Los Angeles
Natural Building Ojai Camp Retreat
Return To The Land
Join us for a three-day, two-night immersive retreat at East End Eden—a 10-acre permaculture farm in Ojai where ancestral ways meet the emergent future through hands-on workshops and daily practice.
For one weekend, 15 guests will unplug and step into a living experience of how to be with the land—not just exist on it. This is an invitation into rhythm, into process, into participation.
Whether you’re drawn by sustainability, homesteading, or simply a desire to step away from the modern pace, this retreat offers more than knowledge—it offers perspective. A return to something slower, deeper, and more essential.
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When
05/22 - 05/24
Nights
02
Intensity
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Across three days, we’ll move through an experiential immersion in natural building, off-grid living, and land-based practices. Participants will engage directly with the process—learning through doing, through collaboration, and through presence. From shaping materials with your hands to understanding the systems that sustain life off-grid, each moment is grounded in relationship: to the land, to the work, and to each other.
This is not a certification or a conventional workshop. It’s a place-based, relational learning experience—one that values curiosity over perfection, process over outcome, and connection as the foundation of all meaningful work.
Natural Building
Hands-on experience with cob, wattle and daub, clay plaster and sculptural design work. Exposure to each phase of building a structure, and tours of existing structures. Space to explore specific questions and methods based on group interest.
Embodied & Communal Practices
Meditation and grounding practices. Council circles around the fire•Collective visioning and conversations around emerging futures. Shared meals, songs, and storytelling. Improvisational movement games. These elements form the foundation that supports both technical learning and meaningful connection.
Itinerary
We arrive at East End Eden and cross into a slower world, setting up camp, sharing a first meal, and letting the land begin to work on us. Our opening circle brings everyone together — a moment to arrive fully, set intentions, and step out of the external pace of life. From there, we begin the work: learning the foundations of wattle and daub and structural framing, hands in earth, building something real together from the ground up. As the light fades, we gather for dinner, then move into the night around the fire — music, movement, and the early formation of community.
About
Sage Stoneman is a multidisciplinary artist, natural builder and designer, co-counselor, and student of advaita vedanta (an ancient Hindu philosophy of non-dualism). He believes that learning how to build a home with local and natural materials is a fundamental step towards liberation for all people.
After studying with the legendary Sun Ray Kelley, he has traveled the country designing and building sculptural cob homes and teaching workshops. he refers to his work as HOMB (womb-home, or housing/healing opportunities making beauty) and believes that the art of building a home for oneself is a therapeutic practice of returning to our source.
After studying with the legendary Sun Ray Kelley, he has traveled the country designing and building sculptural cob homes and teaching workshops. he refers to his work as HOMB (womb-home, or housing/healing opportunities making beauty) and believes that the art of building a home for oneself is a therapeutic practice of returning to our source.
