What is an Earth Guardian?
A Steward of Self, Land & Life
An Earth Guardian lives in relationship with the Earth—protecting, regenerating and serving the places and communities they belong to. A conscious being who honors the sacred interconnection between Self, Land, and Life. They are stewards of the Earth and keepers of ancestral and spiritual wisdom. Earth Guardians live in harmony with nature, act with integrity, and serve as bridges between the visible and invisible, the modern and the ancient, the individual and the collective.
SELF ↔ LAND ↔ COMMUNITY ↔ LIFE
Principles we walk with
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Unity Through Diversity
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Embodied Wisdom
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Sacred Reciprocity
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Right Relationship
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Deep Listening
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Regeneration
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Service
Our Journey
Three dimensions.
Heal Yourself. Restore the Land. Awaken the World.
A six-month immersive journey combining inner practice, regenerative education, community living and service. Learn to listen deeply, work with the land and become a responsible steward of place.
INNER ECOLOGY
Meditation • Qigong • Silence • Self-Inquiry • Purpose
REGENERATIVE LIVING
Permaculture • Herbalism • Natural Building • Food Systems
GUARDIANSHIP OF PLACE
Ancestral Wisdom • Water • Reciprocity • Community • Service
Six Months - One Journey of Guardianship
From inner foundation to real world impact
Self → Relationship → Action → Living Systems → Vision → Stewardship
Program
Jan | Earth
Remeber & Awaken
Guardians of self
10-Day Silent Retreat • Meditation • Qigong • Ancestral Wisdom • Deep Listening
Feb | Water
Listen & Reconnect
Inner Ecology
Natural Rhythms • Elements • Nature Connection • Community • Cuenca Barú Introduction
Mar | Fire
Act, Create & Build
Building With Bamboo
2-Week Bamboo Intensive • Toucan Temple • Bliss Burn • Witches' Tea Lounge
Apr | Air
Belong & Regenerate
Living Systems
Seed Festival • Permaculture & Water Design • Biodiversity • Food Systems • Watersheds
May | Ether
Dream, Design & Practice
Guardianship in Action
Bamboo Model Making • Collaborative Design • Regenerative Visioning • Sister Farm Stewardship
Jun | Light
Steward & Integrate
Guardianship of Place
Cuenca Barú • 2-Week Fieldwork • Watershed Steward • Guardianship Action Plan
Within, together, on the land, community, for generations.
Remember → Learn → Practice → Serve → Steward
Earth Guardian Program
A transformative journey to awaken your inner guardian — reconnecting with nature, spirit, and purpose through Earth-based living, ancestral wisdom, and regenerative practices.
Becoming an Earth Guardian is a 6-month immersion program into self-growth, earth rhythms, ecological education, and spiritual cultivation. Participants will learn to live regeneratively, listen to the land, learn indigenous ways, and embody the values of stewardship, community, and service.
Each month, anchored in one element, focuses on one pillar of guardianship: from self-mastery and ancestral remembrance to regenerative design and community collaboration.
This is a hands-on regenerative skills — herbalism, permaculture, and natural building — while deepening your spiritual practice through meditation, elemental qi gong, and nature connection rituals.
Imagine lush abundant trees, clean rivers, coral reefs restored, and conscious humans being responsible for our home.
To ensure alignment with our values, this program requires an interview process with commitments, expectations, and agreements. We believe in cultivating a harmonious and collaborative environment for everyone involved. 🤝
So, if you're ready to embrace a regenerative lifestyle, learn from passionate peers, and create a sustainable future, apply now and join us on this remarkable journey!
In this journey...
Daily rhythm of meditation, movement, and service
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Silence for 10 days. Connection to self
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Natural Rhythms Retreat
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Hands-on permaculture, natural building, and herbalism
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Mentorship & community living at Ecomaste
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Weekly classes and integration sessions
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Seed Festival & Bliss Burn participation
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Permaculture & Water Design
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Bamboo Model Making
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Field trip to sister farm (To be announced)
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Indigenous and ancestral teachings
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Land & Water Steward Certification
Who is this for?!
This program is for those feeling the call to live in deeper alignment — to reconnect with the land, their body, and their sense of purpose. Ideal for seekers, students, and changemakers ready to live regeneratively and become self-sufficient stewards of life.
Together, We Are the Roots of a New Earth.
