intentional - Season 1 Episode 2: Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage

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We invite you to join us on a journey toward true community and a sustainable way of life for all!
Welcome to the second episode of the first season of intentional, a documentary series on intentional communities and community living. This episode features Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage in Rutledge, MO.
0:00 - What do you get from community?
1:18 - Dancing in the wild
6:56 - Returning home after the visitor program
12:50 - How do you make a living in rural Missouri?
15:52 - On the visitor program
22:42 - Sharing vehicles and food
29:43 - Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage
31:36 - Straw bale insulation
37:52 - How to live a sustainable life
43:34 - The silver lining to death
46:57 - It takes a village to build a culture
52:22 - How would you change the village?
Dancing Rabbit is an ecovillage, sustainability demonstration project, and robust and growing intentional community in rural northeast Missouri.
"At Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage (DR), we understand how difficult it can be to live sustainably and responsibly within modern US culture. We believe that we can work to build a healthy alternative: a social structure that is both non-exploitative and vibrant. As our village grows, we see this ideal take shape more clearly every day: a diverse range of people living ecologically sound lives in a community that truly serves as an example of positive human action within the natural world.
In 1997 the DR Land Trust (DRLT) purchased 280 acres in the rolling hills of northeastern Missouri. We are now deep into pioneering-constructing buildings while continuing to plan and develop community structure. There is an ever-increasing emphasis on internal economy, which includes bartering and an internal currency. Eventually, we see 500 to 1,000 people living in our village, with businesses and homes surrounding the town center."
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@intentionalworld 3 года назад

Hey everyone! Thanks so much for all of the positive comments and feedback! I started this documentary series 4 years ago, and didn't receive enough interest or funding at the time to continue with it. All of you are definitely inspiring me to look at doing more episodes. I think now more than ever, the idea of intention community living is incredibly important for humanity's future. I'm going to ask some people from Dancing Rabbit to start answering some of your questions, and will start answering the ones that I can. And, I've got hours more footage that you haven't seen yet. I'm going to start creating some short videos for you out of it. I appreciate you all very much! ~ Blue

@deniseward002 3 года назад

I love Dancing Rabbit community. I almost moved there but hit a few snags at that time. However as much as I love it and as much as it's wonderful and the people are wonderful, it's not going to change anything. It's like a little patch of smooth skin on a body of pox. What needs to happen is get rid of the idea of committees. That is patriarchal in its framework. Rather, enable a totally sovereign individual system that allows every person to make a proposal and every person to vote (or not vote, whatever each individual feels like doing) on the proposals. A new framework needs to be built. Also once you get the hang of that, stop paying for registering cars, stop getting driver's licenses and then go even further, incrementally building on each step towards integrated individual sovereignty. This is not hard! All it needs is the will! Keeping the same processes we do under patriarchy will have only minor change, only temporary change even if all you do is good. We need new systems that are durable and uphold the highest connection to equality.

@deniseward002 3 года назад

Oh, and start worker cooperations (rather than corporations or businesses - ugh) and use an alternative exchange (money) system. It's an oxymoron to want to change the world while also making profit from a business. That whole concept needs to be composted. And we shouldn't have to go anywhere, to a special place or village. If Dancing Rabbit is to be a model of anything really new, it has to change its very fundamental mental structure. The people are lovely and would be wonderful to live with but a village of like minded people is an artificial community. In real communities, there are all sorts of characters, belief systems, habits, etc. Therefore Dancing Rabbit would be better suited to holding lotteries for members to come into the community.

@samjohnson2449 3 года назад

There already was an alternative exchange system called ELMs. I cant quite remember why it got dismantled, but it got shut down around 2019

@beparadise3972 3 года назад

Thank you for that beautiful and resourceful work 🥰🙏

@chowe9 3 года назад

Astrologically speaking it seems like intentional community is definitely the way of our future. Over regulation and permitting is truly a hindrance to creative building on the coasts where I live. Laborious and expensive to the point of being prohibitive. Love the process of general consensus rather than domineering Roberts rules. So much better for community.

@tlockerk 3 года назад

An old hippie friend told me as a child, "find a place to live where people care for their elders, and have rituals to bury their dead". At eighteen it seemed silly, but I've always remembered it...most found it in small towns, the smaller the closer as they've had to learn to live WITH each other somehow. Takes a lot of personal development and growth that are vastly underestimate by outsiders.

@indianbodhidharma 2 года назад

dear brother you are 100% right - this only happens when the commune is doing it which follow by the kids or generation - todays world its too complicated where we need to find ourself first. its only possible this kind of eco village places.

@therealmegore 2 года назад

Well said Fam

@valerierogers9609 3 года назад

Intentional community is a great concept. Society is alienating; so many people get left alone, no purpose. We're social creatures, and most of us thrive in a supportive environment. The country needs more of this.

