Ananda Earth Atelier is a creative and educational initiative founded by architect Katharina, offering online mentoring programmes and in-person workshops to guide women in designing healing spaces with earth and natural materials. The project blends sustainable architecture, intuitive clay modelling, and community learning.
Ananda Earth Atelier is a creative and educational initiative founded by Katharina, a certified earth builder and registered architect (ZT:Austria, Austrian Chamber of Architects). Rooted in the belief that architecture can be both healing and deeply soulful, the project draws on natural materials such as clay, earth, and other ecological building resources to help people create spaces that nurture wellbeing and connection to nature.
The project's flagship offering is a 4-week live online group mentoring programme, delivered via Zoom with daily community support through a Telegram group. Designed specifically for women in architecture, planning, and creative fields, the programme guides participants from an initial vision through to a fully developed design concept, ready to hand over to a local architect or planning authority. Sessions integrate theory and hands-on practice — including clay modelling as a design exploration tool — alongside elements of Katharina's proprietary 'EARTH Doula Method', which weaves together sustainable architecture, intuitive creativity, and shamanic principles.
Beyond the online programme, Ananda Earth Atelier has hosted in-person natural building workshops in Portugal, offering immersive experiences in ecological construction techniques. The project also works with conscious landowners who wish to realise off-grid retreat and healing space projects, supporting them from concept to a build-ready design.
Ananda Earth Atelier serves a growing international community of architects, designers, and creatives who feel disconnected from conventional construction practices and seek a more authentic, nature-aligned approach to space-making. The initiative is particularly committed to building confidence among women who feel isolated in their sustainable design vision, providing them with practical tools, expert mentorship, and a peer community to help bring their dreams into reality.
Our Goal
Ananda Earth Atelier aims to help women in architecture and creative fields reconnect with their creativity and design soulful, healing spaces using earth and natural materials. It also supports conscious landowners in turning off-grid retreat visions into build-ready, ecologically grounded realities.
Our Wishes
Ananda Earth Atelier is looking for conscious landowners and women in architecture or creative fields who are ready to join its mentoring programmes or apply for a pilot project in earth-based healing space design.
