What is Ayni?
Ayni is a message of inspiration for business owners, educators, mothers and fathers, producers and public managers. A place that wants to be gentle and loving towards children, and that invites adults to reconnect with their own essence and to reflect on their relationship with life and with the world around them.
What we do
We carry a message to society that we can move forward. Take steps ahead. Show that we understand the importance and the context of being a civilisation living on a wonderful planet that asks for our care and our honour. Through initiatives in education, economy and agroecology, we express real possibilities for many areas of society. They are invitations to keep hope and trust in the greater good.
Our school
The heart of Ayni! The reason every other area of the project exists. Our proposals for education are expressed here, day by day, with the families and children who share the learning space in our magical forest!
Hotel Ayni
Just like Tourism with purpose, we believe in consuming products and services whose financial result is invested into causes. That is the reason our hotel exists: to keep the school and the whole project running and open to society!
Courses
Through our courses and retreats you can learn more about Ayni, invest in your professional development and give yourself moments of inspiration and rest!
Tourism with purpose
We believe in a new perspective for the economy and for one of its great pillars, tourism. Travelling with your family, resting and discovering places can also be a way of supporting initiatives that improve our world!
Coworking and Event space
The calm of the Serra Gaúcha is reflected in every corner of our coworking space, which is functional and, at the same time, an environment of quiet and inspiration.
Agroecological growing
Our food-growing area, free of pesticides and inspired by the principles of permaculture and agroforestry.
How to take part
I want to support
Your support gives us the motivation to keep going!
I want to enrol my child
After you fill in the interest form, we contact interested families as places become available for the following year. Please note that teaching takes place in Portuguese.
Interest form for places at Escola Ayni
For information about enrolment and available places, contact our team by email at familias@ayni.org.br
I want to volunteer
Ayni means reciprocity. A way of living in which sharing and being useful give meaning to existence.
Fill in the interest form to join the waiting list for new groups.
To learn more about our volunteer programme, email the team at voluntariado@ayni.org.br
I want to join courses and retreats
Through our courses and retreats you can learn more about Ayni, invest in your professional development and give yourself moments of inspiration and rest!
Courses are today the source of income that sustains the school, allowing us to offer free places to families and to keep inspiring a new kind of education in Brazil.
I want to visit
An experience of reconnecting with our inner child, through the forest and the learning spaces of Ayni!
Tours on the first Saturday of each month at 2:30 pm, lasting two and a half hours.
I want to stay at the Hotel
The Hotel exists to support the School, a project that offers free education in a magical forest. Every booking at the hotel contributes directly to keeping this mission alive.
We believe business can go beyond profit. Our goal is to use every stay, every event and every moment to fund an education that transforms lives, inspires people and creates a more conscious connection with the planet.
Transparency Portal
We express our gratitude and honour for every resource that reaches the project, through information published every quarter.
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