@intentionalworld 3 года назад

Amen! Thanks for watching and commenting Valerie. Glad you see the need for, and the beauty of, intentional communities.

@victoriarose3478 Год назад

Agreed 👍

@michelleleawinebarger4992 3 года назад

As someone who has visited twice, I can attest that it's no cult. It's a peaceful, realistic place that can make you examine how you're living your own life.

@intentionalworld 3 года назад

Thanks for commenting Michelle! It truly is a peaceful, realistic, beautiful place.

@deniseward002 3 года назад

But whenever you get a group of like-minded people, we must understand that it is a completely artificial setting. Real life doesn't happen like that. Oh it's lovely to be surrounded with people who care about the environment, however the majority of people couldn't give a flying crap about the environment. And if we want that to change, then we must start working on changing the belief systems and talking to people who are not in the clique.

@thecitizenfarmer7700 3 года назад

@@deniseward002 change your life then you will influence others, not by telling 'them' to change! You think it isn't real life but these are real people who came together to do something real together. THat is real life and they are influencing others by their example. Actually doing something is a lot harder at first then trying to tell other people how they need to change. Where do you stand that you think you can tell others how to live?

@thecitizenfarmer7700 3 года назад

@@deniseward002 Maybe your problems is that you just don't care enough Denise.

@deniseward002 3 года назад

@@thecitizenfarmer7700 Others can live whichever way they like but it doesn't mean we can't comment on it. Like I say, we need strategies to really change not just come together in an artificial community of like-minded people because life isn't like that. Also these people need to lay down some guidelines so that people can live in the proper way without having to go make up an artificial community. They should be able to change from wherever they're planted. We need behavioral change, not moving to a new community. We need strategies like getting off the money system and ways we can help each other do that; holding talks to teach the new theories to children so they are not just being indoctrinated with babblespeak, talking all the time and demonstrating clean living principles, energy saving principles, promoting hemp and other natural rapidly renewable raw materials, discussing and finding ways to use energy sources as locally as possible, restructuring the soil, new building codes that make towns sustainable. But all they do is really act like celebrities and show themselves to be rather elitist in my view. They are not out to change humanity, they just want to look out for themselves, like people in everywhere.

@uggali 21 день назад

Dancing Rabbit will grow and flourish and refine. Dancing Rabbit has good roots and strong foundations and blessings will rain upon the community of Dancing Rabbit 🌺

@Psychoclaw 3 года назад

This was so wonderful, and captured why I've visited three times and will be moving there in a month. It was lovely to see so many familiar faces, and to be reminded of why I'm making this change in my life.

@Gypseygirls 3 года назад

Wahooo..That's great! Just found the vid..

@katethegreatobrien 3 года назад

I want to live here. I'm definitely applying for their visitor program. This kind of living would suit me so well.

@Shinnyuu2 3 года назад

this is a cult. You're gonna get trapped

@tessamclean4379 3 года назад

I did the visitor program here a few years ago and it was such a wonderful experience. I learned things I still use to this day and met some of the most amazing people. I also healed emotionally in ways I didn't even recognize that I needed. This is not a cult and these are good people. I definitely recommend a visit! It definitely takes adjusting, especially if you decide to stay in a tent the entries time, but truthfully it was one of the best experiences of my life. I don't think I recognized just how amazing it was at the time. Don't be surprised if you want to stay!

@lemku3318 2 года назад

@@Shinnyuu2 how did you get out eventually? Did you go to a better Village or decide is not for you n just went on living alone? How much time it took for you to realise you re stuck n how much to actually leave?

@lemku3318 2 года назад

@@Shinnyuu2 i guess any community can be a cult, in good or bad way depends on if your needs are met or no.... Life can be a cult. For example living with people that have totally different needs than you and ridicule or put u down or just being alone with them, isnt it a cult of loneliness coz u don't belong there...

@Kim-yr2du 3 года назад

I want to join a community like this. I feel lile the only person anywhere near the area I live who knows that humanity is killing itself. Its pensacola, FL. Even as the hurricanes roll in and half the country burn, no one questions it. Its so bizarre to me.. It isnt realistic to even attempt to live a more earth friendly life in a place like this. It isnt designed for it. I dont feel good about being a part of this anymore. Thanks for this video. Its incredibly comforting to find other ppl actually doing something that matters. Who actually care about humanity and the planet we've been given. You are all beautiful.

@khaliahgranillo7880 3 года назад

hey kim! i understand your desire to put the earths wellbeing first :) I live in jacksonville and i'm really interested in starting an eco village, i hope you see this and we can share ideas about sustainabliity and share our passions.