Across mountains, rivers, and communities, a new generation of stewards is rising. Becoming an Earth Guardian weaves the wisdom of the elders with the creativity of the present to reimagine how humans live with the Earth. It is a call to unity — to reforest consciousness, regenerate land, and remember our shared belonging to Abya Yala, the living heart of the Americas. Join us, and plant the seeds of the future.
Join EcoMaste and embark on a transformative journey of growth, abundance, and co-creation.
Apply now and make a change!
6 Months
Earth Guardian Apprenticeship
2027 dates
Jan 1st - Jun 30th
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10 Day Silent Retreat
Natural Rhythms Retreat
2 week Natural Build
Bliss Burn
Seed Festival
Permaculture & Water Design
Bamboo Model Making Course
Land & Water Steward Certification
A six-month immersive journey combining inner practice, regenerative education, community living and service. Learn to listen deeply, work with the land and become a responsible steward of place
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Meditation & Movement daily
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Food Included (2 meals per day)
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Natural Building & Herbalism courses
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Bed in a double occupancy
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Access to trails, river & waterfalls
Early bird Price
Join our Founding Cohort
@ $6,699 - $8,000
for 6 months
Space for 3 committed apprentices
***Two meals per day. Saturday & Sunday you cook your own, food provided***
The Principles We Walk With
The Earth Guardian Apprenticeship is guided by principles that shape how we relate to ourselves, one another, the land, and the wider living world. These are not abstract ideas or rules to memorize. They are practices to embody through daily choices, shared work, reflection, and service.
Sacred Reciprocity
Receive with gratitude and give back through care, contribution, and respect.
Deep Listening
Slow down and listen to the heart, body, community, land, water, and wisdom of silence.
Regeneration
Make choices that restore relationships and leave people, communities, and ecosystems more alive.
Unity
Remember that personal, community, and planetary wellbeing are inseparable while honoring our differences.
Embodied Wisdom
Transform knowledge into lived practice through reflection, hands-on experience, and daily action.
Right Relationship
Relate with honesty, humility, consent, accountability, and a willingness to repair harm.
Service
Carry what we learn into meaningful contribution guided by genuine needs and respect for place.
To become a Guardian is not to claim a title or arrive at a final destination. It is to develop the capacity to listen, participate, care, repair, and serve—again and again—with humility and devotion to life.
Heal Yourself. Restore the Land. Awaken the World.
Becoming an Earth Guardian is more than a program — it’s a movement. Each lesson brings you closer to wholeness: healing your inner landscape while regenerating the outer one. Rooted in Indigenous wisdom and modern ecological design, this journey empowers you to live in harmony, restore ecosystems, and lead from the heart. The transformation of the planet begins with the transformation of you.
Land and Water Stewards
We envision a thriving network of Earth Guardians — individuals and communities who live in harmony with the land and each other. Spreading and sharing ancestral wisdom from where the Mamo's once called the "Esophagus of the Great Ancestral America" the land of the Colibri.
Across the landscapes of the Abiayala, once-degraded lands are now flourishing food forests, alive with birdsong, pollinators, and the laughter of people tending the soil. The forests stand tall again, rivers run clear, and the air is rich with the scent of abundance. Farmers, herbalists, and builders work hand in hand with the rhythms of nature, cultivating a regenerative economy rooted in reciprocity and respect. Each Earth Guardian contributes their unique gift — whether through growing food, crafting medicine, teaching, or caring for the wild — forming a living web of restoration and purpose.
This is a world where human presence enriches rather than extracts. Communities are nourished by local food, clean water, and deep connection. Youth find meaning in tending the Earth, elders are honored for their wisdom, and the land itself becomes our greatest teacher. The vision is not one of survival, but of thriving — where people and ecosystems regenerate together. Joining Becoming an Earth Guardian is stepping into this future now — becoming part of a movement that plants the seeds of abundance, heals the Earth, and ensures a legacy of beauty, balance, and belonging for generations to come.
The hummingbird is the "Mamo" that was left in ancient times to carry the energy of the seed, which in biology is called pollen, and spread it throughout the world.
We are the producers of that energy, and it is responsible for spreading it throughout the world.
By uniting with this hummingbird, we are giving it good pollen so that it can carry it around and germinate what we are thinking.
The hummingbird is willing to propagate, but we must sow it with good thoughts.
Costa Rica is the meeting point of the hummingbird where the pollen spreads throughout the universe.
Come and help us activate that pollen so that it may be carried to the world with good intentions.
Costa Rica,
the land of the hummingbird
The Call to Remember
“The Earth is calling — will you remember who you are?”
Awaken the ancient bond between soul and soil.
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