A land development studio

Building & growing places the world orbits.

Sumbea is the creative sun at the center — designing, developing, and stewarding regenerative communities, retreats, and land projects, grounded by the people and places that orbit it.

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Clients we've worked with — including some of the world's most famous projects

The consulting practices

Four ways to work with sumbea

Marketing, architecture & site planning, the living land, and the numbers that keep it all afloat. Pick the practice that matches the problem — each one opens its own page.

Practice 01

Marketing consulting

Brand foundations, story systems, launch campaigns, and photographic direction grounded in the place itself — so the right people find you and keep coming back.

Holistic Centers Network — Two consecutive 250-person online summits for executives of 70+ retreat centers — branding, site, email, social and paid run end to end.

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Practice 02

Architecture & Interior Design consulting

Master planning, building choreography, pathways, gathering spaces, and the intelligence of land use — the decisions that are almost impossible to undo later.

Aldeia do Amanhã — Our own Central Portugal development — master planned around health, gathering, sport, and stone-built retreat architecture.

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Practice 03

Environmental & Land consulting

Soil, water, agroforestry, food forests, biodiversity, planting, stewardship, restoration — the ecological heartbeat that decides whether your project is regenerative or just marketed that way.

850+ sites visited — Patterns drawn from more than 850 farms, ecovillages, and retreat centers across 16 countries — what regenerates and what quietly fails.

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Practice 04

Operations & Community Dynamics consulting

Retreats, decision-marking, sharing circles, memberships, residencies, hospitality, education, and mixed-use models that fund the long arc — built on harmonious systems that work, not optimism.

De Uelenspieghel — Revenue-sharing across member Airbnbs plus a newsletter booking engine — a retreat calendar sold out most of the year, and rentals still earning six years on.

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Track record

Ten years on the land. The most-traveled developer on earth.

We have walked with over 825 projects across 16+ countries — sitting with founders, the land, and the long arc of the work at the most influential centers on the planet.

825+

Projects walked

16+

Countries on the map

10+

Years on the land

Places we work on

From the rugged to the refined — every project we hold is, at its heart, a holistic place.

Eco villagesRetreat centersHostelsEco luxury resortsIntentional communitiesBio-hacking centersHolistic sanctuaries

Featured centers & networks

A handful of the most established places we have walked alongside — many considered the most influential intentional communities and retreat centers on earth.

Findhorn Foundation

Scotland

One of the original intentional communities — six decades of regenerative practice.

De Uelenspieghel

Belgium

Long-standing cultural & ecological center in the Flemish countryside.

Ibiza Yoga Center

Spain

Iconic Balearic retreat — yoga, ocean, founder retreats.

Holistic Centers Network

Global

A worldwide network of retreat & healing centers we partner with.

Tamera

Portugal

Peace research village pioneering water-retention landscapes.

Auroville

India

International community of 50+ years and 50+ nationalities.

…and many more — from small founder-led sanctuaries to large-scale developments across five continents.

Sumbea · World Routes · Est. 1969 spirit

Fly the friendly
communities

Six stops on the line. Balloon mornings, stone-hall feasts, fire circles, and gardens that feed everyone. No layovers, no return ticket required.

Hot air balloon drifting over the cork-oak hills of central Portugal at sunrise — Central Portugal
Balloon mornings over cork oak

A candlelit stone hall with a long communal dinner table — The Stone Hall
Long tables, longer evenings

Friends feeding goats, chickens, and a donkey at golden hour — The Sanctuary
Chores at golden hour

A sharing circle around a campfire under a deep blue twilight sky — Fire Circle
Guitars until the embers go

Sunrise yoga on a wooden deck above a green valley — Valley Deck
First light, bare feet

A laughing gardener carrying a basket of fresh harvest between raised beds — The Kitchen Garden
Farm to table, eventually

Boarding pass · From the brand book

One sun, many places — every project carries the same warm mark.

Sun · Clay · Moss · Rose · Azure · Gold

A living atlas

Find a holistic center — anywhere in the world.

Explore hundreds of ecovillages, retreat centers, intentional communities, working farms, and holistic sanctuaries on a fully interactive world map.

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