@Kim-yr2du 3 года назад

@@khaliahgranillo7880 To be honest, ive always lived the wrong way. So far ive only got a deep desire to change that. But I live in pensacola. Where I am more or less alone in that desire. All that I know so far ive learned via youtube, sadly lol Id be a great candidate to join one and learn, but as far as starting one.. Id be pretty lost. I mean, I self educate. Enthusiastically. So if given the resources, I could probably go pretty far. But again, id literally be starting from scratch. I'm just now starting to phase out meat. I'm like a toddler lol

@BonejanglesTV 3 года назад

Hello from Clearwater!!! A lot of Florida folks getting tired of the world...not surprising at all, haha

@Kim-yr2du 3 года назад

@@BonejanglesTV yeah ppl are not ok here lol

@davidschmidt270 3 года назад

I feel the exact same way Kim....I live in Phoenix AZ and in a really really bad gang, drug invested area....and I'm making small changes... I've got a really huge backyard and so I'm going to create a micro farm with chickens....but ultimately it's like you said the overall environment is not really cohesive for what I'm trying to do...I wanna go to one of these places in the future. I graduated RSI air conditioning School ( it's really big out here) graduated in 08'...within months went through 3 jobs because of a lack of training... lost my truck in a car accident with my Mom coming back from a job interview with her friend that I didn't get and lost my apartment.... I've never really been the same.... started drinking alot( became an alcoholic) living with my uncle and had my student loan bounce....last time I knew it was 20,000$ ....I just want to relocate to a place like this... having a good group of people..live off the land .. contributing, helping out... playing guitars at sunset..simple things, I'm not foolish enough to think that it's going to be perfect...I just know I could be better in an environment like this

@Brain_Sync 3 года назад

I always entertained the idea of sustainable living, sharing things, having a more natural lifestyle, where everybody is treated as a human being.

@clairekuzmyk3061 3 года назад

I'm in the starting stages of creating this kind of space in Canada. Thank you for the inspiration that myself and many others get from this video! If there are any Canadians who share this vision and would like to be a part of building something similar, please get in touch!

@liv5158 3 года назад

Same!!! I abousley love living in a village with a bunch of different people different stories where we all have a voice and can live a natural way we need a village lile this in canada!

@jenjung1090 3 года назад

I would. I live in Toronto, Ontario. Am retired. Would love to a live in a community like your s

@artemisvandevi 3 года назад

Yes! I’m exploring this for myself and my 10 year old daughter 💗🙏🏼🌿

@ZOMAG_DJ 3 года назад

I'm in Québec, and I'm in the very early stages of this with a few others! =D

@nid2598 3 года назад

Where in Canada?

@hareeshkumar3660 7 месяцев назад

Our old Indian life style...Big Joint families..But rural India still continue...Best of luck...

@squid24736 2 года назад

It was so lovely to hear how they'd like to see things change even though they already love it so much. One of my biggest fears that I have about moving to an ecovillage like this is one that several of them actually touched on, and that is how accepting they'll be towards gay and trans people like me. I love hearing that they're already looking for more queer people and there are already people out there like me who are living the kind of life I want to have! It makes me hopeful that I'll be able to find the kind of community that I'm looking for :)

@ariesdelfuego Год назад

people of all sexualities are accepted at the community i just got accepted to visit. many communities do not discriminate!! much luck to u❤

@bernadinemarr8432 5 месяцев назад

Doesn't seem to be much diversity in ethnicities.

@boshenaw.929 3 года назад

I live in a little village in Australia where we have a lot of those elements. Around 1500 people in the village plus about 10K "in the hills" around the village. My social life has never been busier, we have an overabundance of great food and life could not be any better as far as I am concerned :-)

@victoriaphelan3390 3 года назад

Hi Boshena, I am in Australia and looking for places to try out this style of living. Would you feel comfortable posting a hint or the name and then deleting it after a day or so? No worries if not, thank you - Victoria

@boshenaw.929 3 года назад

@@victoriaphelan3390 I do not need to delete it. It is Nimbin :-) It is famous in Australia to have been "alternative" for decades now...

@victoriaphelan3390 3 года назад

@@boshenaw.929 oh, awesome, I know nimbin of course :)) should have figured based on the size you were talking! Thanks Boshena

@i29countrylifestyle88 Месяц назад

I want to live there, can I?

@maliabella 3 года назад

Loved watching this! thank you for such producing such a thoughtful, engaging, and beautiful documentary.

@intentionalworld 3 года назад

Thanks Malia! I appreciate the feedback, and love that you enjoyed the documentary!

@EZENS. 3 года назад

Canned beans and songs Makes everything just so much more magical

@Thomas-1023 3 месяца назад

This is pure genius. I recently enjoyed a similar book, and it was sheer genius. "The Art of Meaningful Relationships in the 21st Century" by Leo Flint

@jeremymiller5043 3 года назад

I've been to dancing rabbit three times. Think about her very often and I'm thrilled when new videos like this come out. Keep up the good work rabbits! ❤

@davidschmidt270 3 года назад

Sounds cool

@dianner6637 2 года назад

I visited this lovely community 3 years ago and have watched this video at least 5 times, just to see some of the lovely people of Dancing Rabbit again. Thank you for making it available. My hope had been to visit again this year, but, as we all know, these are challenging times.

