, and body beyond traditional marriage and family structures

Alternative lifestyle ecovillage in Thailand

Our Thai Community

Located in a peaceful and beautiful ecovillage supported by the local temple. It is approximately 180km away from Chiang Mai city and 80km away from Chiang Rai city. The ecovillage was started in September 2020 and currently has 12 members living together. Our aim is to create and build a new lifestyle model for people who are kind, diligent, simple, honest, trustworthy, and who would love to contribute themselves to human peace and sustainable development of the world.

The farm environment

Our farm has a beautiful natural environment, with faraway mountains surrounded by fairyland clouds and mists. You can hear melodious birdsong from the rain trees throughout the day. We have beautiful flowers blooming under the sunshine, and all kinds of organic vegetables are lush and neatly planted in the fields. Ducks are chasing and playing in the river happily, while buffalos and horses are grazing leisurely on the open grassland. People living here are diligent, kind, happy, and most civilized, they joke and laugh a lot every day, creating a paradise filled with love and auspiciousness.

Facilities and Community Life

The Thailand branch has a total area of 80 acres, including residential areas, a public kitchen, activity halls, pavilions, grassland, woodlands, vegetable and flower gardens, orchards, banana forests, rivers, and small lakes. In addition to members of our community, we also have some neighbours living in the courtyard. We help and get along with each other happily and harmoniously.

Open invitation

We welcome people from all over the world, regardless of your backgrounds, races, religions, cultures, and nations. As long as you are interested in this new lifestyle mode, please come to visit us, experience this happy and simple life together, and help create, improve, and perfect this new lifestyle mode for all kind and lovely people on earth! We wish you a happy and unforgettable stay.

Visitor guidelines

If you are visiting as a group, we can currently accommodate no more than 10 people at a time. We recommend each visitor stay for one week to engage with and experience our community fully. If both sides feel a good connection, visitors may extend their stay or even consider becoming members.

Fees and accommodation

Fee: 350 THB/person/day (including meals and accommodation).

  • Accommodation
    • We can arrange rooms or tents with everything prepared well, and it is convenient to use a hot water shower, sink, and toilet. Alternatively, you are welcome to bring your own tent, as we have a large area available for camping.
  • Meals
    • We have two vegetarian meals a day, snacks in between, and occasionally meat. Except for drinking beer or wine on celebrations, alcohol and smoking are prohibited in the community.
Work expectations

Every visitor is expected to work no less than two hours a day with us on planting, weeding, working in the garden, cleaning, or laundry, etc.

Transportation

There are direct buses from Chiang Mai or Bangkok to Tha Ton every day. If you are in Chiang Mai, you can take a bus from the Chang Phueak Bus Terminal, which takes 4 hours. If you are in Bangkok, you can take a bus from the Mochit Bus Terminal, which takes 12 hours. There are no direct buses from Chiang Rai, but you can take a local van to Fang and then a mini bus from Fang to get here.

Important notes
  1. We accept visitors who stay for no longer than seven days.
  2. Visitors should be physically and mentally healthy.
  3. Smoking, drinking, or drug use is not allowed.
  4. If you have any allergies or dietary restrictions, please inform us in advance.
  5. We have a full-time chef in the kitchen, and everyone eats in the public dining room. Please do not waste food and finish everything on your plate.
  6. Keep your bedroom or tent clean and tidy, and make your bed when you are not using it.
  7. Please keep quiet from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm and from 9:30 pm to 7:00 am as these are resting and sleeping times.
  8. Visitors are responsible for their own health and safety.
  9. Visitors are not required to work like us, and working time is voluntary according to their own conditions.
  10. Our community is not profitable yet, and all income comes from donations from our members. We appreciate any donations from visitors based on their experience here, which will contribute to the construction of this place. Thank you.

Services provided
  • Comfortable and clean tents, a shower, sink, and toilet.
  • Two meals will be served each day at 7:30 am and 4:00 pm, mostly vegetarian. Meat is occasionally available. Food and snacks are also available in the kitchen at noon.
  • Laundry service is available, except for socks, undergarments, and towels.
  • Working gloves and hats are available as needed.
  • Please let us know if you need any daily necessities.
  • Community activities include sharing Lifechanyuan values and introducing the New Life Mode, as well as entertainment activities.
Schedule of the Thailand branch
  • Breakfast: 7:30am – 8:00am
  • Work: 8:00am – 11:00am
  • Break: 11:00am – 2:00pm
  • Work: 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
  • Dinner: 4:00 pm
  • Activity: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm (activities are not arranged every day, as we are flexible with scheduling)

What category best describes your hosting arrangement? ðŸĄ
  • Community/Eco-village
Location – Where is your volunteer project located? 🌏
What are you looking for help with?
  • Building 🛠
  • Cleaning ðŸ§đ
  • Farming/gardening ðŸŒŋ🐄
When do you usually need volunteers? 📅
  • All year round
What type of accommodation can you provide? 🏕
  • Dormitory/shared rooms 🛌
  • Tent 🎊
Fee transparency 🆓🔍
  • Fee: 350 THB/person/day (including meals and accommodation).
Language ðŸ—Ģ🇎🇧
  • English
How to get to your site ✈ 🗚

There are direct buses from Chiang Mai or Bangkok to Tha Ton every day. If you are in Chiang Mai, you can take a bus from the Chang Phueak Bus Terminal, which takes 4 hours. If you are in Bangkok, you can take a bus from the Mochit Bus Terminal, which takes 12 hours. There are no direct buses from Chiang Rai, but you can take a local van to Fang and then take a mini-bus from Fang to get here.

Is there internet access? 🌐

Yes!


Additional information

Welcome to Lifechanyuan International Family Society Thailand Branch!

This is not just a place to live – it is an ideal home where humanity and nature coexist in harmony. Our members come from different backgrounds and countries, but we are united by our shared faith and alignment with the”800 Values for New Era Humans.”

Here, life is simple yet full of spirituality. We grow vegetables, plant flowers, build houses, cook, and clean. Although our daily activities are ordinary, they are infused with warmth and joy because we live with love, respect, and freedom at the core of our values.

Emotional and sexual relationships in our community are free yet noble and elegant. We care for each other with mutual respect and love, rejecting any form of coercion or restriction. We firmly oppose possessiveness and exclusivity in relationships, as they are the root causes of suffering.

Children in our community grow up freely, seeing all members as their family, and the entire community takes responsibility for their upbringing and education. Elderly members regain their youthful spirits, living joyfully alongside the young and children, free from loneliness. Diseases are almost nonexistent here, and many people who previously suffered from illnesses have regained their health after living in our home for about a year.

Over the past 16 years, we have successfully established 12 branches in China. Now, our Thailand branch is in operation, and our vision is to extend this harmonious way of life across the globe. Our dream is a world without racial discrimination, suffering, or conflicts – only harmony between humans and nature, between individuals and society, and among people themselves.

We are not a religious organization but rather an international family of love and harmony. If you are drawn to this way of life, we warmly invite you to visit and experience it for yourself.

intentional community, Thailand


CONTACT DETAILS 🔍📧


Hostname: Jie Jing
Email: jiejinglifechanyuan@gmail.com
Tel & Whatsapp: +660830748560

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Thank you and may the Greatest Creator bless you! 🙏

 


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