@daniel-san836 3 года назад

Great to see a happy organised intentional community. So many great initiatives here. Everything you've achieved this far is definitely not easy. Well done!

@EZENS. 3 года назад

What a beautiful introduction Thank you for your intentions Heart warming Especially when the word Community is being used for so many eco touristic enterprises..

@demois 3 года назад

Sure wish there were more episodes! And also europe ones :p

@intentionalworld 3 года назад

Thanks Wout! That was the plan, and then I had difficulty finding funding at the time. Planning on firing this project back up though due to the renewed interest.

@mominthe209 2 года назад

I noticed that everyone who spoke sounded very calm and happy.

@MissBforBella 3 года назад

Love this! Thank you for sharing the story and hope of Dancing Rabbit.

@intentionalworld 3 года назад

Thanks Michelle! I'm glad that you enjoyed it!

@ralfgroh2719 Год назад

It does my old hippie heart good to see the free living cultural legacy moving strongly forward. Thanks for what you do. Keep on truckin'!

@intentionalworld 10 месяцев назад

Thank you so much! 💙

@LOGICZOMBIE 3 года назад

Thank you for your contribution.

@marionesparteiro1954 8 месяцев назад

THANK YOU for this documentary series. Very needed at the moment. Just knowing and being able to imagine concrete aspects of post capitalist life gives so much hope

@brookbergsma5089 2 года назад

Very polite people. I got an email once it was just bad timing with school. I love this documentary though it gives me way more insight and makes me more passionate about what I believe in. Also, Cob looks like Jeremy Renner. Love y’all and what you do keep up the good work.

@bellasimons665 2 года назад

Aloha nui e malama pono! I found y'all! I can hardly stay in my skin....so delighted! I feel a ROAD TRIP on da horizon! Cant wait to talk to y'all! Bella

@Shining_Waters 2 года назад

What a beautiful and inspiring video. Thank you for sharing

@janetbarragan5360 3 года назад

Just bought 40 acres in AZ would love to build a community like this! One day!

@intentionalworld 3 года назад

That’s awesome! Congrats! I love AZ. Where in AZ is it?

@KodeyWhiteWolf 6 месяцев назад

Love the video. Lots of great info. You get a realist view of Dancing Rabbit

@nicolek.3080 Год назад

We aren't looking to move to Missouri, but this is the most appealing intentional living community I've ever seen

@intentionalworld 10 месяцев назад

I understand. Have you checked out www.ic.org/ to see if there are communities in an area you would like to live in?

@pootiesart 3 года назад

“RELAX FAST” this hit differently.

@magsterz123 2 года назад

This was such a wonderful piece, thank you!

@myindigoblues5796 3 года назад

I love the houses and the buildings. Very inspiring. Thanks ✌️

@intentionalworld 3 года назад

Aren’t they beautiful? Thanks for your comment!

@FLEABONE 2 года назад

I need a community like this for myself and my parents. On top of wanting to live a more sustainable lifestyle we've watched our state change to an extremely far right place and we're in the midst of an affordable housing crisis. I've been priced out of the rental market and my parents are wanting to sell their house while the real-estate boom is ongoing. We've lived on both coasts and in the middle, get along with everyone and have found our community new arrivals are far far right leaning.

@CornyG 2 года назад

How inspiring!

@noahluke11 3 года назад

Love this series!!

@intentionalworld 3 года назад

Thanks noahluke11! I'm hoping to film more episodes soon.

@mariehrckavene7253 2 года назад

Thanks for making this. I love many ideas from here, even thought I visited someecovillages and communities. I love the car sharing and would love to implement it here.

@alisonmayrhofer3039 3 года назад

Inspiring and beautiful

@CrazyChickenBre 3 года назад

This is so beautiful

@MakepByAJae 2 года назад

I love this concept of communalism and eco village 16:16

@bellyacres3jillyandkerry281 3 года назад

Surprising to see these people who want more people more stuff and closer to city, more diversity, more more more ! They are talking about creating what it is they left to live there in the first place. UNBELIEVABLE!

@intentionalworld 3 года назад

Hi Jill, they actually don't want to completely recreate what they left, but would like to integrate more elements of it within a sustainable context. Nothing wrong with that. They are way out in the middle of nowhere, which can get a little boring sometimes.

@bellyacres3jillyandkerry281 3 года назад

@@intentionalworld Oh I see that. I never said anything wrong with it. What they are trying to create is how eco-villages start-but we see when all those "integrated elements" of MORE (which don't sound much like sustainable wants-to me) are added- it turns into a modern place dependent on other things for "sustainability-and entertainment Being content would be hard if you are always "Bored or wanting more-better-easier . Just my opinion. Thanks for the response. Loved your documentary.

@hempchimp7538 3 года назад

live the dream!

@Bossebear2355 3 года назад

Amazing! Keep making videos! I appreciate them! I am purchasing 4 acres and really have the desire for a small vegan community in Texas! This video was very encouraging!❤️

@intentionalworld 3 года назад

Thanks Sarah H! Glad you liked it! I'm hoping to get started filming more episodes before the end of the year.

@janetbarragan5360 3 года назад

Just purchased 40 acres, I would love to do the same

@brentwhistler 3 года назад

I love this video - Of course I watched it years ago, but it's great to see all of my friends again. Hi rabbits! Also, why did I seem soooo stoned in my clips? I swear I wasn't smoking anything! LOL.

@intentionalworld 3 года назад

Ha! Hi Brent! Hope you’re doing wonderfully. 💙

@Jessica-kk1cz 3 года назад

Wonderful video! It was beautifully filmed and I feel I learned a lot from the interviews about this kind of living and community. I appreciate the honesty and authenticity of the folks too. Subscribed!

@intentionalworld 3 года назад

Thanks Jessica! I really appreciate the love! I’m working on new content. Thanks for subscribing! ~ Blue

@silviannedelmars8084 3 года назад

What a lovely film, kudos to everyone involved! I'm signed up for visitor program in May, absolutely can't wait to attend.

@intentionalworld 3 года назад

Thanks Silvianne Delmars! Glad that you enjoyed it! You are going to have such a good time when you visit. I love Dancing Rabbit!

@doctorsnake8764 3 года назад

I lived in an organic community farm in the late sixties and early seventies. It began as a commune and became a community and it is still there today, over 50 years later. There are 3 books about the place.

@intentionalworld 3 года назад

That’s awesome! Thanks for doing the work back then! Are you referring to The Farm?

@doctorsnake8764 3 года назад

@@intentionalworld No, The Farm is in Tennessee, founded by Stephen Gaskin and his following. I used to go hear him speak at the Straight Theater in San Francisco in the late 1960s. I visited SF when the bus caravan was forming. Then, when the caravan was on its way to Tennessee, it came through the valley in Southern Oregon where I lived on the farm. I am full of stories from those days.

@intentionalworld 3 года назад

@@doctorsnake8764 What incredible history! You must have wonderful stories to tell!

@doctorsnake8764 3 года назад

@@intentionalworld The stories from those days might be wonderful but the events in the stories were both good and bad. Those times were very different than today - fire bombings by locals, extreme racism against blacks by local authorities, suicides, SIDS. It was a time of great upheaval in this country - socially, politically, spiritually, ideologically, in so many ways that we might have trouble picturing today.

@dhrubamaharjan8732 2 года назад

This is the kind of a community I would like to be a member of.

@gretaprisby5798 2 года назад

50:04 - This is one of the biggest issues in modern culture. This every day 9-5 lifestyle that you just get stuck in for, what, 50 years of your life? Maybe longer? It's no small wonder there's so much stress and anxiety in life. Having to deal with that daunting, mechanical monotony on top of all the other issues in your life and the world at large... it just seems so unhealthy. How relieving it must be to be a part of a community where a different lifestyle culture is cultivated and supported.

@MAL-wy2fz 3 года назад

Their hierarchy structure is very similar to a Quaker meeting. As a Friend (quaker) this is so interesting to me because I wonder how they decided upon this structure. I wonder if it was a more organic process that influenced this hierarchy, or if it was research.

@dandelionstars 3 года назад

we used Robert's rules of Order

@khaliahgranillo7880 3 года назад

WE need a community of floridians to work together and make something like this happen!

@ShelbySavinsky 3 года назад

I’m down!!

@davidschmidt270 3 года назад

You literally don't have anything there?

@rainbowflavoredcat 3 года назад

I'm in FL too. I wish there was something here for sure

@CrazyChickenBre 3 года назад

Agreed!!! Yes we do

@magneticinteriors8530 2 года назад

A beautiful eco village community! And with so much to share and teach, I agree with Rae that it is a pity that the location is so remote, it is hard to bring city folk in and for the commuity to sell produce, crafts, art etc. Permaculture, as a topic is gaining traction around the world and is applicable whether you have land or not. We have a small plot of land in S France and apply PDC principles - also looking to connect with intentional commuities in Europe to see how they differ.

@maxonion7604 2 года назад

I would like to visit

@jmonk2011 Год назад

Such a great story in this documentary! Thank you for producing this, I am so happy this community exists. I live in Portland, OR and there are some community spaces in the city doing this too; places to join these communities are always limited. We need more like these! I would love to join an intentional community in the PNW region. Right now I'm living in a small intentional space with three friends oriented around our shared dietary need to avoid gluten. It would be great to knit together larger community spaces to be more established with ongoing intentional relationships in the bigger picture. Much love!

@intentionalworld 10 месяцев назад

Thanks! I love Portland. So beautiful there, and the people are so nice. Great luck with your search for community! 💙

@zarenemerson8120 3 года назад

Very interesting but not surprising to see that as the community grew, the governing process has moved from consensus (i.e. direct democracy) towards elected representatives and decisions informed by committee, much like the standard system of the federal, state, and most local governments. I wonder how long the sense of "intentional community' can last without keeping firm limits on the size of the community and/or prohibiting private ownership of businesses?

@renenberg5792 3 года назад

With sociocracy the power is balanced across the people doing the work...and anyone can join the work and add their voice. Obviously, you can't do direct consensus processes over a certain number of people if you ever want to decide anything and move forward. In sociocracy if you want to participate in decisions and elections you just have to show up. Generally, I believe the option of private business is dependent on how much resource it uses. If, for instance, you want a private farming business on the community land, you have to somehow make up for the fact that everyone there is paying for the shared land that you're using. But with any community, the limits and decisions must be based on the agreed on values that the community is adopted. As long as they remain at the center of decisions and involvement in decision making is accessible to anyone that wants it....it works.

@davidschmidt270 3 года назад

@@renenberg5792 👏👏👏👏👍

@chowe9 3 года назад

Captions please Cob. Thank you so much for this inspirational work!

@intentionalworld 3 года назад

Hi chowe9, I just added captions to this episode. Enjoy! ~ Blue (creator of this series)

@Pia-ir2hn Год назад

This was beautiful and gives me hope.

@intentionalworld 10 месяцев назад

Thank you! 💙

@jamiemcintosh3480 3 года назад

What a fantastic documentary! I just filled out my visitor application. Hope I can do it!

@davidschmidt270 3 года назад

👏👏👏👍🍻💯🤠

@intentionalworld 3 года назад

Thanks Jamie! It was a labor love, that's for sure. Hope you get to visit Dancing Rabbit! You will love it!

@shamanicmafiaco 11 месяцев назад

I was really excited to come across this, as I am beginning the process of planning an eco village with some friends in Colorado.

@intentionalworld 10 месяцев назад

Awesome! Be sure and subscribe to stay tuned. I'm creating a lot of new content for the channel about intentional communities, and starting your own community!

@jennifermerva9538 Год назад

This is exactly what I am looking for.

@intentionalworld 10 месяцев назад

Awesome! They have a great visitor program. www.dancingrabbit.org/visit/ I highly suggest getting in touch with them, and visiting!

@martinacapasso9085 3 года назад

I'd like to live in a place like this but I like my privacy and space also

@samjohnson2449 3 года назад

DR ( dancing Rabbit) is actually a wonderful place for introverts. Yes, there are community buildings and stuff, but you live in your own house. There's plenty of privacy when you want it. The nice thing is there's also community when you need it. You don't have to any community events if you don't want to. Sometimes I'd just stay inside my house all day, or I'd go on a walk in the land. I moved away last year and I miss it dearly

@beverlychua7861 2 года назад

@@samjohnson2449 for a visitor to stay for a week, how much you charge? Are u selling the land or a lease whoever will join the group? Do u set rules and regulations? How much the lease?

@andreewert1142 3 года назад

I think I ll buy an abandoned Chateau in France and transplant some of the Ethos of this lovely Community....A Bakery maybe with Croissants..is a Must for me. Life without Croissants is not worth living...lol

@melanieabalos7192 3 года назад

Please transplant me from Indiana .

@ambersummer2685 2 года назад

I like the idea of living in a place like this but I enjoy spending too much time by myself for the sake of being my individual self and to take a break from people any reality. And on top of that, because of my upbringing and having to always share a space and being homeschooled with somewhat strict and protective parents, I usually prefer my own space or have things to and for myself. I’ve never been very community oriented because of everything I mentioned so it would take time for me to eventually open up to people. And working to live doesn’t sound too bad.

@user-cc1hj8yk6w 3 года назад

Hi, Great video, enjoyed every second and felt deep empathy and understanding of what some people said. I would really like to join such a community myself, and I have been searching the internet for such for a year now, and I think the best two are Dancing Rabbit and Twin Oaks, those look like stable ones that won't fall apart in the future... I also have a question, do you happen to know if Dancing Rabbit community accepts new members? and if so, do they accept members only from the US or from abroad too?

@dawnst7022 2 года назад

seemingly not as a person has not contacted you. what to do?

@user-xv3zj6mo8u 3 года назад

Whath a beautifull People/ Especialy Rae!

@tadagunter8537 2 года назад

Thanks very much for this documentary! I’ll be sharing it with friends and family members. Is it possible that building code laws will be passed that will require houses in Dancing Rabbit to be brought up to code or torn down? Is this a concern?

@melnwilllewis2959 3 года назад

Me and my husband have backpacked around the u.s. and we're thinking about living in a commune. The every day 9-5 doesn't suit us all we ever feel is we're waisting our life away be great to visit

@rachelcruse3980 2 года назад

inspiring thank you

@intentionalworld 10 месяцев назад

You're welcome! Thank you! 💙

@johnlabry325 Год назад

Great vid thanks

@intentionalworld 10 месяцев назад

You're welcome! Thank you!

@TerraFrutis 3 года назад

Wow cool! Maybe sometime you can make an episode about about our community :D

@intentionalworld 3 года назад

Thanks! I'm working to fire this project back up, and film more episodes. Your community looks very interesting!

@colinogorman8279 3 года назад

Sounds great anything far away from the materialistic for the sake of it drones 🤣

@myronplatte8354 3 года назад

Community is an integral part of being human! Whaduyuknow?

@enysupianisitumorang5330 7 месяцев назад

Hello my friend! I am so interest waching this video, and i get a lot of knowledge and passion. I have dream can make it like you all do in my country, Indonesia.

@AndreaDingbatt 3 года назад

Here in the UK! Ecologically Sustainable ,Heaalthy and Viable Living! Ive been looking at similar ways of doing this,& especially for homeless folks,who are not necassarily,nor typically happy to live in enclosed,rule-laden cultures... I am closely,intimatly & acutely understanding of many of the health issues,mental & otherwise,where so many people wouldn't be "Considered"Suitable candidates for a place within communal arraingements.... (in fact for-society in general!) However these are the Exact same reasons this would be a Perfect 'fit',each way!! As long as violence isnt brought onto a property, -where we are not defined by our "Worst Moments"! Head scratching time is Over!! The Practicalities,finances and restrictions (building regulations etc....) Must be dealt with and ,Nope ,Im not,- (Cash.) -Wealthy,but I got a wealth of Knowlege. Ive a Wealth of Experience,Knowlege,and Amazing friends. And a Compassion born from Experience!! The ONLY way to FAIL is to QUIT! COVIDS OVER -TIME FOR ACTION! XxXxX.

@sandyfrancsak148 3 года назад

Wonderful Is there any place like this out west Oregon Washington N California. Preferably Oregon But this is the kind of comunity my daughter and I want to live in

@intentionalworld 3 года назад

Hey Sandy! Check out the directory at www.ic.org/directory/ for info on communities wherever you're interested.

@cauthoncrazy 3 года назад

Everyone has so many jobs! Kind of surprised me.

@intentionalworld 3 года назад

Right? They’re busy, busy rabbits!

@victoriarose3478 Год назад

I would love to visit your intentional community with my daughter this summer. I absolutely love your ideas of community. Is there a certain day that visitors are welcome ?

@intentionalworld 10 месяцев назад

You will need to contact Dancing Rabbit directly. This is not their channel, just a documentary about them. They have a contact page on their site with all of their contact info. www.dancingrabbit.org/contact-dancing-rabbit/ And, they also have a visitor program. www.dancingrabbit.org/visit/ I highly suggest getting in touch with them, and visiting. You will love it!

@Robert-3691 3 месяца назад

I'm lost in this content. I had the pleasure of reading something similar, and I was completely immersed. "The Art of Meaningful Relationships in the 21st Century" by Leo Flint

@LETSGETUTILIZED316 9 месяцев назад

I'm so interested in doing this for many reasons. How do I go about potentially becoming a part of one of these communities?

@the_traveller6994 3 года назад

Authority. That is a dangerous word.

@jacquelineking1770 2 года назад

I wanna visit and hopefully stay awhile..

@intentionalworld 10 месяцев назад

They have a contact page on their site with all of their contact info. www.dancingrabbit.org/contact-dancing-rabbit/ And, they also have a visitor program. www.dancingrabbit.org/visit/ I highly suggest getting in touch with them, and visiting!

@paternosternicolo 2 года назад

🙏

@caelan86 3 года назад

would definitely appreciate subtitles to be added for deaf or hard of hearing folks

@intentionalworld 3 года назад

Thanks for the suggestion @Caelan. I thought that RU-vid had put automatic captions on it, but will get a transcript done and upload it for captions asap. peace, Blue

@pabloravizzoli345 2 года назад

Anyone know of a study of the makeup of personality types that come through communities that tend to thrive over time?

@katarinamahl8586 2 года назад

🤗💖

@DeathToMockingBirds Год назад

I'm a web dev who works remotely and would love this kind of life. I have a good income, and giving half away is fine by me, as long as the "commons" are worth it. I cook in a communal kitchen for homeless people, and it's very clear to me how much efficiency gains we can have by cooking or making things in common, given how we are a team of 8 and we feed 500+ people per night. Unfortunately, my wife and I don't want to live in the USA, we are Canadians living in France, but an eco-village like this... wow. Also, we do not and will not have kids, and we notice how many ecovillages ask for families to come. I understand that they want the next generation on site, but it makes it harder to find a place for us.

@intentionalworld 10 месяцев назад

Dancing Rabbit is a great community for people of all ages and situations. They have a great visitor program. www.dancingrabbit.org/visit/ I highly suggest getting in touch with them, and visiting!

@veronicaveronica8223 Год назад

❤️

@intentionalworld 10 месяцев назад

💙

@carlworrall 3 года назад

I would love the ex owners to give there opinion on why they left "the reason why i ask is i would like an honest opinion" were they pushed or just moved on

@davidschmidt270 3 года назад

Huh.... I'm curious too

@carlworrall 3 года назад

@urshla vedda i would just like an honest opinion of why the older generation left and if there happy with what they left behind.

@elenaumaran5672 3 года назад

Excellent question. If I had the slightest clue of how to do something like this I would leave it when it's proved that it can thrive on its own and start again somewhere else, spreading the lovely lessons with new people. Until I was too tired to do it anymore and settle until I die in the one closest to my heart. No idea what their reasons are but these would be mine

@thegoodfight426 3 года назад

Because it's impossible to sustain unity without the help of the Holy Spirit.

@carlworrall 3 года назад

@@thegoodfight426 i would have to disagree a wee bit unity can be sustained if all in the community are on the same level without the higher good. and i mean that with respect, not disregarding your comment

@kc64cl76 3 года назад

Seems like many of the stresses of modern society are still present. It almost seems like you have to be a tech guru to live here.

@ericstahl5717 2 года назад

Yea I was there when it was bad

@Misswho5 3 года назад

Seems like a nice life, how do y'all deal with illiness and growing older when you can't help anymore?

@keepingitreal3180 2 года назад

Loving this video....it's my desire not be part of a community.

@rebeccabentley2991 3 года назад

I'm marinating on the DR concept of balancing member enrollment within the trend of gender identity, gender expressions and roles...super curious about how this has evolved, and how it responds to personal expression issues, etc. did i just make that even more confusing?

@rachaelmaeferber2396 3 года назад

Hey Rebecca, I'm cringing now, 4 years later, about how I spoke in full on gender binary about that topic! We ended up adjusting the policy so that we can have no more than x% (is it 60%? I'm not checking the decision index right now) of folks who identify as male. Our balance is actually pretty great right now. We have one person currently who identifies as nonbinary and just about exactly 50/50 otherwise, maybe even somewhat more folks who identify as women. There is always something that is "up," it happened to be gender balance at that time, but it didn't persist.

@rebeccabentley2991 3 года назад

@@rachaelmaeferber2396 Thanks so much for the update; we humans are so complicated, especially at complicating things!! I've watched all episodes with hope in my heart that I can be brave like that in the future. Your world looks amazing, and I hope all is well in your Village.

@modsa8901 2 года назад

I identify as a rabbit

@ericstahl5717 2 года назад

You know, not even five min in. I spoke to some of the founders about what dancing rabbit had become. That's why people left. Ide love to come back, but I was there in some weird transitional period that alot of drama was going on. Ide like to be apart of Dr again, but I had a bad time last time. I believe in the original concept

@annabell3385 2 года назад

What didn't they like? I thought of joining 12-13 years ago.

@gabi5649 Год назад

What’s the original concept? What has become?

@annvassallo2604 3 года назад

Can a retired person who wants to do this work become a resident?

@mikefly562 3 года назад

I think this would be such a wonderful opportunity for a retired person. I think older people joining and working in an IC would have lots of healthy benefits of keeping active, socializing, relaxing, and companionship.

@davidschmidt270 3 года назад

@@mikefly562 I agree....it seems like they start to either start shutting down or become really angry, not trying to be an ass just pointing out what I've noticed over the years

@maxgil3203 2 года назад

Yes totally!

@josephbartlett1979 Год назад

I am very interested in this I know I am supposed to live in a place as this

@Healingfromtheroot 3 года назад

Looking for my tribe! Hi brothers and sisters ❤️🧡💛💚

@trentedan 3 года назад

Please don’t call it a “tribe”, that word brings to mind a lot of the racist and dehumanizing practices of colonialism in the Americas and Africa. There are communities called tribes which are specifically indigenous groups, so it’s also appropriative on some level. Maybe try just calling them your people, your family? Chosen family? Just please please please don’t use the word “tribe” ✌🏼🥰